Tech Trading - newbie question

Arkcon · #1 September 10th, 2002, 05:22 PM

Is it just me, or is there a difference in trading and analyzing? Analyzing gives you tech without giving you the prerequiste. Trading tech without the prerequiste gives you the message "Our scientists can't understand it, sire" and no tech

Slick · #2 September 10th, 2002, 05:28 PM

Just to be clear, I think you get 1 tech for EACH UNIQUE component above what you are at. That is why capturing a carrier gives you 2 levels (1 for the hull, 1 for the fighter bay). Same can be done if there are 2 different kinds of armor on board like stealth & scattering.

Slick

Elowan · #3 September 11th, 2002, 11:11 PM

Suppose get a ship with Temporal or Crystalline tech in a trade - do you get that technology?

Arkcon · #4 September 11th, 2002, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by Elowan:
Suppose get a ship with Temporal or Crystalline tech in a trade - do you get that technology?

Only if you also have selected the racial technology. Two crystaline races can trade each other's techs, for example.

The Canuck · #5 September 11th, 2002, 11:42 PM

is there any way to make it so you can get Racial techs with out having selecting it by modding the game somehow?

Ed Kolis · #6 September 12th, 2002, 01:07 AM

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Is it just me, or is there a difference in trading and analyzing? Analyzing gives you tech without giving you the prerequiste. Trading tech without the prerequiste gives you the message "Our scientists can't understand it, sire" and no tech

I didn't think analyzing would give you tech unless you already had the prerequisite...

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is there any way to make it so you can get Racial techs with out having selecting it by modding the game somehow?

Someone (I think Suicide Junkie) came up with a way for racial techs to be traded to players who don't have the appropriate trait - I don't remember exactly how it works but I think it involves adding a second, dummy prerequisite that is researchable so the game doesn't think it's a racial tech or something...

DirectorTsaarx · #7 September 12th, 2002, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Is it just me, or is there a difference in trading and analyzing? Analyzing gives you tech without giving you the prerequiste. Trading tech without the prerequiste gives you the message "Our scientists can't understand it, sire" and no tech

I didn't think analyzing would give you tech unless you already had the prerequisite...

I've gotten all 3 levels of cloaking by analyzing captured ships, well before I'd even bothered researching Physics 2, much less cloaking's prerequisite of Physics 3 (yeah, I know, Physics 2 gives you the uber-weapon Phased Polaron Beam, but it was a single-player game and I prefer to use the Temporal weapons anyway).

[ September 12, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: DirectorTsaarx ]