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View Poll Results: Should be adopt a policy of tech theft?
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Yes! More sciences NOW!
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Uh, no. It's uncool and will raise our beaker requirements.
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Banana and/or further sage thoughts (see my post).
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August 21, 2003, 08:14
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Tech theft?
Shall we adopt a policy of using Diplomats for tech theft in order to upgrade the flow of sciences to our civ? Obviously, this would impact build orders in our border cities...
Depending on the techs available, this could either aid or impede our drive toward Democracy.
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August 21, 2003, 08:43
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Depends on what we can get. To get to Conscription, yes. To get to Fundy even, yes. Beyond that circumstances change (more money, hopefully). But the key is to only steal where we know there is a chance of getting one of the key techs we want. If we have the option of getting Sanitation or Amphibious Warfare - no.
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August 21, 2003, 11:23
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We definately want to try to steal anything that we are researching. And we might want to be prepared to steal our way out of a situation where we are only offerred old or useless techs to research.
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August 21, 2003, 11:57
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Yes, steal unless the civs start to get useless technologies. At this point, we have so many useful techs that this should not really be a concern.
Another benefit of Democracy is that one civ could build the Statue of Liberty, which we can capture ourselves. 
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August 21, 2003, 12:13
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30 shields for a tech is mighty cheap.
Steal everything we can 
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August 21, 2003, 22:48
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I've been in and out of this forum so I can't say I'm totally up to speed. Do we have embassies yet? If not, I think we should hold off stealing tech. If we have an embassy and we know what they have to steal, then yes.
But there's no point in attempting a theft hoping for Demo or Gunpowder and coming up with something useless (when the desired techs aren't even possessed by the other Civ). Or worse, finding nothing and leaving a diplomat exposed to retaliation.
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August 22, 2003, 08:42
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So what's the BFD? Just send 2 dips...
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August 22, 2003, 08:48
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or 4 dips 
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August 22, 2003, 10:03
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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
So what's the BFD? Just send 2 dips...
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Absolutely, find out what they have first via an embassy. And make sure we can reach enough cities to steal the tech we want (if they have 4 techs, we need 4 cities within reach).
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