Start the GC2TechTreeEditor.exe in the Twilight/Tools directory.
With that editor you can modify the tech tree files in Twilight/Data/English/TechTrees.

Don't forget to backup the files before you save anything

Tech trading should be removed altogether as that is just an exploit vs the AI. The human player ALWAYS comes out ahead in in tech trading. So, no they don't just need to disable trading of race specific techs, but, all of them to the human player. People always complain about how easy the AI is well this is one sure fire way to make it a bit harder and stop the human players from exploiting it.

Not at all I play on huge galaxies, but, yes military wins all that other stuff is romper room type of play (play nice don't hit the other children lol). I play with tech trading off and it's quite the challenge to take out all the other AI's I play against. See, I DON'T HAVE TO WIN every single game. That's the problem I see with so many other players, if they can't win they don't want to play it. So, they use every gamey exploit or mechanical exploit they can find in the game to puff up their epeen I suppose.

Here's the situation, then... (To me at least, so far through early observations)

a) As Terran-driven, I've got the Entertainement Network with a Maintenance cost of 3 for a 10% Morale boost.
The Thalan have the exclusive edge of a similar Morale (15%) asset (Planetary Adaptation_RecuperationCenter, in fact!) BUT with a Maintenance of 1 only.

As a result... Should i refuse the tech which unlocks that more efficient building in a trade deal and SPEND my way to costly happiness when i could cut that expense a full 66% less?

Complex decisions, may just be an exploit, and yet. Darn, i simply wanna WIN.

Draw your own conclusions!

Me, too. Modders? Kryo?

Good luck, I've been barking up this tree for about five months now. Frogboy told me to get bent.

Oh, and before i DO forget - there is an optional choice which would be kinda useful; a way to simply give every opponents a common tech-tree (everybody's a Yor!) by ticking a box right before a game starts. I can perceive some balancing problems and also understand the weird effects this may cause, btw.

Equal turf, no hassle about technos exclusivity jealousy, straight duel, fight.
Just for fun.

LOL...I was just thinking the exact same thing

Morten

I think it's ironic that people worry about 'cheating' in the Metaverse, when the entire point of the metaverse is to exploit, abuse, and cheat as much as you can get away with.

No, you can't use a custom tech tree with the metaverse. Unsure why people care about the Metaverse in the first place though....

Then, kryo, don't tell anyone that you were at work yesterday. That would only stir up more troubles

*Asmodean runs away before kryo can hit him*

Yup, and from ME too - hit the pedal to the metal.

It kinda ruins the mood when you're Yor and the UP decides that every empire should donate 3 techs to everyone else. In a 9 AI game. After being 27 techs richer, my robots can up the population limit with regular farmed food, they're able to increase their research by feeling pain, are amused by television and they build temples of Krynn.

My favorite idea was mine own for draconian tech-trading limitations:

If the tech isn't in your tech tree, you can't have it. End of story.

Maybe a little heavy-handed for some people's tastes, but frankly it eliminates 100% of the problems. The thing is, unique tech trading isn't the ONLY problem. Trading mundane technologies can utterly break the game.

For example - Torians don't get research labs, and instead rely on +% Research to advance. To that end, Discovery Spheres are NOT a unique tech, as nearly every race gets them. However, Torians getting Discovery Spheres, on TOP of their +% research bonus, go from the worst teching race in the game to the BEST. This is fundamentally broken. Being unable to get Discovery Spheres, as the technology isn't in their tech tree, fixes this hole.

Likewise, Drengin will be unable to use anything except their own racial method of industry, as it keeps with the lore as well. If using slaves has worked for the Drengin for thousands of years, and it's clearly superior to using factories (lore-wise), why would they suddenly start building Industrial Sectors and get rid of their slaves? Yeah, I don't think so either.

How about Yor with food? Again, same thing. Trading a non-unique tech to a race that was never meant to have it.

Frankly I don't see how anyone could shoot that idea down. It might sound like too much, but remember that for almost every race, around 95% of their technologies will be able to be traded! Most tech trees share all the same technologies, especially everything in regards to starships. In addition, it supports more flexible dynamics in racial relations. The Drengin and the Korath will make natural trading buddies, helping each other along, as they share all the same techs. The Drath and Altarians will grudgingly be able to share some discoveries, and the Yor and Thalans, who will be the worst-off, are loner races anyway, so it's justified.

And then, races like the Torians and Drengin will find it difficult to trade a lot between them both due to dissimilar tech trees.

Honestly now.