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CIV3-THE MASTER LIST-TECHNOLOGY "THREAD MASTER"

[wheathin]

New Techs:

I think the lists of techs in CivII and CtP are a good starting point. They have little overlap, and most of the similar techs can be used to flesh out subtle differences. (i.e. stoneworking and masonry; electrification, eletronics; domestication, horseback riding).

I agree with some of the posters that the tech tree needs more non-math-and-physics techs. While my own expanded tree isn't done yet, here's a lot of new techs. I tried to add more artistic/social techs, and some physical science / engineering techs that were important historically, but are usually overlooked.

- Copper Smelting (before bronze)
- Animism (early religion)
- Brewing (allows beer!), Herbal Remedies
- Weaving, Potters Wheel
- Geography
- History, Tragedy/Literature, Rhetoric
- Plumbing (essential for mining, which should appear much later)
- Lens Grinding, Heliocentrism, Orbital Mechanics, Calculus
- Discipline, Training, Art of War, Standing Army, Mobilization
- Credit, Mercantilism, Urbanization, Rationalization (a la Max Weber), Capital Markets, Regulation
- Cash Crops, Crop Rotation, Agricultural Investment, Mechanical Farming, Artifical Fertilizers
- Enlightenment, Revolution, Social Reform (for labor union), Women's Movement
- Anatomy, Physiology, Botany, Cell Theory, Germ Theory, Immunization
- Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Electric Light
- Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Ceramics, Periodic Table

Note that some of these are a subdivision of existing techs. For example, I think that a tech called "Industrialization" is silly - it is a whole phase of the game lasting several hundred years. It can be broken down into many individual techs, industrial, economic, scientific, and social.

wheathin