No Tech Trade

[EmperorZelos]

Tech and information are probably the only commodities interstellar empires would bother trading, forget 'exotic caladanian spice wine' or 'bjondax whale fur'. Gameplay-wise, tech trading and tech brokering would ruin the game.

I can understand why, albeit I never use it. However I would be okey with CBs for tech acquisition, harder, more difficult but reasonable.

 

[Druesling]

What about joint venture research?

Think of you and your ally have shared research ships with 2 researchers - one of you, one of his/hers - to research very difficult anomalies or precursor wrecks. If you succeed, both of you would get the tech.
That would be kinda neat.

 

[Soranya]

What about joint venture research?

Think of you and your ally have shared research ships with 2 researchers - one of you, one of his/hers - to research very difficult anomalies or precursor wrecks. If you succeed, both of you would get the tech.
That would be kinda neat.

It indeed would be - also somewhat ahrd to coordinate with the AI (at least as long as it uses the same rules you do.

 

[Robhol]

Dunno how shared anomaly research would work- what if the anomaly requires you to make a decision? Who gets to make it?

 

[Druesling]

Dunno how shared anomaly research would work- what if the anomaly requires you to make a decision? Who gets to make it?

Both would make it, and the outcome depends on some kind of prisoners dilemma.