Starting Technology Level

Actually I was just thinking that maybe when you start a game your tech level should be 0 for all three colonization techs. This way you would have to do some research to colonize any planets first. This would be more represenative of a race starting on a planet and having to branch out from that planet. You didn't colonize that 1st rock planet (your race developed there).

SEV, more than a feeling.

Having to research colonizing techs might be what I was looking for! I'm trying to think of a way of slowing down the start game and was tossing around between removeing spaceports and shipyards at startup to trying to figure out how to remove light hull construction. This might do the trick to. Which leads me to ask, how to you add/remove starting techs? Add in this case is for medical... after 2400 years shouldn't you have evolved past leeches?

Kyle

I think it was intended more as a innate racial ability, rather than specifically a technology to research. Your race developed the technology to build things on your homeworld. If your homeworld is rock, then you know how to build effectively on rock planets. To understand the proper way to build on ice planets, or floating cities on gas planets, you would need to research the methodology and techniques involved.

Why it isn't in the technology area during race creation is probably just a small quirk of a bug. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme, as you hardly spend much time in the game creation screens, as compared to actual gameplay. Just shrug and enjoy the game!

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Interesting that none of you actually addressed the bug that the OP was about, so I will.

This is caused by the game not checking the race's abilities in the technology panel, and planet type is a racial trait, just not one you purchase. You may have noticed racial techs do not appear if you give your race a racial trait, such as Organic Technology, it won't appear.

All the game needs to do is check the race's current racial traits, and then check anything that can't be researched if you change those racial traits.

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not quite that simple, It would need to check to make sure you didn't select, say... organic tech, then buy some organic reserch in the reserch part of it, go back and deselect organic tech.

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Can you spend racial points on tech rather than the various bonuses? For example, if I wanted to play the Romulans, and none of the racial bonuses appeal to me, I should be able to spend my points on physics to get cloaking right away, without having to reduce any other starting techs, by spending my points there instead.

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