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Originally posted by General Hawkwing:
You also lose any ability to use special technology from racial traits. I can understand not allowing more research in the field, but to not allow the use of already discovered/used tech is not believable. "No commander we can not create any more shard cannons for the fleet, we forgot how!" You can not even modify a former enemy ship and keep the special comps. (If you wanted to upgrade engines for example).
But it comes back to game balance.
yep, while all these things would be really great - they just cant be done. I came up with a evil idea of having ally races with different tech types. one could build a hull with crystal armor and shard cannons, or whatever. then give it to their friend who could upgrade it with engines and shields. this probably should not be done, so the conqured race thing must be omitted as well.