I propose an option that would allow us to buy or sell partial tech to and from the AI players.
In a nutshell...
I have 500 tech in shoes
The AI offers to buy up to tech 250 for x amount
In this case, I would be willing to sell it to them if the money was fair since I'm not selling them my full tech knowledge of shoes, you might say that I'm selling them tech to produce shoe laces when my total shoe tech is 500 and they are willing to buy up to 250.
When I want to buy tech from the AI players, I should be able to choose up to what amount (level) of the tech I want to purchase from them and for how much money I will pay for it.
So likewise, if an AI player has tech level 250 for DVD players
I might want to offer them 10,000,000 to buy up to tech level 150 which they should be more willing to sell me since I'm not buying full tech level that would put me on the same tech level as them.
Vote above,
Yes - you'd like to see something like this implemented or
No - not a good idea, do not implement.
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The reason for this is that basically I will Not sell my tech to the AI players unless they offer me crazy mad money, which they won't do, but I WOULD be willing to sell them some of my tech knowledge for a nice price since that could make me a little money back on what I'd spent on the R&D but still allow me to maintain my lead in that products tech level.
So, the way that I see it, I'd rather have some involvement in the whole buying and selling of tech rather than like it is now where I won't sell the AI any of my tech level since they don't offer nearly enough cash to satisfy me and apparently we're at a stale mate since when I do the reverse and offer an AI player aprox the same amount of cash for the same level of tech of a different product they are reluctant to sell it to me. So, we could either scrap the whole buying/ selling of tech or we could make it better and be useful in some way.