[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Well, maybe you should add techs that only give other techs, or redundant techs, which may go on for quite a while (but not too long); there's always the research path that leads to no results at all. Those might be nice, especially for games where the objective is to reach all tech levels; you need to get through research that actually doesn't yield any results in order to win.

Or crossover techs; so that when you have Torpedo Weapons lvl 6 and Computers lvl 4, for example, you get AI-controlled Smart Torpedoes, or when you have Military Technology lvl 2 and Political Studies lvl 3, you get Government Training Academies and all that, and so on.

Also, racial crossover techs; to take an existing example from a mod I don't remember, a race with Crystallurgy and Organic Manipulation can build Biocrystal Armor, that channels damage to the shields and repairs itself. This is just an example; there's loads more potential racial crossovers out there, so I'm sure you'll find some to your liking.

Maybe different techs that lead to (essentially) the same result? So that you have two Destroyer hulls, for instance, exactly the same except for the fact that one requires Ship Construction lvl 6 and the other Warship Construction lvl 2. Or "upgradable" hulls; say, you research Warship Construction lvl 2, and you get to build Destroyers; but, as soon as you research EW Ships lvl 3, you get a Destroyer hull which is slightly more expensive but has built-in combat modifiers. Or you research Deep Space Warship Deployment lvl 2, and you get a Destroyer with built-in supply storage. When you have all three, you get a Destroyer with combat bonuses (though not as much as the dedicated hull) and supply storage (though not as much as the dedicated hull)..... but that's straying into the realm of crossover techs, so let's not go into that any further.

Grid techs; i.e. you have an Ion Engine I, and you can research different types of upgrades; Miniaturization lvl 1 gives you an Ion Engine I which takes up 28kT instead of 30kT (trust me, you'll notice the difference once your Mini tech - or your hull size - increases), or you can research Efficient Engines, which gives you an Ion Engine I with 95 supply consumption per move, instead of 100. If you have both these techs, you have an Ion Engine I which is 28kT in size and uses 95 supplies; add in, say, Fuel-Injection Systems, and it can store more supplies; and so on. Grid Techs are somewhat reminiscent of crossover techs, but are more involved. If you want to try Grid Techs, I'd say try SJ's Tech Gridder. I've never used it myself, but I've heard that it's good.

I'm rambling again. Good luck trying to make sense of this jumbled mess.