How can you trade unique techs?
 

I seem to recall reading somewhere here that it is possible to have a tech that only one race can research but that will also allow that race to gift or trade that tech to others. Anyone know how to do this?

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

AFAIK ... you can't in the standard game {linka}

But, you could mod a intermediate tech, that has a unique tech prereqisite. Then, a captured ship for a race that had the unique tech could be analyzed for the dependant tech, which could be researched further, etc.

As I recall, adding tech's like this can kinda screw up the research tree.

[ October 25, 2003, 16:29: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

Well that's what I thought but I can't get it to work. It looks to me like you can't get a tech if you don't have the pre-requisite tech. I thought you could do this. ie someone could gift you shields even though you had not yet researched physics.

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

You can analyze a ship and gain some levels in shield tech if you have no physics, but you can not research shields any until you get physics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Check out the SE4 Modding Tutorial, in my sig. It has a section on how to make capturable racial techs. It applies to unique techs as well.

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks that works. Seems like a bit of a bug that you can analyze ships to get tech you don't have the pre-requisites for but you can't get it through a trade.

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">My best guess as to why ... avoid multiplayer exploit -- Malfadorica

Re: How can you trade unique techs?
 

Trading technology is hardly a "multiplayer exploit"...