Tech Trading - newbie question

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Is it just me, or is there a difference in trading and analyzing? Analyzing gives you tech without giving you the prerequiste. Trading tech without the prerequiste gives you the message "Our scientists can't understand it, sire" and no tech

I didn't think analyzing would give you tech unless you already had the prerequisite...

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I've gotten all 3 levels of cloaking by analyzing captured ships, well before I'd even bothered researching Physics 2, much less cloaking's prerequisite of Physics 3 (yeah, I know, Physics 2 gives you the uber-weapon Phased Polaron Beam, but it was a single-player game and I prefer to use the Temporal weapons anyway).

[ September 12, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: DirectorTsaarx ]