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Is it just me, or does it seem to anyone else that civ3 is a little incomplete? Granted, I haven't been playing on the highest levels, but it seems to me that the game ends too soon. In the games where I enabled the spaceship victory, I never got close to future techs; the spaceship was completed the turn after the necessary tech was discovered and that was that. I am envisioning a future era as a coda to what we have now; is it really that fun for Civilization3 to stop with the present? Now, I realize that there's no way Firaxis is going to create a future era for this version; at best it would be in an expansion pack (crosses fingers). So what would I want in this future era? Possibilities (some half-baked) include:
* Ocean cities (+ ocean workers)
* Hydroponics (tech + city improvement)
* Fusion Power (more powerful energy weapons; thermonuke?; a power plant that compounds with rather than replaces other power plants)
* Anti-Gravity (w/ hovertanks)
* Space Elevator/Orbital Tether
* Satellites for generating food/production
* Some kind of Internet tech + improvement/small wonder
* navies for stacking ships?
* air bases
* undersea sonar arrays (like SOSUS in the atlantic) as a small wonder
* satellite killers
* farmland (as from civ2)
And of course there would have to be a couple more strategic resources to support these (dilithium anyone? maybe one you could only get in space through building some kind of satellite [which could be destroyed by your enemies]) and probably a couple more happiness things (either new luxuries, a rollerball arena, etc.) to support still larger cities. Any other ideas? It would have to be a list of some 20 mostly realistic technologies (of course there could be room for something like "Plastic Surgery" which allows for greater happiness) with attendant improvements for happiness (museum? as improvement [generic "museum"], small wonder ["Smithsonian"], or great wonder ["The Louvre"]), wealth, attack/defense units, new small and large wonders, etc.
Of course, to make this all work, two things would have to happen:
1) spaceship victory disabled (I don't see how it could get changed to happen later)
2) increase in effectiveness of anti-nuke defenses, either with the discovery of a new technology or additional improvements/small wonders
btw, notice that there are like 16 techs in the modern era vs 21/22/21 in the first three eras. Sort of supports my feeling that the modern era ends too soon.
* Ocean cities (+ ocean workers)
* Hydroponics (tech + city improvement)
* Fusion Power (more powerful energy weapons; thermonuke?; a power plant that compounds with rather than replaces other power plants)
* Anti-Gravity (w/ hovertanks)
* Space Elevator/Orbital Tether
* Satellites for generating food/production
* Some kind of Internet tech + improvement/small wonder
* navies for stacking ships?
* air bases
* undersea sonar arrays (like SOSUS in the atlantic) as a small wonder
* satellite killers
* farmland (as from civ2)
And of course there would have to be a couple more strategic resources to support these (dilithium anyone? maybe one you could only get in space through building some kind of satellite [which could be destroyed by your enemies]) and probably a couple more happiness things (either new luxuries, a rollerball arena, etc.) to support still larger cities. Any other ideas? It would have to be a list of some 20 mostly realistic technologies (of course there could be room for something like "Plastic Surgery" which allows for greater happiness) with attendant improvements for happiness (museum? as improvement [generic "museum"], small wonder ["Smithsonian"], or great wonder ["The Louvre"]), wealth, attack/defense units, new small and large wonders, etc.
Of course, to make this all work, two things would have to happen:
1) spaceship victory disabled (I don't see how it could get changed to happen later)
2) increase in effectiveness of anti-nuke defenses, either with the discovery of a new technology or additional improvements/small wonders
btw, notice that there are like 16 techs in the modern era vs 21/22/21 in the first three eras. Sort of supports my feeling that the modern era ends too soon.
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