Reply To: Need of beryllium and other rare materials for Focus Fusion

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Phil’s Dad wrote: though I hope you do not fulfill the Cretan criteria yourself.

Well, that’s my usual disclaimer… 😉

Henning wrote: Maybe something like “Civilization” can be used too. It simulates an civilization from 4000 BC until 2100 AD. Fusion Energy is part of the achievable technology advances you can develop whilst playing.

There is an open source implementation called FreeCiv.

That’s a possibility, and it shouldn’t be too hard either: here you can find some info, and as it is community driven it’s no problem to add a new mod, having the skills… In the standard game, though, fusion comes at the end, after 6000 years, don’t know if and how the timeline could be redesigned as much… There is also a FB-available app for it (I don’t find it exceptionally involving, though), I’d be curious on how many players it has…

What I had in mind, OTOH, is more on the line of this, but energy-driven instead of farm-driven.