How to get Gateway Build Tech

[Taddl]

Can anyone who has gotten it tell me how to get it?

Do you only get the ability to build new ones by reactivating an existing one?

[al_x_ator2411]

According to the wiki you first get the reactivation tech and then the build tech.

But how does one get the 1st one is still unknown to me!
While I have gateways and no wormholes inside my borders, the wormhole stabilization tech has appeared in my list of offered techs but the gateways one has not.

Anyone has any experience with this?

[Azunai]

i got the gateway activation tech after owning a system with an inactive gateway for a long time. not really sure what triggered it. the tech is shown as a rare tech (purple). i think it was in the physics section.

i guess having a genius scientist or the curator scientist in the physics department will increase the chance.

you probably also still need a certain number of techs of the previous tiers researched before techs of the next higher tier can show up. don't really know - but at least it used to work like that in the old 3 tier system. the new system uses 5 tech tiers afaik and i guess gateway reactivation is probably tier 4?

gateway construction seems to be tier 5 tech. really expensive (20,000 research base cost) only just got it and still in the process of building my first gateway. seems like you can only build one gateway at any given time (ie. not possible to have multiple constructors building gates in multiple systems in parallel)

edit: i also reactivated the gateway that was in one of my systems, so can't say if it that was required for the gateway construction tech. reactivating it also automatically activated the other existing gateway across the galaxy. there were only those 2 gateways in the galaxy, can't say if the reactivation would also activate more than 1 other endpoint if there are more, but seems likely.

[UR|wRÅR]

I've got the reactivation tech without having a gateway in my empire (and so never reactivated one). I didn't get the creation tech yet.

[Omniconda]

wormholes tech is after hyperdrive 2
Gateway tech is after hyperdrive 3

unless you have 2 gates in your lands and your willing to pay to fix both your gonna have to wait for teh AI to fix gates in thier lands before its usful

[Snekly The Danger Noodle]

from what I have heard and seen the gateway tech will only potentially appear in your tech list once you have sent a ship to an ancient gateway
which is stupid because if if by some chance you somehow cant find a gateway by the time the AI gets the tech it becomes literally impossible to get the tech because active gateways don't count.

Like for example in my current game I was playing fanatic purrifiers and the only close gateway was in the one empire I was afraid to take on and I didn't bother getting it because I didn't know you needed to discover one.
and now every single gateway is active leaving me in a 1000 star galaxy fully into repeatable tech, but without the ability to build gateways to make traveling across my now huge empire a chore

[Azunai]

hmm ok. that sucks. the tech should also be unlockable by finding an active gateway. that would seem plausible.

if your scientists can figure out how those things work from having a glance at an inactive one, it should actually be much easier for them to figure that stuff out if they see a gate in action.

[Winger]

I got both the activation and building techs without discovering any gateways. I researched the building tech and it counts as a megastructure. Guessing it might be an alternate way to get the build gateway tech, by having voidborne and galactic wonders.

[Taddl]

As far as I have seen it now you can research both techs without having any gates yourself.

You also don’t need any ascension perks.