More emphasis on an age?

[rendelnep]

Only reason why I choosed prehistoric was so you colud better flesh out nomadism but the industrial - modren era particularly in the field of medicine should also in my opinion be improved too.

[Lord_Davinator]

let the ages go by as htey did go by

[GePap]

I would like the game to begin at the foundation of cities, which was not 4000bc, but closer to 8000 bc.

I say turns should be equal in time troughout the game- as long as a system was created that allowed one to skip all the turns in which nothing happened.

[MrFun]

I think the ages could be improved -- not that it is awful the way it is in Civilization III, but I don't like the transition directly from the Middle Ages to the Industrial age.

here is what I think would be better:

Ancient

Early Middle Ages

Rennaissance (covers mid to late Middle Ages)

Imperial (of early modern era before Industrial age)

Industrial

Modern

[lajzar]

I believe ages should exist, but they shouldnt be an ingame freature that affects gameplay. CTP and civ2 had this right - it affected graphics of cities, but the tech tree didnt force you to complete an age before starting on the next.

Historically, people didnt suddenly wake up one day to find themselves in a new age; it is only in retrospect (sometimes long retrospect) that we identified ages. We shouldnt be forcing our virtual citizens to be acting like virtual past historians.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I'd rather have each age expanded by 25% than have an additional age.

And repair that damned tech tree to its former style!

[Heresson]

Ancient or medieval for me.

[Odin]

The problem with having the middle ages be dintinct is that it is just the time of barbarism after the fall of Rome and the recovery. It is simply a skip of 1000 years in tech funding in Civ terms.

[Heresson]

I'm not so sure about that...
And even if there was a tech halt, this could be an interesting part of the game too!

[Brent]

Age Emphasis Scenarios

Have some scenarios where the main idea is that the turn increments are different for the same eras. Maybe the main game would have similar increments to Civ3, but there could be one scenario where the whole game was 10 or 20 years per turn. There could be one with the smallest increments both at the beginning and the end, and one where these are the longest. Maybe if they keep a separate tech tree for each age, it would be possible to combine two ages if you want to sometime, with a different tree for the combined age.

[Nikolai]

Something like the Cradle mod for CTP2 you mean? I haven't tried the different scenarios there, but I have noticed that there is different scenarios with a longer or shorter timespan.

[LDiCesare]

Cradle is good...
I'd like that ages as they exist in civ III would be gotten rid of. They are a nuisance and a proper tech tree can make the same thing as what these ages do. Now I would like the game to last longer during the medieval times and sailing period. The age of sails is too short and often unexisting since everything is settled by the time you get nice ships, and you reach modern age before you can use these ships.

[realpolitic]

To reflect world demographics, there might be an age ending about 1930-1960 in real first world technology that corrosponds to a decrease in rate of population increase.

[lajzar]

Those demographics were caused by the logical consequences on certain techs. I believe civ4 will include an advanced script language that can be used to model this. I don't however, expect that to be modded into teh shipped epic game.

[Max Sinister]

The decrease of the rate of population increase was caused by the invention of the contraception pill, since it was completely reliable, which was new.