Tips on Trading

[Genotype]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate the tips. GOt some more questions:

1. I made this one trade and then got a counter-offer. The offer was for my applied research but in return I was offered something called "unavailable technology". When I accepted, it did not appear that I got that offer in the next turn?

2. This is off-topic. Before the deluxe patch, I could use an individual minister to automatically launch satellites and mines every turn. However, I can't seem to do that now. I check the "mines/satellite/drones" in the minister option window and then toggle the minister on in the planet. But no sats are actually launched...I have to do it manually. Am I missing something.

Thanks