[wingte]

SE does have a form of "racial" modifiers but they don't seem to have any impact on the amount or type of recearch any race has access to. These "modifiers" may effect how fast you can research but rarly how much.


Master of Orion and Imperium Galactica do it by setting different racial" characterists in effect creating a sort of "need driven slant" to the areas of research based on the "physical and mental characteristics" of the "race". IG II goes even farther by making some races completely unable to research some tech areas. They can only get that tech by stealing or buying it from some other race and even then they may find that they cannot even use the technology once they have it.
IE,, a militaristic race does better in weapons,, where as a race with a high natural reproduction rate does better on science that allows larger planetary population and/or terraforming and a race that values knowledge for its own sake finds itself physically disadvantaged because of its dependence on technology. In most cases having a higher "need" in one area results in less emphasis/ability in another area because of less "need". Like a "crystaline" race that is immune to polution and disease but has an inate understanding of "solid state computing devices". It excels at making computers and does well at robotics. I am sure any of you that have played Master of Orion will agree that on first glance the the Silioids look like a loser race, -50% reproduction, -20% in all research except computers, and unable to use any diplomacy since they are a "repulsive race" with very poor spying abilities,, but,, playing against them makes even the "easy" game setting very challenging since they can populate any planet right from the game start and even though they have a slow birth rate,, they still get equivalent or superior production and research capacitiy to every race because they have no need to expend any resources on polution control or food production. This advantage deminishes in direct proportion to the ability of the opposing races to increase their population and reduce polution and increase food production ,, the 3 research/resource areas the Silicoids never have any "need" to worry about.



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Wingte