Discover technologies through experiments
Product discoveries now depend on experiments and accumulated knowledge. Research complexity affects the odds, and no discovery has a fixed completion date.
Product discoveries now use daily experiments instead of a fixed research duration. Active, staffed programs with suitable office space can run one experiment per technology and corporation each game day.
Technologies have simple, intermediate or advanced complexity. Unsuccessful experiments add knowledge and improve the chance of a breakthrough. Research shows experiment results and accumulated knowledge without promising a completion date.
Existing research effort carries forward, and completed discoveries keep their quality and unlocks. Research boosts and repeatable product-quality research keep their existing iteration rules.