Future Tech

[Buck]

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I have been playing Civilization since 3.0 vanilla was first released.
In all this time I have still not figured out what advantage there
might be to "future tech" levels. I believe I read early on that it
was a "surprise", but I hav e never seen it do anything but eat funds.

Thanks for the help.

Buck

 

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Buck <uce@ftc.org> wrote in
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> I have been playing Civilization since 3.0 vanilla was first
> released. In all this time I have still not figured out what
> advantage there might be to "future tech" levels. I believe I
> read early on that it was a "surprise", but I hav e never seen it
> do anything but eat funds.

AFAIK it just adds a few points to your score.

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"Kevin 'Keeper' Foster" <thekeeper@canada.com> wrote in message
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> Buck <uce@ftc.org> wrote in
> news:ah0on05tabtdo9hv5ng5jni15uugm4fv2f@4ax.com:
>
>> I have been playing Civilization since 3.0 vanilla was first
>> released. In all this time I have still not figured out what
>> advantage there might be to "future tech" levels. I believe I
>> read early on that it was a "surprise", but I hav e never seen it
>> do anything but eat funds.
>
> AFAIK it just adds a few points to your score.

I believe it is 5 points per Future Tech. Personally, when I come to the end
of the tech tree, I add 20% to Luxury and move the rest of the Science money
to Tax revenue.

-Rob


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"Buck" <uce@ftc.org> wrote in message
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>I have been playing Civilization since 3.0 vanilla was first released.
> In all this time I have still not figured out what advantage there
> might be to "future tech" levels. I believe I read early on that it
> was a "surprise", but I hav e never seen it do anything but eat funds.

Future techs are worth alot BUT because of the way scores are averaged over
the whole game, they only add a few tenths of a point to your score. The
only time they may make any notable difference is if you are milking a game
for score until 2050 AD.