Another kind of tech grid

[Suicide Junkie]

True. There should be some variation between techs anyways. Perhaps a second and third (or more) tech areas such as "XYZ weapon applications" and "XYZ peaceful/civilian/productive applications" ?

Sounds cool. but wouldn't that also require a but-load of picture files? Being able to make so many different weapon mixes would require a seperate bitmap. Lot of work there to do that. in my noob opinion.

I don't see why. The DUCs in game all use the same picture, and have a wide variety of damage and range. Same thing here.