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That's different. In Civ you're starting out in the stone age. These are highly educated 21st century Earth colonists.
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Or at least they were educated until the Gaians ripped their minds out, Yang's 're-education' programs, Sparta's punishment spheres, Morgan’s nerve stapling, Lal's mind-numbing dogma, Zak’s creative research hospitals, and Miriam's complete denial of reality in favor of 3000-year-old horror stories.
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The SMAC manual justifies it thus:Originally posted by Straybow
That's different. In Civ you're starting out in the stone age. These are highly educated 21st century Earth colonists.
...any primitive tribesman of old Earth could hollow out a tree and make a canoe, but your faction can’t build sea-going units until it acquires Doctrine: Flexibility. This isn’t because water works differently on Planet, it’s because it takes a great deal of work, planning and inspiration to set up a self-sustaining shipbuilding industry of the sort required
to produce high-tech, ocean-going vessels on command.Comment
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