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Topic: The River, The Mountain, The Weather |  |
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Tim White
Chieftain
Kearns, Utah, USA
Oct 2000
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posted October 24, 2000 13:28
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Rivers need to be changed, instead of the 1/3 movement thing, there should be mini neutral boats that float on the rivers that units can use. Mountains - Add elevation, so that the higher you go, the colder it gets, and the slower the units moves. And like horsemen and tanks, and vehicles cannot cross across mountain ranges without a road. Add 3D to, So that you can tell which mountain is higher then another. And have mountain passes to. Add weather also, so that during winter, the earth would look kinda like glaciers, and whats that other terrain called? any way, during winter it would be cold, it would work like elevations, and if cold enough, then units would slowly die (Siberian Special Forces would be imune to weather). Heck man, I want to use those Russian winters to my advantage! |
Dom Pedro II
Warlord
Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA
Nov 1999
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posted October 24, 2000 17:06
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I posted a message where I suggested that rivers should be one of the mediums for transporting cargo in a trade route. A city on a river would depend on it to do its trading with other cities, and rural populations (another thread i posted) would consolidate on the shores of rivers.Mountains with elevation are a good idea as well. They have been discussed thoroughly. The only one I disagree with is the weather. The reason is that each turn can be one year or more. Weather changes within the year, so it would really not make sense to make a winter occur every fifty years. However gradual changes in the terrain due to natural causes would be nice. Ice ages might be an interesting twist. And just to take those Russian winters into account somehow, maybe certain tiles in certain latitudes should be tougher on units to symbolize the rough winters, or in the tropics hot, disease-filled summers. |
Tim White
Chieftain
Kearns, Utah, USA
Oct 2000
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posted October 24, 2000 17:12
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I do agree with you that weather would be rather redicalous, And ice ages, and such would be a cool thing to add in stead of winters, summers, etc. |
UltraSonix
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Melbourne, Australia
May 2000
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posted October 24, 2000 17:58
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Heck man, I want to use those Russian winters to my advantage!
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Not only is the turns point above true, but also, how does the game show it on the screen?  quote:
Ice ages might be an interesting twist
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It'll be easy to do as well - everyone freezes to death. Game Over.  ------------------
No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary... |
Tim White
Chieftain
Kearns, Utah, USA
Oct 2000
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posted October 24, 2000 18:13
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Originally posted by UltraSonix on 10-24-2000 05:58 PM
[QUOTE]Heck man, I want to use those Russian winters to my advantage!
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Not only is the turns point above true, but also, how does the game show it on the screen? quote:
Ice ages might be an interesting twist
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It'll be easy to do as well - everyone freezes to death. Game Over. [/quote] Have ya every played Lords of the Realm 2? well, the map is winterlike. And it is much harder to grow food during the winter. |
Frugal_Gourmet
Chieftain
Dallas, TX, USA
b.02-15-99
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posted October 25, 2000 14:34
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How can there be weather, when turns are at least a year long? |
Dom Pedro II
Warlord
Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA
Nov 1999
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posted October 25, 2000 16:46
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It'll be easy to do as well - everyone freezes to death. Game Over.
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Actually, UltraSonix, there HAVE been dips in the world climate that has caused profound effects in civilizations globally but they still survived. Not quite as dramatic as an ice age, but still a deep freeze for those living at the time. I can't remember where I saw it, but there was one during the Medieval Ages that affected the Franks, the Chinese, and the Mesoamerican civilizations just to name a few. |
Tim White
Chieftain
Kearns, Utah, USA
Oct 2000
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posted October 25, 2000 18:41
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No ultrasonix, everyone would not freeze to death, if that were true, then during a global warming everyone would Fry to death. |
red_jon
Chieftain
Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
Oct 2000
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posted October 25, 2000 18:53
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Not so, they say that due to global warming northern Europe will freeze. (We had snow in August this year!)Better wrap up warm.... |
UltraSonix
King
Melbourne, Australia
May 2000
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posted October 25, 2000 21:31
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No ultrasonix, everyone would not freeze to death, if that were true, then during a global warming everyone would Fry to death.
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I must have posted that right after going to OT - I was only joking! Still, frying to death would be pretty funny as well...------------------
No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards... Despite any stupid advertisments you may see to the contrary... | |
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