Stone age time per turn

[Ben Williams]

Does it strike anybody else as strange that a turn is fifty years at the beginning of the game? The instant you build a city you can see all the squares ajacent to it, meaning somebody can see that far from the town (or the place they work near the town, which can't be far away). Now if you send a warrior out and back at the beginning of the game, you just spent a hundred years sending him to the distance of your sight and back. And don't forget settlers, say you build one and send it three squares away to found a city, there is no way they could still be alive when they got there. And when a worker builds a road on a mountain it's a job that would take hundreds of years. Thoughts?

-ben

[Flip McWho]

i think it's more for gameplay issues than realism. imagine the game if each turn was a year. 4000bc to 2050ad = a long time. although that could be good if u want a micromanagement with heaps to do.

[Cyclotron]

It is obvious. Inventions like the wheel and iron working took hundreds or thousands of years to master. If you made one turn elapse every year, you qould have techs that took about 200 or so turns to build. You would have an empire that spanned many continents by the year 0.

Simple equation:

Gameplay > Realism

[August Borms]

Re: Stone age time per turn

Originally posted by Ben Williams
Thoughts?

You'll go insane if you start thinking about things like that...

[Panag]

hi ,

it should be like 5 - 10 years , ....

have a nice day

[AnnC]

I suspect that the years-per-turn scale is designed so that tech advances are achieved (in a typical game) at about the right historical time.

[Panag]

Originally posted by AnnC
I suspect that the years-per-turn scale is designed so that tech advances are achieved (in a typical game) at about the right historical time.

hi ,

we should have the ability to change that in the editor , ...every player wants something else , ...

have a nice day

[Solver]

Techs in historical time? Most civ 2 players could launch a spaceship in BC, does that seem historical?

Just a note

[AnnC]

I was referring to a typical game in Civ3. Naturally, a good player can advance up the tech tree much faster.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Solver
Techs in historical time? Most civ 2 players could launch a spaceship in BC, does that seem historical?

Just a note

hi ,

why not , ...... , imagine where we as humans could have been , if we did not spend all the time fighting , ....

have a nice day

[Colonel Rhombus]

panag - A great many technological advances had their origins in military applications. A brief look through the Civilopaedia will confirm that.

[kimmygibler]

Note: Civ is not real time strategy.

[Ben Williams]

The whole point of Civ is to REWRITE history. If, playing with the same types of problems and forces as in real life, you launch a spaceship in BC then that's a real achivement. You've rewritting history.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Colonel Rhombus
panag - A great many technological advances had their origins in military applications. A brief look through the Civilopaedia will confirm that.

hi ,

so , just imagine where we would have been without going to war all the time , ....................;

have a nice day

[Zachriel]

Re: Stone age time per turn

Originally posted by Ben Williams
Does it strike anybody else as strange that a turn is fifty years at the beginning of the game?
-ben

Progress was very slow in ancient times. For instance, it took Moses et. al. 40 years to cross Sinai. Think of it as a generation per turn.