Is Omniscience tech non-tradeable to AI?

[dmd175]

I have a game where I set myself up as Malakim to slay Auric Ascended (large, living world, locked modifiable assets, put in 3 Illians, increasing difficulty, etc).

Since turn ~400, waiting for the seriously terrible AI to catch up in tech, I have been gifting Illians tech to progress toward Ascension (Omniscience).

Here, on turn 499 second (purple) Auric has the techs (commune with nature and either strength of will/pass through the ether) to be able to research Omniscience.

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But even waiting turns (now 503) to allow trading of techs after getting the prerequisites, I cannot trade it to him - just doesn't appear for trade.

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Is there a reason you cannot trade this tech? I don't think there is another prerequisite, since he 'can research' it (and in fact on turn 503 just started to, at a 93 turn pace).

(Since I have on 'locked modifiable assets', I can't see if one of the Aurics is building the Draw).

 

[Tholal]

In answer to the question posed in your subject line. Yes, Omniscience is flagged as non-tradeable in the XML file. (the <bTrade> tag is set to 0)

 

[Qgqqqqq]

Id gift all techs to him to try and get him to research it.

 

[Kiech]

Or enter worldbuilder and just give him the tech.

 

[dmd175]

In answer to the question posed in your subject line. Yes, Omniscience is flagged as non-tradeable in the XML file. (the <bTrade> tag is set to 0)

Thanks for reviewing the XML.

I wonder why the designers made that tech non-tradeable.

Or enter worldbuilder and just give him the tech.

This is the downside of playing with 'locked modifiable assets'. Once I learned about WB it was too tempting to leave on, so I disabled it.

Anyway, I did give him all the techs, but it would take him 93 turns. So I've given him 1500+ gpt and now it's down to about a dozen.

/waiting for ascension...