Fifth Era

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Grrr
If there editor is any good, we can add a twenty eighth era .

That would certainly make the scientific trait more valuable. 28 free advances over the course of the game? damn.

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


That would certainly make the scientific trait more valuable. 28 free advances over the course of the game? damn.

hi ,

but the tech's would be in proportion as well , .....nice try

have a nice day

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

but the tech's would be in proportion as well , .....nice try

have a nice day

Sure the other traits would be in proportion, except for Expansionist which is useless by 1 ad. It would just make me more willing to try scientific if I got that many freebies. the three that it gives now, I don't find to be that appetizing. granted I try to get rocketry soon, but the others Ibypass for a while.

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Sure the other traits would be in proportion, except for Expansionist which is useless by 1 ad. It would just make me more willing to try scientific if I got that many freebies. the three that it gives now, I don't find to be that appetizing. granted I try to get rocketry soon, but the others Ibypass for a while.

hi ,

one could always use the editor , ....and give a civ ALL the civ-specific abilities , ...

have a nice day

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

one could always use the editor , ....and give a civ ALL the civ-specific abilities , ...

have a nice day

I actually tried that for one game. was, uh, pretty unbalancing. but nice. all abiliities and start with 4 techs. pretty sweet. but I only tried once, and figured what's the point.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


I actually tried that for one game. was, uh, pretty unbalancing. but nice. all abiliities and start with 4 techs. pretty sweet. but I only tried once, and figured what's the point.

I did it too. It helps to give a feel for what the different traits do, with out having to play all the combinations.

[Mr. President]

We have this already. It's called Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


I actually tried that for one game. was, uh, pretty unbalancing. but nice. all abiliities and start with 4 techs. pretty sweet. but I only tried once, and figured what's the point.

hi , try again it works with 1.21 , as the others start with 4 tech's , so could you , ... or you could have them start with none , including you , .....

have a nice day

[Andrew_Jay]

Perhaps a 5th era that covered the next 300 years or so and had a heavy environmental slant to it. Or even better, structured in such a way that you a large branch full of environmental techs and another full of military techs and you have to choose one or the other, or balance your choices out (one from one line, then your next tech from the other). This would allow your civ to decide whether we'll have a violent, post-apocolyptic future, or one where the environment (and people) survive. Pollution could be worse too, messages like "3 citizens in Tarsus die of cancer from the sun/toxic drinking water/etc."
One of the small or great wonders for envioronmentalism could be Yucca Mountain, where you store your nuclear waste and build a huge monolithic monument on top to warn people in the future.

[Metaliturtle]

Originally posted by Mellian:
Probe Teams

Ahh yess, I remember fondly my days on the high school probe team, we were the best probers in wisconsin, and we probed each other so much that had we probed any more, we would have died.

I think the game should stay as is as far as the ages go, because the coding is all weird, if you wanted to you could make new techs in the editor tho

[Cookie Monster]

With all this debate over a fifth era a question popped into my mind.

Has anyone routinely completed all research in Civ3 in their games? I find it very difficult to see how a fifth era could be inserted into the game given the same time constraints that we currently have.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
With all this debate over a fifth era a question popped into my mind.

Has anyone routinely completed all research in Civ3 in their games? I find it very difficult to see how a fifth era could be inserted into the game given the same time constraints that we currently have.

hi ,

well since there are so many who have done so allready , ...
and just because "future tech 1" and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 , gets a bit nervous , some people say the stopped at 28 , .....pfffff , and there is room for more era's and they should expand them , .....

have a nice day

[Andrew_Jay]

True, under the *current* time restraints most people don't finish all the techs, but I think that could be easily changed by making the space ship parts
1. more numerous
2. more costly and
3. their techs at the end of the modern era, or maybe even the start of a 5th era.
The other victories don't really rely on any technology.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
With all this debate over a fifth era a question popped into my mind.

Has anyone routinely completed all research in Civ3 in their games? I find it very difficult to see how a fifth era could be inserted into the game given the same time constraints that we currently have.

I usually complete all the techs in my games. Sometimes I can kill everyone before making it to the end, but usually can.

Of course, this is usually after having reached the modern age around 1500 if not earlier, so, not too hard to get all the techs then.

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
With all this debate over a fifth era a question popped into my mind.

Has anyone routinely completed all research in Civ3 in their games? I find it very difficult to see how a fifth era could be inserted into the game given the same time constraints that we currently have.

Simple solution... Send the Mandatory Retirement year forward a couple of centuries.

BTW, I have managed to complete all research by 1960 before, but never any earlier.

I do agree that 2050 is too early to retire if there is to be a fifth era.