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How about setting Research Points?

Say each level of Each research is worth so many points?

Then on each planet, you can specify which technology it gathers research points for. Then you can exchange them once you obtain enough of the research points.

And you can stop gaining points for the research at any time. However, you don't lose them. Just put on hold.
This allows you to change to another research if you need to without losing the time you spent researching the other one.

It can also lead to another resource that can be traded or exchange perhaps? Even Raided.
This can allow people to steal "research notes" and advance their skills. Considering stealing technology. Can give the game a new edge.

Only the homeplanet cannot be raided for research notes. Provides some kind of safeguard.

Each level of Research Lab, increases the amount of points gathered each day. Also, with the Alliance Research Network and the Intergalactic Network, both would also increase the number of points.

However for the alliance research network, only people that researching the same thing as you on one of your planets and one of theirs can connect to increase the amount. Would make sense, right? Can only increase if both sides are researching same thing.

Same goes for the Intergalactic network, to gain more points, two or more of you planets must be researching the same thing.

In order to exchange points for research, you have to send your "research notes" back to your homeplanet.

Well, let me see if I can explain better.



There isn't actually a hold on the research. Because each day you just gain research points. Which yu have to exchange for the next level of that particular Technology.



Think of research points as research notes, and as another resource. Resources can be stolen, right? Same with Research notes. People raid you planet and take your research notes and it adds to their points. Allowing them to get more points quickly.



Each day, your research labs would continue researching what you tld it to research. But like real life, it takes resources to run a lab. And the more resources you donate often to the lab each day, the quicker it researches, (more points). Just like adding more people to research.



Most higher civilizations would consider lower rank players a primative civilizations and are unikely to trade. So with a ranking system, we can keep some players from doing that.



I also think if Tyberious impements a story mode in the future. He can create different Species and races. And only certain ones will be allow to trade researches with other certain races. All races can research and trade, but not with other certain races.



However, for raiding, I think it would be best to not be able to know what is on the planet as regards to what researching there is until the raid is done. And it say something lke "As the raid ends, your soldiers discovers a research lab and finds research notes for 5 different Technologies. You collect the notes and carefully add them to your own."



This can also open up some ideas for the expedition. For Example: During an expedition to the uncharted area of 1:001:16, your teams discovers a long abandon research center with many research notes. You collect the notes and return home." something like that.

The idea of research points also opens a new way to play the game. Miners invest in mines, Fleeters invest in Fleets, Researchers invest in research.

Miners provide resources to the game, Fleeters keep the galaxy in working order by providing a sense of justice, researchers have the most advance technologies.

Right now, the research point system in Statistics is the lowest. This is a way to bring that up siginifcantly and make the game more challenging at same time.

That is why it probably should have a seperate ship. Also, If people didn't want to lose the research notes, they should just move them, like they do any other resource.



Make a university where all research notes can be stored until exchange for the technology. Similar to a safehouse perhaps. However, maybe only on homeplanet. If they move them each day, they have nothing to worry about. Even if they get attack and lose the notes for a day. It would only be a small amount. No a huge amount of time lost. Just a days worth of notes lost.



It is just like the other resources in ever way except it isn't made to build fleets or buildings, just for research.