inaccurate RTS games...

Reploid Ayla · Post by **Reploid Ayla** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:47 pm

you know what i just realized, in RTS games like Rise of Nations, when you begin a campaign you start at very early times of man, and work your way up.

This is the part i don't understand, they always start my chopping trees down for the wood and paper and whatnot. It would actually be more historically accurate to have them raising hemp for industrial use, all the way up til the 1830's. I wonder why none of them are historically accurate...

Post by **Triton** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:13 pm

well there is this stupid stigma attached to hemp lol,

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:41 pm

because they're going for the widest possible audience and a good fair amount of the population would be turned off by what would seem to be a misplaced political sentiment.

Humanity has lots of natural resources, wood, gold, food, etc were meant to represent huge classes of resources. (at least they chop the trees down with stone age axes)

If they required you to build ropes from hemp and tree bark in your dedicated rope and basket weaving complex next to your stoneage londromat people would be bored with the detail involved as well. Then you'd have to build pottery, and arrows individually...and where would it stop?

Or we could just arrange it so it looks like man's natural 3 natural resources were hemp, gold and food? Good luck building a fort with that

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:03 pm

yeah and why is it that your armys cant be all passave? i want to beable to gandi the oposing army away.

Reploid Ayla · Post by **Reploid Ayla** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:06 pm

Reaperman@home wrote:because they're going for the widest possible audience and a good fair amount of the population would be turned off by what would seem to be a misplaced political sentiment.

Humanity has lots of natural resources, wood, gold, food, etc were meant to represent huge classes of resources. (at least they chop the trees down with stone age axes)

If they required you to build ropes from hemp and tree bark in your dedicated rope and basket weaving complex next to your stoneage londromat people would be bored with the detail involved as well. Then you'd have to build pottery, and arrows individually...and where would it stop?

Or we could just arrange it so it looks like man's natural 3 natural resources were hemp, gold and food? Good luck building a fort with that

actually pre 1850's 75-90% of all paper, was made from hemp.

and the oldest piece of industrial matter 8000BC ish, was a piece of hemp cloth. George Washington himself grew hemp. I know when people's modern mentality see hemp it is not as what it used to be, but the only reason why it totally wouldn't be taboo is cause that is the way it was. Of course at the time they didn't make hemp houses, so they would need wood. But for clothing, cotton production wasn't very popularized until the invention of the cotton jin. Most, if not all clothing was made with hemp fiber. Not to mention that the hemp seed has been used for a valueable food source for just as long. So what im saying is, that 2/3s of most industrial products during early time were produced from hemp, so it wouldn't be too specific to be included. It was a very very common thing to have for industrial use.

and for the record you could have a hemp house. Hemp fibre board is stronger, lighter, and naturally weather resistant, not to mention biodegradable compared to that made from tree pulp...

so maybe it might educate a modern audience that has had the past covered up...