Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: rtsummer on July 28, 2012, 04:03:43 AM
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I was disassembling some plasma torpedoes when I suddenly was given Capacitor Recharge Rate 20. I was at Recharge Rate 6 and was not researching it.
The event log recorded it as Research into Capacitor Recharge Rate 20 completed on Earth. The two entries right after that stated that I had been given Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 & 10 from a friendly race.
I downloaded the event log to a text file and tried to discover how I got the tech. Here are the records.
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Sol,Research into Capacitor Recharge Rate 20 completed on Earth
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 4 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 4 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 5 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 5 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 6 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 6 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Ciutric Hegemony
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 12 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 12 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Ciutric Hegemony
Anyone know what happened? Some strange fortuitous bug? I don't share Tech with Ciutric or anyone so it's very strange. What is also strange is after destroying a large number of invader ships my diplomatic rating went from negative to over 40,000. I could set them as allies, but I don't think they would return the favor.
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You probably received it from the plasma torpedoes. I don't know why the log shows this though.
Also, just because you don't share tech with them does not mean they do not share tech with you. It's a unilateral move.
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Also, just because you don't share tech with them does not mean they do not share tech with you. It's a unilateral move.
This. Additionally, if you have a colony on any of the same planets, you will sometimes receive their outdated techs.
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As Person said, lower levels techs will be gained from "tech osmosis". Races you are in contact with will gain some of your older tech and vice versa.
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All of the above being said, it seems a bit suspicious that it would all happen at the same time. I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that you'd gotten some capacitor RP from disassembling the plasma torpedoes sent you (incorrectly) down a weird code branch that triggered tech osmosis at that moment.
John
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All of the above being said, it seems a bit suspicious that it would all happen at the same time. I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that you'd gotten some capacitor RP from disassembling the plasma torpedoes sent you (incorrectly) down a weird code branch that triggered tech osmosis at that moment.
John
Could it be that a colony was founded within that tick and then when it made the check, suddenly all of these techs were supposed to... osmosisize?
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I suspect that there is some mechanic that provides races with Techs to ensure that they are not too far behind. So, when I got the Recharge 20 tech, the NPR's got the lower recharge techs (5-10) and then Ciutric, due to them providing me with Tech from diplomatic rating, sent me the Recharge Techs for 8 and 10. It's strange that right now I can research either Recharge 12 or Recharge 25.