[DavidG]

Originally posted by Cosmos:
This is something that I’ve been thinking about a little bit. During my Last game at around turn 100 I was getting around 100,000 research points a turn. And to research a different colony tech would have only taken me five turns. So I was thinking maybe the research cost should be raised to around 1 to 2 million research points instead of 500,000.

Or maybe have something like this

Go from Rock native to = Ice = 1,000,000 Research points.
Go from Rock native to = Gas = 2,000,000 Research points.

Go from Ice native to = Rock = 100,000 Research points.
Go from Ice native to = Gas = 2,000,000 Research points.

Go from Gas native to = Rock = 1,500,000 Research points.
Go from Gas native to = Ice = 1,500,000 Research points.

Gas, Ice?? What are you talking about? Every Trek fan knows that every single species in the galaxy breaths Oxygen and speaks English.