"Racial" Technology

[Lucanos]

What is research?

My (subjective) point of view:

Increased research is, in terms of the game: "Increased understanding of reality".

All races should be able to understand reality at 100% ...even "racial" techs should be accessible to all races.

I mean, if there's an option (at game setup) for ONLY colonizing your own planet types there could also be an option to steal/research racial techs (that you don't have) later in the game. Mabbe with an increased cost/difficulty?

[Baron Munchausen]

You can mod this if you want. The 'racial' techs are not hardcoded but controled by the text config files. Just remove the racial abilities and change the techarea.txt and the corresponding components and facilities to be normal technologies.

[Lucanos]

Every day you learn something new.

Thanks Baron!

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're doing that, you probably also want to be able to research the ancient techs.

I would suggest that they be about 5 tech levels higher than the current max in any related fields.
Eg. Massive Planetary shields: Shields Lvl 15

Throw in some "half-way" components & facilities such as "Giant-Shield Gen" for starbases & such.

Just make sure you're going to have to spend many years to research racial and ancient Techs.

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The other thing to consider is that 100 turns is only 10 years. How far would you expect a race to advance in ten years? The current tech settings in SE4 are quite ... optimistic.

[Sirkit]

While I don't debate the possibility of making all tecs available to all races, in the case of ai's they wouldn't stand a chance due to this. My opinion would be by doing this it makes the game easier (not that anyone asked for it) but I ask you these questions for the sake of realism:

1) Can you see the future? If you were faced with temporal tec would you understand how it worked?

2) We currently see cheap tricks of mind reading if you were faced with a real life construct witch focses that ability and you don't have it what good would it do you?

3) Your faced with a room full of crystals 3 of them are pulsing red, one blue, and 2 yellow. One of them makes you move, the others activate self destruct systems, witch do you choose?

4) You have seen a EEE (for example) pray to his god to help him in this time of need. It happens, you exclaim "WOW a walking god that grants miricals to his followers!" you spend your life in the service of an EEE god, would he grant your mirical?

I humbly offer these for your consideration happy gaming

[Lemmy]

i agree that you should be able to research all racial techs.

i find it hard to beleive that a space faring alien race just can't understand temporal techs, maybe it is possible to make temporal techs cheaper for races with this racial trait, don't think so because i don't believe you can make research cheaper or more expensive for one particular race.

or maybe you can't research it if you don't have the racial tech, but you can still capture it and analyze, after all it's much easier to understand something if it's already made, right?



[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 28 March 2001).]