Trading Tricks? I need Gas Giant Tech!

[UmberGryphon]

I generally have pretty good luck waiting until the AI asks for a treaty (or until I think the AI would accept a treaty if I offered it one), and offering a trade--that treaty, in exchange for a colonization tech (or any other tech).

It values treaties way more than it values ANY technology, apparently. I've never seen it refuse a tech-for-treaty trade in a situation where it would accept the treaty.

[Taqwus]

Hmmm, that's bizarre. Treaties can be broken, but you can never take back a tech gift.

I could see a *small* tech gift, like some minor weapon tech, or so forth. But colonization tech is both very expensive and very, very useful.

Most of my trading's resource trading, anyway -- e.g. early in the atmosphere conVersion phase of my current game, I badly needed radioactives but had plenty of minerals and organics, so frequently traded in the ratio (5Min + 5Org) : (8 Rad). Not that competitive of a trade (since minerals are so important, usually) but helpful until my Rad production increased.

In a previous game (patch 1 then, if it matters) I frequently traded large quantities in the ratio (5 Org + 5 Rad) : (7 Min) in an attempt to deplete other empires' mineral stocks prior to war. Combine with other aspects of economic warfare (resource theft/destruction, and now anarchy Groups, etc).


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[This message has been edited by Taqwus (edited 11 January 2001).]