An idea to balance out tech

[DavidG]

I just read a thread where Baron Munchausen said something about sphereworlds to the effect that "if you can build them you have already won"
I think this is true of many techs and it would probably be fun to play a game with several players of similar tech level. My idea would be to make it so that after you research a tech the other races would have a certain chance to aquire it. Not right away of course but say after a year of having a tech information about it would leak out and the other races may randomly aquire it. Sort of like the 'tech breakthroughs' in MOO2. OF course this would probably require a major code change.