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I am a small nation right now, I have a few techs, I sell them to the world and I profit, then I buy or trade techs and make more money by the same means.

I am literally supporting my whole nation by techs.

I was thinking to combat something like this, instead of giving a nation research straight away, you still have to research it yourself, but its much faster, because you already have the designs, so it be like a modifier that improves research.

Or simply don't do it.

seriously I am making sooo much money, the higher the cost of a tech I buy, the more money I can make.

Muhahah :O im so dirty rich, im playing as a small nation and at -66million



MY GDP is like 30,000, and I only got 600,000 citizens, and one water plant for my "industry"

having a economy is pointless, when I can just resale techs and make more money xD

I hope cold war is not going to be like this xD

this really feels like a exploit to me xD.

Im now like 20,000 in money and I play as the solomon islands.

is there any main reason not to sell tech? and do you sell tech and designs when you are playing?my enjoyment has dropped quite a lot since I been doing this, since the economy just feels obsolete :( do you do this when you play as a super power like Russia or china? is selling tech and designs a regular thing?

I hope they add some changes in cold war, since the AI should look after their techs, and i think that getting tech should be something that a spy can do, and you buy "tech designs" which spreads your research up for the design.

if possible make it so that only people with a higher diplomatic with others will trade tech with each other, since realistically, I can buy research easily because money is so easy to make, money is not an issue anymore and would russia and usa would not sell each other tech.

I doubt for any price, the USA would sell north korea, tech for nuclear weapons and stuff.

The way I think this should be fixed is to make so if you trade that you purchased from somone else to anouther country, You loose relations with the country you purchased it from. IE If you buy a tech from the US. then trade that tech to South Africa, you loose relations with the US. This measure is probly the best for gameplay, but not sure how easy it would be to put in.

Anouther solution would be to make it so any tech that you trade to anouther country, Any countries that already have that tech you loose relations from. IE If I buy tech 1 from country A, Then trade tech 1 to country B. what ever countries have already researched tech 1 I would loose relations with all of them. This measure is a bit harsh. and would probly be the least popular.

And finanaly probly the easiest thing todo is make it so you cannot trade techs that you purchase from anouther country. Maybe even make this part of the trade feature, IE if I buy tech 1 from country A, I can stipulate if I want to buy the tech outright (making it tradeable) or buy the tech for myself (making it non tradable). Obviously if I wanted it tradeable the tech would cost me allot more.

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The only thing that can limit you is yourself. If your enjoyment level drops when you trade designs and techs, then dont trade designs and techs.



Its not exploit but since the AI doesnt do the same thing it does make it feel like one.

Wow, Serious inflation

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I choose to not sell tech when I play in most games. Your brain is better than any ai, as Eldin typed earler, decide to not do it, problem solved.

Inflation ingame does not mean the same as inflation in the realworld. Infact they should change the ingame word "Inflation" and change it to "Economic gain percentage". And it would be more acurate of what inflation represents ingame.

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its kinda hard :/ not to use it, when you play as a tiny nation, it took me 3 days of constant gameplay just to get one airborne xD then i found out about techs and it speed up the process so much, i now got a few, and i used one airborne to capture the small islands around me.

i bought the sea king design from UK with tech money and now im making helo's to fly and pick up my airbone, im at war with a few other small islands now, like new Zealand, Indonesia and the one next to solomon islands, 2 of them declared war on me, and ive been kicked out of UN, but i needed to do it to expand my population lol.

do you think they could create a quick option to disable tech trading?

is the system going to be the same in cold war? will i just be able to "invest my tech" and sell it to everyone?

Also ruges I like your idea about the relations thing, but how exactly would this work? would every single faction hate me who has the tech? or just enemies of the person i traded with? also i used a great amount of money to buy alliance with Australia and UK and then i started my wars and they are outraged with me, but we still have alliance treaty o.0?

also i was reading that you could, make a nation declare war on you, by making a line of sight, then just putting your spies in there, which creates tensions.
if this still happens, i think the AI needs to break treaties with the person, so i far i seen no AI break treaties at all with me.

You mean GDP growth?

I rarely sell techs. I often trade techs for techs, but I like to roleplay and I don't trade with countries I don't like, countries I want to invade soon, countries that are at war with my allies or countries that are interfering in what I regard as my sphere of influence.

When I play this game I'm not looking for exploits or easy ways to beat the AI. Doing so would reduce my fun. I try to roleplay a bit, and behave more or less the way a real nation would behave.