Different technology_price_multiplier per force

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Different technology_price_multiplier per force

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I remember having two different tech prices for my friend and me but cannot find the command and it seems game.forces doesn't have technology_price_multiplier command. Can someone help out, or is my brain playing games, and it's not possible?

It could be super useful for creating matches where several people build separate bases, and tech price can be related to their experience, so more experienced players have to build a bigger bases/pollute more.
Primarily a vanilla player. Enjoy extreme rail world death worlds with biter expansion and a 10x+ tech price. Do not feel much fun after the tech tree is fully researched.
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Re: Different technology_price_multiplier per force

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Far as I know DifficultySettings are only part of LUAGame, which means it's shared by everyone. You could approximate such a thing by setting one of the forces productivity bonus so their research becomes cheaper comparatively. It doesn't work perfectly (since bonuses are additive, if they both put prod modules in their labs the cost ratio changes between them) but it's pretty close.

Note that since you can't set negative productivity you'd have to use the research multiplier game setting to make it higher for everyone, then give a prod bonus to the teams that should be normal/cheaper.
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Re: Different technology_price_multiplier per force

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Silari wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:15 pm You could approximate such a thing by setting one of the forces productivity bonus so their research becomes cheaper comparatively.
Never thought about it. Clever workaround. Thank you!
Primarily a vanilla player. Enjoy extreme rail world death worlds with biter expansion and a 10x+ tech price. Do not feel much fun after the tech tree is fully researched.
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