Race specific Techs

[TheVampire100]

Okay, this crossed my mind multiple times. Yes I know that as player every race you play uses the same tech for some lore reason. The differences in race are their unqiue skills and their spefic atmosphere/temperature favour.

I would however still like it if some end-game tech would be added for specific races. Just because it's fun to be unique and to give you a better reason to choose other races.
There shouldn't be many race oriented techs, maybe 3-5 or even less. They should add some flavour to the game when you unlock them and gove you access to some uniqur buildings that only this race can build.
Unfortunately I cannot think of any examples right now but I'm pretty sure other people could make up some ideas.

What do you think on general of this idea? Good, bad?

[Captain Jack]

That's what social progress is supposed to be for. Races get unique SP options sprinkled amongst the shared ones. Playing too much with the Zenith to say what they are.

Rather than unique techs, every race could have a free HISTORY tech that explains some of their remembered history and their initial bonuses, in the vein of GalCiv 2.

If we want to go ahead with "making the races distinct through the tech tree", an extra line of techs representing recovered knowledge would be my suggestion, just as expansion content.

[crazyroosterman]

well I think this would kind of defeat the point of making the ai completely different to you and as vampire said social perks already do a good job of that for example the peltians can make you super rich if you build lots of crop output combined with bounty and the farmers market.(although I think it would be neat to be able to play player races like they are when there ai with all the unlike buildings I think  them not doing that is a time and budget reason partly....I think? not sure)

[x4000]

Two notes:

1. Yep, social progress is where your unique techs are.  And even more than that, on the SP section there are a ton of things that are for just groups of races rather than one.

2. Each race gets three "free" techs in the tech tree, which is confusing right now but present: http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=16376