New Mod Posted - Have fixed faults in AI Research files

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, you don't want to put the techs for a prerequisite RIGHT after the prerequisite. The research minister searches the files sequentially and while it is researching the prerequisite it obviously canot be researching anything that requires the current tech level. It will have to skip over that field and find something else. If the next researchable field is too far down the list, it could get bogged down in something too expensive. It's better to intersperse things so that simultaneous research of things near the same cost will occur. Put physics 2 and military science 2 adjacent, for example, then scanners and advanced military science. It's also smart to break up research of one tech area so it doesn't try to go straight from level one to level ten in something. You want to try to duplicate the sequence that a human would follow, just a few levels of this, then some of that, so that progress occurs fairly quickly in many areas.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 10 February 2001).]