technology trade

**Prah** · January 03, 2011, 02:52 PM

in the campaign map preview the diplomacy screen is shown and it looks like it wont be possible to trade technologies or "arts" anymore, like it was in ntw and etw.
no one talked about this yet, so what do you think about this? (even though it might be included later)

i think its better this way, in etw and ntw it was way to easy to buy technologies

**MoleMania** · January 03, 2011, 03:02 PM

True, I'd rather not have it included. It was waaaay too easy to gather a crap load of technologies from everyone else and use them to bail out of wars and other problems. While on the subject, are there any mods for empire or napoleon that do just that? I don't think I have the will power to just leave that button alone lol.

**totalwar-zone** · January 03, 2011, 03:04 PM

Easy to buy Technologies? Sometimes the AI wont be trade one technology for 6 from myne technics and 50000 gold or something other...

I think its the same in Shogun 2 like in Empire.

**Irish guy** · January 03, 2011, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by totalwar-zone

Easy to buy Technologies? Sometimes the AI wont be trade one technology for 6 from myne technics and 50000 gold or something other...

I think its the same in Shogun 2 like in Empire.

I could never trade tech either.

**Prah** · January 03, 2011, 03:28 PM

it depends on campaign difficulty i guess, i play on normal because i dont want to fight every battle myself, and i dont want to lose every autoresolved battle.

**Maizel** · January 03, 2011, 04:12 PM

With the trade nodes in E/N:TW iot was so easy to get tech. After a few turns you'll be pulling well over 20K from those. AI is very willing to part with it's secrets for a 100K.

**Prof** · January 03, 2011, 04:19 PM

Also they always give me tech for declaring war on some minor factions...

**Sol Invictus** · January 03, 2011, 05:22 PM

I won't miss the Tech trading.

**The Vengur** · January 03, 2011, 05:45 PM

the japanese clans were a lot more protective and would never have traded away a possible advantage to any possible enemy

**Ba'alzamon** · January 03, 2011, 06:10 PM

My Japanese knowledge is a not the good. I'm curious; were all of the Japanese clans p***ed off at each other all the time? Or were there some alliances.

**empr guy** · January 03, 2011, 06:42 PM

well, in ETW i would get random demands for several economic/enlightenment techs, all the money i had, and a small, unprofitable, unimportant, useless province near a wasteland in exhange for something like wedge formation. so i guess it will be one less the AI can harrase the player with.

**Basileos Leandros I** · January 03, 2011, 06:58 PM

What technology would there be to be traded anyway? It's just muskets and Christianity. Muskets, yeah. Trading Christianity...well, you tell me how to trade that.

**Ba'alzamon** · January 03, 2011, 06:59 PM

You could trade Christianity in the form of differently experienced Priests and the traits and Ancillaries they carry. Quite easy to implement quite honestly

**empr guy** · January 03, 2011, 07:04 PM

people usually dont like being traded.

**Ba'alzamon** · January 03, 2011, 08:10 PM

People usually do not care when it's only a video game. Derr

**Darth_Revan** · January 03, 2011, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by le vengur

the japanese clans were a lot more protective and would never have traded away a possible advantage to any possible enemy

**Toshiba** · January 04, 2011, 06:30 AM

You can't trade people, how bout languages? They'll have to go to school for a while to learn their new language if applicable, could that be easily implemented in the game? Oh I forgot, all of Japan spoke Japanese but what were the major religions in Japan?

**snuggans** · January 04, 2011, 07:27 AM

Shinto & Buddhism

**Ba'alzamon** · January 04, 2011, 09:15 AM

You could trade people rather easily in the form of missionaries. Train up a missionary in one part and you could offer him and his wealth of knowledge to another clan. Don't tell me a Christian missionary would not want to go to another clan to help spread his beliefs.