I've been a casual GCII player for about a year now. I bought TotA a couple of months ago, and have been haphazardly experimenting with the races and their new tech trees ever since. Recently, I finally got around to playing a game as the Drath on Tough with 8 AIs. I picked Diplo bonuses and some other stuff to start, and then made getting Translators an early priority. Around the start of Year 2, I had a Diplo stat of 141% and fully-researched War Profiteering, so I decided to get to work.

For the price of a few techs (weapon techs, ironically enough) and a few thousand BCs, I paired off the AIs into wars with other AIs of similar military strength to ensure maximum war time, and as one AI (Korath) rose above the rest, I set more and more AIs on them to keep them in check. I also occasionally would feed techs and BCs to the losing sides to keep the forges burning. Frankly, my econ boost from WP was AMAZING. My income literally doubled. I was able to expand on all fronts, build up my infrastructure on every planet I colonized, and crank out ships like no tomorrow, and it barely dented my income. Compared to when I play any other race (remember, I'm a casual player), it was a great economic success.

So, I guess my question to you is this: is War Profiteering TOO good of a tech? I know it's only an 11% slice of the econ each civ that's currently at war, but it allowed me to get my early game income to such levels that it was HUGE boost. What do you guys think?