[Yimboli]

The fact that you can simply take the hits on refining and organic harvesting to get back the 1000 means nothing. I think you're focusing on the small picture. While the psychic tech is kinda free, you still must consider that you are expending 1000 racial points to get the psychic tech no matter what. If you and I are playing in a game, let's assume you'll use the 1000 for psychic tech and get it right back by taking hits on refining and organics. It's definitely a plus for you as long as you don't look at the big picture. I can just as easily take hits on refining and organics, and use the 1000 elsewhere, which may or may not benefit me more than psychic tech. You're still trading 1000 points for psychic tech. I can't emphasize that enough. It's great that you're getting those points back by reducing refining and organics, but everyone has that option so it's not an advantage. And if you hadn't chosen psychic tech you'd have 1000 more racial points.

No matter which way you look at it, you are trading 1000 racial points for psychic tech at the most basic and undebatable level.

Since you said oppurtunity cost didn't make sense, as an aside I'll mention that this is what Fyron's referring to as oppurtunity cost (he payed attention in economics) - if you had not chosen psychic tech you'd still have 1000 racial points to distribute, so the oppurtunity cost of psychic tech is 1000 racial points. That's the definition of oppurtunity cost. If you get those points back some other way it's superfluous.

If you still don't understand oppurtunity cost check it out on wikipedia.

If you think the psychic tech is free, you're kinda right. This fact does not, however, create an advantage over other players and also does not *necessarily* make the psychic direct fire weapon better than the meson blaster. Those points could potentially be spent elsewhere that might outweigh the benefits of psychic tech. I think that's everyone's point here (at least those that argue with you) - there's still options to explore so the case isn't closed yet.

Cheers!