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Besides the obvious twist, there are many unique features that make Space Food Empires a new and exciting experience compared to other SE:IV mods and significantly more interesting than the default game.

Racial Traits and Aptitudes

• Customized racial traits that provide unique components and facilities for each major Empire
• 12 additional traits that for specialization in areas like Enzymes, Food Poisoning, and Spices!
• Racial aptitudes and characteristics more balanced to reduce minimizing/maximizing areas

Colonization and Expansion

• Increased emphasis on colony development
• More functional population modifiers for construction and resource production
• Reduced reproduction rates and increased population weight make population management more important
• Colonization technologies vary in cost and feasibility for each native type: Rock, Ice, and Gas Giant

Systems and Planets

• 100 custom system types including more than 40 types of planetary systems
• Planets tend to be more 'realistically' arranged around stars
• Planet sizes remain the same, but have different population and cargo capacities
• Moons and asteroids are more plentiful
• New system types like Neutron stars, Pulsars, White Dwarfs and Supergiants that have unique functional properties!
• Many new planet and system images are planned to make each system unique

Resources

• The 3 major resources are now defined in terms of nutritional properties:
  Carbohydrates
  Proteins
  Lipids
• Resource collection and construction rates are much more varied and promote a more diversified economy
• They've also been reduced by a factor of 10 to facilitiate quick math and display clarity

Research

• Entirely new research tree with many levels and multiple prerequisites
• Increased research costs extends the relevance of research for the entire game
• Lots of race specific technologies, and even a few of those can be captured!

Intelligence

• Intelligence broken into 3 major areas: counter intelligence, sabotage, and espionage
• Better balanced projects that encourage sneaky underhandiness without being cheesy
• AI restricted to intelligence projects that it can understand and use effectively

Events

• Over 250 new and original events
• Most are of a mild variety and include both positive and negative events
• Occur more frequently during gameplay enhancing the turn-to-turn experience

Facilities

• Lots of new facilities, including many special facilities for each major empire
• Some facilities have effects on population happiness, so be wary!
• More military and storage options added
• Highly developed resource arcologies differentiate homeworlds from less-developed colony worlds

Ships

• Most ships are empire specific and have unique sizes and capabilities
• Some ships are easily researched, while others require more advanced technologies
• Ship classes and styles depend on the empire type, some might prefer small ships and carriers, while others favour large ships
• A balanced combination of mounts, engine requirements and combat modifiers makes for even-handed battles between small and large ships
• Ship and fleet training restricted to system-wide facilities only

Units

• Most units are now race specific
• Components and weapons are specialized for units, not just scaled down version of ship items
• Troop vehicles can carry troop components
• Weapon platforms and

Propulsion

• Features a pseudo-Newtonian engine system, as ships increase in size so do their engine requirements
• Supplies separated from engines and place on reactors
• Supplies now referred to as 'calories'
• Lots of engine types and support components that might provide extra movement points, generate supplies, or give emergency movement

Armor and Shields

• Includes leaky shields and leaky armor
• Armor comes in many different forms and incorporates various abilities like stealth or emissive abilities
• Shields are slightly less effective and will allow the occasional weapons damage to squeak through

Sensors and Cloaking

• Specialized sensors like Combat or E.C.M. have many more levels
• A highly developed cloaking system with many types of cloaking devices and sensors to detect them
• Many races feature unique sensor technologies that helps give them an edge!

Weapons

• Almost 100 new weapons are added
• Plentiful racial specific weapons makes every race's ships unique
• Damage types are used more creatively
• Weapon damage is balanced while avoiding being too derivative

Mounts

• Mounts are better balanced and no longer provide benefits exceeding their cost
• Larger mounts are balanced by reducing their accuracy and increasing their cost
• Smaller ships can carry similar amount of firepower per kT and are more difficult to hit, making for better small-big ship matchups
• A number of mounts are race or component specific to add extra flavour to ship design

Stellar Manipulation

• Stellar manipulation technologies are more difficult to acquire and less rampant than regular SE:IV
• Planet creation and destruction is more difficult to perform and warp point openers have much shorter range
• The construction of ringworlds is now more daunting and awe-inspiring, with additional requirements to satisfy!
• The stellar manipulation technology tree is more branched and allows for more customization for an empire

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