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il posted 02-22-99 12:30 PM ET
I looked all over the view screens, and I can't figure out which techs I have and don't have. Is there a way to see a list of all the techs I've researched?
Also, which terrain improvements can coexist? If I remember correctly, solar collectors can go in a farm square, but not a mine square. Are there other such restrictions?
Fenris posted 02-22-99 12:44 PM ET
If I remember correctly, one of the function keys will show you which techs you have already researched. I'm not sure which one, maybe f3 or f4. Sensors cannor coexist with solar. Forest cannot have solar, farms, or mines. Fungus can only have roads/mag tubes. I think that's it...
weregamer posted 02-22-99 06:15 PM ET
1) I'm not sure if the Tech report (F2? I generally hit F4 or F6 and then use the icons to travel to the lesser reports) lets you see what you already have.
2) Barring other restrictions (rocky means no farms, etc.), you generally can have a farm (or soil enricher) plus ONE of sensor/mine/solar/condenser. Boreholes can't coexist with anything. Forests can only coexist with sensors. (Roads can go with anything, so I don't count them in the "anythings" above).
When you have high enough Centauri tech/special projects, you can build non-farm things on fungus squares but mostly that's useless: Although I think you can build a solar or a mine on a fungus square at this point in 2.0, it doesn't do any good. You *can* build a sensor on a fungus square though.
For sea squares, the choices are much more limited. You can have fungus OR kelp. If you have nothing or kelp, you can have a tidal generator or a mining platform. With the requisite techs/projects, I have built a mine on a sea fungus square, but it didn't produce any extra minerals.
Dan Scheltema posted 02-23-99 03:17 AM ET
To see what techs you have, do F2. Down in a box in the lower lefthand corner is a list of the techs you have. In the main window the tech you're currently research appears, and you can step through the tree clicking on techs. There, the techs you have are color coded (though I forget which color means what) blue or black, and the unknown ones are the other color.
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Author	Topic: tech question and terraform question
il	posted 02-22-99 12:30 PM ET I looked all over the view screens, and I can't figure out which techs I have and don't have. Is there a way to see a list of all the techs I've researched? Also, which terrain improvements can coexist? If I remember correctly, solar collectors can go in a farm square, but not a mine square. Are there other such restrictions?
Fenris	posted 02-22-99 12:44 PM ET If I remember correctly, one of the function keys will show you which techs you have already researched. I'm not sure which one, maybe f3 or f4. Sensors cannor coexist with solar. Forest cannot have solar, farms, or mines. Fungus can only have roads/mag tubes. I think that's it...
weregamer	posted 02-22-99 06:15 PM ET 1) I'm not sure if the Tech report (F2? I generally hit F4 or F6 and then use the icons to travel to the lesser reports) lets you see what you already have. 2) Barring other restrictions (rocky means no farms, etc.), you generally can have a farm (or soil enricher) plus ONE of sensor/mine/solar/condenser. Boreholes can't coexist with anything. Forests can only coexist with sensors. (Roads can go with anything, so I don't count them in the "anythings" above). When you have high enough Centauri tech/special projects, you can build non-farm things on fungus squares but mostly that's useless: Although I think you can build a solar or a mine on a fungus square at this point in 2.0, it doesn't do any good. You can build a sensor on a fungus square though. For sea squares, the choices are much more limited. You can have fungus OR kelp. If you have nothing or kelp, you can have a tidal generator or a mining platform. With the requisite techs/projects, I have built a mine on a sea fungus square, but it didn't produce any extra minerals.
Dan Scheltema	posted 02-23-99 03:17 AM ET To see what techs you have, do F2. Down in a box in the lower lefthand corner is a list of the techs you have. In the main window the tech you're currently research appears, and you can step through the tree clicking on techs. There, the techs you have are color coded (though I forget which color means what) blue or black, and the unknown ones are the other color.