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Does a private technology count as a researched technology for level requirements and triggers?

The designer or publisher addressed this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • onetrueking · Designer · 2026-03-19
  • msaari · Community · 2022-04-11
  • RGG_Ken · Publisher · 2020-12-17
  • turtler7 · Designer · 2022-03-30
  • DrumPhil · Community · 2022-03-30disagrees

Yes. A private technology still counts as researched: the publisher confirmed it for Luyten's Star's Level III requirement, the designer counts it toward level-based effects that do not exclude it, and he ruled that gaining one counts as researching for Nishida-Ostergaard's trigger.

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