Should we do a lore pass on the tech tree?

YUP! I'm all about a rearrange! Can I also vote for carrying over something from EL? 

Can we have two tiers of Titanium and Hyperium weapon/defence tech? One as a Tier 2 Tech and the higher level one remaining where the current Titanium/Hyperium weapons/defences are now at Tier 3? It's bizarre how far the player has to go into the military tech tree to use a resource that they can unlock at Tier 1

Yes, the tech-tree needs some quality time by Mr. Spock. ;)

There are already differences in the tree regarding races. I wish to see more of such distinctive features which would tell the races more apart from each other.

If you're a new player, though, that's bound to be confusing, and a little less immersing than what you're used to if you like to follow the universe in our games.

Can confirm. I'm a new player (well, not that new anymore) and I found the effort in writing the texts and their technologies extremely interesting, but unfortunately disconnected from the actual game implications.

Absolutely fix the descriptions; for a lore-nut like me, it's really bothersome to see the descriptions for tech not match up with the actual technology it unlocks.

OF COURSE you should. No, you shouldnt, you HAVE TO. Thats why i'm playing this game. Dont even think about redusing lore size in game!!!!

We absolutely should do this. I think it will be good not only in terms of immersion (for new players) but also for sort of refreshening experience from the game (for experienced players) as u gonna sort of rediscover all these descriptions once they harmonized.

Seconding Kuma and IceGremlin on this one, but probably will vote yes if there's no chance for that.

yolo

Yes, BUT, I think it might be better to rework the tech tree first and be sure it won't move a lot again before so.

Can we get a third option to wait? I want a lore pass, I really do, but I think the techs themselves still need reorganizing and tweaking, which will likely make for another lore pass after that.

This is certainly worth doing, although it will be a shame to see some of the descriptions go as the 'voice' of all of them per faction are so nice. What I would like to see from this PoV is more unique flavour text for laws, techs and improvements.

I though it was a priority for you guys !? Anyway, very good thing. 

Endless Space's lore is unique. Keep on taking care of it ! 

The Devil is always in the details.

Yes, absolutely.

Yes... Have more and accurate lore - this is always a good thing. And while I know it would be quite a bit of work... I also hope you could give more personal touch to forementioned tech and laws for each Major Faction. I really like reading

Voted yes - it's a nice to have, I know the devs want to do it, and I assume the guys rewriting this probably aren't the ones working on more code-related tasks.

I believe this isn't really necessary right now, and that you should focus on more important things such as reworking the tech tree a little before changing the flavour text.

Obviously this would be a good addition, but not the priority in my opinion.

I wouldn't mind the change, if only to try it out. Though I wouldn't want to mess with the tech tree too much.

I really don't know in what circumstances I would vote for No...

I expect this process to be incredibly time consuming and fully expect there to be balancing issues before implementation, assuming techs will be swapped around as well as additional lore included. Overall, it's a great idea, improvements are always welcome whether it's lore or otherwise!

Quite a strange question. You do see the problem yourselves. The question to ask is whether there should be chages affecting the balance or only the names and descriptions of techs should be be adjusted. I would be happy in both cases, provided that the balance is balanced :).