[Q]

IMHO the temporal space yards and the special racial technologies are quite well balanced. If you take one of this special racial technologies you spend not only quite a few racial points but you must invest many research points to get this technology. So in the early games races with special technologies are rather weak compared to races that spent their racial and research points on standard technologies. Only in the later game the special technologies pay off, if the race survives to that point. In a crowded galaxy this may indeed be not the case. And in my experience races that have two special racial technologies are doomed in a game with low starting tech levels due to this factor.

[ 26 December 2001: Message edited by: Q ]