Sell Science

[GandalfTheGrey]

how and where you can sell science to multiple civs?

 

[Yeti]

Once you have contact with another civ, open your foreign advisor screen (F4) and double click any of the civs shown there. Then propose a deal and offer technology.

 

[Arn de Gothia]

Ask them what tehy would give in exchange for the technology. Once when i was palying as the persians, and i was far more advanced than the other civs, i sold some tech to the americans for 30 gold a turn for each. That gave me a lot of profit, and the technologies where so old that it was ridiculous.

 

[Buecephalus]

I've heard of people getting outrageous sums for tech, I haven't experienced this, but the last game I played I was receiving 275 gold per turn from various civs. Of course this only lasts 20 turns and if you rely on money coming in from other civs you need to be aware of the inherent limitation (i.e. a time limit) of this strategy. The advantage is, with that much gold coming in per turn you can usually crank your research up pretty high, but it has drawbacks. (I was getting new tech every 3 turns, had 275 coming in from other civs and was still losing 7 gold per turn.) So you have to balance how badly you need new tech with how much you can afford to spend. Hope that wasn't confusing.

 

[jc011]

Yes, this is a strategy, sell your techs for lets say 20 per turn to various civs, you will end up making lots of money. THen you can boost your science to 90 or 100%. In one game, my science was at 100% and i was recieving I think 400 gold per turn from other civs.

 

[mrlobber]

Ok, I'm still playing my first Regent game on a Huge map with 13 other civs. According to some strategy tips discussed previously in these forums, I started to sell every tech to every civ I had contact with already from the ancient times. Now I'm in Modern Ages already and NEVER have had a tax rate higher than 10 percent... I've managed to sell Superconductor to 2 civs for 130 gold per turn, so my turn income from other civs is approximately 2000 gold per turn and I'm bying a lot of improvements (actually, I already have bought them all and now I'm trying to accumulate an enormous cash for war purposes). Everytime a civ has developed a tech I don't have, I buy it from them for almost every price they demand (up to even 4000 gold as a lump sum) and then sell it again at once to other civs for prices that in total usually exceed the initial one. The only tech I didn't sell at once so far was Synthetic Fibers so that I could form a reasonable force of Modern Armors before AI's civs. But as soon as I discovered that Persians also have developed that tech, I again sold it to all other civs and made a solid profit. As soon as the complete research will be completed I'm planning to take some steps towards the conquest victory... and hope that some 60 Modern Armors will be a reasonable argument in favor on these intentions...

 

[Fierro1816]

You hav to be a gentleman once you follow this tactic, because if you go to war with one of your bussiness partners you loose that cash flow (and hav to deal with war weariness, troops moving in and out and all)...

It´s not determinant, but it´s very important to mantain good relations with all the civs if you want to keep pomping out new tech...

 

[robinm]

Aztecs seem to be in the mood to buy their tech off me. Sold motorized transport for 4000 gold !
Every 5 turns or so I head back to them and sell then their next advance for silly money. Science is at 80 % and I'm maxed at 1 tech every 4 turns.