Unable to buy technology

[avengerbg]

Game verson 10.0.43
Using real world mod, 13.21

There is 3 things, may be unrelated. First some tech are not listed in the list, despite the fact they are invented. Second some tech that are listed, have 0$ price, that can not be changed, clicking +/- and offer button do nothing. And 3th, technology is listed for buying, but there is no company listed from which to buy it

I have several subsidaries, one of them developing technology, it have the technology invented, but the second subsidary cant buy them for the 2 reasons above.
Im not sure if thats game or mod related tho. Didnt played without real world mod for a long time, but didnt remember such issues in the past.

EDIT: I can buy those non-listed technology with another subsidary, but for one i need them, they are not listed. Loading earlier savegame or restarting game dont help. It seems that this is somehow set at the moment subsidary is created.

[Stylesjl]

It might be that you need to buy tech instead of product tech. Some of the techs used for products would be under the Acquire Technology from Other Companies heading (such as 2G Communication).

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[avengerbg]

I'm well aware of that, the pproblem is, when you go on aquaire technology, it is not listed there, or the list of companies is empty on coresponding teritory. Or the price is set to 0 and can not be changed, therefore i cant make offer. So far this only happens with product tech. in general entire comunications category is not listed and most of the drug category have ether price set to 0 or list of companies is empty, even tho me and one of my subsidaries have all those technologies. I'm unable to buy them with second subsidary. On other hand with another subsidary of mine i can do that, just not with the partucular one i need to get them.

The solution i come up with is making a subsidary of that subisdary, buying the coresponding tech and then merging it. But that can get tiresome and mess with my statistics of R&D costs. Its not big deal, just inconviniant, but it is still a bug.

[beuher2000]

I got similar issues

- If I buy a (top) tech it stays in the list of buyable techs with no company listed
- Communication Devices is not in the talents list specialities so you can t research them

[David]

We will investigate the problem.

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[avengerbg]

As i stated in my first post im using Real World mod 13.21

As for the bug, it seems completly random...... I just create subsidary and it ether can or cant buy the technology (it is not listed, or company list is empter etc). Then i create another subsidary and it can buy it.....

i fcked up so i started new game, and so far it seems ok. Deleted old savegames so i cant send you one. But if that occue again i will do it.


BTW, is it possible to script your strating political party, like name and icon?

[anjali]

only time that available Product Tech was not listed in the aquire tech list was for me, when a subsidary suddenly gained tons of tech knowledge without doing any R&D (15 Product inventions on 1 day + every single Digital Tech on top without any ongoing R&D in any of those fields but not a single semi product knowledge so actually impossible)

else under regular circumstances, if you need semi product knowledge for the target product tech, you got to have them invented / to buy them in the first place before available tech is listed for you to buy. i.e. you want to buy the tech to produce cars ... but you dont have invented engine, car body, steel wheel & tyre and whatever else you need upfront on semi products ... the car tech is not listed until you got all those semi techs.

EDIT: I can buy those non-listed technology with another subsidary, but for one i need them, they are not listed. Loading earlier savegame or restarting game dont help. It seems that this is somehow set at the moment subsidary is created.

if thats the case then it must be the above mentioned semi product knowledge that is missing in the company that can not buy the technology / doesnt have it listed

[avengerbg]

only time that available Product Tech was not listed in the aquire tech list was for me, when a subsidary suddenly gained tons of tech knowledge without doing any R&D (15 Product inventions on 1 day + every single Digital Tech on top without any ongoing R&D in any of those fields but not a single semi product knowledge so actually impossible)

else under regular circumstances, if you need semi product knowledge for the target product tech, you got to have them invented / to buy them in the first place before available tech is listed for you to buy. i.e. you want to buy the tech to produce cars ... but you dont have invented engine, car body, steel wheel & tyre and whatever else you need upfront on semi products ... the car tech is not listed until you got all those semi techs.

EDIT: I can buy those non-listed technology with another subsidary, but for one i need them, they are not listed. Loading earlier savegame or restarting game dont help. It seems that this is somehow set at the moment subsidary is created.

if thats the case then it must be the above mentioned semi product knowledge that is missing in the company that can not buy the technology / doesnt have it listed

No that is NOT the case. The subsidary had ALL tech but leather, drugs, computer and communication categories, i could buy the leather, but communication was not listed. Some in drug category was listed, but list of target companies was empty and communications was entirely missing from the list...... Also all production scopes was enabled.... i have one subsidary inventing tech, the other one doing production, so the production one wasnt able to buy from research one. As work aorund, i created a subsidary under the production one, then i could buy the tech with it, merged it and started producing them, is i didnt had semi-producs, i would be able to do that, is it ?

[anjali]

dont really have much experience with subs and tech, as most of the time i just transfer the R&D center to the parent a few days before R&D finished to save me the hassle of buying tech from my subs, or if its a small product class i let the sub invent everything then merge it in and create a new sub with another ceo for the next product class. as i said i only had that once on a sub newly created that this sub had after about 1 year this sudden massive invention out of the blue which would have taken em with that 1 R&D center several hundred years, and thoseno company could buy from this Sub. it it might have to do something with the digital age stuff as all those techs invented been top electronic/computer/communication techs and products which need digital age tech. as without a mod disabling all tech, you get every product knowledge you need at the start of the game to roll out internet and computers even a script with 100% re-invention will give you all those techs from the start but in my games nothing is invented at all on start

[avengerbg]

dont really have much experience with subs and tech, as most of the time i just transfer the R&D center to the parent a few days before R&D finished to save me the hassle of buying tech from my subs, or if its a small product class i let the sub invent everything then merge it in and create a new sub with another ceo for the next product class. as i said i only had that once on a sub newly created that this sub had after about 1 year this sudden massive invention out of the blue which would have taken em with that 1 R&D center several hundred years, and thoseno company could buy from this Sub. it it might have to do something with the digital age stuff as all those techs invented been top electronic/computer/communication techs and products which need digital age tech. as without a mod disabling all tech, you get every product knowledge you need at the start of the game to roll out internet and computers even a script with 100% re-invention will give you all those techs from the start but in my games nothing is invented at all on start

I also play with technology disruption, so i have to keep inventing, to keep the tech level up. You metod wont work for me, since i dont just invent them once and stop, i'm keeping research running all the time. Setting up new subsidadary and setting up all r&d every single year of the game is tiresome to say the least..... Also playing with Real World Mod, there is over 500 different products to research. As for the use of subsidaries, i use it to separate different task to different subsidary, i have one that is focused on retail, other in production, one in estate, one in farming etc..... Not that i cant do all of this just in my company, but using subsidaries, make it more clear how the things are going.