[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yeah, I can see your point there. I am not a big fan of tech trading either. If you want to eliminate the colony swapping entirely the only option beyond a house rule I guess is to make the game only colonize own type. It can slow things down a bit. But not too bad, as long as you don't make it colonize own atmosphere as well.
<snip>
Geoschmo

One minor point from an impartial outside observer - since a major goal of this game seems to be finding the ROCK/OXY sphereworld, wouldn't it defeat the purpose to set "only colonize own type"?

Oh - Imperator: I saw your post about trading a space yard ship/base along with another ship. Neat idea; but again, it's a bit more involved than straight tech trading. Yes, it gets around the whole "drag that traded ship back to your own territory", but the originating empire had to build & maintain the space yard ship and the receiving empire has to remember to trade it back, and the whole process takes up a couple turns, not to mention that you can't send other diplomatic Messages while you're doing all the finagling.

Looks like there are very few workable options to automatically prevent people from gaining techs via "cheesy" trade methods.