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I play DA, but the Q probably applies to TA, and maybe DL.
I know that techs can only "stolen" from an AI empire if a spy is placed on a planet. Can one steal a tech from a minor race that same way?
I'm not sure about your specific question. What I am sure of is that you can sometimes steal a tech when you capture a planet from a minor race and one might assume that the two go together.
A question in return. Can you ever do enough "global" spying to be able to view a planet of a minor race?
I'm playing TA.
I don't know about TA for certain, but it is simple to view any planet of any race with a spy.
Simply go to place the spy on the planet. That act will reveal the planet. Then, if you placed the spy, simply remove it again before the end of the turn.
As in your reply to me, the boxes exist for the minor race, so I guess it should be able to be done globally, but I have never done so.
In the case of the minor race espionage Q that I had, I would like to steal techs w/o war.
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I am beginning to think one may not be able to spy-steal from a minor race.
In one test game, I have had a spy on each of the 8 or 9 minor race homeworlds for over 100 turns w/o a single tech gain, though I made sure each had at least one tech I had not researched.
I'm reasonably certain it's impossible; however I hardly ever make use of planetary spies to begin with as mine always seem to be nullified within a few turns. I also don't bother spying on minor races unless I have multiple spies to spare.
Also, the question does not apply to DL, as the abstracted version of espionage makes it impossible to spy on a minor race at all.
DL does not have spy's.
In DL you can steal techs with espionage or by invasion.
Since you can not apply espionage to a minor race in DL, the only way to steal a tech from them is to successfully invade their planet. Even then, it is a random event.
I play just DA, though I started briefly with DL. I did not buy TA after I heard that the AIs had to be tinkered with by the player to make them expand.
Perhaps, then the coding was left the DL way in DA and TA. That is, that espionage would not let one theft a tech from minor races.
In one game, I got to the almost the very end, and then gifted everything but one fleet and one planet to a minor race just to see what would happen. They did not build spies even then, so I think mior races cannot do that.
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