Tech Trading - newbie question

[DirectorTsaarx]

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...

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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 ]

[Jmenschenfresser]

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

Yep. Just take out the racial number from the second step of tech.

For instance: Most of the racial techs have a single prereq like Crystallurgy or something. Then this opens Cyrstaline Weapons and Crystaline Technology. (The specifics here may be wrong). What you do is leave Crystallurgy a racial tech area, by leaving in the racial number. But you take the racial number out of Cyrstaline Weapons and Crystaline Technology.

What this does: You can't research any of them no matter what, but you can capture the weapon components or other things and analyze them.

Pretty sure that is how it works

[Skulky]

SO COOL

[Fyron]

Just for clarification:

Tech A is a racial tech
Tech B is a normal tech that requires tech A, level 1
Tech C is a normal tech that requires tech B, level 1

Results:

-you CANNOT steal tech A
-you CANNOT research tech A

-you CAN steal tech B
-you CANNOT research tech B

-you CAN steal tech C
-you CAN research tech C, if you have stolen tech B, level 1

(posted originally by Suicide Junkie sometime ago)