...Has anyone ever tried to write out a real life tech tree, like from a video game? I know it's probably not practical, but it'd be interesting to see the attempt. XD
@Angle apparently one of the upcoming dwarf fortress updates is going to involve a historical list of technological achievements, up to about c. 1400, for use in, uh, modeling scientific discovery, i guess? i don't know if it's in tree form, though, or just a unstructured list of items
@xax Haha seriously? I need to catch up with dwarf fortress again, I haven't played that in forever. XD
@Angle apparently there's a whole learning and scholarship system now, and it works via, i guess, reading off of some gigantic file that is toady's compilation of every school of knowledge extant in medieval times. i have no clue if that's just some raws file in the game's directory, but that might be a place to look if you're curious.
@xax I'll definitely do that at some point. XD