Idea: Toggling team-shared technology

[TartarusMkII]

Hey, first of all, I want to say that I am so majorly impressed with the work being done on this game by the community and I'm very proud of you guys. I've been thinking about this with my friends a bunch, so I wanted to suggest it as I don't think it's a very difficult or unreasonable suggestion, though I can't help but feel like this probably already exists.

Currently, players in the same team share technology, and you can see what others are researching on the research screen. As far as I can tell, you -can- research the same thing as a team mate is, but I don't think there is any benefit to doing so besides wasted time.

I think the game would become much more interesting with the ability to disable this effect. This way, instead of the team sharing their tech, each player is still responsible for their own technology progression, which adds a great deal of individuality to the game. That way you can get angry at your team mate for doing something dumb with their tech =P.

[Per]

I find this to be a good idea, but for different reasons. Currently team sharing research means that the skills of the best player(s) is amplified with the number of players, rather than averaged out by them. This means that it is more difficult to set up balanced teams of players, and weaker players can surf on the accomplishments of stronger team mates rather than learn to play properly.

[TartarusMkII]

I definitely agree.