Tech Idea

@rockrobinoff:

@johnmk:

If the rule is set up as suggested in the first post, then I think I’d hesitate to buy tech. I’ll wait for somebody else to make all the sacrifice.

There is the advantage in getting to use it straight away. Also, some techs are more useful to some powers.

I agree with Johnmk.  Why don’t you just put different price tags on each tech and any country can buy them at any time?
I also think Lozmoid has a good idea with his historically accurate tech.  I’ve thought about this before, as well.  I think it would be a good idea if the price of each tech depended on which country you have.  Example: Radar costs 5 for UK, but 25 for Germany.  Heavy bombers cost 25 for USA, but 40 for Italy (normally precluding Italy from ever getting them)  To me, this makes more sense than any power being able to copy tech for the same price (original power had to take the chance, wait the time, sink the money in…)

@rockrobinoff:

Well, you could have a game like that. There lots of plausible ways of adjusting A&A. The way I have suggested maintains the ‘unknown’ element with all the risk assessment/ cost benefit analysis type reasoning (a huge part of A&A type thinking - for those who think LL is silly anyway).

My way is not necessarily better than your suggestion or an improvement on the original system, though I have provided reason why it might be, and i think it an original enough suggestion as well.

OK, sure.  My suggestion might not even be any good.  It was just off the top of my head.  Thanks for getting our creative juices flowing, and facilitating our brainstorming.

Okay, here’s what I’ve come up with so far. This chart is for the Rockets tech. I have attached a picture I made; let me know if it doesn’t work or you can’t see it.


It could be that these figures are way off and I’d really appreciate your input here in order to get them more historically accurate!  :-)

Thanks rockrobinoff - no I can’t see it either, for some reason.

I followed the guidelines in the help section re posting pictures, but I don’t think it has worked. Does anybody know how to do this? The file is a drawing I did on paint, saved as a .bmp file. Does it have to be a .jpg file?

Any help would be much appreciated!  :-)

Thanks again rockrobinoff.

I have no way of posting the pic on the net (and that’s a shame) but the stats I wanted to present to you all are:

Rockets:
Germany 7
Soviet Union 6
Japan 4
United Kingdom 5
Italy 3
United States 5

So, by spending 5 IPCs per turn, Germany can have the Rockets tech by turn 3.

Like I said, it could be that these figures are way off and I’d really appreciate your input to get them more historically accurate.