Race-specific items?

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Will there be an option to add race-specific items in future versions? Specifically, it would be great for improvements, starbase modules, components, and technologies to be able to be divided that way.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
If you build separate tech trees (each rooted on a tech you give to a race from the start, which itself requires IMPOSSIBLETECH so it cannot be researched), you can do this already. The only issue is that the techs can still be stolen by other races, which then allows them to research everything following the stolen tech.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The other problem is that each race-specific change then also requires it's own technology, and also shows up seperately from the main item instead of replacing it. And you have to disable tech trading for it to work smoothly.

My idea is to use this feature to tweak the default items for each race instead of adding new ones. It would really help to differentiate more between races if the Thalans had slightly better factories and the Drath had slightly smaller defense components. Unfortunately, it would be very messy to do this all with tech trees. It would be nice to see a more explicitly defined system.
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