Well then manually manage your ships. I will look at the map, find the artifacts and send ships to the hex before it. Once my surveys get there I change techs and go one  after the other till I get an Unfortunate Genius event. This lets me carefully get the techs I really want. It requires more micro but hey, its a 4x game after all. You are gonna have some micro.

I know this doesn't help but just pointing it out. I really doubt there is going to be a code fix for this. 

Happy conquering! 

You have created a system that is more efficient than can be intelligently handled by the available automation.  You probably shouldn't do that.  I say that because I have a similar tendency and had to control it.  The real answer is to create less survey ships or drive at least some of them manually. There is a principle the devs use of not having the game play itself for you.  They are likely to think this applies.  I doubt that you will find them eager to create a situation where you can be gifted handfuls of techs at once.  There are already many other ways to abuse the game badly.  Go find them instead.

Galactic Civilizations II did a very good job at this, however, at this time the only way I know of getting around that is do what Larsenex suggested and enter into manual survey mode, which is a pain in the extreme map settings or accept that they will go to waste.

IIRC, GC3 will not allow you to research (i.e. acquire) more than one tech per turn, regardless of how much research capability you have. This differs from GC2, where if you had sufficient Research points, you could get 2 or even 3 techs simultaneously.

Naturally, this would impact excessive tech finds through anomalies, since any automated moves fall into the same timeframe as research happens. Only in manual mode does that not apply (and maybe it should - perhaps it might be a good thing to not allow more than 1 tech to be acquired per turn, INCLUDING during manual mode). 

Frankly, I'm OK with that limit, as it prevents one side from jumping so far ahead of the others as to be uncatchable. That's a game-breaker.

Erischild wrote; ""Another possibility is to have it grant you the cheapest tech available if one is not selected.  It would be an issue with specialization techs, though."  Now, that would be interesting... but I would prefer it be a random tech from the tree available for selection for the player at that point in the game.  Just selecting the cheapest would still require some logic as many have the same costs in terms of number of turns. 

Trims2u wrote; "Frankly, I'm OK with that limit, as it prevents one side from jumping so far ahead of the others as to be uncatchable. That's a game-breaker."  Isn't that the point however?  If I can crush my enemies faster then I win.  If they are able to crush me, they win.  And if we find ourselves in a loosing position to fight and turn that around by adapting and changing our strategy or loosing the game outright.  My favorite memories of games long past have been situations where I had to dig out of a loosing position and turn the game around for a win.

I very much appreciate all the thoughts posted on this thread.  Is there anyone from Stardock who can weigh in on this thread and let us know the possibility of having them look at this from a more official position?

I like the op idea, but even if we could only research one tech per turn then can either the computer remove this selection from the anomalies choice until next turn,  or que up tech ques where each turn you research a tech until the free tech que is empty. Don't tell me a computer cant do this. This would require extra programming, but you could do a comparing where if you get certain anomalies. You could even assign each anomoly a. Number with nested ifs you remove the selected number from the list. Then you would use the new list until end of turn. Come on guys computers are not that stupid we just don't want to do the work.

As far as automated anomalies ever in two multiple survey ships would pick the same anomoly. In three they took out the cheese where they don't go to unexplored anomalies. Making automated surveying pointless for awhile. Can we have an option to go for guarded anomalies. This would need to be anoption, because not all survey ships are armed. Can we have an option to ignore wormholes. I don't mind unarmed anomoly ships going through wormholes. It is annoying when you have guarded anomalies with umteen unarmed survey ships, and your armed survey ships beelines for wormholes. I would like to have an option where if their are no anomalies explore stars instead of singing do was diddy... Without these options auto survey usually doesn't work. Again it doesn't make sense for multiple survey ships to go after the same anomoly. I think they fixed it in three, but in two it was annoying when survey ships would trek for anomalies when.one three spaces from it wasn't being surveyed because a previous survey ship a million miles away claimed it first.