Hmm atmosphere changers are also useless after the atmosphere has changed but you can also scrap it out and use that space.
Well I guess you could perhaps move a different race onto the planet and see if it changed the atmosphere again
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I understand that a lot more facilities are involved when you talk about research facilities but the principal is the same. Yes it would always be better if there were more areas to research but more can be added by modding them in. You can also make the Phased Poleron Beam less effective in your games so you would want to research other areas.
One problem if infinite technology was added into the game how would you play an all tech game then? The computer would go into an infinite loop, I haven't caused one of those since I studied fortran in college
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Actually my favorite fix for this research problem would be to have a bit of randomness added to the research areas. If you don't know the actual range or damage for each specific weapon each time you started up the game you would have to spend more time researching because the first thing you researched probably wouldn't be the baddest weapon on the block for that game. And if the resource production for mineral miners came out low resources would be at a premium and Organic tech races might do better that game.
[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 11 February 2001).]