With Creativity, when you research a tech, you have a chance of getting a second tech at the same time. For instance, last game I remember it occuring, I was researching Chaff. When I discovered Chaff, I also discovered Smart Chaff (the next in the Chaff line).

When you discover two techs in a row like that, it just means you had enough research generated that turn to complete Chaff and Smart Chaff...

Sometimes I forget to go down certain branches of the tree until late in the game. Usually Armor techs because the A.I. doesn't seem to use Mass Drivers as much...

Current personal best for techs researched in one turn. Titanium Armor 1 ~~> Superior Tri-Strontinum

Although it gets harder and harder to do that once you research more and more techs because techs get pricier as you research other techs. (i.e. Terraforming could take you 2 turns to complete, you go complete a few other techs, then suddendly Terraforming might take 3 turns even though you still have the same research capacity)

The ability, creativity, what does it do? What is it that triggers digging up the "Corvette" Class ship, or other such fun little random events like that? Is it luck? Is it creativity? or is it just random?

Creativity really seems to do nothing, unfortunately, at least at this point in the game, maybe it will become useful later. Although, creativity might have an effect on the base cost of techs, or maybe slow the rate inflation of the research cost for each tech as you research more and more.

Any random events are just that... random... Luck, I assume, gives you better odds in getting them, and in them having positive outcomes. (At least that makes sense logically)

As for the "Corvette" class ships, read the dialogue carefully next time for that event. For some reason, I don't think the human player can find them, only the A.I.'s. Fortunately, we find Lucky Rangers, which can wipe the floor against the Corvettes.

Also, I tend to NOT pay attention, or really care, when or where the core ship designs are. They were designed with no miniaturization bonuses so that you could get them when the needed techs were researched for all of their components. You are much better off making your own... That and the core designs only have like one weapon and one or two defenses, and they seem to never come with engines attached...

In GC1 the creativity increased the chance of getting the 25% boost in research on your current tech when you got the "unexplained" type of anomoly, vs the "what a waste of time" message. I assume it still does, even tho there are more kinds of anomolies in GC2 (I've only hit it once in GC2).

This is a probability equation so if you have 50% creativity you will have a 1 in 2 chance every dice roll that you will get a free tech advance upon researching a new technology and that free tech is randomly chosen among all availible techs..

I've played dozens of games to completion with creative as a race attribute, and none of the things mentioned have ever happened. I would say that it is a waste of racial points as it currently stands.

Why does everybody say that the precursor library doesnt exsist! It's rarer than precursor mines at least. Found 10 of those now.

I often get several techs in a single turn

Creativity in action.

Simply because the code for them was removed during the final days of development and the string to create them now points to a different bonus! That and the total lack of a screenshot to prove the countless people who have said they had them

Ah! The mythical precursor library, no I do not believe they exist either.

Creativity in action.

Noooooo, that's called "Reasearch." Once, playing Neutral with tech speed on max AND NO CREATIVITY FROM ANY SOURCE, I went from "Titanium Armor" to "Zero Point Armor" in 3 weeks. There's more than 3 techs in that line.

However, I noticed something today--I don't seem to have access to that trade good that boosts research. I'm pretty sure I've made it in this version of the game (1.11), but not recently. Now, my original Custom race had Creativity. Is it possible that Creativity gives extra improvements in a couple of the techs?

Really? What tech are they in? I can't find them.

There is a progress indicator window in the lower left corner showing how far along you are in getting the currently being researched tech.

Notice how many weeks are left for a particular research, then buy several more research buildings. During the next turn that indicator should be reduced by more than one week.

If the indicator is very close to showing 100% at the end of a turn, and the next tech is an easy one, like the early defense techs, it is likely that more than one tech will be completed in the next turn.

It is all a function of how much research you are throwing at it, and not a function at all of the Creativity ability.

You can also see the effect by playing with the spending sliders.



Darth Griffin, it was my understanding that the Precursor Library could not be modded back in without actually changing the .exe file. Do you know of a way to get around it so they show up in the game?

I officially, unofficially, declare Creativity as not functioning in any way at all, except for eating up an attribute point.

Darth Griffin, it was my understanding that the Precursor Library could not be modded back in without actually changing the .exe file. Do you know of a way to get around it so they show up in the game?

As far as i am aware the only way to have them appear in the game is to alter a saved game file. No other mod will work as the code to produce the Library is not there.

DG
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Creativity makes the Altarians design cooler ships