The Research thread

[GeoModder]

Still nothing from Kassi on the diplo thread. If tomorrow still nothing is there, can I make inquiries about Doc:Flex? I guess they will ask a higher price if we don't take Doc:Flex as well... might be possible to circumvent that if we state we already have a deal regarding that tech.

[Hercules]

I too am awaiting Kass response on ' While we.....' game.

This is a great opportunity for all of us three factions to keep level / ahead of Morgans.

(We really have nothing to lose by tech trades (apart from PP, AE)).

[GeoModder]

Yep, but the only thing we can offer them is Biogenetics.
Btw, atm the Spartans are the team highest in the power graph.

[ForesterSOF]

I would go for Flex then AE if all tech trads happen the way people are predicting.

[GeoModder]

We are going for Doc:flex atm. There's a deal with the Gaians that they sent us Doc:Mob in 2148, and we switch to Doc:Flex afterwards (we're currently researching Doc:Mob, so a change wouldn't affect our research points).

[Mart]

Imagine this:
Spartans and Gaians get an agreement.
Gaians agree to trade Doctrine Loyality for Doctrine Flexibility with Spartans
We are relieved from need to get Doctrine:Flexibility, but Gaians forward Doctrine Mobility to us in exchange for other technology.

We might (if needed) to tell Gaians that there is a possibility Morgans can get PEG, thus we get it faster but switching our curren research to Adaptive Economics instead of Flexibility. Noone looses here.

Spartans get Loyality
Gaians get 2 techs: Flexibility and other tech from us.
Angels - we get PEG faster.

The only problem - we will need to trade Flexibility again

[ForesterSOF]

with the addition of some military or more bases to spread the dromes out we could lower the Psych to 30 and add that 10% to research.

What you think.

[GeoModder]

That with -1 police a second military unit to quell drones isn't possible.
And adding another 10% to research might backfire, for the inefficiency rating would become even higher compared with econ.

[Hercules]

For all those looking in and who might have missed it in earlier ACDG's this is the excellent thread on the mechanics of tech choice offerings

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96606&perpage=30&pagenumber=2

It is not just about beelining to Industrial Auto but about all tech choice offerings in MP games.

Download version 7 or is it 1.07 for reference