[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, that's how you make a technology 'capture or trade only'. Give it two prerquisites, one a racial tech, the other a 'normal' tech. A race that does not have the required racial tech cannot 'discover' that tech by normal means. But... unlike a 'pure' racial tech they can be given it or steal it. I guess you could make all of the racial techs stealable by adding a second 'normal' tech requirement for every component and facility. Maybe you could change 'organic weapons' and 'crystalline weapons' and 'psychic weapons' and 'temporal weapons' to be one level each, and then you would have to research normal beam weapons and normal missile weapons to actually get the components.

[ July 20, 2002, 22:38: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]