A Mod idea to resolve disparity of unique race tech

[Suicide Junkie]

That is all moddable, but hasn't been actually done to my knowlege.

I included weakened Versions of the Ruins-tech Planetary shield generators in P&N, but not racial techs.
(To me, Racial techs are hardwired into a race's biology or society) What good is a TK projector if you have no crew with telekinesis to use it?
What good is a temple that nobody visits or believes in?

Now,
For the first way, just copy all the components, and copy the tech areas, renaming them and weakening them if you like.
Simple grunt work.

For the other one, take note of the following:
Start with three techs; A, B and C
Tech A is a racial tech, B and C are not.
Tech B requires some level (eg. 2) of Tech A.
Tech C requires some level (eg. 2) of Tech B.
Consider a race without the racial tech trait.

- Tech A can never be researched or stolen.
- Tech B can never be researched, but CAN be stolen.
- Tech C CAN be stolen, and CAN be researched once level 2 of Tech B has been stolen.

[ July 16, 2003, 22:25: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

never mind

[ July 16, 2003, 22:59: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
That is all moddable, but hasn't been actually done to my knowlege.

I seem to recall that somebody tried it. But it worked in a strange way, something about it interfereing with other research, or repairs of racial techs never happening, or some such.

[Suicide Junkie]

Of course...
If you don't have the tech for the fullVersion component, you can't repair them. You can only fix your cheap Versions.

It wouldn't interfere with other research unless they had the same name, or an AI was configured badly for it.