Highly unusual if you ask me. I usually don't beeline like I just did last game. But I got combustion before scientific method. As you can see, I still have issues with the tech tree.
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It does seem that scientific method should be a prereq to combustion since you can't build a well if you can't see the oil. However, most of us are bright enough to catch on to the fact that combustion is not doing us much good without that earlier tech. My recommendation would be to plan your advances properly to avoid this conundrum.No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author
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The price, of course, is oil working technology with no oil. Iceland has this in RL. Scientific method is a turning point of sorts. It obsoletes a wonder as well, perhaps the GL. Not sure.No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author
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Yeah I hate obsoleting wonders, but sometimes the tech is too important. Such as chemistry. That is needed for railroads and factories (and everything else in the modern age). But I nearly always build the Parthenon. It's one of the few early wonders I can get. It's damn near impossible to get the Pyramids (though I got them last game), and it is impossible to get the great wall. I have yet to get it.
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Originally posted by Dis
Yeah I hate obsoleting wondersTHEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
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Whale blubber was a common combustible for a long time before petroleum became popular. I suppose you could develop a combustion engine that ran on blubber. There's also lots of places in the world that have "tar pits" which are actually small amounts of oil at the surface. Neither tar pits or whales could produce enough oil to keep a battalion of tanks rolling though, so you need to find the sub-terranean oil.
I like to think that Sci Meth teaches us how to find oil that is buried under the ground, and Combustion teaches us how to build the well. You need both.
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Originally posted by Nikolai
Does combustion implicate the use of oil? Can't you theoretically use some other substance?You will soon feel the wrath of my myriad swordsmen!
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Originally posted by Nikolai
Does combustion implicate the use of oil? Can't you theoretically use some other substance?
They just use anothr substance instead of oil,
which can be used for small combustion engines in the lab,
but for some reason isn´t good for use in larger combustion engines
that really could power a tank or destroyer.
IMHO it´s similar to the situation we have at the moment with fusion reactors.
We can build research reactors to study fusion,
but we still lack the necessary tech to build reactors for long term use,
that could really be used to replace existing power plantsTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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Originally posted by Dis
It's damn near impossible to get the Pyramids (though I got them last game), and it is impossible to get the great wall. I have yet to get it.
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