Favourite Age

[Locutus]

What historical period do you think is the most fun/interesting/cool/challenging/etc to play in? I'm not talking about ages in the (modded or unmodded) game but just in general. This info might be useful to mod/scenario makers but even if it's not it's always fun to answer polls (almost as much as it is to make them)

I like the Ancient and esp. Classical Age best myself (Rome, Greece, Persia, Ch'in & Han China, Mauryan & Gupta India, Aksum, etc), although Modern Age scenarios (WWII) also rock

[hexagonian]

Ancient - simply from the standpoint of being able to stare at a black map with no idea who or what is out there.

...and to realize just how far we have come, from what we once were. The ancient mindset is just so foreign to what we are today. That's why it is so fascinating.

[Dinner]

I like the ancient age best as well. Everyone starts out more or less equal and it is here when the better players really come to the fore front.

[Dale]

I'm all for the Age of Imperialism (1876 - 1950). This period I feel provides the best mix of science, diplomacy and war. But I also love the medieval period as well. Knights 'n castles rock.

[Locutus]

Wow, the BC part of the game is popular! Dale, why did you not vote for Medieval ages then? It's a mutiple-choice poll...

[Locutus]

Originally posted by hexagonian
...and to realize just how far we have come, from what we once were. The ancient mindset is just so foreign to what we are today. That's why it is so fascinating.

Yeah, that's why I like the ancient age so much as well, it's so different! It's almost a fantasy world, except that it actually existed...

[Dale]

Originally posted by Locutus
Wow, the BC part of the game is popular! Dale, why did you not vote for Medieval ages then? It's a mutiple-choice poll...

DOH!

I missed that. Oh well, sign me up for one of them too.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Dale
Oh well, sign me up for one of them too.

Somehow I feel Markos wouldn't be happy if I started bugging him about needing to change people's vote in polls

[tigger]

I'm torn between classical and renaissance. I think you truely had civilisations then...hmmm I sound like a snob (better class of civilisation and all that)...I actually meant that after Rome you mainly got nation states.

Or am I talking rubbish?

[Locutus]

When in doubt, vote for both

I get your point. It depends on how exactly you define 'civilization', I suppose. In medieval times there were civs such as Maya, Inca, Aztec, Khmer, Siam, Tang and Song Chinese, Mongols, pre-Ottoman Turks, Hindu India, Arabs, Byzantium, Franks, Mali, Zimbabwe, Swahili, Ethiopia, etc... I personally think those all qualify as 'true' civilizations (though some arguably more than others), but I can see how someone else might not. Not a great period for Europe perhaps (apart from the Franks maybe) but there's more to the world than Europe...

[August Borms]

I prefer the following ages:

Classic Age: Romans, Greeks and Persians
Middle Ages: Crusades, Reconquista
Renaissance: colonization of the Americas
Modern Age: WW1, WW2

Ain't I horribly eurocentric

[tigger]

I guess I've been eurocentric too. Soz guys.

I'm still not sure what I'm trying to say. I was going to discuss the difference between civs and empires but to be honest its a mute point, thanks Locutus you made me think - not easy after a day at work!

Lets face it I like the renaissance beacuse of Paul kennedy's book on the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and I like the Classical Period because my father brought me up on greek and roman mythology.

Assur I wanted to develop the scenario I was working on to include the americas rather than just europe, but then I thought it was getting way too big. Maybe I'll have a rethink.

[Locutus]

Well, can't really blame you, can I? Civilization is a very eurocentric game... (that, and the history education in most western countries gives a very incomplete picture of world history - can't blame the people who suffered from it for that).

Oh well, maybe my choice of civs/wonders/etc (and their (to be made) accompanying GL files) in the History of Civilization mod will at least partially repair that damage...

[tigger]

How's the history of civ mod going Locutus?

Thanks for the SLIC help....my first SLIC works fine. Next step is to actually write some from scratch.

[Locutus]

Not as good as I'd like. This damned concept called real-life (perhaps you've heard of it? ) keeps interfering... But I think I'll have more time again this weekend and hope to actually get some work done again by then (although just discussing ideas in these forums is in itself already an extremely useful activity)

That's good to hear, you'll get the hang of this soon enough... Don't hesitate to lemme know when you need help again, in the mean time I'll try to put in some extra effort to finally finish that SLIC doc...