Tested: Prestige & Culture techs

[Darkrenown]

Basically, if your assumptions were correct, then what I and others have observed (being first in prestige and not getting 150, or getting 150 and not being first in prestige) would not have been possible. Because those incidents invalidate your assumption, it logically follows that your thesis is incorrect.

I've always thought inventions were random in order, but it could be that inventions are mostly random but the RNG is weighted by prestige. That would fit both sets of data and explain why inventions are mostly very rare when your prestige is hugely negative but can sometimes still fire right after you get the tech (something I've noticed while running test games as hawaii).