To 2000AD or beyond?

[Frozzy]

When should the game's tech tree end? Should it go to historical events (ala Civ II/ Civ III) or beyond (ala CtP1/2)?

[Fosse]

Around 2050 AD, just like Civ 3.

Call to Power just got too crazy with all of the "genetic age" junk and ridiculous concepts. War walkers?!?! By the time you got to the end of the tech tree the game stopped resembling anything famliar at all. You had cities in the water, AI supercomputers causing rebellions... it was jarring and made the player feel disconnected from the game that started 7000 years ago.

Civ 4 should be a true history game. Leave the future in the hands of the modders.

[Brent]

If it's just true history, it's not a game. Anyway, I want it to go to 2500 and maybe use SMACish techs.

[Anguille2]

I enjoy Call to power a lot....and i even had regrets when Call to power 2 ended much earlier. It should be possible to have the options to end the game at different times with various winning options, like:
up to 1000 (by discovering America...sending the fleet of Christophe Collombus)
up to 2050 (with the normal shuttle)
up to 3000 (with the options of Call to power)
And you could choose it at the beginning of the game.

[alva]

Somewhere around 2050ish sounds good to me, I wouldn't fture tech but only if it's at least vagely realistic.
On second thought, nah, keep it as it is.

[Roman]

I voted for the game to end at 2000 AD, but only because there was not an option for 2020 or thereabouts. I like seeing near-future tech - stuff we already pretty much know will be available, but I do not like to see far-future techs.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I think it should end at 2010 (allow a FEW future techs) however be expandable so that someone CAN create a new tech tree.

OMG!!! I agree with Tass about something!!! Time to check myself into a clinic....

I just want the option of additional ages. Right now, there are the Ancient, Mideval, Industrial and Modern age. These are hardcoded. I would like at least one more additional age (although two would be nice).

[Fosse]

Or why not do away with ages entirely?

And Brent, I didn't mean that everything should happen just like it has in real history, I meant that the contents of the game should be based on real history. Just like the whole of the Civ series so far.

[Sandman]

I'd take it to about 2020 only, and have a few extra future techs like fusion or superconducter. Just like civ1 and 2.

Civ3's late game techs are utter, utter cack. Smart weapons? Stealth? "Integrated" defense? Please. Not exactly railways or writing, are they? They're just Pentagon buzzwords.

The Stealth Bomber and Fighter should not be in the game either. They have about as much military significance as the Zeppelin.

[MattH]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I think it should end at 2010 (allow a FEW future techs) however be expandable so that someone CAN create a new tech tree.

YES! I don't care when the epic game ends, so long as I can string out the game for as many ages as I want.

[Fake Boris]

Am I the only one to support the idea of circa 2100 AD?

It could give some time to use late-era techs, such as Fusion or superconductors. 2050 is too "tight" for my liking.

In civ2, you got fusion and said "nice, no more meltdowns". 3 years later, your spaceship reaches AC.

[Maquiladora]

I voted for 2000AD but 2100AD to be exact, even though CtP2 is my favourite civ-type game, i think 2100 is a logical end, its not too short and its just beyond our own futures for the game to come to an end with landing on Alpha Centauri or some other thing we cant possibly imagine in our own lifetime.

Needed more poll options really.

[Kuciwalker]

I like how it was in Civ3. CtP(2)'s future technologies were a game-killer.

[gerryandersson]

I think you should be able to select if the game is going to end in 2000 or if it is going to end in 3000. Almost like in ToT.

[Kramerman]

it should go into the future to a point that is not outlandish. like maybe a 100 years with infatry that use carbon fiber body armor and tanks that are armed with rail guns and stuff like that, fusion power, great wonder for landing a man on mars or moon base or martian mining, the advent of computer AI and stuff. In otherwards, techs that we know today as potentially possible, but just out of our technological reach. Nothin outlandish like Death Stars or Mech walkers.

so... 100 years into the future?