researching science is giving me carpal tunnel

[ctbram]

Seriously guys, I just recently had all my science tree reset. I am here right now after nearly an hour and still researching everything! It's really tedious especially if the slider bar is in the tech box. It's bad enough to have to click the part, click to confirm and even worse when there are more parts then the box can display you have to slide, click, click, slide, click click. I have a couple addon packs and easily have over 500 parts!

Can't you add a mode where I can just say RESEARCH EVERYTHING in a single click? Even when money is introduced I'd prefer SPEND ALL MY MONEY option over sitting here clicking for two hours until I get carpal tunnel!

Is there a file I can just go in and modify? I'd write my own c# app to just flip everything to researched. Not only is it killing my hand and wrist but it's killing my mouse making 5 bazillion clicks to research everything!

Edited March 14, 2014 by ctbram

[DonLorenzo]

There is a button to have everything researched, it's the sandbox mode.

Also, it takes you two hours to click 500 things?

[ctbram]

There is a button to have everything researched, it's the sandbox mode.

Also, it takes you two hours to click 500 things?

yeah I guess I will just abandon my seven (game)years in career mode because something reset my science tree! haha you're very sharp witted. I wish I could ask a question and not get snarky responses!

And clearly 2 hours is an exaggeration as is getting carpal tunnel but the sequence move halfway across the screen, mouse over the slider, drag to the bottom, pick tech, move mouse half way back across the screen click confirm and then repeat (4-5 secs a pick) times 500+ items is nearly an hour (~41 minutes of clicking!) and that assumes you are like a machine and don't have to stop occasionally or reclick something!

I was just asking if it would be that hard to put a research all or research until I am out of money option in! Or here is a thought just say research all and have a confirm box come up so I can just hover the mouse at one spot and click yes or no rather the have to move the cursor back and forth half way across the screen two times plus drag a slider and make two clicks per item!

Edited March 14, 2014 by ctbram

[Streetwind]

The file that governs this stuff is the persistence.sfs in your savegame directory. You can open it with any old text editor.

Don't ask me what to modify how, though - I know the science progress data is in there, but I've never changed anything myself.

[Superfluous J]

You may be better off editing your persistence file to wipe out all trees earned, and then give yourself a ton of science. Then you can go in and just unlock the nodes one by one.

But yes, the current in-game system is hilariously cumbersome, made only less so by not having to do it except in extreme circumstances.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Meh, I had that bug, and did 811 parts in less than a quarter of an hour. Try with a more sensitive mouse, what is your DPI at?

[cantab]

Seriously guys, I just recently had all my science tree reset. I am here right now after nearly an hour and still researching everything! It's really tedious especially if the slider bar is in the tech box. It's bad enough to have to click the part, click to confirm and even worse when there are more parts then the box can display you have to slide, click, click, slide, click click. I have a couple addon packs and easily have over 500 parts!

Can't you add a mode where I can just say RESEARCH EVERYTHING in a single click? Even when money is introduced I'd prefer SPEND ALL MY MONEY option over sitting here clicking for two hours until I get carpal tunnel!

Is there a file I can just go in and modify? I'd write my own c# app to just flip everything to researched. Not only is it killing my hand and wrist but it's killing my mouse making 5 bazillion clicks to research everything!

That sucks. I don't think there could reasonably be a "research everything" option though, because the tech tree isn't linear. How would the game decide what to give and what not to? Or would the button just be greyed out unless you really could research everything - in which case it's useless interface clutter almost all the time.