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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Elijah Meeks wrote:

> You could add GDL support for this by letting the
> Designers write weighted tables.  

Currently, Xconq only supports tables of integers. One would need 
to implement suport for tables of lists first.

> It would still be useful to have an
> advance-precludes-advance table, in those cases when
> two advances are actually in opposition to each other.

I think the example regarding Opal makes a good case for this. 
As was previously mentioned, you can, in theory, shut off 
advances by degrading the production of a material needed to 
research them. The only problem there might be if someone hoarded 
the material needed for the precluded advance ahead of time.... 
I'll add 'advance-precludes-advance' to my todo list.

Eric