Was something changed in regards to stealing techs when conquering?

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1.05071, I'm at war with the Torians, they have one tech that I don't have: Dreadnought.

I have now conquered, I believe, 8 systems so far and have failed to steal it.

Now, either I'm being exceptionally unlucky, or something was tweaked to either make stealing tech in general less likely or some techs just not stealable at all.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I noticed this too, but always when the enemy had ONLY ONE tech left ...

I try to trade the AI for all the cheap techs before invading, so I only steal the high value techs (like battleships, dreadnaughts, rangers, etc.) ...

anyways, I find that whenever the AI has only one tech left, its hard to steal it.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I do believe something has been tweaked, and it
is in regards to specific techs not last tech.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
You're extremely unlucky.

I just stole a couple my last game. And both times it was when they had only one tech I didn't. But maybe it's harder to steal key techs like Dreads?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I experienced the same thing, when Battleship/Dread was the ONLY tech left, but I stole Battleship from Maso AI my last game. He had 5 techs that time. Later, when he was down to 1 tech (Organic Piecing), I got that my second try.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, let me be more specific.

Stealng dreads, rangers, avatars and overlord techs
appear to be neigh on impossible now.

Battleships is still pretty normal.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I stole Overlord tech from the Torians yesterday on Masochistic, so it's definitely not impossible. Perhaps I just got very lucky though.

It wasn't their last tech, they had one or two other techs that I didn't.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I think that's the recurring pattern--don't make Overlord the only tech when you invade.