I’m assuming this is because the lead times for the upgraded grid connections for electric heating and/or volume of solar panels required would be too long?

If so, it would make more sense to allow a grace period between building a house (and letting it be occupied) and installation of solar panels/electric heating, than to just say you don’t need them at all. As long as the house is built from the start to take the system, you could put it in later.

For example (and I know the heating systems are probably different in the US), in the UK we have hot water heating systems with radiators, one of the common issues with retrofitting heat pumps in an existing building is that the heat pump produces water at a lower temperature than an oil/gas boiler.

As a result, you need more radiator area and upgraded insulation. So you could just install good insulation and radiators to begin with, and if you can’t get a heat pump now just install a gas boiler and run it on a lower setting. Then people get the homes they need and you don’t completely fuck the future.

I had no idea, thanks!

For other unenlightened lemmings:

4X is apparently an abbreviation of “Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

It’s also possible I’m wrong, I never played the games before CIV6 (or not enough to learn them), but on Fdroid it’s described as an “Open source 4X civilization-building game” which I assumed means it’s a CIV4 clone.

Either way, it’s a good game - one of the best open source mobile games for sure.

Isn’t it based on CIV4?