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@ih8regin it cracks me up that you continue to argue whether or not these game pieces make sense or would work in the real world. This game is not the real world. In the real world every day doesn't see the creation of multiple new civilizations. New cities don't look at the currently modern world around them and say I'm going to revert to the stone age and start from scratch with the goal of hopefully one day learning as much as is already known by all the people around me. This is a game. Nothing about it is real. It doesn't work based on real world physics. To claim that something shouldn't be in the game because it doesn't work in the real world is to claim that every part of the game must be deleted because none of it works.
Yes, I argued your made up reasons why the airplane couldn't work with my own made up reasons of why it could (because debating ideas and finding solutions for how they could work is fun). None of it matters for the game though. You are the one that started the chain of discussion on "how could this work in the real world." The rest of us discussing it are just playing along. None of it has anything to do with whether or not it would make the game better or worse. Academic discussions of this nature happen all the time and I imagine you can keep on happily finding people willing to debate the concept, but you are just derailing your own thread further and further from the point.
Give specific detailed points as to why the current design lessens the GAME (not how it doesn't mirror real life). Name how your suggestion will alter game play. List negative and positive effects it will have on the current player base as well as on future players. Why is current gameplay bad, and how would the proposed gameplay be better?
All your current proposal does is say, "This game wouldn't work in real life. Players are going to hate this idea. If this change is implemented it will force players into only playing the game one way, that of continually advancing eras." That's a synopsis of your entire proposal.
Yes, I argued your made up reasons why the airplane couldn't work with my own made up reasons of why it could (because debating ideas and finding solutions for how they could work is fun). None of it matters for the game though. You are the one that started the chain of discussion on "how could this work in the real world." The rest of us discussing it are just playing along. None of it has anything to do with whether or not it would make the game better or worse. Academic discussions of this nature happen all the time and I imagine you can keep on happily finding people willing to debate the concept, but you are just derailing your own thread further and further from the point.
Give specific detailed points as to why the current design lessens the GAME (not how it doesn't mirror real life). Name how your suggestion will alter game play. List negative and positive effects it will have on the current player base as well as on future players. Why is current gameplay bad, and how would the proposed gameplay be better?
All your current proposal does is say, "This game wouldn't work in real life. Players are going to hate this idea. If this change is implemented it will force players into only playing the game one way, that of continually advancing eras." That's a synopsis of your entire proposal.