Habitats and Mega-Engineering

[Skrytwitch]

Just a quick question- do habitats count as a megastructure for the purpose of increasing the chance of getting the mega-engineering tech to pop up? I could see why it wouldn't, but if it doesn't it wouldn't be a bad idea to give building one a smaller increase to the odds of the card popping up since its sort of a lesser version of a full megastructure.

 

[GC13]

Nope, it has to be one of the megastructures that requires Mega Engineering.

 

[LizardCommander]

The odds of the tech popping up are very low, even with a megastructure (I had a broken ringworld in my territory, still took over a hundred years for me to get the tech whilst I had all requirements). It has a weight of 3 or so, which is extremely low, and that is significant reduced if you don't have a leader with Voidcraft/Curator for Science, and is increased by x20 if you have a megastructure, and by 2 if you have the mega engineering asc perk (build speed and cost reduction).