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I will be honest, I did not play any of the alpha or beta, but I still think it was worth the money. Look forward to more games made this way.

[quote who="Stringer2" reply="1" id="3426800"] What I would like to see, is a combined tech tree with millions of different combinations randomly selected until game ends. It means that instead of having many different inventions in the database, you would have basic concepts and some kind rules how they can be combined. For a user it should still show like there were a tech tree with inventions, but just one that would never end. This of course would have to be supported by modular gra

And thanks to that Hynix factory fire, prices for computer memory will be high for a while, whether they use Hynix chips or not, strangely enough.

This was already discussed somewhat in another thread a while back about the tech tree and research. But I am glad that there are others that feel the way I do, that at least there should be some repeatable techs at the end of the tree like in Fallen Enchantress. If not new techs at least put in some refinement options, in most TBS games I have played it feels like all of that research infrastructure one has spend building throughout the game ends up being useless once everything is researche

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="40" id="3406157"] What about races, that don't have a private industry? It's pretty unrealistic to expect all races to have one. The Iconians, for example, are communists (or the closest thing there is to a communist). [/quote] It would not necessarily have to be entirely private industry, it could be colleges and universities, or there could be two research expenditures, that of directed research and then a budget

I do like some of the ideas proposed in this thread. My thinking is that perhaps a system with directed research by the government will be for large projects like lasers, and then refinements will be made by the private industry based upon the racial mindset as defined by racial traits. Such as one race is more warlike so refinements to lasers will mostly be in increasing damage, while another race's refinements will more along the lines of making them cheaper/smaller or as some have sugg

The points allocation idea is already in a game called Horizon, which is in beta right now, I cannot be sure how well the AI really uses the system. The idea of a private industry that cannot be controlled is an interesting idea, especially the way ctiberus describes it, since a similar system in Distant Worlds adds an interesting element to the game as far the economic aspect is concerned.

[quote who="Magnumaniac" reply="9" id="3405467"] The problem for any tech tree design, regardless of complexity / size, is that it will very quickly come down to: Strategy A requires beeline for techs X, Y & Z for optimal effectiveness Strategy B requires beeline for techs P, Q & Z for optimal effectiveness etc, etc Variation is then thrown out of the window as, especially in multiplayer, anything less than optimal equals d

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="2" id="3405353"] You could, as long as you edited the tech tree via something other than the provide Tech Editor, like Notepad++. It looked horrible, because the UI wasn't designed for this, but it worked. I tested this during the development of my mod.[/quote] Interesting, it would still be nice if it was officially supported though instead of having to do it through a workaround.

Agreed. While in GalCiv 2 one could have multiple technologies come from the same prerequisite tech, one could not have multiple prerequisite technologies lead to one or more techs. I would also like to see technology levels where the benefit derived and the cost are defined by formulas calculated from whatever tech level one happens to be researching, it would save having to define hundreds of them by hand to achieve the same effect like in GalCiv 2, which would allow for infinite research,