Help! Ran out of stuff to research!!

[Warlord Adamus]

BTW, I do agree with you that in a perfect world we'd never run out of new things to research. But I just don't see it happening. Making everything smaller could be interesting until everything is size 1.

A program could have been created that had a single component, example:

Laser Beam I

Size:1
Range:1
Power:1

Now a program could just expand on the numbers for each successive level researched, and change everything to 2 or 3 or 569 but you end up with limitations in tactical combat. Range being one limitation (you can only shoot so many squares), damage being another (You don't need to do 6 million damage to kill a DN). This is similar to what was one the SE4list and what MM was considering.

All that said though, I like Klaus and Instar suggestions as a better solution.