[spoon]

I think he means rather than have specific research areas (such as Missiles and Computers), he is going to have ~ 20 generic areas. Each generic area represents a "play style" and returns all sorts of tech that relate to that play style. For example, if you research the "Superiority In Numbers" tech area, you will get cheap hulls, engines, and weapons that are fragile or otherwise limited in effectiveness. If you research down the "I Like Big Explosions" tech area, you might get great weapons, but crappy infrastructure

Note that this is just my guess, as the mind of the Cheese is not easily navigated, not even with a Spoon.

Edit: on second reading, nevermind - this doesn't answer the question that was asked!

[ October 16, 2003, 22:26: Message edited by: spoon ]