My God, It's Full Of Techs: Let's Play Caveman2Cosmos (Civ IV overhaul mod)

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Anfauglir: Jun 8, 2007

JosephWongKS posted:

How many watch lists for someone who posts on ADTRW? Asking for a friend.

All of them.

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Anfauglir: Jun 8, 2007

Some of the implications in the tech tree are just amazing, big fan of Urban Culture leading right to Forensics.

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Anfauglir: Jun 8, 2007

xelada posted:

I think it, like many techs, are less so much a case of your people inventing/discovering it, but more that it has been formalised, codified, specialised and or ritualised.
So before the tech "torture" is mostly beating the person/stabbing them in "unimportant"places/etc. is done wherever is convenient at the time, and is done by basically anybody, which can be used to get what you want, but has the bad habit of killing them before you can get what you want from them.
After the tech, rulers are likely to have someone (or multiple people) who's job is "torturer", a person who knows how to cause as much pain/fear/etc. as possible with as little chance that the "esteemed guest" expires before they can spill the beans; additionally these acts are done in a designated space, room or building, which will likely have a number of tools and implements made for explicitly and only for torturing.

tl:dr: I think it's less: "your people have invented Torture!" and more: "your people have invented the Pear of Anguish!"

Even that doesn't really work here though, torturers as a job are way older than the middle ages. There's a few other techs that similarly don't show up until well after they would've been done even as a formal job historically - Iron Working in Classical Era or Executions in Medieval for example. Even some of the placements within an era are really weird, Monarchy being the last tech you get in the Ancient Era for example.

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Anfauglir: Jun 8, 2007

I'm amazed that we're terraforming planets but we still don't have underwater cities

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