Thanks for the pointing out some of the mistakes and things that are still to be added such as troops.
Now I’m planning a major redesign with many more common of tech areas.
I will make most standard SE4 technologies, except most weapon techs and other punctual techs, available to everyone. But make most those techs give everyone different items.
For example the current layout was giving standardSE4 the standard "Shields" technologies, starwars races one called "Deflector Shields", b5 races nothing, and startrek races some other (insert appropriate techno-babble name here) shielding technology.
Those tech areas would be only researchable by the specific races but tradable/stealable, by having an exclusive pre-requisite. (this format can still be suitable for some technologies that will not be common to most genres such as weapons, and there may still be some technologies that are so alien that cannot be traded)
My Last idea is making the standard "shields" technology available for everyone, but with each component having a second tech requirement, so researching the same tradable/analyzable tech "StandardSE4" will get standard and phased shields, trekkies their leaky shields (that due to their probably high regeneration should not be inferior to standard shields), starwars races their Version of shields, and B5ers probably nothing (they can probably want to research it for trades or perhaps we can find some auxiliary fancy component that can be somehow related to the concept of shields to place here).
IIRC this was suggested in the forums quoting something that happened in some star trek episode.
If say a trek race manages to capture a starwars ships with more advanced shields and analyzes it, they will get not a low Version of starwars shields, but a more advanced Version of their own "leaky" shields.
Can you help me fill in documents like
[this one] for other races to have most of the techs that will be needed.