Global Warming for Victoria

[unmerged(22834)]

Isn't it unrealistic that Victoria doesn't accurately model global warming? Think about it, if you have heaps of countries with a 30,000 industrial rating, and lots of level 10 steel factories etc. Shouldn't the game factor in the climate changing?

I propose that, on top of the currently existing political and social reforms, governments should have the ability to include a carbon tax or an emission trading scheme to fight global warming.

The life rating of provinces around the equator should decrease once a certain global industrial threshold is reached and places near the poles should have their life rating go up as higher temperatures open up more land for farming and settlement.

 

[wedgeskwalker9]

There is a reason that this wasn't an issue in Victorian times. It's only started happening recently.

 

[unmerged(56576)]

The reason it wasn't an issue is because it's a myth .

 

[unmerged(22834)]

That's because we've only reached 30,000 industrial rating in recent times. If you got that by 1850, we should see global warming around 1900.

 

[Minchandre]

Regardless, the odds of global warming being influential over the course of the game, combined with the incredible difficutlies associated with modeling it, make it pretty much not worthwhile to include.

 

[Vladislav]

Isn't it unrealistic that Victoria doesn't accurately model global warming? ...

I propose that, on top of the currently existing political and social reforms, governments should have the ability to include a carbon tax or an emission trading scheme to fight global warming.

Is this a joke?

 

[HMS Enterprize]

Is this a bad joke?

Even if there was global warming was science even able to detect/measure such things during the vicky period?

 

[unmerged(56465)]

Is this a joke?

Obviously.

 

[rjf101]

The reason it wasn't an issue is because it's a myth .

LOL

Well Global Warming only became noticeable and talked about within the last twenty years or so. WAY after the game's time period. Noone in 1836, or 1935had ever heard of "global warming", "carbon tax", etc. So, while very appropriate for a modern-day scenario, not at all fitting for a game set in Victorian times.

 

[Surgünoglu]

The game is close enough. The UK, US, and France will try to keep the Chinese and Indians from industrializing.

Only in Victoria II, it's possible to succeed.

 

[ve3609]

I smell a troll

 

[Noblejms]

You've gotta be kidding me....

 

[unmerged(76802)]

The Little Ice Age didn't end until around 1850.

 

[unmerged(48056)]

I'm from freezing Canada and trust me we'ld rather have warm weather than cold weather. :rofl: So bring on the global warming!

 

[nuarbnellaffej]

Haha kudos to the OP, I can clearly see the humor in his post, it really made my day.

I actually had a science teacher in high school who suggested that cities closer to the poles would suffer sooner than cities further away, because the melted glacial water would get to them sooner! I nearly fell out of my chair laughing!

 

[Alerias]

This thread is a perfect example of why I should have the power to close threads and write in orange. :rofl:

 

[mattkaru]

Well if we're adding global warming, Victoria 2 should also simulate the Singularity and add hipsters as a POP.

Might give everyone a good reason to keep slavery around. >_>

 

[Dark Knight]

There is a reason that this wasn't an issue in Victorian times. It's only started happening recently.

The Little Ice Age did come to an end in the 19th century, and so there was some warming of the Earth. Of course, this had nothing to do with industrial output, and I doubt Paradox games are going to incorporate complex climate models any time soon. I assume Eiderdown's suggestion of carbon taxes and emissions-trading schemes was made with tongue firmly in cheek, so I'll simply close this thread.