Does capturing a city give an enemy tech?

[Captain_Dave]

I'm a very experienced Civ, Civ2 and SMAC player, never got CTP1 because of the bad press. I'm playing my second game of CTP2, from what I read in these forums about the AI I thought I could handle the hardest level. So now it's 600 AD and I'm WAY behind on the powergraph. Since I'm playing on a gigantic map, I've only encountered 1 other civ (Americans), and have begun my war of conquest. I think they're ahead of me in tech, because he had a catapult (alone outside a city, too bad he didn't garrison it, cause it coulda done a lot more damage to my army ), unless he found the catapult in a ruin. I haven't got catapults yet, and I've captured 3 of his cities so far without getting a tech advance.

Of course the <Ahem> "manual" doesn't cover this, and I don't see a setting in the game options to toggle "techs on conquest" a la SMAC. So I assume you get a tech with conquest, and the Americans ain't ahead of me, right? Please tell me I'm right, or I'm gonna start seeing Machine Gunners plowing down my Pikemen when one of the other 7 AI's find me!

[Carrion]

Yes you can get technologies from capturing enemy cities. I'm not sure if it happens every time though. I have gotten techs from cities i capture. But that usually catches me up to the Computer AI. I've never been more than 2 behind any 1 opponent so I'm not sure.

[Paul]

I believe you have a 50% chance of getting a tech advance when you capture a city. But I'm not sure of the exact number.

[skorpion59]

In Const.txt,
CAPTURE_CITY_ADVANCE_CHANCE 0.5 # chance of gaining an advance when capturing a city (assuming they have advances you don't)

[Captain_Dave]

OK, thanks guys. Hmm, 3 cities captured, no techs yet. Seems like the odds have been against me thus far in this particular game. Maybe I'll have better luck trying to shock that damn monkey at the top of my screen

[romelus]

woah now this is scaring me . i've finished quite a few games and have never gotten any techs from captured cities. i checked my const.txt file and it's set to 0.5. i knew the ai was ahead in tech (way ahead) so why didn't i get anything?

[Darkknight]

I've wiped out two civs capturing all their citties and knew they had slave labor(i never get it)(they had mines)all toghter 11 cities and didn't get any techs?

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[Aristos]

unless it means 0.5 % ????



i face the same problem...

[Alpha Wolf]

i havent gotten any either and I raised mine to .75. Guess its time to try 1 and see what happens.

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[Shooter]

It's probably disabled, I've never gotten any either, and I haven't seen evidence of the computer taking any of my techs.

[phoenixcager]

Maybe they didn't have any techs that you hadn't researched.

[Coflek]

I conquered 6 cities, and didn't get any tech.
They sureley have tech that I don't so I suppose this option is disabled.

[Celestial_Dawn]

I've conquered 42 cities and I've never gotten any tech.

Impossible level difficulty. And about 12 of those city conquests were when I was still behind in tech. This was when I spent a good many turns trying to get them to trade techs with me and they refused.

By time I got to Nationalism and Spies, I was already ahead in tech so I stopped bothering with diplomacy (because it didn't seem to be working anyway:P)

Honestly, I thought they disabled it for CtP2. After my first 6 captured cities or so, I stopped wondering whether I'd get any.

If it isn't disabled well, on Impossible it doesn't seem to work.

[Captain_Dave]

Well, I changed the value in const.txt to 1.0, captured a few more cities, still no techs. And yes, I'm certain they have more techs than I, cause I've encountered 6 of his catapults, which I don't have yet. And I sure need them, my poor knights, samurai and pikemen are taking HEAVY losses.

Then I bumped the value to 100 to see what happens, captured another city and STILL no captured techs. I'm playing Impossible difficulty level. I guess I'll have to concentrate on getting spies so I can catch up!

[Captain_Dave]

Carrion,

When you captured techs, what difficulty levels were you playing? Maybe it's just disabled on Impossible.