[Tenryu]

"Bumped you to the next level?" Are you sure?

I was R&Ding "PD II". I had a few hundred R&D points in it already and was expecting it to complete the reseach at the end of the current turn. I colonized a planet with some ruins, not a unique one, one of those "get a random tech/techs" type. I got "PD II". Bad luck, good luck, who cares, but that's what I got. I know because I checked my R&D screen after I colonized. You know, of course, the game nevers tells you just which tech you recieved until the next turns Messages. You can go look in the R&D allocation screen to find it and use it right away in the turn you are in, however.

I upgraded a few ships to use the new PDs, forgot all about fact that I'd been researching it and therefore, didn't change targets. I ended my turn and read the Messages and went: "WHOA!!! it just spent my R&D points on that darn tech!!! "

It dumped the remaining overflow into my next project, but still, it gobbled the whole amount to finish the R&D for the PDII even though I knew it since the colonization of the ruins.

Bastardo!