3 preqs, is it even possible?

[CSL]

Would it be possible to make a tech have 3 possible prequisites?
I'd like to do this for future projects, i know i'd have to alter alot of code, and it's only a brainstorm right now but any info would be helpful.

P.S Has anyone ever tried?

 

[duke o' york]

The only thing I can think of - not that I know anything about this - would be to assign different beaker values to the techs if this is possible. It would therefore be possible to have have:
Writing at 50 beakers,
Marker Pens at 50 beakers, and
Sanitation at 50 beakers.
You make a tech to which writing and marker pens are the prerequisites with a value of 1 beaker and name it _ or something. Then the tech Restroom Graffiti has both _ and Sanitation as prerequisites and a value of 80 beakers.
This is not really a way to give a tech three prereqs, but is a possible way round it. Unfortunately, it is all supposition as I don't know whether or not you can vary tech beaker levels like this so you may have to play with that boundary around FT 160 where it goes back to base level again.
The trouble with this method, aside from all the conjecture about how the tech system works, is that you will have to click OK when the AI tells you you have researched _. I'm sure someone will have a better solution than this though.

 

[techumseh]

Originally posted by CSL
Would it be possible to make a tech have 3 possible prequisites?
I'd like to do this for future projects, i know i'd have to alter alot of code, and it's only a brainstorm right now but any info would be helpful.

No. But you could use the third prereq as a prereq for the first two.