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Originally posted by PvK:
Racial Technologies:
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* Most remain at 1500 points.

After the many discussions over the years, it seems to me that these are all fairly well balanced and rated at 1500 points. They can all seem too powerful or too expensive if one doesn't appreciate all of their abilities and counter-tactics.
PvK

I was thinking you might want to lower the costs of all the racial traits, and maybe just all traits globally. Since it will be much harder to scrape up "free" points by lowering the unimportant stats, you will effectively have less points to spend. Since you have less points, this means that trait costs will take up a bigger proportion of your available points.

For example, in the standard game, by lowering stuff like Strength, Farming, Repair you could generally eek out another 3000 points with little effect on your empire. So in a 2000 point game, you in effect have 5000 points to spend on stuff, and taking a 1500 point Racial Trait is very doable. However, if you take away those 3000 freebies, the relative costs of many of the Traits might be too high.

Just a thought...