More-Flexible Tech Prerequisites

[labgnome]

That seems a little complicated if you ask me. I'd rather put a time-lock on the different metabolism terraforming like this:

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(theory) environmental adaption   500 RP / 10 Turns
    (app-building) controlled inferno environment 400 RP / 10 Turns
    (app-building) controlled radiated environment 400 RP / 10 Turns
    (app-building) controlled desert environment 400 RP / 10 Turns
..... etc .....

Anyway, I'm looking forward to your mockup and then we can discuss more about the growth category's actual layout. We should start a new thread for that though.

Okay: so this would be for species metabolism, not planet type. I was thinking of doing a Count and giving them a tag like "LITHIC_GROW" or "PHOTO_GROW" so the cost increase would be based on the number of techs in each line (for simplicity). So something like this:

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researchcost = 100 + 100 *
                    Count condition = And [
                        Or [
                               Tech HasTag name = "LITHIC_GROW"
                               Tech HasTag name = "ORGANIC_GROW"
                                 ect...]
                        OwnedBy empire = Source.Owner
                    ]

Mind you my coding skills aren't very good so I don't know if that would be right.

[labgnome]

So to focus on the big overhauls I am wanting to make to the tech tree I have started a new thread to focus more on those. I also have my mock-up for the changed growth branch there. This way if people want to continue the OR-gate discussion they can, and if they want to discuss my restructuring idea they can and we don't need to create confusion between the two ideas.

[LienRag]

The point was that buildings could provide a type of dependency that the tech tree didn't, primarily so that the tech tree itself could use just a single form of dependency (any vs. all). Having a particular building might be a requirement to use some aspect of some tech, which would require a player to either research that tech and produce the building, or capture the building from another empire and then be able to skip doing the extra research.

I know the discussion is quite old and I'm not sure what - if any - has been implemented of it, nor whether my opinion about this matters to anyone, but I really like this idea of buildings used as "requirements" for techs (like one cannot study advanced gravitonics before having a black hole generator) and as a consequence military conquest being a way to cut through the technology tree...