I'm sure tons of things have been suggested along these lines but I'm too lazy to go respond to some long lost thread (let's face it there's probably too many suggestions and threads in the Rebellion forum) Lots of good ideas are undoubtedly getting overlooked, anyways I digress. This may be too much of a request to get done now but I think the factions still need to be more diverse. I don't really have any specific suggestions, maybe some folks can post some of their own, but I think there needs to be more faction specific research. There should be some specific faction research in each category tree at least. Even if there was just some more moving around of existing research to reflect the lore of the faction that would be nice (like is the case for the Loyalist Novalith research) This example may actually be bad because Novalith spam was annoying before Rebellion...Another idea would be to give more ranks/levels of applicable research topics to different factions. For example, TEC loyalists could research three levels of armor while Rebels three levels of some weapons. Finally and probably the most extreme suggestion would be that each faction should actually get a whole unique tech tree. Alas this may be too much work and balancing for the time remaining but it would be nice to even further diversify the factions in some ways.

Thanks for reading/considering!