Good AI's Researching Evil Techs

Perhaps creativity? I believe this affects the ability to get either morality based techs sooner, or perhaps in this game, the opposite ones entirely.

Are you certain one of the minor civs doesn't/didn't have it, and when they overthrew them, they got it?

Perhaps luck combined with creativity combined with a takeover of a minor world.. yeeaa.. that's it! LOL


fleabitfox

I have eyeballed on the espionage screen Dregs researching Mind Terror Weapons even when the same screen states their alignment as Saintly.

Reported it as a bug sometime back.

Unless creativity received an undocumented boost somewhere in the last couple of patches you can pretty much rule it out in these cases. I've played an entire game with it and gotten one tech, so the odds of an AI getting several -and- having them be wrongly aligned is just too slim to be worth serious consideration.

I thought the last patch worked on this issue, are you using the latest patch?

I should qualify that my experience was with an earlier patch. Could be fixed now as Vorlin mentioned.

I did state in my first post that I am using 1.02 (No internet connection on my comp at home) Perhaps this issue has been addressed in 1.03.

I had a pure good (100) alignment and I went to war with a minor race. When I conquered one of their systems (using the standard warfare tactic) I recieved control of the system and was given a message saying that a raid captured key research documents that would be in my scientists hands by the end of the day. The next turn, I recieved Thought Police (an Evil Only tech). My alignment was still 100. Perhaps this is how the computer gets them as well. Also, they can trade for them, as I did. AT 100 alignment, I got the entire group of "evil-only" technology. I was even able to build things like the secret police improvement in my colonies.

I'll check this out, but were there any evil civs earlier who were wiped out by the time that you saw that the good civs had them?