Future Tech Question

[donarumo]

Maybe this is not the right forum but I don't think we have a civ3 mod forum yet.

I am planning a future mod for Civ3 and I am looking for ideas for future techs. Things like mag trains, nanobots, space ladders.

I have just started planning this in my head so feel free to post any future techs and units that could appear going out to the year 3000.

Thanks.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by donarumo
I am planning a future mod for Civ3 and I am looking for ideas for future techs. Things like mag trains, nanobots, space ladders.

Just dont forget future cultural & lifeview/lifestyle progressive techs, as well. Futuristic tech-trees with only "technical" or "tecnocratic" knowledge becomes so dry and boring.

[Lemmy]

you look at the tech trees from SMAC and CTP, there were some nice techs in there, with an explanation and everything.
You would have to balance it properly off course, too much tech can make it too complicated.

Here are some future techs i find interesting :
Fusion power, don't know if it's included in civ3
True AI, there already exists an AI with the intelligence of a 4 year old.
Quantum computers, they are supposed to be so fast, that they have computed everything you wanted before you even hit the power switch
Neural interfaces, complete human/machine integration

there should definitely be cultural techs also, but i can't think of any right.

[EnochF]

Hey, I'm working on one too! I never finished my mod for Civ II, so I'm just going to "upgrade" what I've got to Civ III and hopefully finish it this time. ^_^

Redoing all the graphics is gonna take a lot of time, though...

[donarumo]

Thanks for the ideas. Yes, some cultural techs will be needed.

For graphics, I am planning to use existing graphics from other games to start off with anyway. It might be kind of weird to have still graphics next to animated ones but we will have to see.

[MustPost]

The Americans invent Civilization(the computer game that is)

That might be a cool advance. Dawns the age of culture.
Or it could possibly be a wonder instead.

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by MustPost
The Americans invent Civilization(the computer game that is)

That might be a cool advance. Dawns the age of culture.
Or it could possibly be a wonder instead.

Nah, it'd cause work slow downs as a large portion of the population call in sick for weeks on end and people who do actual show up to work aren't productive because they had to have "just one more turn" the night before.

Invent Civ3:
-50% Shield Production
+3

[GodSpawn]

Some ideas off the top of my head:

Anti Gravity (lots of applications)
Quantum Pair "radio" (instantaneous communications over any distance)
Deep Core Power Generators (drilled into the crust of the earth)
Deep Core Mines (lots of resources from anywhere)
Molecular Sieve (sp?) (allows fast, cheap extraction of fresh water from sea water)
Iceburg Tugs (also allows cheap delivery of fresh water to any coast)
Gas Fuel Cells (significantly reduces transport pollution)
Robotic Workers (increases happiness and/or production)
Arcologies (increases max city pop)
Gene-Specific Viruses (only infect a certain civilisation)
Brain Implants (increases intelligence, science output)
Matter Transmission (transport non-organic units instantantiously over large distances)
Fusion Power (more production)
Room-Temperature Superconductors (more production, superfast computers, less power usage)
Smart Materials (better combat units)
Advanced Hydroponics (better food production)
AI (higher science output - possibly a prereq for Robotic Workers)
Computers that don't crash (nah, too unrealistic)

[ndnls]

For cultural techs, think of the social consequences of a technological development. How would a cyborg or inteligent computer react to a normal human? Would owning an advanced AI computer be considered slavery? what about the technological have-nots? Do the laws of physics impose fundamental limits on the development of technology?

[Sarxis]

Advanced Space Flight, and also any advanced medical techs would be appropriate and would fit within the game.

And also any sort of recycling technologies and energy sources (yeah, like Fusion Power).

Also, advanced manufacturing processes (fully robotic assembly plants, nano assembly).

[Colonel Kraken]

Originally posted by GodSpawn
Some ideas off the top of my head:

Computers that don't crash (nah, too unrealistic)

Some other ideas:

Nano-medicine: microscopic robots injected into the body to repair tissue and attack viruses/bacteria.
Human Genome: mapping out human DNA and knowing what each gene does.
Bio-neural net computers: using grown organic matter/neurons to make superfast/semi-intelligent computers.
Geo-core power plant: tapping the earth's core for unlimited power.
Interactive holography: allows engineers to design things and actually interact with them before building them.


I have a lot more from my modifications to CtPII, but I'm not at home right now. Perhaps I'll list more later.

[EnochF]

Define Advanced Space Flight. How is it different from Space Flight? I always thought adding "Advanced" or "Space" or "Interplanetary" in front of pre-existing techs was a bit of a cop-out. I tried to avoid it as much as possible.

(would have been glad to see "Advanced Flight" taken out of Civ III, but oh well...)

Is this mod earth- or space-based?

From Call to Power: Asteroid Mining, Digital Encryption, Cryonics (Cryogenics), Arcology, Neural Interface, Smart Materials, Fuel Cells, Cloning

From SMAC: Ecological Engineering, Frictionless Surfaces, Fusion Power, Matter Compression, Monopole Magnets, Unified Field Theory... everything else is pretty much meaningless future-babble.

[Alex 14]

How about creating a new Government?

[Sarxis]

Yeah- just about any techs from SMAC.

[TechWins]

Human Cloning - Decreases happiness & increases shield production.
Immortality - Revives units (better barracks)
Gene Splicing - Creates all veteran units
Virtual Religion - an improved temple that will increase culture/happiness

Those are just a few suggestions I have, right off the top of my head.