While I'm sure it'd be fun for each race to have some unique bling for starship design, I don't think the races need to have specific boosts. I'm all for new and nifty things being entered into the tech tree, though, like the alignment specific buildings.

I still haven't seen the alignment specific weapons and defenses yet though.

I'd like to see some race specific components....in fact i was shocked when, after playing my first game as the Terrans, I started a new game as the Drath and there WASN'T any race specific ship parts. No biggie, it's just that when almost every other part of a game gives you just what you want you tend to get a little spoiled.

I think it's a good idea. Always gives at least one unique attribute to each race that cannot be taken by the others. Would think that that should also apply to custom races. Want the Drengin headbanging modifer, play the Drengin.

My idea was to give for every single race a building or a module which would increase personality of races.
The first that came to my mind was an advanced freighter module for mercenaries korx.For drengin could be added a new powerful weapon, iconians a better research center,thalan a slave labour factory ,drath mmmm intelligence should be first improved and then add something to them, yor a superproject which allow them a +5 or +10 miniaturization abilities, arceans new defense and so on.

nah.. I want a few more hull sizes in my expansion pack.

Unique race techs were one of the things that made Space Empires IV cool. Actually, it wasn't "unique" exactly. In that game's race creation screen, you could use some of your points to select Organic Manipulation or Temporal Manipulation or Psychic Powers or whatever. Only races that bought those advantages could research or use that tech.

Something like that is among the few things that could make GalCiv 2 even cooler than it already is.