Tyler Durden

I am curious about minor races and their interaction with the player. Specifically when it gives you the message that so-in-so acquired all the tech of such-in-such and are looking to trade for star systems. When you goto the minor races interface there is no obvious option to exchange a star system for anything other than their own tech. I can offer them a star system without asking and they just take it and there is no offer??????? What am I missing???

I have no problem with the way the tech tree is presented per se' but I do find it irritating to see that a certain tech is going to be applied to a ship design only to have it tell you that 2 or three other techs are needed to access it but it doesn't say which ones. It's really a pisser when your being attacked by cruisers and heavy fighters early on in the game by the AI and you've been researching military techs like crazy but only very rarely do you actually receive ship designs. In a way y