posted 04-04-99 03:27 AM ET
Cthulhu,The Planetary Datalinks are IMHO one of the least useful SPs. As you realize in the last couple of sentences of your post, it only gives you a free tech if 3 other factions have discovered that particular tech. For example; You have not yet discovered High Energy Chemistry, if Zakharov and Yang have it you get...nothing.
Now, if Miriam buys, extorts, probes, trades or discovers it, then and only then do you get this one tech...High Energy Chemistry.
As I am usually close to the front of the pack in the tech race, I usually don't bother except to deny it to someone else. However, if Zakharov is building it, I'll let him have it lest he transfer his SP production to a project that I want!
JAMiAM
the greatest builder since Ramses.