I beleive that there was a mod in SEIV that utilized components on ships that would produce research points.
Did this actually work, and would the points go into the research point pool? I thought I read somewhere that the points never really went into the races reseach pool like a research facilities points did. Could be wrong on this, that was a long time ago. If so does, SEV allow for this type of component? If it does how hard would it be to get the AI to utilize these in their exploration ship designs or a research vessel.
Next if this does work, would one be able to mod the game for a ship with a research component to park themselves on a space anomolie to gain a bonus on the research points. Example a ship with two research stations each producing 100 research points a turn decides to head towards that stellar storm in the next system that is just sitting there and in game terms doubles its research points (to account for discoveries) found while studying the storm. So each turn instead of producing 200 points just for floating around, it now produces 400 because it is in an area of interest. Possibly one could figure out a way to mod different types of research modifiers for different types of anomolies.
And if this works for research points, I am assuming that this could also work with intel points. Intelligence ships gathering data. Now because it is in a system that is not owned by the player possibly cloaked, it gathers five times the amount of intel.
Wishful thinking or possibly possible?
Research and Intel Component?
Hybrid Mode
