Unbelievable find on ruins!

[Arkcon]

Yeah, I've seen the A.I. have 2 colonizeation techs on turn 5 or 6 -- they must have likewise gotten one from a ruin. I tell ya, a benefit like that will really turn the A.I. into a monster.

Once I got 4 or maybe 5 techs at once, don't remember what they were. I just wished I could have given my xenoarcheologists a bonus or something for being so productive.

Once I was playing religious, and I got two levels of religion tech. Now trhat saved a lot of research, but if I'd hadn't taken the trait, I would have gotten no message. Leaves me wondering, what have I missed everytime I colonize a ruin.

Oh, and someone once made a stellar neighborhood map. He put something like 20 techs on a ruin that was in some very hazardous system. That was an interesting idea.

[Xrati]

There are two types of ruins. Ancient ruins and Anciet ruins unique. The 'unique' will give you one of four techs that you can't get within the game at all. They are Massive shield depleter, Massive engine depleter, Massive planetary shields and Neural net. The other ruins will give you a generated number of tech levels at random. You can learn more about this in the map maker/editor program that comes with SEIV.