Sounds like a bit of a glitch to me but i am still new to the hole Metaverse thing...

Also its been noted else where that the bonuses dont seem to effect research i dont know if they fixed it, i primarly use the starbases on production planets. Also the spending do the starbases I believe are a bonus and therefore free just like a racial ability.

I had industrial spending at 100% and the research spending at 100%.

You cannot have 100% spending in both areas. The best you can do is 50-50.

You can only get 100% TOTAL of your production capability, divided among the social, military and research production. If all those three sliders are at the max, you're producing 33% of the possible military output your planets would be capable of, 33% of the possible social output and 33% of the research output. You can see this in the area of the sliders. To get complete payoff on your research capability, you will have to forgo producing facilities and ships. Use focus to adjust individual planets' spending, for instance a planet with no starbase should either focus on social or research.

Having the spending slider at 100% means you don't cut further in the money you spend across your empire. Having it on 50% means you cut all production across all three types in half.

Yes, I believe the man (or woman) meant that spending was on maximum, and that 100% thereof was allotted to research.

Now, this is a very naïve approach to the problem, and I by no means know whether or not it's correct. But I believe the bonuses are additive, meaning that you would have the foruma below:

base * (sum of bonuses) = total

Now, you mentioned your technological capital was there, which adds 50%, and you had +182% from starbases. That would bring your bonus to +232%, or the total being 332% of your base. Your total was 700-800 (pick 750), so that brings your raw planetary production to about 225. That would be about 20 Neutrality Learning Centers or roughly 23 Discovery Spheres.

That sounds about right for a big planet.

Or have I misunderstood your question?

To clear up the confusion, I meant that industrial capacity spending (the slider just below tax rate) was 100% and at the bottom research was at 100%, military and social were at 0%. It was late game, I had 4x the military rating of anyone else and I was going for a tech victory, so there was nothing really for me to build.

Ok .... so the planet screen was correct, that the planet was producing 2513 worth of research ... it just wasn't paying for that much research..... Right?