large amount of money

Flight · February 15, 2002, 22:53

I'm not sure if this is particularly strange, but its strange for me...

I was playing along, 5 techs behind the leaders, rushing for scientific method and hoping for the best. I got scientific method and had to build it early as someone built universal sufferage and i had to switch before i wanted to (noone else had SM).

So i went to see how much it would cost to grab all the techs i was behind on, to come out in the lead in 1 turn.

I ended up with all 5 techs and 20 gold from the russians for SM, 50 odd gpt from the english and the same from rome.

I then sold steel for similarly huge amounts, going to 70gpt to england and 50ish to russia and rome

Now that should slow down their research a little bit...
Maybe its due to the 'more aggressive' tech trading post patch?

Anyone else get absurdly large amounts of money or other goods for 1 or 2 techs?

DrFell · February 15, 2002, 23:01

I don't usually go so far but I have had 30 gpt + 300 gold, world maps, and a lux (silks) just for chemistry I think, but that may be because I'd just crushed that civ in a war.

DaXX · February 16, 2002, 00:10

the most recent patch removed an absolute injustice which allowed the A.I. to trade tech's during *YOUR* turn, so right after you traded a tech away they got a chance to trade with a few others. this was an absolute crock and thievery in my humble opinion. thank god it was removed and we can get the most out of trading now....

DrFell · February 16, 2002, 00:12

Yeah that was very annoying, I think patch 1.16 put it in actually.

Hagbart · February 16, 2002, 08:13

This is happening because of all those complaints about tha AIs trading techs during the player's turn (which is now removed from the game). I dont really know if its good or bad

Flight · February 16, 2002, 09:05

i realise that but before the patch i used to be able to trade a tech a couple or more times before they'd all suddenly have it and i'd never got quite that much gold out of 1 tech before