[DavidG]

Originally posted by Grandpakim:

But I've often wondered why the PPB my scientists invent is IDENTICAL to the one the Krill's scientists invent. Consider this: My scientists are dough heads in this department. The standard gun weighs in at 40 kt. and is not very efficient delivering a blow only 60% of the norm. The Krill hit their Version dead on the nail. Only 25 kt firing at 140% of standard values!
Not to worry, my newly invented Null-Space Projector though of average size delivers a blow 1.5 times the expected norm!
be boring.

Wow Cool idea! I always though it would be good to add a bit of randomness to research. A couple games I've played have tried it though not like this. I believe Moo2 you can have 'breakthroughs' and Alpha Centari can be set so you just research on of 4 general area and don't know what you will get.