For the next XP

[Xorbon]

I would like to see trade improved in the next expansion. And since diplomacy is a big part of trade, I would like to see diplomacy improved as well. However, I wouldn't necessarily want it to be the main focus.

A few things I would like to see added to trade include:
- visible trade routes which could be attacked and defended
- quantified resources, so that 1 resource may not be enough for an entire empire
- multilateral trade embargoes

[LordShiva]

Voted no.

Better trade, and even better warfare. Carrot & stick, etc.

[Dis]

hmm, after my latest game with no coald (despite having a huge empire), I have decided the next XP should remove the coal requirement for railroads once you have combustion and oil.

[johnmcd]

Gotta be trade, it's the engine for exploration and technological advancement so often.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Dis
hmm, after my latest game with no coald (despite having a huge empire), I have decided the next XP should remove the coal requirement for railroads once you have combustion and oil.

I'd think they'd need coal to make the tracks, though. Steel manufacturing.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun


I'd think they'd need coal to make the tracks, though. Steel manufacturing.

by that reasoning your cities shouldn't grow past size 12 since they can't build skyscrapers with no steel.

Iron can be heated with oil.

It's simply ridiculous to not have trains in the year 2030!!!!!!!!!. The fact is in 2006, we do not use coal powered trains. We use diesal powered trains.

Trains should run on oil, not coal.

Basically, the purpose of coal should be to provide an early boost to the industrial revolution, and provide power for those without oil. By the same token, there should be a natural gas power plant in addition to the coal plant. As I was unable to build power plants my last game as well. Except for a couple hydro plants (I missed the 3 gorges dam by about 7 turns). And nuclear plants are just worthless because they meltdown so much.

[JackRudd]

Maybe you should have turned more of the citizens in the cities with factories into engineers, and then you'd have got a Great Engineer to hurry the Three Gorges Dam along...

[Strudo]

Originally posted by Dis
Iron can be heated with oil.

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Trains should run on oil, not coal.

It's not the heating thats the issue here. To make steel you heat iron and then blow coal through it. It the addition of the carbon to the iron that makes the steel, not the heating.

[Willem]

Originally posted by greenday_234
Colonies, maybe a touch more complex than they were in Civ3

I have a feeling they're already planning on reviving Colonies in the next XP. Notice how in the diplomacy screen for Warlords it nows shows "City of ..." Why add that to the game unless there was a need to differentiate between a city and something else? Of course this is just a hunch on my part.

[CrONoS]

Improve the late part of the game!

[Dis]

Originally posted by Strudo


It's not the heating thats the issue here. To make steel you heat iron and then blow coal through it. It the addition of the carbon to the iron that makes the steel, not the heating.

surely they could come up with a little bit of coal somewhere. Coal seems like one of our common resources. I think China has extensives supplies, the U.S, Canada, Europe. I think some tropical countries lack it, maybe some african countries, and island nations.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Willem


I have a feeling they're already planning on reviving Colonies in the next XP. Notice how in the diplomacy screen for Warlords it nows shows "City of ..." Why add that to the game unless there was a need to differentiate between a city and something else? Of course this is just a hunch on my part.

That might be an MP device to stop people renaming cheeseball cities as 'Artillery' and trading it to unsuspecting rival as if it were a tech.

[Strudo]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


That might be an MP device to stop people renaming cheeseball cities as 'Artillery' and trading it to unsuspecting rival as if it were a tech.

Thats a great idea. Why didn't I think of it before I got Warlords

[_BuRjaCi_]

The next XP should make builder starts more fesable not increase the wrmogerers lead.

[georgrenner]

I would very much like a way to change mountains and deserts into workable tiles.
I don't mean terraforming, but either a technology that implies montains/deserts: +1 nutrition/hammer/economy (mountain mining, e.g.) or a wonder like "winter tourism" that allows the production of, say, 2 economy on the mountaintops of that nation.