Research Speed Setting #4581
Description
Describe the feature you'd like
I've played this game since it's come out and I've always felt that the standard research speed is a tad too fast for my tastes. I envision a setting, during map selection, where you can set the speed of research, separate from the limit of research centers.
Describe why do you think it is needed
While the research center limit is present, that settings mainly controls how many different technologies you can drill down into. Reducing the number of research centers only limits how many technologies you can specialize in, not necessarily controls how fast things research.
Having a separate research speed setting would allow users to slow down research speed such that the game wouldn't be getting into Tech Level 4 within the first 30-60 minutes of play time, forcing teams to utilize and plan more carefully which research they choose to drill down into.
This would also make it so that the time between a new research item becoming available and the next, better one, is more minimized (or the opposite - if you like faster research speeds).