surrendered races ships

It's always worked this way. In your example, if you changed to another ship, you'd lose the Battle Cruiser option until you researched it yourself.

The way I've always looked at it is that you are simply maintaining the staff and facilities that the conquered race built. By selecting a different ship to build (one that your civ has researched), you are effectively tearing down or re-tooling the factory and merging it into your own military infrastructure.

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I think they should change it so you are guaranteed to receive the any technoledgy a race is actually producing at the time that race surrenders to you. So if they surrender and are producing battlecruisers, you should receive that tech as part of the surrender. Seems silly to control another race and have them suddenly have a fit of amnesia about the techs they were using.

I was about to disagree with you, but I think I agree. I mean, the reason they're surrendering is because they can't buy peace with any tech and wotnot they have.

Maybe it's too big a bonus to get ALL their techs, but then again, you have captured all their scientists, and all that sort of stuff would be documented (probably in a locked cabinet with "CLASSIFIED" written on it to point out exactly where you should be looking). Perhaps it could halve your research time for the captured techs to reflect that you still have to sort through the doco and talk to their scientists before you'll understand it, but you have those resources, so you're not researching from scratch.

when you successfully invade an enemy's starsystems if he has more tech than you, you can sometimes steal tech (it's a random draw from what's he has that you don't). it also happens the same to you if your enemy invades successfully one of your systems


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Kavok, I like the idea of putting in a morality question there, though your evil option is probably a little too beneficial. But in general, the more things that affect your evilness, the better.

Also, the effect of each morale option could depend on why they surrendered to you - like if you were brutally destroying all their worlds, their people are going to hate you, so you'd probably only get a beneficial result by torturing/coercing info out of them (evil), whereas if you'd culturally outdone them, they love your civ, so giving their scientists a lifetime supply of pizza and coke (good) might be the most beneficial choice.