As there are already not many Diplomatic possibilities, would prefer an addition to the Option TECHTRADING YES and NO
I didn't like that TECHTRADING in any game, as it is abused from AI and humans ... and it even makes no sense.
For me RESEARCH also means to prepare the whole infrastructure of that empire to manufacture that developed item or use this idea.
SO TECHTRADING is somehow terrible ...
in HOI 3 they implemented that idea that you trade BLUEPRINTS instead for a Bonus of 10 - 20 % for development in that field ...
SO YOUR TECHTEAM should develop that up to 20% faster as without that Blueprint ,,, (only one Blueprint per item possible)
So 20% for items you could Research yourself
and
10% for restricted items to your race, apart from that, that you now are able to research it
DEAR DEVS PLEASE consider such OPTION, that TECHTRADING is terrible and abused ...
and NO TECHTRADING is also not fun, takeing some fun out of diplomacy
THANK YOU and much luck for the todays release !!!!!!!!!!!!