10-08-2005 02:15									#1
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Suppose that by Civ VIII, the last release before I croak if I get my three score and ten, every other person in America plays Civ, a reasonable assumption imo. Unreasonable you say? Consider that Civ IV is going to be wildly successful! This will set the stage for a fantastic increase in the fan base culminating in 150 million people playing or having played Civ by April 3, 2028, the day of my demise. If so, the game will have an incredible effect of the very fabric of American culture. People like Britney Spears will be working in McD's flipping burgers and doing the manager while hoping for a raise, where she belongs.

Wisdom and knowledge will return once more to our land.

So, a culture and science boost increasing in strength every 5 years?

Of course, there will still be an ever decreasing group out there still multiplaying playing Civ II, stuck in their rut and crying against progress, the Quakers of the future modern era.

Discuss.

	10-08-2005 02:31									#2
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Building the Sid Meier's Civilization wonder would cut all productivity in your nation by 80%.

	10-08-2005 02:32									#3
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IMHO a Civ VIII-Wonder would mean a 90% increase in happiness of the entire civilization,
but at the same time, as the game will be extremly addictive, production, commerce and science would drop by 90%, as people prefer playing Civ VIII instead of going to such things like work/university/school.

	10-08-2005 03:35									#4
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Oh, aside from the effects mentioned in my previous posting, the wonder would also give you a one-time amount of gold upon building.
This reflects, that Firaxis would make enormous amounts of money because everyone within the country buys a copy of Civ VIII [and of course, as a result, has to pay an enormous amount of taxes to your government ].
But there would be no more money to be gainred from this wonder, as the population wouldn´t have enough money to buy any expansion packs made by firaxis. They just work enough to barely survive.
But there wouldn´t be any expansion pack anyway. The programmers of firaxis were the first people who got addicted to the game, so they won´t have any time to program new expansions for the game

	10-08-2005 05:30									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Proteus_MST IMHO a Civ VIII-Wonder would mean a 90% increase in happiness of the entire civilization, but at the same time, as the game will be extremly addictive, production, commerce and science would drop by 90%, as people prefer playing Civ VIII instead of going to such things like work/university/school.

It will also have the effect of decreasing production a similar amount in all other nations that have discovered the 'computers' technology.

	10-08-2005 06:38									#6
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lol, Lancer, I can see your raising your post count efficiently lately. If only I were so creative sometimes.

The Civilization wonder should never be done, cuz it wasnt in Civ 2.

Someone had to say it.

	10-08-2005 06:49									#7
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How does Lancer know when he is going to die?

	10-08-2005 06:57									#8
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i'm betting either fortune teller, or suicide pact.

	10-08-2005 16:25									#9
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Wasn't a comet scheduled to pass Earth by then?

	10-08-2005 16:28									#10
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a small wonder beeing the patch

decrease in happiness, a couples items removed from your palace
decrease in science,

unitl you build the Apolyton Guild, and everthing is right in the world

	10-08-2005 18:03									#11
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What woul 'Poly Wonder do, then?

	10-08-2005 18:14									#12
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Probably start an OTF civil war.

	10-08-2005 18:18									#13
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It creates Mingapulco.

	12-08-2005 06:22									#14
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Which eventually wipes out the OT and sends everyone to the Civ Fanatics forum...

1889, it's the bible dufus, three score and ten... Which means that with a Civ game every 5 years, I'll live to see Civ VIII.

	12-08-2005 18:12									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer Which eventually wipes out the OT and sends everyone to the Civ Fanatics forum...

Tell me again why that is bad?

quote: Originally posted by Lancer 1889, it's the bible dufus, three score and ten... Which means that with a Civ game every 5 years, I'll live to see Civ VIII.

So you have (just) to miss out on CIX.

	12-08-2005 18:36									#16
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The great Wonder of Civilization would need the Internet.

It would indeed provide happiness

There would be definite science benefits

And a cost in productivity.

This is a great idea... definitly for a upcominng Mod

I would hope that we would have an appropriate Statue to bless those who have the adventure of heart to take the journey into such a realm of the mind.

I propose the mighty warrior poet Asterix...

Attachment: asterix.jpg
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Last edited by Paddy the Scot on 12-08-2005 at 18:42

	12-08-2005 19:57									#17
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I love Uderzo and Goscinny, but why Asterix to represent the Great Wonder of Civ?
Build a Sid Meier statue!

	12-08-2005 20:03									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy the Scot The great Wonder of Civilization would need the Internet.

If its the 3rd build of it, the internet shouldnt be required untill you build a post-requisite add-on

	12-08-2005 22:16									#19
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After Civ VIII I predict it will all go downhill anyway. :sour grapes:

"Tell me again why that is bad?"

That is bad because I have friends (believe it or not) here on Poly and when a site goes south friends lose touch. Granted I'd maybe make new ones on Civ Fanatics, but the friendships I have in the OT go pretty far back. One of the reasons the petty ******** tyrant in the OT pisses me off. That said, I know I have to make the jump to Civ Fanatics and have an all new login over there all ready to go. I'm 'Noitazilivic' on those boards now. Haven't posted yet...

	13-08-2005 01:24									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy the Scot I propose the mighty warrior poet Asterix...

No, rather the Sarcophagus of Lancer.

When it is constructed, young maidens would awaken from decades of hypnotic trances, and make themselves sexually available to the rest of us meaning more happiness.

Mourning rioters would ramage through the streets of Mingapulco, buring that city to the ground, releasing hoards of political prisoners. Still more happiness + increased production...at least until the escaping political prisoners run into the young maidens mentioned above.

Sales of manly, masculine blue tutus would crash, meaning either decreasing treasuries, or ... ulp ... higher taxes.

	16-08-2005 13:39									#21
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It would make true addicts