tech sharing

[unmerged(11034)]

in many mp games i played i found out that allies are heavy tech sharing with russia, having russian land tech almost as high as germans. With the amount of manpower russia has, it can build ridicules amounts of infantry. making russia invincible, i hope tech sharing can be ristricted to countries that are in the same alliance, and not every week.

 

[Mr.Bigglesworth]

Does anyone have any novel tech sharing rules that seem to be fair?

 

[unmerged(5553)]

I don't know about novel but...

In one group I just joined, they allow unlimited within an alliance, and a total of 12 to other nations per year.

In the group that I am already part of, we limit tech shares to one per quarter per player.

 

[danoh]

I've seen several systems for tech sharing that involve points or quotas on the number of techs allowed. However I it would be simplest to make the cost of tech sharing a discounted function of the original cost in time and ics. Maybe make shared techs cost 2/3 of the original tech in time and ics. Thus a 10 IC, 150 day tech would cost 6.6 ics and 100 days to share. This cost would both limit the overall number of techs shared, and discourage say Germany from sharing minor techs like "Improved Vehicle Radios" with Spain. In addition, if you could only share one tech at a time, this would mean yearly 2-4 techs would be shared, and the Allies/Germany would find it impossible to make Russia/Italy respectively technologically equal by 1939.

Besides realism, the principle advantage of this method would be it uses our existing tech system, rather than having to introduce a new one.

 

[unmerged(12303)]

We play no tech trading with human players (only computer within the same alliance), but I think making it 1 per month or quarter would be more interesting and realistic (i.e with human players).

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[unmerged(11526)]

i hope they will remove that option " TECH SHARE "

 

[Diefledermas]

Hmm, seems the problem with tech sharing may be its "too cheap" to do.

I've been thinking about this over the week and I think the solution is in modification of the game mechanics.

What about getting Paradox to have "tech share" cost the sharing country IP's? Maybe 1/10th of the original cost as well as 1 month's time? In the least, the recieving country should have to fork up some IP/time to represent the knowledge transfer

OR

How is this for a Tech House Rule (and I hate house rules)

share one tech per month per country?