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How does tech trading work in TA? I'm not in the beta, but plan to purchase in the spring. If the tech trees are unique, for example Terran research labs or mfg plants vs Drengin pain amplifiers and slave pits, how does tech trading work? Do you trade the actual technology and if so does it also give you your trees equivalent? If it just gives the actual tech without your tech trees counterpart, it sounds like tech trading options are now limited somewhat to civs with

In the mid/late-game when you have decent factory technology and conquer a new planet or found a new colony, has anyone looked at an optimized strategy for factory building? I notice that the leadtime on ind sectors or mfg centers is very long, is it worthwhile to build cheaper Enhanced factories, etc to build to get more industry quicker then waiting for a full id sector build? I've seen a lot of math breakdowns of the other game trades like weapon cost/weight on these boards

Newbie question on trade goods. If you build a trade good, do you always retain its benefits? If you include it in a diplomacy trade, do you retain the benefits? Is the supply unlimited such that you can trade with all of your allies, or just with one other race? Thanks

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Any idea why the next / last page links won't work when I go through this forum? I want to scan through the 2007 shipyard thread (11 pages) yet, the next/last page links won't work. It not a local thing either, I can't get those links to work on any of the threads in this forum. Any ideas why? Not sure what I have on my system that would stop those links from working. No other links on the GalCivII site fail, just the next/last page links.

I recently purchased GalCiv2 and have thus far I've really enjoyed it. The economics and multiple sliders are taking some getting use to after years of Civ2-4 and Moo2 playing. I've read on the forums that the campaigns have multiple options, sort of like the old Wing Commander games did. I recently completed Siege and am due to play Achilles' Heel. I read on some thread in this forum that Siege is an optional mission along these lines. Is there a mission list or FAQ that co