Good idea. Have the racial exclusive technology based on something like Construction or Ship Design (should it remain).
I'd also planned to curve the ships size for the Federation because the Soverign is considerably smaller than the Galaxy, yet it is more powerful because of the bioneural technology that the Feds have started using. I plan on linking the ship technology to the bioneural technology. There is essentially going to be two Versions of some Federation Tech. One Isolinear, and one Bioneural.
I was also planning on changing the troops to reflect an actual unit, and not a piece of machinery. I plan on changing the cockpit to something like "Personel", and adding a Logistics component as well to reflect their supplies, and HQ, and TO&E etc.
My basic method for making this game is to just play it, and make modifications as I see fit. The above idea for the troops came about this morning when I actually started to do Troop research and I realized that I wanted Fed marines not a Fed Large Troop.
I just want Fed & Empires without all the little cardboard pieces, and the 3 maps, ya know?
