New Research Tree Concept

Smothmoth wrote:

I don't really think this is a problem, there would be some discoveries that are universal, and these would usually be major ones that have a branch and aren't a random invention. If a civilization doesn't get one of these, too bad for them. We have many tribal societies here on earth still, in game terms you could say they didn't make one of these universal discoveries. I don't see any problem with simulating this, its not like the player is going to skip on something like the scientific method.

Okay, so certain major advancement can in fact cross branches?

Also, your example isn't very good, simply because most tribes didn't progress very much at all. It wasn't a missed major one, it was lack of nessecity to advance and therefor no advancement was made.

Smothmoth wrote:

Like I said, its only a way of organizing the tree visually, I like having things broken into categories like that. If you want it organized differently, there should be other options.

Nevermind.

Tenebrarum wrote:

Okay, so certain major advancement can in fact cross branches?

Yes, sorry if I didn't make this clear. For example, the Reasoning derived branch of Physics would be required to invent Siege Equipment and the like which is Interaction derived.