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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
No, I imagine it's solely the latter reason, because it's basically impossible to implement as a game mechanic. |
If I had to try to implement it, I probably would do it something like this:
With the ability to see/predict the future, the tech rate increases and random events are found out several turns ahead of time. (the random events thing would require that they be decided that early, but I've thought of doing that anyway to keep people from loading the previous turn to try to get a better one.) I might also increase how far an empire with such advances can see.
With the ability to bring stuff from the future, there would be stuff like advanced units and resources brought in. However, since those units and resources would have to come from some later time, their equivalent would have to go at that later time. Those units could involve technology that isn't discovered but merely available or close to available, but hopefully not farther than that. ...and perhaps extra costs of some sort will be required until those units are built and sent back. Additionally, perhaps some payment of money or other resources would be needed to recieve the units so that it doesn't end up automatically meaning world takeover in however many turns it takes the units to roll over the planet.
Perhaps the ability to simply go into much farther into the past (like today and earlier) could mean... well... I don't know. Perhaps using that technology could be in some way a victory condition. ...or if not, supply a lot of extra power in some sort of whatever. Like I said, I don't know.
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Darkstar
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Huntsville, AL, USA
May 1999
time: 23:37
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Actually, Time Travel is possible. We can do so now in laboratories. It's just photons though, and we can only send them back to the time we constructed the time machine. But Time Travel is not only possible, it's proven scientific fact.
Now, sending a human or something otherwise interesting? That's way beyond us. And if it works the same way as with photons, then we'd only be able to send you back to when the machine was made, and you were put into it. Not very useful, eh?
Now, the fictional time travel, that is more interesting. Is it real time travel, or merely travel into a parallel dimension? In game terms, if it is parallel, then you could gain free units (just like popping a good hut) from throughout time. No pay back need. But... you could also have random events where you "lose" a unit or three to "time travel". So gain or lose. Nice RNG balance. 
Players don't need a "real" time travel. That's what save games are for. They already have the biggest time travel mechanism at work for them. They just need a longer autosave list. Perhaps an automatic save at every "important sub-era" and every 50 turns or so are preserved. If its auto, then it could write over itself as you play new games of save, so you don't have an endless stream of auto saves to occasionally clean out.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:37
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Darkstar's time machine that can only send stuff back to the time the machine is turned on has real potential. First of all it wipes out the need of going back to 4000 BC and messing with game history to the point that you need to replay it, ie sending a nuke back. If all that could be sent back is info, and only to the time of the creation of the machine, what good is that?
Well...say we send a note back that the levy on lake Pontwhatever breaks at such and such a point wiping out New Orleans! Bet they send some guys out there with a bulldozer and fix it before it breaks...
All of a sudden volcanos wouldn't blow without warning. One could build a city next to one without fear of it getting wiped if no note from the future shows up warning not to build it. How about no more AI surprise attacks? Or, alternately, having to provide an enemy with a time machine X amount of turns warning of an attack...
Just food for thought, unless thought has become against the rules here at Poly. If so, so sorry, and may the thread nazis feel free to close this and abuse my upbringing or whatever. 
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12-08-2005 07:48
Now if you're afraid of going into the futue that fast you can slow down your travel by travelling around at high (near light-speed) speeds. Go fast enough and you can travel 100 years into the future in only a few years.
...although that I doubt being the first to mention in this thread.
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