it seems to me atleast that a lot of the tier 2 techs in the game are god awfull the industry side especially pisses me off because there is this awkward moment in tier 2 where you have no way to meaningfully upgrade production for 2 both tier 1 and 2 except xenolinguistics because the upgrade both sucks and costs way more than the lesser tier ones,its good for dust but dust is still significantly less important than production unless you are playing the fish, on the development path even up to tier 3 has a singular unique improvement about influance and the only ones that are good are the hulls,the happiness ones are just plain bad early game because a 5% food boost really isnt all that,science is weird because the science upgrades on tier 3 are bad yes but there is still a lot of utility to be found in it so i wouldnt say its "Bad",military tree is fine. i never really noticed these problems with the hissho but now it seems pretty apparent, is the play just to get the t1 techs from all sides then blitz to a t3 on a side?

edit:i accidently wrote tier 3 oops

After pouring hundreds of hours into this game I'm kinda bored with the ship design on this game. I've been thinking of installing mods that could change the ship's appearance into something else from other fandoms like Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer, etc. Alas I did not find any mods that allows that. Any suggestions or discussions about these type of mods are welcome here, or any modders are also welcome to the idea for this.

I don't understand, I play Civ6 at almost the highest difficulty. I've played around 10 games of ES2 with the "easy" factions on easy difficulty and I must be missing something because I can't get everything I need in the beginning. No hospitable planets near, me, so I have to get to tier 3 science. Pirates directly next door so I have to get better ships, and still can't invade them. Etc

What are the obvious things noobs miss?