Quinntheeskimo777

I was JUST about to start this thread. PLEASE!

What I envision is that one of each color of techs should be researched at the same time, with sliders that allow the relative level of research in each color. but you the emperor get to choose which tech in each color is being researched.

The point is, putting the full weight of an empire's research capabilities towards one technology isn't how a galactic empire would work. You'd have planetology scientists, weapons scientists, political scientists, etc. It would be ridiculous to think that the political scientists would be able to help out researching Doom Ray, for instance. In MOO I, you could set sliders to allocate how much of your total research effort went to each particular tree, and you were rewarded a bonu

One thing that I really loves about Master of Orion (the original) was that there were 6 different tech trees, even though they were pretty primitive. This, I think, is a much better simulation of a real galactic research-wide effort than being able to research only weapons for several weeks, then suddenly switch gears and research government, for example. And there was nothing like getting beaten down by another race when all of the sudden 3 techs you really needed come through and you'r