Tech Stagnation Anyone?

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Before I ramble too much on this, it's worth asking: Is it possible to slow the research rate across the board?

Slower research rates would mean longer games, more wars that drag on forever, and an increased importance on trade vs. research. As a Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri fan, I've long enjoyed the ability to change the shape of that game by choosing 'tech stag', at the beginning. Frankly, I'm rather surprised it's not a part of this game yet. I would suggest a rate 1/3 to 1/8th as fast as current, or possibly a slider-type scale to choose at the beginning.

So, anyone have an answer or suggestion?

-Smack
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
You can set your science rate at whatever you want, just as a tradeoff between military, science and social production.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
GalCiv Writer has a function "Adjust Research Cost For All Techs" that you can use. It won't find the techs in your mods folder, though.

~SDC~
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
GM, you miss the point...

PJ, ah, so it's quite easy then? O.K. Stardock, put this as an initial game choice!

-Smack
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm currently working on a mod that achieves much the same thing by simply adding a lot more techs. So far, it seems to make research richer and more interesting, as well as spreading out the key advances.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I think that if a tech stagnation is ever implemented, some anomalies need to be removed from the game: the one that give you 25% of the research cost of a technology
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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I think that if a tech stagnation is ever implemented, some anomalies need to be removed from the game: the one that give you 25% of the research cost of a technology
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Well, that's one of the advantages of doing it my way... with almost 400 techs (so far), getting a boost to any one in particular is less of a problem.

I did end up making a bunch of changes to anomalies as well though, one of which was nerfing that one slightly to 20%.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
400 techs!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!
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Doing that many techs is the easy part... the hard part is trying to get the AI to stop researching the old ones... :p