Re: Newbie Game
Baseships are evil! Beware of them, as they may not be so great in some circumstances (well, they do shine when battles come down to a contest of numbers). But I should not digress so.
Low tech means tech costs go in a linear way, rather than in an expontential growth (or geometrical; I am not sure if there is actually a difference here) as with Normal and High cost. For example, Shields X costs 100,000 research points with low tech cost (starting cost of 10,000 times the wanted level of 10), while they would cost no less than 500,000 research points with Medium tech cost and 1,000,000 points with High tech cost.
In the JJPEAR game (low tech cost), all Empires had reached full tech more or less around turn 100, including some of the most useless technologies ever allowed to see the daylight. To the best of my knowledge, there had been few treaties and trades in this game, and none of the Empires seemed to have gone with a full "tech junkie" approach. So you should expect high-end technology to become available very early in a low tech cost game, especially if there are players loving research in the game.
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