Just bought the game recently, and have always enjoyed 4x games "MOO, MOOII, Stars" come to mind.
However I do find that SEIV a bit more challenging in the sense that I can't seem to steal Shard Tech or any other special techs by intelligence. Is it a restriction coded in the game or is there a special way to go about it.
Another thing is that how come when you have conquered another empire, the empire's special skills are all lost even though it's race is still available albeit subjugated to my empire
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