09-08-2005 07:59									#1
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Build the thing and you can send back to your civ any single modern unit, such as armor or a battleship. You don't want to send it so far back that you can't buy fuel for it...

Then you have to replay the entire game from the date you send it back to.

Just for yucks.

	09-08-2005 10:36									#2
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fa get about it

no way no chance


did I say no

	09-08-2005 10:52									#3
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Another litmus test for the moddability of Civ4, if this is possible to mod, then just about anything will be, and it may make for an interesting mod.

As for being included in the official release, not a snowballs chance in hell.

	09-08-2005 11:25									#4
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Glad you guys like the idea so much.

I doubt this will be moddable...

	09-08-2005 11:48									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer Glad you guys like the idea so much. I doubt this will be moddable...

with all the talent out in this community

you never know?


I am here to lend all kinds of support

	09-08-2005 13:02									#6
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as I said in the other thread. time travel is impossible.

	09-08-2005 13:29									#7
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Platypus Rex, talent there is, but you ask the impossible! How do you have a wonder permit you to send a unit back in time? Also, there is a time line that would exist though certainly the unit would create a paradox, much would not be effected. If a unit got killed in combat that wouldn't change. If a city built a granary, that wouldn't change, many things would remain the same. Volcanos...

	09-08-2005 13:59									#8
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According to the theory of the multiverse, the unit would create a new timeline.

btw.
It´s a nice idea, but better suited für CtP2 as the tech-Tree of this game goes farther into the future.

	09-08-2005 16:55									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer Build the thing and you can send back to your civ any single modern unit, such as armor or a battleship. You don't want to send it so far back that you can't buy fuel for it... Then you have to replay the entire game from the date you send it back to. Just for yucks.

	09-08-2005 16:58									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Bogdanovist Another litmus test for the moddability of Civ4, if this is possible to mod, then just about anything will be, and it may make for an interesting mod.

Except for the fact that people don't usually keep a savefile from every turn in the game, so it's impossible...

	09-08-2005 18:29									#11
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Umm.. no.

	09-08-2005 18:57									#12
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Lancer

	09-08-2005 19:16									#13
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how about one of the future techs be a portal into an alternate universe, where everything is opposite!

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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Except for the fact that people don't usually keep a savefile from every turn in the game, so it's impossible...

That's what I was thinking. This would require the game to store every turn as a save game for when the player decided to go back in time. Talk about hogging drive space.

And, of course, it would be useless in MP games.

	09-08-2005 21:07									#15
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And why not a tech that brings you coffee when you play too late at night.

	09-08-2005 22:48									#16
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-OR- a time machine that would send a post-it note back in time 6 hours ago to when you sat down to start playing CIV4 to remind you of that 50% Grade exam/paper that you have almost forgotten to the spell of civ... ?


... It would help.

	10-08-2005 00:25									#17
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How about a "Sucky" wonder. When you build it, the game sucks.

	10-08-2005 00:30									#18
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quote: Originally posted by LordShiva How about a "Sucky" wonder. When you build it, the game sucks.

I thought that was the U.N.

	10-08-2005 00:41									#19
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My personal idea of time travel in a civ game (or a sci-fi mod/scenario) would be where when a nation gets close to discovering Time Travel, it starts gaining information and material from what the game equates as a probable future. Perhaps gaining the technology necessary to look into the future could mean an increased tech discovery rate. Perhaps when it's combined with other tech (or a national wonder involving such technology), a more physical link could be made with the game's prediction of the future, in which you could bring in a few units or resources or whatever. ...although chances are you'd lose some of those same units later on as they then go back to that earlier time.

	10-08-2005 00:47									#20
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Time Travel in Civ

	10-08-2005 03:10									#21
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Oh, come on, take this idea as its presented. This would be a fun idea for a mod but not a part of a regular game.

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Time travel...hmm...how about a wonder that turns all sea tiles into land, and all land tiles into sea?

	10-08-2005 05:17									#23
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That would be totally unrealistic.

	10-08-2005 05:57									#24
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hay guyz hw bout a wondre calld teh "Win Button".

	10-08-2005 12:45									#25
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even SMAC didn't have time travel. And that went far, far into the future.

	10-08-2005 15:21									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Dis even SMAC didn't have time travel. And that went far, far into the future.

Well, well, I already use some kind of time travel with Civ III Conquest: it's under the shortcut CTRL+L and let you go back to autosave of last five turns (anything between 250 to 5 years, IIRC, depending on era).
It's disguised as "unfair, losers practice", but it's possible and pay a big reward when you are playing in deep night and almost fall asleep clicking the wrong command... Life is short, enjoy it quickly.

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Lancer, nice to see that you're making good use of your time now that your ban has worn off

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quote: Originally posted by Dis as I said in the other thread. time travel is impossible.

What? Are you kidding? We have *proof* that Time Travel is possible. Want to see it? Every intelligent race that has ever discovered time travel eventually wipes itself, and all traces of its existance, out.

Now, Time Travel, for us, is impossible. The proof is that we are still here.

	12-08-2005 03:22									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov That's what I was thinking. This would require the game to store every turn as a save game for when the player decided to go back in time. Talk about hogging drive space. And, of course, it would be useless in MP games.

There was a Civ style game that shipped with that "feature". Wasn't it CtP?

I know SMAC keeps a set of auto-saved games going back to about 40 turns prior. It's not all 40 turns... It only keeps a subset of the saved games.

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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud Lancer, nice to see that you're making good use of your time now that your ban has worn off

Thanks. Of course I was making good use of my time before my ban, just not in the opinion of one particular jerk off.