Re: Tech Trading - newbie question
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn't think analyzing would give you tech unless you already had the prerequisite...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I've gotten all 3 levels of cloaking by analyzing captured ships, well before I'd even bothered researching Physics 2, much less cloaking's prerequisite of Physics 3 (yeah, I know, Physics 2 gives you the uber-weapon Phased Polaron Beam, but it was a single-player game and I prefer to use the Temporal weapons anyway).

[ September 12, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: DirectorTsaarx ]

Re: Tech Trading - newbie question
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yep. Just take out the racial number from the second step of tech.

For instance: Most of the racial techs have a single prereq like Crystallurgy or something. Then this opens Cyrstaline Weapons and Crystaline Technology. (The specifics here may be wrong). What you do is leave Crystallurgy a racial tech area, by leaving in the racial number. But you take the racial number out of Cyrstaline Weapons and Crystaline Technology.

What this does: You can't research any of them no matter what, but you can capture the weapon components or other things and analyze them.

Pretty sure that is how it works

Re: Tech Trading - newbie question
 

SO COOL

Re: Tech Trading - newbie question
 

Just for clarification:

Tech A is a racial tech
Tech B is a normal tech that requires tech A, level 1
Tech C is a normal tech that requires tech B, level 1

Results:

-you CANNOT steal tech A
-you CANNOT research tech A

-you CAN steal tech B
-you CANNOT research tech B

-you CAN steal tech C
-you CAN research tech C, if you have stolen tech B, level 1

(posted originally by Suicide Junkie sometime ago)