New Abilities

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by UberKruX
maybe they should be prone to idiocy / rejection of new ideas. get astronomy, but you kill copernicus before he builds the observatory.

That's too funny to go without note. Cheers big ears.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by gentleriser


I should have been clearer in my original suggestion:

Maritime:
1 - All this civ's boats have 1/3 the movement cost when travelling through sea and ocean squares (NOT coast squares - historically, I'm thinking of Portugal, British Empire, or the Dutch East India company here)
2 - For each harbour that you have built, one of your ships has a maintenance cost of Zero (0). I agree big-time that free harbours is insane, and didn't intend it to be read that way.
3 - (new addition) Increased chance of starting the game on a shore.

As such, Maritime is for long sea journeys. For those dreaming of Viking applications, let me suggest:

Raider:
1-Land units disembarking from a boat to a land square only expend 1/3 movement to do so.
2-Wooden ships have +1 attack for each foot soldier unit on board.

Any further Viking advantage would be dealt with by making a "Longship" special unit cool.

-GentleRiser.

Those are good ideas, but I think they're very different in the spirit than other Civ traits. My perspective was to imagine maritime and agricultural traits in a comparable way with other Civs. But 1/3 movement on oceans sounds really cool to me, much better than a mere extra movement point anywhere.

[Panag]

hi ,

well if there is a going to be a martime-civ , fine but with a port , to build ships and to repair them , harbor only for fishing , ..

of course we dont need to worry that that civ starts in the jungle , the can walk ( ) to the sea-side , .....

have a nice day