[couslee]

There are already 3 fields. The reason it would not work, is the difference in cost in each tech in that field. In SCAM, the cost of the next tech was based on the number of techs you had previously discovered. Gas giant colonization would have to be the same cost as the armor, or any other in that field, and every turn the cost for every tech in that field would go up. You then would run into level problems. you would have to get all the level 0 techs out of the way before a random level 1 could be chosen as the next tech. Other wise, you might never get troops-0 and have level 5 armor. Blind research was one of the SMAC options I didn't use. It did not always stick to the field of choice either.