I get every super tech on each playthrough by the mid 2080's and theres nothing left to fight for...

[FPC]

Title says it all. I get every super tech on each playthrough by the mid 2080's and theres nothing left to fight for...is there a way to disable these?

[FDru]

Are you playing on a small galaxy? It seems to be random where you find them, and they will be harder to come by on a bigger map.

I don't think there's a way to disable them but I'm not 100% sure on that...

[FPC]

Largest galaxy size. I steal every empires maps whenever I meet them, and always start the game/build up asap to 40 scouts and 30 construction ships. I set all but one scout to auto explore, and set one scout to explore new systems. I can usually see the entire map and have it 98% green by 2900. Ive been finding most or all of the supertech's by the early to mid 2800's. It sort of ruins the game. Ive yet to have a playthrough where I needed to actually research more than the early game tiers of major techs. And I skip the part of the game where other empires can actually hurt me :( Even a frigate is essentially a God. This is not very entertaining. >_>

I dont want them but I cant just ignore them, since the AI can eventually get them too I assume...

2850 and my battleships are like, 250K battle strength each. -_- I have tech for planet killers already too. Bit silly. Meanwhile, the AI is in the dark ages. I feel like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, zipping in with a wormhole drive and essentially invulnerable ships against peasants with rocks.

[erithtotl]

Why are the supertechs so easy to research? There's no way they should be cheaper than 5th tier stuff. Maybe if they limited so each empire could only discover 1 super tech.

Research in general is just broken. It's so much easier to steal tech than research it, even if you take a research focused faction. To me its probably the most broken thing, game balance wise.

[FPC]

Originally posted by erithtotl:

Why are the supertechs so easy to research? There's no way they should be cheaper than 5th tier stuff. Maybe if they limited so each empire could only discover 1 super tech.

Research in general is just broken. It's so much easier to steal tech than research it, even if you take a research focused faction. To me its probably the most broken thing, game balance wise.

Agree tbh. Between espionage and research, I can mostly stop worrying about anything covered by a supertech and ignore it from the start of mid-game onward, since the super techs let you skip the tech tree. They should require the tech tree to research vs "skipping"; should prob cost more than 50K each to research. Should be godawful slow. And should only be *a bit* better than the next highest tier. Its just OP.

Like, I was starting to get my race's unique "good" engines and half way down that tech tree and then poof. Oh hey. Super engines. Nevermind.