-I dislike double posting, but this is slightly off-topic of my other post.-
I had been making plans to attempt modding FF for a while. One of the hardest features, to determine whether or not it was possible, was an idea of having just a handful of civilizations, that through racial specific researching could turn into one of the many diverse civilizations- that at this moment are selectable from start-.
A few moments ago when working on a personalized version of FF's tech tree I was reminded of how some civs start with rare and spicy techs that no-one else can get, I was also reminded of the Strength of Will vs Pass Through the Ether techs and how they conflict each other.
With these two working concepts, do you think that it would be possible to create a goliath tech tree with many of the techs where they are, but alongside the normal tree have a diversification path accessible from a vanilla civ starting tech.
For instance, say Human is one of the vanilla civs: Down the line they could access techs that would determine which lore civilization they became, and have these techs also be one way; imagine said human civ being able to become bannor, archos, etc etc each race type having its own vanilla civ -I think scions would qualify as humans, at least before they go zombie-.
This is a rather obscenely big idea -resource wise- and I question whether it is even mod possible -without having to seriously rewrite the sdk and such-.