Tech trading too extreme now?

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Granted that it was too easy in the vanilla game, but I think it's gone too far in the opposite direction. I'm playing a Super Isolationist custom race and before I could trade Barren Worlds for Aquatic or Toxic plus several other techs and some cash. It would stand to reason that a reasonable trade would be a straight swap, but I can't even do that now. I tried trading my tech plus a few others for one of their colonization techs and they just weren't interested. I even tried trading my colony tech for a minor tech but there was no interest.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's appearently that. I play the terrans, with really good diplomatic abilities and the Diplomatic Translator but now I have to give a lot more stuff for the really cheap techs. Mabe they are just smarter now that they don't think they need your tech. Like the AI now is really reluctant to give you their top weapon tech. As soon they researched a better weapon they will be much more willing to give it to you. So now they can kind of like judge the importance of the techs and what they don't want you to have.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea, trading is a bit too difficult now. They'll get it nailed in the next update.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't know...

It's DEFINITELY more challenging -- but with some diplo wonders/goods -- you can still make good deals, especially with the lower diplo AIs. I have found that the AI holds onto the colonization techs like grim death - but they'll still deal (almost) everything else. I think it's a matter of knowing what you can get the AI will all but give you: research, industrial, defensive, and econ techs -- which they absolutely won't: colonization, planetary invasion, initial/final weapon type techs -- and which are pricey: mid level weapons in a group.

I find now that on Obscene/Suicidal - I can no longer run the table as the most advanced race -- BUT I can still stay relatively even.

I might be wrong - but it seems the AI doesn't trade with other AIs as much anymore either... I use this to my advantage by being the 'trade broker' -- i.e., all trades go through me. With the 'dead period' between trades - it does mean trades need to be better timed... no more trading the first time we meet- I wait until I can trade with 3-4-5-etc races in a single turn.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Quite simply- the tech trade AI has been completely broken the whole time. It needs to be entirely reworked. Hate sounding so dramatic, but the AI-AI and AI-Human games are playing under completely different rules.

At least it can be disabled
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Th eonly reason I hate disabling tech trading is because I can't give the AI Alliances so I can end the game diplomatically when it's pretty much foregone that I could win if I spent the time on it.