I like this idea. Sword of the Stars did a decent job with a random tech tree. Sometimes you would not have access to certain techs. This was annoying at times since technology is driven by need. So in that game sometimes you can't ever research Point Defense, which is silly since people would naturally come up with a counter for things like missiles, fighters, etc.

You could get 'hidden' techs from certain things like salvaging an enemy ship, so that was neat.

I think it would be cool for an Elemental game to have things like really unique spells that you could only earn from a quest, exploring, etc. It would be lots of fun and add new meaning to the adventure side of the game. Imagine a quest coming up where you hear a rumor of a lost tome of magical knowledge, and you can try to find it through a series of missions, with the reward being a spell that you can't get anywhere else.

Agreed, I too would like to see spells or spell books that are unique to a specific race/fraction.

Example: From game start the Tarthans could have access to a Book of Nature while Wraiths may have access to a Book of Necromancy. Other races could access these spells but they would have to research: Expert Spell Books and then Research the specific Book.

See the Magic Journal.

1. The Death Worship faction trait already grants you a unique spell book. I hope they add a Life version as well.

2. There are quest given spells.

3.There are random tech given spellbooks, but ya these do seem lackluster to me.

Since they are adding more spells I hope when you get those spell unlocking traits they only unlock a random 2/3 of spells for that champion instead of all of them. That way champions are unique.