Why are some tech tree items disabled?

[Adeptus Lebowski]

Will i never be able to research them in the rest of the game?

[DA_Kimika]

I don't know of any technologies that are 'disabled' They are locked untill you researched enough techs in the level below then one they are in. But not disabled.

[Adeptus Lebowski]

greyed out and disabled for me, strange

[Yarr]

There are certain techs that exclude you from others. They are always in the same tier and next to one-another and shown by a special link on the tech tree.

example is the titanium and hyperium weapons - you have to choose one, can't research both.

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Originally posted by Yarr:

There are certain techs that exclude you from others. They are always in the same tier and next to one-another and shown by a special link on the tech tree.

example is the titanium and hyperium weapons - you have to choose one, can't research both.

And that is the correct answer. If two techs are linked then you have to chose one or another, thus specializing your empire. I perosnally hate this as lose flexibility in ship design

[Adeptus Lebowski]

ahh, makes sense now, i mean i saw the link line but never thought of it like that haha. Took me about 2 days to figure out this game having played nothing like it before apart from Settlers. Glad i took the time as it is very satifying to play, but i am still learning.

Thanks for help guys

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Originally posted by Lebowski:

ahh, makes sense now, i mean i saw the link line but never thought of it like that haha. Took me about 2 days to figure out this game having played nothing like it before apart from Settlers. Glad i took the time as it is very satifying to play, but i am still learning.

Thanks for help guys

100+ hours into the game youll likely still be learning stuff, theres a lot of depth to the game.

[Adeptus Lebowski]

I bet :)

Only problems i had so far is that i wanted to change to 3k tickets in config file as well as chnage the happiness lvls but maybe 600 tickets is enough. I have only got to 170tickets so far, after restarting 3-4 times cause i made mistakes haha.

[kazjun]

You can get the other tech by trading it from someone else. Research one, then wait for some other race to research the other, then call a diplomat and trade for it. You can get both this way.