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Not yet muxec. It will all come soon.

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I have a question for all:


How would you prefer the first 8 eras to go?

i.e.

Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Age
Dark Age
etc..


What other combinations can you come up with, and if you can give reasons that would be helpful too.

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Kloreep

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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger BTW, make sure your game can run in a window.

What he said.

1024x768 doesn't look too bad on my laptop, but the stretching is certainly noticable. On a bigger/even more out of aspect screen, I can see how it would become ugly to the point of making the game unplayable.

I can certainly understand keeping the resolution small and compatible since you aren't Stardock with scaling screens, but please, make it windowable to avoid stretching.

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The Classical Age --> Dark Age progression ought onlyhappen in the event of collapse of the leading empire.

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Lord Nuclear

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quote: Originally posted by Smiley The Classical Age --> Dark Age progression ought onlyhappen in the event of collapse of the leading empire.

Or perhaps if a certain number of civs collapse in a certain period of time? You need more than one possible event to go into the Dark Ages.

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I don't think I should have said dark ages, it distorts my actual question.

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I'd hit it.

Nice looking graphics.

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If you hit it, I will hit you with a pregnant giraffe several times.

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quote: Originally posted by Sn00py How would you prefer the first 8 eras to go? i.e. Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age Classical Age Dark Age etc.. What other combinations can you come up with, and if you can give reasons that would be helpful too.

Neotlithic Era
Agricultural Era
Chieftain Era
Early Kingdoms
Imperial Era
...

It's more accented on the overall social evolution of a civ, as you might have noticed.

Perhaps more sub-era's should be found to get 8.

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not a bad idea

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List of Ages

Stone Age (Paleolithic then Neolithic)
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical
Late Antiquity (aka Dark Ages)
Medieval (early/middle/late)
Renaissance
Industrial
Modern
Post Modern

Graphics look lovely by the way.

JATF

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to jatf list...and to the graphics...

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Adagio

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Now that we have an entire forum for this game we need some info about the game to talk about

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Adagio, we don't want to give out details that aren't concrete; but since you are desperate we will talk about what info we can release.

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ok so far 8 era...for the rest classic civ research? and how many rescources are you going to have? food, shields and coins?

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Well SnOOpy, you not only a good artist in this medium, your also doing well as a promoter.

Setting expectations and building anticipation simulatenously with market research. Not bad. Kudos on several fronts at once.

Ooooooo! lookie at da pwetty gwaphics!

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Looks like most people go for a 'classic' definition of era passing.

Anyway, the underlying idea for my proposal was that in history (noteworthy the meso-american civilisations) reached quite heights regarding organisation and size, without having reached (or even needed) the technical abilities of the western, mid-eastern and eastern civs.

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quote: Originally posted by Sn00py I have a question for all: How would you prefer the first 8 eras to go? i.e. Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age Classical Age Dark Age etc.. What other combinations can you come up with, and if you can give reasons that would be helpful too.

Can I have a DrSpike age?

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quote: Originally posted by Sn00py I have a question for all: How would you prefer the first 8 eras to go? i.e. Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age Classical Age Dark Age etc.. What other combinations can you come up with, and if you can give reasons that would be helpful too.

First 8? I would say that is too many time periods to go thru. Empire Earth tried this and it was not much fun for many people. I would say 8 total is the max for good game play.

If your game needs more than eight, then name them by the first tech/discovery required to start the period. Don't limit yourself to standard era naming conventions. ie stone, iron, medival, modern...
Depending on what your game includes, use names like those mentioned by GeoModder.

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first time seeing it great stuff! And to think I was already holding out for sn00py to make new terrain for cIV. this stuff is way better!

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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Can I have a DrSpike age?

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Mighty impressive

I want more... (eye candy, game specs, concepts)

FEED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DarkCloud

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Are you really insistent on having a stone age? I don't see how that would be any fun.

I'd suggest going with 7 ages and cutting Stone age, much like jatf suggested below or adding an "enlightenment" age after the renaissance.

a good source for ideas would be the Civ III and Civ IV lists as well as the ideas forums for those old threads. the civ III ideas forum includes thousands of ideas that didn't make it on the list- if you're interested in those sort of things- they can give you a good idea of good techs to include.

quote: Stone Age (Paleolithic then Neolithic) Bronze Age Iron Age Classical Late Antiquity (aka Dark Ages) Medieval (early/middle/late) Renaissance Industrial Modern Post Modern

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Harry Tuttle

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Very impressive Snoopy, keep us posted

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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud Are you really insistent on having a stone age? I don't see how that would be any fun. I'd suggest going with 7 ages and cutting Stone age, much like jatf suggested below or adding an "enlightenment" age after the renaissance. a good source for ideas would be the Civ III and Civ IV lists as well as the ideas forums for those old threads. the civ III ideas forum includes thousands of ideas that didn't make it on the list- if you're interested in those sort of things- they can give you a good idea of good techs to include.

Sorry, there are more ages than 7. I said the first 8, but I never said how many eras are in the game.

We have designed the beginning part of the game to be more challenging.


I have looked over the lists already; I will refer to them whenever we get stuck with something.

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Beautiful graphics.

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Well, it looks damn nice. Hopely there will be a game with it too

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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud Are you really insistent on having a stone age? I don't see how that would be any fun. I'd suggest going with 7 ages and cutting Stone age, much like jatf suggested below or adding an "enlightenment" age after the renaissance. a good source for ideas would be the Civ III and Civ IV lists as well as the ideas forums for those old threads. the civ III ideas forum includes thousands of ideas that didn't make it on the list- if you're interested in those sort of things- they can give you a good idea of good techs to include.

We are creating an epic game, we're not going in the direction of civ4 which seems to have dumbed down the tbs genre and gone for a more mass market game.

If you don't like long and epic games then this is probably not for you.

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DarkCloud

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I like long and epic games- I just don't think that the stone age could ever be very interesting. I would rather have more detail in modern ages. And considering the amount of art that you guys have to do (redesigning the display for every age) I fear that you might not ever finish if you focus on too many ages.

--Another possible 'tree' could be:

Stone Age Meta-Age (though I hate the stone age)
The Invention of Fire (civilization begins)
Animal Domestication
Vegetable Domestication (farming)
The Invention of the Wheel (and plow!)

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Classical

Late Antiquity (aka Dark Ages)

Medieval (early/middle/late)

Renaissance

Age of Slavery
Ever notice how all nations seem to need this to advance. Example: Russia had serfs before industrialization, the USA had slaves, etc.

Age of Enlightenment

Age of imperialism

Industrial

Digital Revolution

Globalism Revolution

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