Re: Another Approach to Research
Wingte:
Personally I like the Imperium Galactica II system where some races can't even use some of the tech that other races can research.
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But you get it in SE4 with the Advanced Traits... if you have the Cristallurgy tech, nobody else can use the Cristallurgy tech tree (at least that the other race have the Cristallurgy tech too).
For example, other race could take over one of yours ship with Cristallurgy weapons, and use this ship against you... but can not analyze the ship, and "learn" about the Cristallurgy tech (but you can do it with the others common techs).
Also, they can not stolen your Cristallurgy tech using the Intel options...
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Everything there seems to balance out,, but even in the easy mode there is no guarantee that any given race will be able to defeat any other race. =====================================
Pesonally, I have played the Imperium Galactica II Demo, and have decided to no purchase the game... I think that this game wanted to do so many things in a sole game, mixing RTS battles, RPG elements and 4x games.
I know that you're not saying that IG2 is a great game, ok?
But, in my opinion (not only my opinion), IG2 failed because currently is not possible to be so good like StarCraft, Homeworld and MOO2 (Se3) at the same time...
About the main IG2 races, I'm not impressed:
The Solarians: an eclectical race... average warriors, average traders, average diplomats, but good research.
Kra'hens: warriors... They can not use diplomacy, trading or spying (very boring!).
The Shinari: they are spies, traders and diplomats, but weak fighters. (in multiplayer games, I know a lot of people crying because the Shinari human player can destroy complete fleets with their spies...)
Finally, I think that IG2 have a limited tech tree, and really I never saw a real difference between the Solarian, Shinari and Kra'hens tech tree... I only can remember that you can purchase more advanced ships/vehicles, to the tradders that time in time go to your spaceports. But maybe it was only in the Demo... I don't know.
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