Historical Development of technologies?

[El Meck]

I don't know if it is said allready in a post here or on the Kalypso forum,
if i would be thankful if you can post a link to it 

I try to paraphrase it.
For now we saw sreenshots of the Game with cars, a airport, hotels, housing.
What i asking for is
will they change their look(newer car types, growing airport, new facades, renovations...) from time to time?
so that in 1980 there are no more 50' s cars
... constant improvement ...
 

[JakiusCeasar]

Well to be fair on a 3rd world island nations you wouldn't see consumer tech change quickly. Hell, go down to rural bits of America and parts of it will seem stuck in at least the 80s.

[El Meck]

Well from now on it seems that T3 will base on 2nd World countries.

I simply hope that it will not look ALL TIME same 

[Coconut Kid]

I don't know if it is said already in a post here or on the Kalypso forum,
if so I would be thankful if you can post a link to it. ...

I'm sorry, but I can not recall it. Perhaps you are thinking of one on the Kalypso German language board.

Well from now on it seems that T3 will base on 2nd World countries.

That may be so based on the look of the screenies so far. If so, it is probably a mistake if any verisimilitude is intended at all. You personally probably know the Warsaw Pact communications tower which is the T3 version of a TV station. It is of course unknown in the Western Hemisphere, but the game can't be changed at this point of development.

I think your most important question is whether there will be a change in the highly detailed visuals to correspond with the historical development of technology over the eighty years or so of the typical game.

I opine that is highly doubtful. Even though Haemimont has dubbed the editor "the timeline editor", I don't think that means they have developed a timeline guide for the art work; nor the means of changing the background art as time progresses -- at least in the sense you have in mind. Certainly the vegetation will grow as it did in T1, but the style of street lights will not change.

We may be pleasantly surprised as the infrastructure changes as time passes --- and El Presidente's avatar ages (what happens if he/she starts old?) --- but I wouldn't bet on it.

We'll just play the game that's dealt to us -- suspending lots of belief.

[el_malo]

I think your most important question is whether there will be a change in the highly detailed visuals to correspond with the historical development of technology over the eighty years or so of the typical game.

It is difficult to know if this will happen.

kalypso has only released screenies of the end-game.

It is almost like they are afraid to show us what the game will look like in the early stages.