Question about trading technologies with AI?

PsychoTechFreak · #1 February 17th, 2003, 10:16 AM

It depends upon how the AI has been programmed. Some accept trades with 80%, some 90% of the given amount. Some AIs have been programmed to do not accept reasonable trades at all, they are set to something like 3000% for example. You can find this value in ai_general.txt (or politics? I do not remember).

EDIT: I try to avoid trading other than base (0) techs, because if you ask for e.g. physics 2 and give 100000 min for it, it could happen that your minerals are gone in case of the ai is short of physics 2.

[ February 17, 2003, 08:21: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

dogscoff · #2 February 17th, 2003, 10:21 AM

If they won't accept a stright tech trade, offer them a few ships for one of their colonisers. You can analyse the ship for tech, and you'll get some alien population into the bargain as well.