Talk:Technology (Age of Mythology)/@comment-31031245-20170604200929/@comment-31614236-20170605192957

By Techtree Major god boni are an unresearchable technology which you pick before the game starts. Speaking in AoE2-terms the civilization you pick might be Greek, but the Major God would be a technology. Thus the major god bonus is a technology of some sort.

Going further into the concept of unresearchable technologies Relics are also part of the tech tree and work just the same way. While it is not researched and can be removed and reaquired, a relic is still an accumulative technology providing a bonus just as every other technology does, and also is written into the techtree file just in the same way as other technologies are.

God Powers are a bit trickier, but when you go that path Prosperity, Eclipse and Rain are also applying effects onto your units just as technologies. And if while on eclipse you click onto a myth unit, it shows you the eclipse-technology-icon and the boni it grants. Further in the scenario editor you can set such 'technologies' to be 'active' just like you can with regular ones.

Now compared to other games, technology does not mean that it requires to be researchable. Some can be gained by e.g. solving quests additionally or exclusively.

I believe there is a difference between a technology and a researchable technology, while you account for the non-researchable ones as bonus, maybe following the term of the team bonus from AoE2.

The concept of a technology for me is not that you have to research it to gain it, like paying resources, but that you have to choose to gain it. Which would for me be the difference to a random bonus given as reward or something.

I dont want to spend half a day on that anymore, so occasionally I'll try to complete the tables piece by piece.

The last part, 4. common techs and the one after that, was there before I started working on that mess. They might be a nice lookup to not forget anything, but with the data in tables I wouldn't consider them part of the article anymore.