[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Freeciv] Controlling date progression?

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:35:41PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:20:58AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > > P.S.    What about starting the game at an earlier time than 4000BC?
> > > There's evidence that agriculture and animal domestication started
> > > earlier than this.  US News has an article about it in the current
> > > issue.
> > 
> > 7000 BC ?
> > 10000 BC ?
> > Anyway idea is good.
> 
> 
>       7000BC may be good.  The article I read just a few days ago spoke
> about evidence of animal domestication (pigs of all things) roughly
> 9000 years old.

This allows for some extra techs (Animal Domestication, Agriculture,
Town Settling, Administration) but time would have to run faster
in those early days, eg. with 100 year turns.

Earlier techs (Tool Making, Fire Making, Stone Working, Clothing, Art)
are much farther apart (fire has been used for 200,000 years).
Two references I found with Google:

  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/chap6.html
  http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC12/Gilman3.htm

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