SE IV Gold: Starting tech levels? Yes or No?

[Suicide Junkie]

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I believe this could be done in theory. But I am sure that it would be a terrible amount of work: You would have to make a new modification for each race and every new game where you wanted a different set of starting tech levels. And always all your old empire files would be out of use! Absolutely not practicable.

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Or, you could create a racial trait for "Starts with Fighter tech Level 2", just like my nomads in P&N.
Repeat for all the different techs, and after a ton of work, you never have to do it again: just pick different racial traits rather than different mods.
This would be easiest on the short tech trees, and hard but possible for even the "prerequisite techs".