Author Topic: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?  (Read 2725 times)

Offline nas1m

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Or are there other prerequisites I have to meet?
They have the tech I want, that's for sure.
But the respective hostile act is not available to me (even though the advisor lists them as one race that I could steal the tech from...) :-\.
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2014, 03:36:30 pm »
Do you have enough credit to do the action? There was one time I wasn't able to steal tech from a race I thought I could, but I figured maybe it was because I was too low on credit for that action to show up.

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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2014, 03:42:46 pm »
Andors and Thoraxians don't have informants, so you can't steal from them, no.  I'll need to update the text to show that.  Thanks!
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2014, 03:57:36 pm »
If that's the case how can we get tech off these races?

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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2014, 03:59:19 pm »
If that's the case how can we get tech off these races?
Only by researching it with them as a sponsor, I would presume...
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2014, 04:01:44 pm »
Right.  So if they already have it, you can't get it from them at all.  Queenie does not share...
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2014, 04:02:44 pm »
I used to like the Andors now I'm not so sure.

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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2014, 04:04:21 pm »
Ha!  ;) 

All the races have their pros and cons, and there are specifically certain types of activities that are forbidden with each one.  It makes them much more unique, I think.
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2014, 04:07:16 pm »
Just paint a nice moon-sized bullseye on the Andor homeworld.

Maybe there'll be some tech you can steal floating around with the debris?
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2014, 04:10:40 pm »
The Andors are pretty easy to get along with. Don't worry, there's always the Evucks to steal from.

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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2014, 04:14:46 pm »
BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  :-\...
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2014, 04:20:10 pm »
BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  :-\...
You don't have to: security goons protect all your outposts simultaneously.

They're dumb, but they're fast.
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2014, 04:22:34 pm »
BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  :-\...
You don't have to: security goons protect all your outposts simultaneously.

They're dumb, but they're fast.
Then they are too dumb to do their job! I got 20 security goons and a single science outpost captured from the Arcutians and it has a defense level of zero :-\. Currently I am holding on to this little gem by manually fending off attackers again and again ;D...
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2014, 04:24:10 pm »
They're there, and they're fighting.  They're just not shown in the power thing, since they're not really armadas like the stuff that's shown there.  We're improving their display in 0.902 :)
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Re: Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2014, 04:28:18 pm »
They're there, and they're fighting.  They're just not shown in the power thing, since they're not really armadas like the stuff that's shown there.  We're improving their display in 0.902 :)
Ah, okay. I will take your word for this ;)...
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