Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4242472-20140714110351

Last night there was talk with a couple of people about what we should do for the hardness of the science of the Civ universe. While my understanding is its a setting intended for fiction with a present-day or near-present feel, there's been a little opposition as to the science being too close to present-day levels. This is a community so I can accept if some people don't want ultra-diamond-hard setting (there are some asking if we could include industrial-age societies), but my personal concern is the civverse becoming a smaller-scale version of the fictionverse.

There are plenty of stories out there like Die Hard, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryder universe, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and many television sitcoms and dramas that are great without reliance on the stuff of the 28th century. So I ask what kind of technology level people would prefer (It was agreed before to consider a few near-future technologies) and how much technological focus there would be.

Also there is a little talk of whether or not to include humans in the setting, but I don't have that much opinion other than the question of how they got there so I'll leave that to others to discuss. 