Would you like a fifth era?

[Adagio]

I just read this thread, and thought why not make a poll of it, to see how many people actually would like an fifth era, and in that case which era!

For me that would be: add as many eras as possible, since I love games taking a lot of time to finnish

EDIT: Forgot the option: "I would like another era, but some other one as listed"...Sorry!

[TheBigTurkey]

I voted Rennaisance, but I really would like a dark ages era, because many new ideas came to light then (Not from Europe, however). Things from the Middle East, like Chemistry (Al-Kamii, I believe) and Algebra (Al-Jabir) came about during this time. I'd say the time frame is about 350-1100 (all CE), when the strongest civs were the Byzantines, Muslims, and Chinese. This would be cool, though.

[Cyclotron]

IMO, the ancient age is a bit rushed... iron-age swordsmen right before middle age pikemen seems too fast. I would like some other ancient and late iron-age units in there.

Down with future techs!

[civman2000]

no that would be too fundamental a change. however the ability to add extra eras should be given

[TheBigTurkey]

Originally posted by cyclotron7
IMO, the ancient age is a bit rushed... iron-age swordsmen right before middle age pikemen seems too fast. I would like some other ancient and late iron-age units in there.

Down with future techs!

I agree with both assessments. I don't like future techs.

[Tuberski]

Actually, adding an era in the middle of the game would probably bring the timeline in closer with real life.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Actually, adding an era in the middle of the game would probably bring the timeline in closer with real life.

adding a new middle age adding 30 techs or whatever would be great. However, either the lower difficulties would have to be tweaked for faster advances, or the new age just not in the game, since it seems that people on the lower levels can't play out the game in time. Indeed, if I played chieftain right now, I don't know if I would make it to the modern era before 1950, since the AI would be retarded. On the upper levels, say regeant and up, this would be fine, as the AI can actually compete for, if not surpass the human in research.

But regardless, woudl love more techs, more units, more turns, etc. need a lot more turns if there are going to be more units, as there has to be time to get the advance and put out the units. Not like SMAX where every couple of turns you would get an advance and never see some of the possible weapons in action.

[Jethro83]

Should be the option to add as many eras, techs, units, etc. as you want. Let each individual decide on what kinds of eras and techtrees they want.

[The Viceroy]

It would be nice to see a future era, or a colonial era .. but my experiences with CTP have made me worry about future techs .. don't want some official era with chessy units and silly unthought through science advances .. (I do like to return to the original BIC file once Ive worn a mod out)

So , I decided .. leave it to us to decide .. give us the era's to edit/add .. and im pretty certain, somebody will put a lot of thought into it, and make a spanking excellent mod.

Shame we don't have multiple maps like in TOT .. as you could even go for multiple planets ..

[ahenobarb]

A future era would just be retarded! A bunch of stupid sci-fi "wouldn't it be cool if" junk.

There are already significant gaps in the previous eras -- fill them in. Ancient era? Was there an ancient era in my game? It flew right by! Despite the fact that 70% of human history played out in the "ancient era".

[Zoid]

Gotta go with ahenobarb on this one. Fix the gaps in the previous eras first.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by The Viceroy
Shame we don't have multiple maps like in TOT .. as you could even go for multiple planets ..

yes

[moomin]

I want the future eras, myself. Hoplites are boring. Bring on the Imperial Stormtroopers.

[Darkworld Ark]

Hmm... How powerful are these "Banana Infanty"?

[Zoid]

Pretty good, the shoot banana peels so the enemy slips on them. Even an Anti-tank spearman can´t fight lying flat on his back. Besides it looks darn funny