The Research thread

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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).

[ForesterSOF]

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

[GeoModder]

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

[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]

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]

Very interesting; We all three factions (Gaian, Spartans and us) could do some useful leap frogging. Remind other factions of 'While we are waiting' game experience of Morgan

[GeoModder]

The Spartans have Doc: Flex.

[Mart]

yes, a lot of possibilities here. Gene Splicing looks good too. After all we have a lot of rainy tiles. with crawlers we are ready to pop boom

[GeoModder]

If we have the PTS, one drone is quelled. That gives us some breathing space. Let's consider offering ProgPsych to the Gaians once we're on the research track to AdapEcon (in exchange for socpsych... And we don't know (yet) what techs the Spartans might be willing to trade.

[Mart]

we need rec commons too. soon a lot of bases will grow to size 3. We should start to think how to get soc psych ourselves

[GeoModder]

Yeah, gues they needed rec commons earlier then the ability to build home-made foils. Sofar they've done well with the one(s) they have.