Squares, Hexes, Octagons...

[MxM]

I propose very simple solution. Gmm. Actually not that simple

[Vince278]

Looks like that would be great for keeping out small animals.

[zorbop]

I like hexagons better, but if they are used, it just won't feel like civ...

[Straybow]

Yeah, a tessaract map!

[Level]

Triangles would work better then Hex for the keybord, but it may be confuising.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Straybow
Yeah, a tessaract map!

A 4D map?

[Straybow]

That's what MxM's map grid looks like to me.

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by Straybow
Yeah, a tessaract map!

The only problem with that kind of map is, if you make a wrong turn with a unit, it could end up 5 turns in the future.

Or you could send your tanks to the past...

[Vince278]

Or appear anywhere on the map...
(Space movement in CtP does that to some degree)

[Leland]

It would be interesting to see a strategy game where time travel is a component. A real component, not just a scripted story element, so that you could beat your enemy by sending tanks to smash his capital when it was still a small village.

[punkbass2000]

That would be impossible. How would the game know at 4000BC that in 2100AD you're going to invent a time machine and return to kill them? They would have had to have been eliminted immediately or else there would be no continuity. Not to mention that if that scenario did occur, it probably wouldn't strike you as necessary to then go back in time to destroy a civ that had never existed from your perspective. Plus, you would just destroy every civ this way as soon as your crew got to 4000BC and the game would be over before it started.

[Vince278]

And therefor you wouldn't need to go back in time, etc., etc.

[Adromel]

Originally posted by punkbass2000
That would be impossible. How would the game know at 4000BC that in 2100AD you're going to invent a time machine and return to kill them? They would have had to have been eliminted immediately or else there would be no continuity. Not to mention that if that scenario did occur, it probably wouldn't strike you as necessary to then go back in time to destroy a civ that had never existed from your perspective. Plus, you would just destroy every civ this way as soon as your crew got to 4000BC and the game would be over before it started.

I agree that it's a shady idea. A positive outlook could say that when the game starts...that is the beginning of time. That mindset solves the cordiality loop. With a temperal aspect added to the game one would need the ability to defend against such attacks. Such as spies revealing spies. "Time" travelling units could be a new platform of combat...a new evolution. A little more dangerous than when a Civ. starts running with nukes.

[Panzeh]

It'd be kind of cheap that whenever the game starts, you see m1s rolling through your initial town.

[Vince278]

We've discussed going back in time but how about forward? This is more easily done and without those paradox problems.

For example: You reach a tech that allows you to build a Time Portal in a town. You can then send units forward through this portal to any time and location desired (say 1-20 turns). On the lowest setting it effectively gives you instantanous movement to anywhere on the globe. On the higher settings it would allow you to mass troops anywhere on the globe. I'd limit it in a way similar to airlifts, perhaps 1 unit per point of origin per turn.