Question About Civilization Ability

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I've been wondering about one of the abilities you can pick when creating a new civilization. It's called "Creativity". The description says that it gives your civilization a greater chance of making "groundbreaking discoveries". What exactly are these discoveries? :notsure: Can anyone tell me what this means?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I do believe it means that the extreme morality level needed for the Good and Evil unique technologies is lowered to an extent.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Oh, I see, they didn't have enough space to call it Postmodern Moral Relativism?

ba-dum bum ...
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Creativity improves the chances of the 'Unknown' anomaly type giving you a research boost. (The boost is equal to 25% of the full cost of the technology you are currently researching.)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Creativity improves the chances of the 'Unknown' anomaly type giving you a research boost.
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I doubt that, actually. Look at the .anomaly file. There are two different research anomalies: one that gives a 25% bonus to research and the "phenomenal advancements" message, and another one that gives a 0% bonus and the "waste of time" message. I would bet that the game decides which one it is when the anomaly is generated and doesn't care which race collects it or what their stats are.

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
From scanning early posts on the subject of "creativity", my understanding is that it increases the chance of you suddenly completing a research project ahead of schedule. It more like a random event than anything else.