Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Fantasy Modpack

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Nettle wrote:
> 
> I mentioned earlier that I was planning on making a Fantasy modpack. Part
> of the idea is to have a techtree with several fairly separate branches. I
> was looking at the 5 colours of magic from Magic the Gathering, but I
> think I'll end up with 6: Earth Air Fire Water Holy Unholy. There'll also
> be a Mundane branch of the tree. The branches will have a little bit of
> "cross-pollination" but not much. Dragons will have prereqs from both
> Fire and Air. I might make the default researchspeed setting
> (game.techlevel) higher than usual, so that it's harder to get all the
> "techs". Pick one or two and specialize, or be a generalist and miss out
> on the really powerful stuff.

Sounds great fun.  One of the 'things' about Civ is then in my
experience, everyone gets basically the same technologies (i.e. all of
them!).  It would be nice to see a game where it made sense to
specialise on one branch of the tech tree.

This might mean that some things - like boats - have to appear more than
once, or everyone would *have* to get Water.. 

Oh, and I suggest you *don't* have a Great Library style wonder - that
would be rather powerful in this case...

> 
> I'll put something on a website somewhere once I get some concrete
> techtrees,
> unit stats, graphics, etc.

Looking forward to it.

Jules

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