trading techs (n00b ques)

[Blitz_1]

When you trade away one of your technologies, do you lose it yourself? Will you have to research it again?

 

[kamosa]

Nope, you can trade the same tech to every culture in the game, and still have a copy yourself.

Resources are a different story. When you trade them (and you only trade one to a culture, not all your extra), you have the total available for your use reduced by one. So, don't trade away your last strategic resource.

 

[shirleyrocks]

It's an 'exchange' of knowledge as opposed to a 'trade' of knowledge, I suppose. Anyway, you retain your knowledge of the technology you traded.

 

[shirleyrocks]

Originally posted by kamosa
So, don't trade away your last strategic resource.

I don't believe that's actually possible to do, is it? If you have n sources of something, the most you would be able to trade is n-1...ensuring that you always have access to that resource. At least, I think that's the case. Math is hard.

 

[kamosa]

You can trade away all your extra resources and have your last source deplete This happened to me at a key moment in a space race last night. I think you can trade away your last resource, it's just almost never benificial.


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