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Damien98 posted 03-10-99 09:54 AM ET
OK, so I am a newbie to SMAC, but I played a lot of CivII so I figured I'd be ok....
When you set your reasearch to say Explore, is there a good chance you could
discover a Conquer tech or some other than Explore? I have the default "Blind
reasearch" on. I thought that meant you couldnt pick which tech in that GROUP you
wanted to go for so for instance I pick Build, I may want Social Psyche to go to
Secrets of the Human Brain but I may get Industrial Base by chance. Apparently
though if I set my research to Explore i can get any tech, and it seems like an equal
chance, am i missing something????
BTW I set it like this:
X Build
Discover
Explore
Conquer
just the one X on the tech I want, in this case Build.
Thanks for any help with this.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 03-10-99 10:37 AM ET
Blind research let's you choose the general tech preference, but multiple factors determine WHICH tech is actually selected. Every tech has some balance in each of the mandates, some being classified as Conquer (or whatever) by only one point. So, blind basically addes another "bonus" when determining which techs are selected.
jkm
firaxis games
JaimeWolf posted 03-10-99 05:52 PM ET
WOW! YOu mean all techs have a value towards each endeavour?
Is there some way we can find out how each tech is reated?
James
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Author	Topic: tech research...
Damien98	posted 03-10-99 09:54 AM ET OK, so I am a newbie to SMAC, but I played a lot of CivII so I figured I'd be ok.... When you set your reasearch to say Explore, is there a good chance you could discover a Conquer tech or some other than Explore? I have the default "Blind reasearch" on. I thought that meant you couldnt pick which tech in that GROUP you wanted to go for so for instance I pick Build, I may want Social Psyche to go to Secrets of the Human Brain but I may get Industrial Base by chance. Apparently though if I set my research to Explore i can get any tech, and it seems like an equal chance, am i missing something???? BTW I set it like this: X Build Discover Explore Conquer just the one X on the tech I want, in this case Build. Thanks for any help with this.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 03-10-99 10:37 AM ET Blind research let's you choose the general tech preference, but multiple factors determine WHICH tech is actually selected. Every tech has some balance in each of the mandates, some being classified as Conquer (or whatever) by only one point. So, blind basically addes another "bonus" when determining which techs are selected. jkm firaxis games
JaimeWolf	posted 03-10-99 05:52 PM ET WOW! YOu mean all techs have a value towards each endeavour? Is there some way we can find out how each tech is reated? James