Terran Alliance and Tech Trade Off

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I would like to know your experience playing s Terrans and Tech Trade Off.
I had always played with tech trade off in GC2 but now i'm afraid to play with this feature turned off considering that Terrans have Super Diplomat ability.
I would like to know if playing with Tech Trade Off with Terran Alliance you have found them a lot nerfed or Super Diplomat ability isn't nerfed at all (you can ally easier, get Economic and Research Treaties easier)
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The effect of AI tech trading has been dramatically reduced with the addition of the contact limits, so you should be able to play with tech trading on without having to worry about the AIs having all the same techs.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, but with Tech Trade on the AI will maybe retort you to give them some techs. It always happens to me (even in Civ IV), but maybe it is cause I don't build much warships, I prefer the peaceful way of spreading my Greater Good (sometimes with force).

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well I dont know about it playing with Tech trading off. I dont know what race has the weather controller but I will trade dang near anthing for the 3 more tiles it gives you on any planet you build it on. Then again I prefer to guild the lily when developing my plants.

Duh
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I dont know what race has the weather controller


Arceans have it in TA.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Tech trading is one of the most important aspects of the game. Maybe that is because I usually play as Terrans, butI get most of my techs by trade.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

To my experience TechTrade is the best way to make money, and maybe even to win the game....

I usually invest 80% of my income on the technology research. The one´s who don´t present danger to me I sell, always the same technology to all other races in just one step of play... so they won´t  sell my technologies to each others (and make my bucks...) and I repeat this race-by-race until the other races have given me all their money.

From the money I upgrade planets, buy ships etc. while they can´t do big steps without having money....

I repeat this next time I be able to speak with them again, always careful not to trade anything of the yellow-technology branch so that their trading abilities won´t rise up to mine...

The advantage of this is really big, and I´ve never played a game in which to Ai was so smart as to somehow counterattack this strategy.

The crux is that when I offer a technology the Ai will always buy, even when it´s a technology that the Ai doesn´t have use for. I think that should be changed. The Ai should try to determine if an offered technology is more useful than the money he´ll like to pay for it.... until now this determination is always "Yes", and this is his error in thinking.

 

The only way this won´t work is when a game is played in which I am into battle right-from-the-start with all other races involved, then their wil to invest some money will only result in a few bucks.... but in a huge galaxy size game there are usually always some non-hostile races to me...