Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance

[Elijah Meeks <elijahmeeks@yahoo.com>]

--- mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> Can't we make some advances require particular
> materials?  I think we
> already can, and if not, that would be easy to add. 
> Then we could easily
> do both behaviours.  For "you may only have one of
> these advances",
> there's a material of which you only get a little
> bit, and you need all of
> it to do either advance.  Once you have done one,
> you can't do the other.  
> For "it's very hard, but possible, to do both of
> these advances", it's a
> similar story, but you can eventually with a lot of
> work gain more of the
> special material.

I attempted something like this with AWLS, in that
hi-tech units produced more tech points specifically
for researching the next tech (i.e. level-1 Carriers
produced level-2 Carrier tech points).  The problem is
that, if the AI isn't researching Level-2 Carriers,
then the research points just pile up unused.  This
wouldn't be too much of a problem, because they'd
eventually be spent when that tech was researched, but
on top of this comes the lack of a generic tech
source, so now you can only research Level-2 Carriers
with level-2 carrier tech.






		
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