Question on civ advances

[IAmTacoSalad]

Hi there, sorry if this is a stupid question but I just dusted off my copy of civ 2 after all these years and wondered about something.

At the start I have about 10 advances I can research and I chose Bronze Working, then once I have discovered bronze working there are only about 4 or so choices for my next civ advance and I can't select pottery which I could before researching bronze working.

What's going on?

 

[Magic_gorter]

Welcome IAmTacoSalad to CFC

All techs are devided in three groups. The "0" group, the "1" group en the "2" group. The first time you can chose a tech you only can chose from 2 groups (e.g. group 0 and 1) and chose an available tech which is alphabeticly the highest. After the discovery of the chosen tech you can chose only from group 1 and 2 (and the highest alphabeticly tech). The next tech you can chose is from group 2 and 0 and then 0 and 1 and so on. In the great library on the apolyton site is a list of the techs and their groupnumber. I only don't know exactly where.

I hope you understand I little bit more how the tech chosing works.

 

[ElephantU]

If you look back at Apolyton for old threads from the Strategy forum you will find stuff about "tech hiding" - the 1/3 of techs that are not available for research each time you start a new tech. Tech Hiding is another one of the complications that the Civ designers throw our way to make life more interesting, such as Key Civs and Commodity Supply & Demand. If you want to play without it you need to save your game as a Scenario and reload.