Technology Victory

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I am playing a large galaxy and have wiped out everyone except the Altarians and some pirates. I am at war, but decided since I have the advantage to try for a technology victory. The Altarians keep trying to surrender and when I accept I am awarded an influence victory in 10 moves, so I keep rejecting their surrender. I even gave them three decent planets, but now they keep revolting and coming back to my side. We each have about the same number of planets but I am way ahead in Tech and have lots of cash. The pirates have some nice ships that took out my Lucky Rangers like they were toys. I am ready to go after the pirates by building some high tech ships.

With only a large galaxy and all my planets full out doing research, it still take about 20 weeks to research an new tech.

Anyone else done a tech victory?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah I managed to get a tech victory in a game that was pretty much my only option. I wasn't the largest empire in terms of influence and I didn't have the clout to get a diplomatic victory. I guess I could have done a conquest victory but at the time that would have probably taken longer then the tech victory did. Anyway by that point in the game it took me 60 turns to get the last tech researched. I just set MP and SP to zero and cranked RP to 100% along with 100% utilization. I was in the red but had built up like 30k bc to compensate so was in no danger of running out of money.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah I did one my last game. There were about three civs left ; one was really strong the others really weak. After beating down my biggest threat I noticed I was about 50 research turns from tech victory so I did it. The strong guy left was evil like me so he left me alone and the weak civs were powerless to oppose me so it ended up being a kind of shallow victory, but I won....
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you know from the start you want a tech victory, its not hard at all. I researched the last tech in 5 turns.

You have to build up lots of discovery spheres, keep your research slider up, and this is the part many people miss... each planet must focus on research by clicking the little target button in the research production box.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I did. It is easiest on a gigantic map.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You're going to have to create some planets that are dedicated solely to nothing but research. Throw some farms and entertainment complexes to keep them happy. But dedicate everything else to research.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I did it on a medium map. At the end of the game, it was just my custom race against the Altarians. They had a much larger chunk of the galaxy in terms of influence, but my tech lead was very large. We were both Saintly races, so he didn't do anything to stop me from completing the tech win.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I got a Tech Victory on Gigantic because I wanted to finish my game and the war with the Thalans isn't going so well. So I get a peace with the Thalans and start selling the last 5 civs in the Galaxy all my ships as I start to focus on a tech vicory. So I'm doing pretty good tell the Thalans started using the ships I sold them agianst me. But I won anyway.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I started out with a crappy start on a large map. I had like 5 planets where the computer players had around 10. I dug in with tons of military starbases and researched my heart out for a long, long time. Thankfully, no one messed with me because they all had their own little wars to deal with. At least, they didn't until the end, when two races got together and started taking out my combat starbases one by one...

But they were too late Mwahaha!

-Dewar
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Tech victory was my first victory. I was evil and the Yor went hog wild on the galaxy so they left me alone. Seems like Tech victory is sort of a fail safe victory if you have a lot of turns and are safe. I wonder if the AI ever goes for it.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Personally, I find that if you play a good, nonaggressive civilization on a gigantic map (I play against 9 intelligent) it's not that hard to hit a tech victory if you make it a point to keep your research infrastructure better than any of your opponents. Additionally, spend time early on to max out your economic techs, and you'll be crusing along in no time.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The strong guy left was evil like me so he left me alone


To me that is one of the strange quirks in the alignment system. I would think evil civs would hate each other as much as the good ones.