Trading techs

I've just started playing TA after years of happy GC and GC2 gaming, but I'm getting confused on a couple of parts with the new non-generic tech trees.

I'm playing a custom race that uses the Yor tech tree (i.e. most techs are only really useful for cybernetic races). If I want to trade my techs with other races, will they want them? Can I use any of the techs I get from other races, or do they have to be part of my tech tree to be used?

Also, when I started trading in my most recent game, I was trading techs with the Thalans, and noticed that one of their techs, Planetary Adaptation, had an asterisk next to it. What does that mean?

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Asterisk seems to be tech that aren't actually available to your tech tree - but as near as I can tell, if you can get them to trade them, you can use them, and sometimes those are quite good - but right click on them to see what it actually does - just having it doesn't give you *any* access to their tech tree past that tech, and I seem to recall at least one tech they would trade to you that was just a stepping stone to another tech of their's, itself inaccessible to you.

I have also noticed that spies can sometimes get technologies that don't seem to even *be* available for trade - sometimes you can make a killing that way if it happens to dovetail well with your tech tree.

Hope this helps - Jonnan

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Brilliant, cheers.

While we are on the subject of spies, how do I get spies to gather intelligence so I can start to steal techs? I can place agents on other planets, and the manual says I should be able to add agents to gather intelligence in the same tab, but I don't have the option. Am I doing something wrong? Do I ned a certain number of agents or a particular tech?

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It's OK, just sussed it out

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