Replacement Player needed PBW : 1.49 Sweet Game #1

[Rigelian]

Re Fake captures - I meant BOTH of the scenarios outlined by Gwaihir below

is it two players agreeing to "trade" a ship by declaring war and presenting a vulnerable ship for easy capture? Or is it that there is no setting to prevent ship trades, so people trade them in sectors with boarding ships to make it look like a real capture?

So I meant anything that is not a genuine, captured-in-heat-of-battle transfer of technology.

Here's another suggestion that I implemented in my latest game (ConventionalWarfare_1_49). Restrict Trade-generating relationships to two per player. I find this has made people much more careful about how they make and break alliances, as well as stopping massive trade income and almost-dead 'zombie' empires with huge 'virtual' trade revenues.