Hello, I just got this game maybe a week ago on Steam sale and I've been loving it, great game, unbalanced sometimes but in fun ways, just great to watch your empire slowly expand and take over the universe!
This might seem like a piddly minor thing, but...I often do a lot of tech trading with the AI, and my top request for the game right now is to indicate which techs available for trade will lock you out of other choices. You know, those techs where you get to pick one of three.
Right now I am having to screenshot the trade screen, put it in my other monitor, exit out of diplomacy, go to the tech tree, and click on everything to find the exact names of the stuff I'm trading for to make sure I'm not accidentally locking myself out of taking certain options. This is also compounded by each race having some differently named items on their tree.
And yes, over time I am learning which techs are those choices, simply by the sort of effects they provide if not by name, for example -% to mass is generally (always?) one of those options. However, this issue remains because I forget which of those choices I've already made in any given game, and which I have yet to research.
Ideally you'd just see a little exclamation point next to each tech for which you still have a choice. If you've already made your choice and the tech you're trading for is one of the others you got locked out of, we don't need any sort of indicator, that's just a bonus. Just need to know when you're making a trade that irrevocably limits your selection.
ive been asking for the same as well
+1
Yes please! I totally agree! This would help so much!
Let's do this Stardock!
they set/changed the tree to show techs with a [square] or expandable (rounded) box/bubble based on this at some point during alpha/beta iirc, so it should be something programmatically pulled from the xml & displauyed with something as simple as a * beside the specialization in the list. having it dispklay color would be nice as well... although I'm sure there are worse examples that I cant think of at the moment yor have propagation >yellow:collective manufacturing>Research Specialization(research +10%)>, propagation red:power matrix>Technological capacity(research +10%)>fusion matrix> (research augmentation (+10%) but that's just one example of three similarly named techs from two different forks that prpvide similar (if not identical)bonus to the exclusion of other options
You know, they already display color, angry AI will refuse to trade certain techs with you and those are highlighted in red. Could just highlight "choice" techs in yellow - and again, ideally it wouldn't highlight them if you've already made that particular choice, so picking up the tech is just gravy at that point.
Absolutely, this. I just turned the air blue because I made this mistake (the AI offered it to me for like a hundred credits...I thought 'bonus', totally having forgot I'd not researched its alternative tech variant (that I actually wanted).
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