[Windborne]

I think the current system is better, it gives everyone an equal starting point, and lets us have special racial technologies like temporal or psychic. However I will say that the developers haven't done a good follow-up on the initial promise of the system. There should be way more individual tech trees by now. Modders have made a few, I've heard rumors of an energy tech tree, a quantum mechanics tech tree, and even a mystic tech tree. But I'm waiting for the game publishers to start work on some official trees, and AI's to use them effectively!