Custom Races and Techs

[The Singularious]

Okay, what am I missing? When I go to create a custom race, it gives me a ton of options for techs from other races, but none of them "stick", when I browse through them. Is it not possible to custom select starting techs?

And even then, the interface is doing weird stuff. Sometimes, if I select a tech and then another option tab, when I go back, there are additonal techs added that I didn't select.

What's happening here?

TIA

[spacealf]

You need techs to have other techs, so you only have so many points to select techs, and usually I just select human and the techs they start out with. Other alien races, are the same way I guess with some of them.

As far as I know if you select a tech too far up the tree of techs, then anyway when you get to the game you have to go through the techs you needed first before getting to that advanced tech, if you can even select it at all. In other words you have so many points, and so many starting techs, then you select a tree of techs - like human to follow during the game.

You can only select so many with the points.

[The Singularious]

Thanks, spacealf.

I think my assumption was that I could "mix and match" techs across different races.

It appears that's not the case, unless I'm missing something...

[spacealf]

Nope, can not mix and match techs across different races that I know of. You have to pick a tree of techs - say Humans, or Altarians, or whatever.

Some aliens have different techs I think you can not even choose. And some are about the same as Humans or whatever. I only made one Custom Race, and even with that, Humans get one more move per ship in the early game than I get with my Custom Race. But I have been using them, and keeping Humans out of the game.

Still trying things out though and not playing one of the alien races in the game.

And I would have to play Altarians first for awhile before picking their tech tree. And maybe some others alien races probably first to know what they are about.

[trueman56]

It would be helpful if there was a pdf file or something that listed each race tech tree. Developing custom races would be easier if this existed. I saw a site that said it had this, but when I went there I got error 404 does not exist.

[spacealf]

Over at GalCivII forum there was someone who created such a file as a download (mod perhaps) for the game. I don't know if it is still up to download but I check there.

http://forums.galciv2.com/

And if you did look there in Modding and did not find anything, then I guess the only other place you could check is the Wiki or whatever it is for the game, and if not there I guess not then.