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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Regarding PPB, I hadn't thought about the range before Pvk. ... Actually decreaseing the range of the early levels might be a decent solution. ... This would definetly make them less powerful in the mid game where they currently dominate without neutering them at the end game.

Actually, this would have practically no impact at all on the mid game, since reasearching up to level 4 is only a matter of four turns, the actual research is negligible.

If range was decreased as suggested and research cost drastically increased (like to 50k for level 1) then you might see some mid-game impact. But changing the research cost by that much is probably problematic for ai designs.