Important note: 'excess' research points roll forward along a given line of techs, but not when you finish the last tech in a branch. If you like to maximize stuff, you need to twiddle your research spending slider every time you start work on the last tech in a line, e.g. Aeron Missle Defense.

Yeah but can you click on sensors 4, then warp drive 3, then plasma 5, then sensors 5?? It's a shame that stardock would miss something so useful.

What we'd need for that is a true Research Governor which i've been asking for since i can't even remember when!

Quite simple in fact, codewise... they just have to do a sequencer screen where the initial or current trees are deployed with selection tags from 1 to X pathways. It's linear anyway, might as well exploit it.

Right now it is a repetitive micman process to go through the 'normal' pace or patterns.

Heck, we should even get some external xml templates where our pre-determined choices are simply listed and activated by the above Research-Governor. The trick is to design an emergency button to loop out of that function at runtime when, for example... we wish to switch Hyperwarp-II to Democracy, etc.

I'll go as far as to say that this feature alone could serve as coding framework for other important automatization routines to be used elsewhere -- planetary parser included.