An Interesting Anomoly

Spyder · #1 February 13th, 2001, 04:19 PM

As I was continuing my task of mapping the full research tree Last night, I noticed that you can research Tractor/Repulsor weapons to levels 7 and 8, but, you don't get anything for gaining those levels....

DirectorTsaarx · #2 February 13th, 2001, 05:15 PM

Actually, you can research up to level 9 in T/R weapons. Levels 7, 8, and 9 give you the "Small Graviton Beam" levels 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Assuming you have researched Smaller Weapons 1, 2 and 3.

BTW - the damage stats on the Small Graviton Beams are pretty good - I'll have to research those. Thanks for the tip

Spyder · #3 February 13th, 2001, 05:48 PM

If this is indeed true, then its the first occurence that I have seen of inter-dependence in the research tree....

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Nyx · #4 February 13th, 2001, 05:59 PM

Yup, patch 1.19 moved the small graviton beam out of gravitational weapons and into tractor/repulser weapons. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, but it doesn't hurt anything either.

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Drake · #5 February 13th, 2001, 06:25 PM

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Originally posted by Spyder:
If this is indeed true, then its the first occurence that I have seen of inter-dependence in the research tree....

Actually if you take a look at the tech tree in the game, whenever you see a (2) after an item, you'll need to reach a certain level in 2 different techs to get the item. I think that pretty much only comes into play with the smaller weapons tech tree, and whatever normal tech tree the normal sized weapon falls under.

DirectorTsaarx · #6 February 13th, 2001, 06:27 PM

Actually, Spyder, most of the small weapons require multiple tech areas.

Or maybe I wasn't clear about the research part: you can research T/R Weapons through level 9 without researching Smaller Weapons; however, in order to get the components, you have to research Smaller Weapons as well.

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[This message has been edited by DirectorTsaarx (edited 13 February 2001).]

WhiteHojo · #7 February 13th, 2001, 07:18 PM

Spyder - there is an excell file located in a earlier thread (on page 2 below -titled tech levels in excell format - maybe...) that might be of some help to you in your tech level mapping. I made it and stuck it on the board to help anyone. Hope it can be of some use

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