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Just to make sure I am not doing anything wrong here.  Does the thalan empire not have some basic buildings like factories and economic buildings anymore?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No, they have their own structures, you can trade for the basic structures if you want. They also no longer have a miniterization bonus either.

I used to love the Thalians, however, I haven't been able to really figure them out since they re did their tech tree.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
They no longer start off with anything except those 3 galactic wonders and star port.

After going up their tech tree you'll see some more buildings. Their factories and labs are very powerful, but costly in maintenance. Their maintenance goes down as you go up the trilogy of techs of the buildings.

Look at this thread to know what all has changed and some tips for play in TA:
TA 101 by DivineWrath
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ugh. Unique tech trees. Not such a great design decision, probably.

Not much added to the game (replayability? hardly.. more techs to learn?), but created serious issues to resolve and design around. There's a reason that it "had never been done before" - it's really friggin risky. I guess they pulled it off, but barely.

Hell I still don't know how tech trading works now, so it's usually disabled. There's something to be said about not making things TOO different. It makes game balancing much harder. I don't even want to begin figuring out which races are over/under powered now.