Is there a way to stop the trading of techs

[Unconquered]

I figure this might be a way to slow down the tech race

[alva]

You can slow it down in the editor;

1. make them more expensive
2. make them more expensive to trade(AI to AI)

don't know if you can stop tech trade though

[Spiffor]

In my mod, I made a very potent way to slower tech race : writing doesn't allow to trade communications (radio does). Also, Navigation enables map-trading, and Mapmaking doesn't.
This way, most Civs will know only a few others until late medieval, which will slow down the tech race. These modifications can be made in the editor, when editing rules, in the "Advances" tab. Just uncheck the boxes.

Also, you can lower the AI to AI trade rate (in the "difficulty" tab) : the lowest it is, the least eager AI civs are to trade with each other.

[Sean]

Good advice Spiffor,
Still I would just like to switch the AI tech trading off...