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While plodding through a game of CTP2 one night while watching a Discovery Channel show on supposed military contact with extra-terrestrials I came up with a thought about a possible "Encounter" event for CIV3.
The way I've envisioned the event is this;
Shortly after a player in the game has successfully developed nuclear weapons, a trigger in the game would cause strange lights in the sky around a city belonging to that Civ, and an "artifact" would appear on the game board. Then, (stealing a page from Colonization) each player would have the opportunity to race their units to the site to recover the artifact and return it to one of their cities. Upon securing the artifact the owning civ would then have the opportunity to reverse-engineer it. A mini tech tree could result from this - at an increased research cost this tree would be available to the owner of the artifact. Some of the advances I can think of off the top of my head could be fibre-optics, stealth, anti-gravity, & matter replication. Like all other techs those acquired from this artifact could be fully tradeable and be stolen. Also, if the city housing the artifact was taken, the new tech tree would be available to the new owner, and no longer to the original owner.
...just a thought
If another civ were to capture the city housing the
The way I've envisioned the event is this;
Shortly after a player in the game has successfully developed nuclear weapons, a trigger in the game would cause strange lights in the sky around a city belonging to that Civ, and an "artifact" would appear on the game board. Then, (stealing a page from Colonization) each player would have the opportunity to race their units to the site to recover the artifact and return it to one of their cities. Upon securing the artifact the owning civ would then have the opportunity to reverse-engineer it. A mini tech tree could result from this - at an increased research cost this tree would be available to the owner of the artifact. Some of the advances I can think of off the top of my head could be fibre-optics, stealth, anti-gravity, & matter replication. Like all other techs those acquired from this artifact could be fully tradeable and be stolen. Also, if the city housing the artifact was taken, the new tech tree would be available to the new owner, and no longer to the original owner.
...just a thought
If another civ were to capture the city housing the
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