New Techs

[Qwerty88]

Does anyone have good tech fixes for Inertial Damping and/or Global Energy Theory?

[Enigma_Nova]

AC Creation forum, m8.

[Commy]

Would anybody mind explaining to me what is going on hear? THis must be my really, really, really stupid day...

[Qwerty88]

Inertial Damping and Glabal Energy Theory were to techs (24 and 70) that were deleted before the game was released, however there quotes are still in the blurbs file and the voices folder. The also have icon files in the tech folder, but Inertial Damping is the same as Singularity Mechanics and Global Energy Theory is the same as Sentient Econometrics.

[Commy]

Okay, so I found the techs on my own a long time ago, but never actually new what they were supposed to do. And now I know. Well, I thought Global Energy Theory might have been a former idea for adaptive economics, but anyway, why was this thread found? I don't understand the question, or the answer.

[Qwerty88]

I'm wondering if anyone found a way to re-integrate them into the game, like adding tech flags and requirements, or changing requirments on things to require them.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I'v used thouse empty slots to create whole new Tecnologies from scratch and integrated them into the tec tree, I've loaded my own Glyphs and used recycled blurbs like the "Energy is the Currency of the Future" on by Morgan. I would imagine that nearly anything is possible with enough Alpha editing and supporting media changes.

[Illuminatus]

However their presumed effects cannot be added. Inertial Dampening should obviously provide a special ability flag which would grant immunity to artillery attacks, or a *100 multiplier against them.

[Commy]

Actually, I was thinking more that Intertial Dampening was a former idea of N-space compression, as was Global Energy Theory of Adaptive Economics...

[Illuminatus]

I am sure that it wasn't. Designers haven't even thought about EXP, and blurbs for these techs are not close to NSC or AE.

[Commy]

Well, that is true, but why were the techs taken out in the first place?

[Enigma_Nova]

Notice how the blurbs sometimes describe a tech as D20 or C20?
There were originally 20 levels of techs.
Apparently, the designers thought that was too much, so they collapsed the techs down,
leading to overpowered techs like Fusion Power, Industrial Automation, Centauri Ecology and MMI.

[Qwerty88]

I've never seen a tech refer to a tech level, and after searching the blurbs, techlongs, and techshorts files I only found 20 in the tech/SP/facility numbers, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and 20th century Earth. Plus the tech level = 1+the highest level of a prerequisit tech

[Enigma_Nova]

From techlongs.txt:

##Transcendent Thought
#TECH88
Based on [Controlled Singularity (C16)] and
[Threshold of Transcendence (E19)], this technology
finally unlocks the keys to the final stage of
evolution with {Transcendent Thought}--the
ability to contain a self-awareness, or ‘soul’,
outside the bounds of a corporeal form. Those
who so choose may now complete the Ascent to
Transcendence, joining their consciousness with
the Planetary mind in ageless immortality.

/me burns you around a bit with a flaming trout
Take that!

[Qwerty88]

That says E19 not D20, if you'd of said it was a level 19 my search would have found it, plus you said blurbs, that's in the techlongs file, the descricptions of the research behind the tech.