Im not sure as I am not at home and Im new to the game, but I traded the technologies from AI players, there were four technologies for habiting aqua,granite,gas and something else if I recall right.

If it helps there was also an upgrade to these techs, but it appeared these just better helped u colonize the worlds mentioned above.

Sorry if im a bit vague, I tried finding a tech tree online, but was unsucessfull.

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I am wondering: have you also the extreme colonization tech or just the 4 specific colonization techs?

Well the planets I trie to colonize had in red writing "Toxic Atmosphere Reductor" needed etc so I dont think I was trying to colonize a barren planet.

I did try to colonize one planet which had the above written below it and I couldn't, however a few turns the late the AI colonized it, I checked there research to see if there was anything I forgot to trade for and they had no extra techs that I did?

Well as I said above, I traded the Toxic Atmosphere Reductor, so this should have allowed me to colonize the planet surely?

Unless the tech Extreme Colonization is also required ...

They are very research intensive techs, but there are AIs (Yor, Iconians) who begin the game with some of the capabilities (Barren, Aqua, Toxic). In addition, the native abilities and production allocation settings of the various AI races would have had major impact on their research time.

For example: in my typical start setup, starting without X. Biology but with a research intensive (really intensive) race, I would not expect it to take me more than 40 weeks to get any one of the Extreme techs, even allowing for other essential techs I needed to pick up along the way. From the time I finished Extreme Colonization, maybe 12 turns.

BTW, you didn't by any chance trade the AIs for ADVANCED Aqua, Toxic, etc, did you? Because I'm pretty sure you have to have the basic level of each of those techs before you can set down on the planet. The Advanced forms just allow you to get full production out of it later.

drrider

Hi!

In one of my first DA games I get the advanced level by invasion, and all planets of that type turned to yellow. Also the conquered one, previously red. This behaviour could be changed in some later DA version though.   Haven't traded tech much in my last games, and the number of hostile planets was also very low.

BR, Iztok

it's not AFAIK.



what? have you tested this? from modding i can say the two techs look exactly alike (+50 to the appropriate colonization ability), they just have different costs and AI values.

I presume you were playing sandbox mode, not the Campaign or one of the Scenarios??

drrider

Strange problem you've got, Nitecom.

I recently played and won my first game with a Super Annihilator race. I got the technologies of Toxic Atmosphere Reductor and Advanced Toxic Atmosphere Reductor automatically when I researched Spore Weapons(and this took only 3 weeks). Throughout the game, I ran my many spore-intoxicated worlds at max production with no problem, and occasionally traded my Reductor techs for surprisingly large amounts of money to the AI.

Later in the game, I flipped an Aquatic world, Dark Yor 2, over from the Korx, and it did absolutely nothing. No production, nil. Only 2 research points, with focus on research having no effect. Then, even later in the game, I stole Aquatic World Colonization while I was spore-bombing the planet Korx. Now Dark Yor 2 was running at half-strength, just as it was supposed to.

The only mod I had was Kryo's Hull System.

BTW, I never had Extreme Colonization at any time in the game.

And how did it take you 70 weeks to research the techs? Try focusing your worlds to research and turning the slider up to see that time figure tumble down like crazy. If it doesn't, your researching capability is just plain weak.