Research Queues

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Last night I played my first real game (I actually felt like I knew what I was doing). I noticed that once I started to expand and started to really get my economy going that when I researched several things at once there is a queue and research only completes one at a time. Is there a way to speed up the research other than changing the setting at the beginning of the game? I generally like the pace as it is. Is there something you can research to make researching happen faster?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
At least some of the races to have technologies to make research happen faster.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
you ccan either set the research rate faster when you first create the game. Or the Advent race has a 2 or 3 point tech that increases research by 33 percent total (and i believe its tier 1!)
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
You can also mod the Gameplay.constants file in the C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\Sins of a Solar Empire\GameInfo directory (replace "C" with your main drive, if applicable), editing these lines:

(NOTE: please backup your Gameplay.constants file first! normally using the "Mods" directory would be safer, but it seems to cause crashes right now)

starting at line 431

researchSpeedData-Slow
researchRateGameSpeedScalar -2.0
researchSpeedData-Normal
researchRateGameSpeedScalar -1.0
researchSpeedData-Fast
researchRateGameSpeedScalar 0.0

Increasing the appropriate scalar to, say, 5.0 will definitely make an impact ;)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
It will be really helpful if there is a button to change the order of the queues :)
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

It will be really helpful if there is a button to change the order of the queues
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that is in fact a pretty good idea. for ex. when you have a longer list and something happens and you need some particular tech earlier, but dont want to cancel everything and order it again.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks for the replies. I don't want to mod the files to make research faster because I think that would imbalance the factions especially is the Advent have something in their tech tree to increase research speed. A queue order would be great. As it is there is no way of knowing what order things are going to be researched unless you remember what order you queued them. I guess you could write i it down...
This is just one of the many things that should be added to this good game to make it great. The good thing is the devs seem to actually pay attention to these boards.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
You can see the order of your next (up to six? I think?) researches in queue by mousing over the research button at the top of the screen. This also displays the progress % of the current research.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top


It will be really helpful if there is a button to change the order of the queues


that is in fact a pretty good idea. for ex. when you have a longer list and something happens and you need some particular tech earlier, but dont want to cancel everything and order it again.
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