Of the advanced traits, only Hardy Industrialists really sucks. We need something else, like the ability to build ships on ANY planet, without a spaceyard facility, or something else really unique to replace this one. It's so much easier and more effective to just choose additional points of Construction Aptitude that Hardy Industrialists is useless.
The other non-technology racial traits are all pretty much worth 1000 points, and even if they aren't they can be adjusted to be worth 1000 points.
Make the 'Propulsion Experts' trait give a +2 movement for example. Now it's a really nice advantage from the early game. As long as you don't fall behind in propulsion research you'll always be the fastest race around -- other than another Propulsion Expert race.
I think all of the racial technology trees are quite valuable, and of these the one you gave the highest value, Religious, is probably the least! It takes a long time for Religious facilities to give substantial benefits. And it takes a long time to get to the Talisman unless you short a lot of other necessary research. You have to take the 'long view' with a Deeply Religious race. Organic and Temporal give nasty weapons very quickly. Crystalline gives some very powerful defense advantages, and Psychic provides the 'system wide' training facilities that make training actually work for an AI, and eventually gives the very powerful Allegience Subverter. These are all valuable fairly quickly. I would not reduce the value of any of them.
I have to agree that Emotionless is too expensive at 3000 or even 2000, but making it less than 1500 or so turns it into a 'bonus' instead of a cost due to the ability to reduce your happiness levels to minimum.
[ July 24, 2002, 03:44: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]