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Old May 31st, 2001, 08:33 AM

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A great idea! Branching tech trees! I think that it could add a lot of interesting gameplay to SE.
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Old May 31st, 2001, 12:43 PM
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Default Re: Ideas....

Just reading on another post reminded me about "primitive cultures"
this would be a good way to restrict them from researching anything dangerous or too technologically advanced, while at the same time preventing others from researching too primitive technologies.

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Old June 1st, 2001, 01:00 AM

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You could make every tech racial specific. It would just be a tremenous amount of work assign each tech to various races. It would be very interesting though.
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i think matryx in his original post meant something like this

you can't research tech 1 when you have already researched tech 2.

this way you could add more contradictory techs, or am i the one who is missing the point?
can't think of an example now...maybe later


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Old June 1st, 2001, 01:27 AM

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You may be right about that LemmyM but I don't know if that is possible. I think you can only restrict techs from traits, I don't think techs can restrict techs. It would be cool if you could do that, like MOO2 where you could pick one of the tree techs at each level but there was no going back.
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Old June 1st, 2001, 01:42 AM
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LemmyM is correct in his assumption.

For example, if your race researches Quantum Electro Dynamics they may not be able to research Flux Capacitance.

or (a rather more extreme example)
if they researched "advanced religion" they may not be able to research "science"


As for current restrictions, I think you can only restrict techs based on racial traits you have selected... which IMO sucks
My suggestion was that it would be good to ADD "anti-requirements" to the game

As for the assigning tech to all races individually... well it would be a lot of hard work but possible.
However, it would probably be easier to do it the way I suggested (or at least a lot faster)

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Old May 31st, 2001, 03:10 PM
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Mmmm. That could allow MoO2-style tech trees with hard choices... -- tasty. ;-)


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