Suggestion for TA: Research Speed

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I'd really like to see an option, for people like me that like slow games, to turn down the research speed even more. The current lowest setting still has me researching at under ten turns a discovery very early on. Could we see a Painfully slow or something like that? I'm talking maybe tripling or quadrupling the tech costs so it will take onger to get up the tree.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'd support that. I'm generally down to 2-3 turns for cheap techs the whole game.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm finding the tech rates to be absolutely absurd, myself, on the lower levels. I'm not even sure that part of the game setup screen is WORKING.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'll agree that in the TA Betas thus far (through version 2), tech rates seem to be accelerated. I believe that the costs need to be increased across the board or one or two even slower research rates offered. Even on higher difficulty ratings (tough and above) with the research rate set on "very slow," I now routinely research the entire tree-every last technology, whether needed or not-including the techs that don't currently function. I don't even bother building warships before I reach at least upper level phasors and sometimes don't build anything till I achieve the pinnacle weapons technologies like Doom Ray or Demon Torpedo. I win with Tech victory just because I've run out of anything else to research.