Tech from planet conquering?

KiloOhm · #1 January 12th, 2001, 04:35 PM

Do you get free tech from conquering planets? I always glass em because it's a lot easier than building troops (I haven't even seen a ground battle yet!

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KiloOhm

Tampa_Gamer · #2 January 12th, 2001, 05:15 PM

Not that I have seen.

Eisenhans · #3 January 12th, 2001, 05:16 PM

No you don't. Only boarding ships is of any use. You get techs(one per area in which the nme was more advanced than you) if you can convince the enemy to surrender.

Commander G · #4 January 12th, 2001, 07:35 PM

You get Technology if a race surrenders to you. However, chances are by the time you convince them to surrender, you may have already surpassed them unless you took a very different research strategy.

rdouglass · #5 January 12th, 2001, 08:41 PM

Boarding is not the only way to get a ship. I use Crew Insurrection (intel II) and many others use the Psychic tech weapon Allegience Subverter or something like that. Then the only trick is to get it to a Space Yard. I keep a DN with a SY close by any empire I'm attacking just for that reason. I rarely ever research Beam Weapons, Armor, or Torpedo Weapons. The AI does the research for me and I just grab the ships and analyze them.

Baron Munchausen · #6 January 12th, 2001, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
Do you get free tech from conquering planets? I always glass em because it's a lot easier than building troops (I haven't even seen a ground battle yet!

No, you don't get any technology for conquering a planet, and that's why it's easier to just vaporize your enemies. We've been asking MM to allow this somehow, perhaps by allowing facilities to be "analyzed" like ships. You'd then have an incentive to capture planets rather than 'glass' them.