We all know that most likely sooner or later the technology system will ge a major change, here is my current best suggestion how it should be changed. I assume here that the current technology system have been removed.
Instead of a linear technology system with predetermine bonuses at each technology level my system is based around only a few levels which I call tiers or invention tiers.
At each invention tier there is a number of inventions all which are available if you have reached that tier and no invention have any prerequisite other then you have reached its tier. But each invention will obsolete its cousine in the lower tiers. Then you have developed a number of innovation (but not all) you will unlock the next tier.
What this mean can be shown by this example: You develop arquebuse as your last invention before being advanced to the next tier. As your first invention in the next tier you chose to develop musket which give you the musket bonuses but remove the weaker bonuses from arquebuse because musket obsolete arquebuse. Most likely it was a waste to pick arquebuse here because if you had picked any other invention you had left you would have keept its effect then you developed musket.
This system allow player interaction into a system that currently lacks it. This system also allow you to prioritize what you need right now, again not that possible with the current tech system. Poor tech group could be punished by making them need more inventions before advancing into next tier which I think will work better then the current implemention of tech groups. Ahead of time penalty could be based around how many inventions you have developed, maybe 10 years per invention. Another thing is that you can either chose to separate administrative, diplomatic and military inventions into their own groups or you could put them all in the same group.
Another very nice thing is that you can use this system to for example unlock cannon for the Ottomans at the start of the game and many other interesting things that are more or less impossible with the current technology system.
Instead of a linear technology system with predetermine bonuses at each technology level my system is based around only a few levels which I call tiers or invention tiers.
At each invention tier there is a number of inventions all which are available if you have reached that tier and no invention have any prerequisite other then you have reached its tier. But each invention will obsolete its cousine in the lower tiers. Then you have developed a number of innovation (but not all) you will unlock the next tier.
What this mean can be shown by this example: You develop arquebuse as your last invention before being advanced to the next tier. As your first invention in the next tier you chose to develop musket which give you the musket bonuses but remove the weaker bonuses from arquebuse because musket obsolete arquebuse. Most likely it was a waste to pick arquebuse here because if you had picked any other invention you had left you would have keept its effect then you developed musket.
This system allow player interaction into a system that currently lacks it. This system also allow you to prioritize what you need right now, again not that possible with the current tech system. Poor tech group could be punished by making them need more inventions before advancing into next tier which I think will work better then the current implemention of tech groups. Ahead of time penalty could be based around how many inventions you have developed, maybe 10 years per invention. Another thing is that you can either chose to separate administrative, diplomatic and military inventions into their own groups or you could put them all in the same group.
Another very nice thing is that you can use this system to for example unlock cannon for the Ottomans at the start of the game and many other interesting things that are more or less impossible with the current technology system.
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