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Old October 13th, 2000, 04:37 PM
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General,

But whenyou get more and more reseach points you can have 2-4 projects done in a turn. The lack of carryover may be changed later, but think about this you need to know the tech before you can research more and the game may need a turn to realize you have the tech, also there may be other tech tress that get triggered. Just a thought or 2


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Old October 13th, 2000, 06:02 PM

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Seawolf,
I usually research more than 1 tech area at a time. I just wanted to know what would happen. Say you run across a race with advanced missles and your pt def is level 1. Would be nice to jump up a couple levels quickly.
My concern is having to waste research points on technology that I may consider currently unimportant because if I don't spend them I lose them. Then I have to reorder the tech projects to keep the unimportant tech at the tail end of research points.
In SE3 I could set research to 0% (archieve the files) and not lose already spent points. Has anyone tried to turn off a research project in SE4? Are the points lost or is the project partially finished?

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Any results to report yet?
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Old October 28th, 2000, 02:13 AM
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I think the SE3 research model with percentage allocation was much better. You could have some projects running on backburner while other got alot of attention. And you could easily crashresearch a vital area and jump several levels at once.

I miss the SE3 research model. It would be so much better if they brought it back and made intel ops like that as well.
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Old October 28th, 2000, 04:02 AM
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Jubala: I must agree with you... But also, I miss the SE3 interface, the SE3 build queue, and some SE3 game settings (starting tech points, AI starting planets, for example).

Anyway, I believe(hope) that some of those things will be fixed in future patches.
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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
Jubala: I must agree with you... But also, I miss the SE3 interface, the SE3 build queue, and some SE3 game settings (starting tech points, AI starting planets, for example).

Anyway, I believe(hope) that some of those things will be fixed in future patches.



The more I play both Versions I have to agree with both of you, especially on the Research Screen. I really get a feeling of being limited in Research Options ( the core of the Game IMHO )in the new Version.

I wonder if someone close to the project can explain the reasons for the change to the research interface in SE IV.
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