I think some form of takeover of tech teams is necessary. It's historical - victorious nations did take blueprints, and recruited researchers, either voluntarily, or not so. I recall Werner von Braun sending Americans on the Moon, and Hugo Shmeisser dying in USSR. If I knew history better there would be many others examples, I think.
But it also isn’t so easy. Tech teams represent, I think, not only particular researchers or research institutes. Also we must consider an ability to work on high tech on all levels – workers in factories, engineers, all people, who would implement and use new tech – if they are able to. We also must consider qualified cadres to work with leading researchers, as they rarely worked alone. And if they did, they was stimulated by their intellectual environment. It can be called overall technological culture of the society.
So I think, that yes – technological stance of the country after annexing another country should improve – but not just by taking any tech team they got. It should improve a little.
It’s also important, that capturing all enemy tech teams spoils fun a lot. I didn’t chose Poland for instance to have best tech teams of the world, but I want to see some improvement also, little progress as I see with IC.
I personally solved that problem by editing the save file. Every time I annex the nation I randomly choose one tech team of that nation. It gives great fun – will I get good tech team? Will I get tech team I need? It gives a point for annexation – sometimes players delay it for the purpose of lowering consumer goods demand. And still my tech research is done mainly by my own tech teams.
But I want to implement it as an overall mechanism for all nations
And here comes the question – do you see a possibility of implementing that as an event? I guess the trigger would be “inherit” command, but how to give to a country random tech team from another country? Or must I work with exe – which I don’t know how?
But it also isn’t so easy. Tech teams represent, I think, not only particular researchers or research institutes. Also we must consider an ability to work on high tech on all levels – workers in factories, engineers, all people, who would implement and use new tech – if they are able to. We also must consider qualified cadres to work with leading researchers, as they rarely worked alone. And if they did, they was stimulated by their intellectual environment. It can be called overall technological culture of the society.
So I think, that yes – technological stance of the country after annexing another country should improve – but not just by taking any tech team they got. It should improve a little.
It’s also important, that capturing all enemy tech teams spoils fun a lot. I didn’t chose Poland for instance to have best tech teams of the world, but I want to see some improvement also, little progress as I see with IC.
I personally solved that problem by editing the save file. Every time I annex the nation I randomly choose one tech team of that nation. It gives great fun – will I get good tech team? Will I get tech team I need? It gives a point for annexation – sometimes players delay it for the purpose of lowering consumer goods demand. And still my tech research is done mainly by my own tech teams.
But I want to implement it as an overall mechanism for all nations
And here comes the question – do you see a possibility of implementing that as an event? I guess the trigger would be “inherit” command, but how to give to a country random tech team from another country? Or must I work with exe – which I don’t know how?
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