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With 5% probability for losing the tech you could probably just repeat the process as many times as you wish and the receiver would probably get the tech with few tries anyway. The penalty should be symmetric like 50% 50% to be really effective. With 50%/5% it would still be printing free money. The...

The tech trading tricks voiding the upkeep issues mostly apply only to longturn type of games anyway. On a shortturn game with few minute turns there is simply no time for the players to reliably fix all the issues every turn.

I don't believe it's only about scoring system. If you want to do well in the game, you need techs and tech trading is a effective way of getting them for free. By free I mean without actual bulb cost. Without tech trading, everyone wanting to get tech A costing 100 bulbs, needs to spend 100 bulbs (...

On longturn.org no tech trade became popular after too many very good players teamed up, shared the techs and quickly became too advanced for the smaller alliances. This is the short version. Also, the tech upkeep didn't seem to be that good solution because on an alliance the other players could in...