Multiple tech levels from one ship?

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:

BTW - if you analyze a ship with a cloaking device, you can get tech levels in cloaking, even if you haven't researched Physics 3 (or whatever the applied science for unlocking the cloaking tech is). Same for other techs with prerequisites; you can't perform further research on your own until you research the prerequisite, though. IIRC, that was the basis of SJ's trick to make racial techs analyzable in one of his mods...

One thing I've noticed is that it may work differently for trading tech's. Once I took over an AI and tried to give them shields and energy weapons ... and the couldn't understnd them without physics I