Who Killed the Radio Star?

[aeldrik]

think they shoudl have done the following:
give Bombers with advanced flight instead of with flight, keep radio... everyone would go for adv flight in that case...
Radio was a very important tech, a pain they deleted it...

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by DogBoy
Yes, Video killed the radio star is a song from 1980. It was a "one hit wonder" from The Buggles. It was one of the 10 or so songs that made MTV such a huge success, back when MTV played music videos and was worth listening to. Now it's basically a talk show for pre-teens or a place for "musicians" to grab their crotch and degrade women...or women to degrade themselves. But I digress. Anybody even seen the video? Classic!

An a little MTV Trivia... It was the first video that that network ever showed. And they still show videos, you just have to be watching between 2:12 - 2:19 in the morning, eastern standard time. But that is somewhat off topic.

I think that the Radio advance should remain because it was a major discovery (as already described). If they want us to research Advanced flight, do something else with those paratroopers.

 

[Bleser]

I'm pretty sure that when people say "Radio was a useless advance anyway" they are referring to THE GAME and not REAL LIFE.

How many radar towers have I buit? Zero. Will I miss the radio box on the industrial age screen? No.

Do I think radio was an important advanvance in REAL LIFE? Hell yes! But not every tech in real life can be represented in this game.

Cheers!

 

[sealman]

Bleser: Good points. And by the way, I have built half as many radio towers as you have.

 

[Intendant]

C'mon Bleser, how about a Sliced Bread advance for Civ4?

 

[FlakJacket]

Originally posted by Sparrow3

I said before the first Atlantic cable and I belive radio telegraph predated the cable. Did they ever get around to laying one across the Pacific?

Oh yeah. Used to be that if you wanted to send a telegraph from the west coast of the US to Japan you had to go the long way round by sending it across the US, over to the UK and on to India and from there on to Asia. Which struck people as a bit silly so they figured they'd lay their own Pacific submarine cables.

From what I recall, the first one was a cable from Canada to Australia and New Zealand in either 1901 or 1902. After that a consortium of companies got in on the act a year or so later by running one from San Francisco- I think it was- to Hawai'i, and then on via some small Islands to the Philippines and on into China. A couple years later the hooked up an extension part of the way along up to Japan. And the Germans and Dutch also hooked up their own extensions to it from their own colonies in the area.

That's actually why a lot of the little Islands in the Pacific were important. They were able to string the cables between Islands and to site the booster/amplification stations. That and coaling stations for your fleets.

 

[Hygro]

Originally posted by aeldrik
think they shoudl have done the following:
give Bombers with advanced flight instead of with flight, keep radio... everyone would go for adv flight in that case...
Radio was a very important tech, a pain they deleted it...

I agree with this, though I don't miss the radio tech.

 

[Fredric Drum]

Radar tower = 25% attack and defense bonus at a 2 tile radius. I'll take that any day!