Future Techs

[Agent 89]

This is probably a stupid question but here it goes. What are future techs for? Do they do anything? I'm playing a game where I just finished researching the last tech on the tech tree and reasearch automatically switched to Future techs. I normally don't get this far in my games so I have no idea what they are.

 

[EvilConqueror]

I think researching future techs may add to your final score but they don't do anything beyond that. You won't get any new units, buildings, wonders, etc. from them. When you finish researching the first future tech, you start researching future tech 2, then future tech 3, and so on. You never get anywhere with them.

I would cut off research and focus on building up your gold supply if you haven't done so already. Having gold for upgrades and rushes is usually more important that researching those techs.

 

[Spoonwood]

Future techs *very slightly* improve your score, and no more.

 

[Agent 89]

Thanks. I guess I'll stop reasearching them since I'm already far ahead in score.

 

[TheOverseer714]

You'd get much more score boost by raising your lux slider to 50% and shutting science off, and still rake in big bucks.

 

[MGS]

I usually leave 10% for science so i can get a few points for that, but lux gets most of the money

 

[Brucha]

You'd get much more score boost by raising your lux slider to 50% and shutting science off, and still rake in big bucks.

I second that - I never bother researching furture techs normally. With your science slider off, you can really boost your lux scale to the extreme. Then you get amazing WLTKD each turn!