tech tree and science points pacing

[fancycat]

I would recommend making the science units a one time only use device.. for example the specimen container, once opened to an environment will generate a report and then be unusable. the specimen inside is now affected by that one environment and exposing it to others would do nothing but taint the integrity of your experiment. reusable experiments in a flight would be limited to crew reports so the player now has to design flights for specific missions rather than gaining max science points in their first three or four flights.

otherwise it looks great, I will look forward to seeing it

[boomerdog2000]

The game combats this by giving you reduced science if you transmit the data instead of returning the sample canister.

[fancycat]

does the sample container retain all experiments run on it if you run multiple experiments with the same device without transmitting before recovering?

[boomerdog2000]

It can only retain 1 experiment at a time. If you choose to reset or transmit the data it is gone and the sample container can be used again.

[fancycat]

That was what i figured they did. Though i would still recommend they render the device inert after first use for the sake of padding out the career mode a tad.

there is loss from sending data via antenna but how is that loss calculated? is it a percentage based on distance or a static number?

[boomerdog2000]

It's percentage based and I believe it's also there in case you accidentally activate the experiment early since they were in the staging menu on the last version I saw.