research idea

[unmerged(57263)]

Let us say that normal infantry uses to 60 % the same equipment as mot. infantry and mech infantry. The main difference is that mot has cars and mech ...
They all use the same guns, granades, MGs, SMGs, ...
There is the same relation between normal infantry and marines, ...
There should be a research bonus if infantry is allready researched and you research mot infantry of the same historical year.

I know this would be a lot of implementation work, but it is too realistic to let it out!

The same things you can say about aircraft. The fighter and the multirole fighter are nearly the same plane - bonus of 80 %. Ships could have a 20 % bonus for using the same cannons ...

 

[Acheron]

What about simply researching infantry divisions (or standard fighters), and them being prerequisites for specilists like mountaineers or marines (or inetrceptors or multi-role fighetrs), which themselves however have a vastly reduced research cost (like components of only 1-3 difficulty levels)?

EDIT: That would actually be rather easy to implement, changing the prerequisites and the components difficulty, though preferably also the components name (and specializiations) for flavour.

 

[unmerged(57263)]

What about simply researching infantry divisions (or standard fighters), and them being prerequisites for specilists like mountaineers or marines (or inetrceptors or multi-role fighetrs), which themselves however have a vastly reduced research cost (like components of only 1-3 difficulty levels)?

EDIT: That would actually be rather easy to implement, changing the prerequisites and the components difficulty, though preferably also the components name (and specializiations) for flavour.

OK that´s right it is easy to implement and realistic.