I'm starting to really enjoy the game just now, after several weeks of "training" and all seems great, but i've noticed a trading-related thing that risk to unbalance the gaming experience, making it too easy.... a kind of "legal exploit".
That's the thing: with almost ALL regions you can make some cash, and adding it with 1-2 technologies allows you initially to acquire the WHOLE world knowledge, and later to do A LOT of money, in this way: you can trade 2 researched techs + some money for a single, cheap tech from a friendly country; then anoter little amount of money + the 2 original, and new acquired tech for another cheap tech from another country; then the two original techs and the two traded ones for another new tech (no more need of money) with a third country.... and so on, until you become without many problems the world tech leading country (I've done it with Somalia). Then you can trade with a rich region ALL your previously traded techs for billions $.
I think that we can simply avoid to use this "exploit". if we consider it in that way. But I think that there is a better solution, not just to avoid to be tempted to use it, but in general, to make the thing more realistic: trading techs "blueprints" instead of the real tech, that can help you in the research lowering the time needed to acquire a new tech.... but YOU have to do the research.
I hope that I expressed myself clearly, I'm curious to know what do you think about that.
