[Evil Rich]

I'm up for another game, but I'm bored to tears with tech trading. If the option is enabled then it seems like a no-brainer to trade everything with everyone as quickly as possible.

This is a) tedious, I'm fed up with writing endless emails asking if x wants to trade y for w.
and b) you miss out on several features of the game. Like fighting wars with low tech ships, and having three different colonization phases in the game.