[geoschmo]

[quote]Originally posted by capnq:

I'm less certain about why people dislike tech trades between human players; someone else will have to explain that.

Personally I don't like it because it pushes the game into a predictable rut. One person will meet another person and they will begin to cooperate and do research and trade all the techs, thus doubling the amount of research. It ends up being not oen or two techs that they need at the moment, but all the techs.

And everybody HAS to do it, because if you choose not to, you fall behind in tech and get spanked. The game ends up being about who can coordinate there research projects bettern. Very boring IMHO.

But it is a part of the game, so I almost never ban it outright in my games, but put it to a vote of the players. If enough of them want to I will allow it. But I always vote agaisnt it, and if it's allowed it will make me very much not want to play in the game.

Geoschmo