Yeah that could be a good idea ethier that or just reintroduce them into the new factory branches eg the Yor could get 1 mining enhancement per collective tech.

Or they could just give each race a seperate mining module tech branch entirely.

Not possible currently with the way the XML tech requirements work... you'd have to make an entirely new chain of modules for each of the Yor, Iconians, and the Drengin/Korath, but then you would be able to build all these new modules and the old ones (for a total of 4x whatever the current max Mining percentage is, at least for the Yor (since collective techs aren't tradeable), that is. 3x for everyone else, I think), assuming you trade for the techs that give them, of course.



Building a starbase on the resources doesn't have any tech requirment, just a constructor. However, the upgrade modules that increase the bonuses from these bases are only in the standard Industry techs. That's what he's talking about being missing.

Jesse (codeCritter) and I have actually been looking at this situation for the past couple of days and will eventually be implementing some adjustments where the team deems them necessary.

Because of all the adding/removing of techs within the race-specific tech trees there were quite a few affected starbase modules.  Some of those were by design (ie. Arceans purposely cannot research Warp Drive techs and so therefore do not have access to starbase modules with speed assist), while the affects on some of the other modules may have been overlooked (ie. the advanced resource mining you mention).  We do have an internal list of all the affected modules and will probably go down each one and make a decision on what to do.

Thanks for pointing it out though. 

~Charles

Yea, I was just assuming that it was a concious design decision, because its about a +30% global bonus difference once you get the high level mining techs between the races that have the old ones and those with new. The Iconians are really the only ones I feel suffer greatly, as the newly improved Yor and Korath don't have nearly the economic problems the Iconians face.

Oddly enough, I find that the Arceans with the full line of mining techs and their Weather Control Centers can become absolute economic giants, which was certainly never the feeling I got about them pre-TA.