[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6578) Stealing Technology

["Mark Metson" <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Christian Knoke wrote:

> CVS BETA/HEAD
> 
> IMHO stealing technologies (either with diplomats or conquer cities) gives a
> far too big advantage, because it gives a random (?) tech. It should give
> only techs which are sunsequently following techs the thief already owns,
> i.e. only give techs for which the thief  has the requirement techs already
> researched/stolen.
> 
> Laying back more the 10 techs in a game, the first 2 techs I got are
> automobile and explosives.

This behavior seems to be a relic of PayCiv compatibility. A related - 
derivative - problem is that research does not mind gaps in the tree, 
which might I suppose make some kind of sense sometimes but for example 
recently I didn't have flight but stole radio then was able to start 
researching advanced flight (I had the other pre-req, miniturisation or 
machine tools or robotics or whatever it was). It seemed kind of funny to 
be able to research advanced flight given that I did not know flight. But 
maybe its a kind of cargo cult thing, the guys on the radio tell me what 
to do and I do it without any idea what I am doing? :)

-MarkM-

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