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Only a couple have been mentioned. ALLTECH, and MONEY.

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I think there might be more but am not going to confirm or deny it unless oked.

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Not bein' a beta...

RESEARCH gives you 1,000,000 to research points.

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It didn't seem to be long before the captured ship started firing. The shuttle flew over. The captured ship started turning, then the enemy attacked it and it got off 2 DUC shots before it exploded. This took about 5 seconds.


I read that you could move stuff in sector view so I went to it and moved my ship about. Then I tried the planet and a green square appeared around it like with the ship. So I moved it to the top left corner and my ship to the bottom right. Then I exited with end combat simulation, which I thought was strange, and the game promptly broke down.

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By using the `RESEARCH` cheat code, it is possible to exceed the maximum tech level for a research area.

In one game I used the cheat code repeatedly to get tons of research points which I put into Energy Weapons. Because extra research points spill over to the next level, it was enough to get the tech level up to 103 which is 3 levels above the maximum of 100. It looks like the game doesn't check for the maximum level when the points roll over to extra levels.

So even if you don't use the cheat code, if your empire is generating a lot of research points the same thing might happen, in which case it would be a bug.

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But that happens even if you don't have any planet in the sector to move about - if you hit the "exit combat simulator"-button if you're in fact in sector view, not the combat simulator http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

When I tried to do this delieberatly for a second time, I wasn't able to find the "exit simulator button" .. either it was deactivated or not present at all?

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What did that do? Did the formula use the extra levels to make the component more effective, or ignore it, or crash the game?

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It didn't actually do very much. In the Research window, it shows Energy Stream Weapons current level = 103. But when you design a ship, the anti-proton beam is only available at level 100, so it does not appear to give you any extra technology above the maximum.

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No, the components themselves have a defined cap that they'll go up to regardless of the level of their prerequisite tech area. However, the exceeding the tech area cap is a bug.

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Can you use a random function in the research/tech tree? Would be interesting if the next level of some arbitrary weapon gave a randomized degree of improvement.