0014318: You should be able to buy a technology from a friendly species

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0014318	The Last Federation	Suggestion		Apr 20, 2014 11:54 pm	Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm

Reporter	GC13	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.001 (Bugfixes, Large Screen Resolution Support)
Fixed in Version	1.002 (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)

Summary	0014318: You should be able to buy a technology from a friendly species
Description	Right now the only way to get a technology that a friend knows without researching it yourself is to either raid them for it, or ask them to give it to someone else—who you then raid. Rather than force players to jump through hoops, make it simply possible to ask for the tech yourself. This might not be in because of the ability to then go give that tech to everyone else for influence, but the option to make the species gift the tech on their own should already be desirable because it improves relations between the races. At the very least, allow the player to buy "use-only" versions of the tech. The client species gives them enough know-how to use it, but not enough to teach others how to.
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Internal Weight	New

Raide Apr 21, 2014 10:26 am reporter ~0036352	I'm in strong support to enable this. Right now, if you a race that like you has a tech that you lack, you CAN obtain them, but you have to go through a roundabout method which is inconvenient and annoying: raid for tech or ask them to share tech with race that hate you, and then you raid them. I'd rather have the straightforward option to spend credit to buy those tech, at the amount equivalent of asking them to share said tech with an ally.

Chris_McElligottPark Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm administrator ~0036388	Thanks! * Now you can research techs with races even when they already know it. This is something we viewed as superior to being able to buy it from them, as determining credit worths of them would be extremely tricky and would really penalize you in the late game. So, instead: If a race already knows a tech but you do not, the time to research it with them is thirded. However, you gain no credits or influence with them for taking this action, unlike if they are learning it too.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Apr 20, 2014 11:54 pm	GC13	New Issue
Apr 21, 2014 1:12 am	GC13	Relationship added	related to 0014080
Apr 21, 2014 10:26 am	Raide	Note Added: 0036352
Apr 21, 2014 11:06 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> keith.lamothe
Apr 21, 2014 11:06 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => assigned
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Internal Weight	=> New
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0036388
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	assigned => resolved
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 1.002 (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed
Apr 21, 2014 8:31 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	keith.lamothe => Chris_McElligottPark