Religious Tech Analysis - Does This Work?

CaptainAL · #1 January 23rd, 2005, 03:00 AM

When playing with another religious ally: if your ally supplies a ship for technology trade with multiple talismans, would you receive lower levels of religious technology upon analysis? for example, would a ship with two talismans advance the analyzer with low religious tech two levels?

Sure would like to know this for one of my games right now...

Randallw · #2 January 23rd, 2005, 03:42 AM

Since I take it you are religious and would be able to receive the tech. When another empire gives you tech to analyse you recieve 1 extra level each time you analyze superior tech.
if you have 0 and he has 2, then analyzing even a ship with level 2 will give you only 1 extra level. To get the 2 extra levels you need to analyze a ship one turn and then an identical ship (or a ship with another level) the next turn to get 1+1=2.
When the game checks to see if you have the same level as the ships components before rewarding you an extra level, it pays no heed to the number of components, only if they are superior to what you have.

Fyron · #3 January 23rd, 2005, 03:53 AM

This won't work for Talismans, since there is only one level of them, but it applies to other techs. If you analyze a ship that has several components of the same family but of different levels, you will get multiple tech levels from it. Say you have no Projectile Weapons technology and you are given a ship with a DUC I, DUC II, DUC III, DUC IV and a DUC V. If you analyze it, you will get all 5 levels of Projectile Weapons. This will not work if you have 5 DUC Vs, which will only give you one tech level per ship. But with actually different components, you get the multiple levels at once.

CaptainAL · #4 January 23rd, 2005, 04:06 AM

Thanks. Is a Talisman a level in itself? I know the first three levels are facilities, but the the Talisman then comes as the fourth level in this sequence. Has this actually been tried - or is it known from the programing that the Talisman is considered as independant of the first three levels?

Good point - if it would work multiple ships would be needed, not just one with multiple talismans.

Randallw · #5 January 23rd, 2005, 06:46 AM

Well chalk up a lesson for me. I didn't know analyzing different levels on the same ship worked like that.

CaptainAL · #6 January 24th, 2005, 03:34 AM

Well, I just had to find this out. I went through the grunt work of playing out two empires solo for the purpose of checking this one out. IT WORKS! Analyzing a ship with the talisman will give the lower levels of religious technology.
Four ships with one talisman in each will give all four levels. Yeah! [img]/threads/images/graemlins/Smile.gif[/img]