Can you give one GOOD reason why anyone would split their research into more than one project at a time?

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Good idea, but I would suggest keeping a "use all" option as well, so you can choose, and wont have to type in a number.

I got this....

He has mutliple personalities and one of his personalities wants to tech weapons while the other one wants to tech defense and third wants to go outside and play basketball, but is rarely the dominate persona. The first two are at odds with each other and thus in order to stop the constant bickering, which has caused him many problems, especially in libraries, he has come with this idea.

OR

he uses base production to do base research and his production for ship mods and not being a leader he can't change the rules to collect and separate the research, because it is automatically added to his own, and timing sucks because is just before he goes to bed/comes home from work or w/e.

I prefer the former, it has a better story imo.

REASONS WHY I SPLIT RESEARCH:

In my earlier, noobish times, I had a frenzy in upgrading anything seeming worthwhile at the time.

However, when I later learned that I could have more than one of that module, I realized that I would have to take many months to build up the decks needed to fill the module allotments.

I still have to place 2 more shield modules (at their latest tech levels), 3 more defense dampeners, and 4 more scanning sensors (and the scanning sensors are the tallest of them all: Each of the M3 Tachyon Sensors are 72 decks high.)

(There are components that drop from NPC enemy ships but I won't look through how many more of them I need to install before meeting their max allotments, but plenty for sure.)

That's why I decided to place my research elsewhere before discovering advances that would create components which take up even MORE deck space. Until those upper component space limits are met, I'll concentrate on planet, energy and base research.

(Energy is the only ship component tech I'll improve in the meantime because I never have enough!)

But now you see why I'd prefer to split my science points?

REASONS WHY I SPLIT RESEARCH:

In my earlier, noobish times, I had a frenzy in upgrading anything seeming worthwhile at the time.

However, when I later learned that I could have more than one of that module, I realized that I would have to take many months to build up the decks needed to fill the module allotments.

I still have to place 2 more shield modules (at their latest tech levels), 3 more defense dampeners, and 4 more scanning sensors (and the scanning sensors are the tallest of them all: Each of the M3 Tachyon Sensors are 72 decks high.)

(There are components that drop from NPC enemy ships but I won't look through how many more of them I need to install before meeting their max allotments, but plenty for sure.)

That's why I decided to place my research elsewhere before discovering advances that would create components which take up even MORE deck space. Until those upper component space limits are met, I'll concentrate on planet, energy and base research.

(Energy is the only ship component tech I'll improve in the meantime because I never have enough!)

But now you see why I'd prefer to split my science points?

No... Not really, no...

I fail to see where thiis necessary. If you're that concerned about getting your decks up with your mods then stunt your RP. If you're in a base with a CTLab just dump your RP into there. Also if your really want more decks go buy them from the artifact market or join a legion with high artifact production.