TechTree

Original Vision

TechTree was a concept first envisioned by server owner NahteM in November 2020 during the final phases of Season Three. NahteM took heavily liking to the idea, this time was one where many new ideas in Geopolitik would cultivate and influence the direction of the server out of the Geopolitik Classics.

Implimentation

The Owner, NahteM wished to impliment TechTree following an era system.

TechTree would work by awarding the player permissions for a form of currency or item, in Season Four this was decided to be "Research Points", leading to the "Bamboo Meta"

Pre Season Four Development Failures

TechTree would see several first builds between November 2020-January 2021, the season which was meant to contain it released in January 2021, it was retroactively named S4 Beta. And couldn't include techtree, the reasons for this were:

Technical Failures with Techtree

Lack of Understanding + Development

Season 4 TechTree

Despite this Precident, NahteM attempted to create techtree again in S4. However, this would lead to the beginning of burnout and despite progress, there were many bugs in the techtree system, the first tech tree in S4, Tribal Era, only just managed to get released, with a last minute clutch by NahteM and several Geopolitik staff, including help from _sdf7 and nominally Josh785, much to NahteM's dismay at the time. However this experience would cause a temporary increase in NahteM's opinion of the duo.

The "Eras" which were intended to be added were in progression order:

"Tribal Era"

"Classical Era

"Medieval Era"

"Renaissance/Early Modern Era"

"Industrial/Mid Modern Era"

"Modern Era (The actual name for this era is unknown, this is only the colloquial name"

The System quickly showed bugs and flaws which were unsolvable, this led to the failure of a S4 and a definitive end to the techtree era. Infamously, the techtree support team aided NahteM in his issues the day after shutdown, despite NahteM requesting support over two weeks prior.

One last ditch attempt to save the TechTree project was made during the Server Migration using Insights and other things that could be researched, this however was never implimented properly, and thus failed.

Resurgence in support for TechTree

The Original Idea of TechTree was to provide an era-based progression system, allowing you to build up your civilisation from the ground up and gain a full nation building experience.

Although the S4 TechTree took a heavy negative impact in some aspects of Geopolitik, such as leading to the failure of S4 and the Burnout, it has gained a resurgence in popularity mainly between the Staff and Founders of Geopolitik, The Owner, NahteM remains neutral on this as of writing. Meanwhile, SaucedBox and 235U have both openly hinted at supporting TechTree, however vouching for better implimentation, despite this, Osh and Jeb appear to be opposed to TechTree entirely.