What are the rarest research colours?

[Bugs]

So we've been scanning rocks, using my scanner to hunt down researchable materials. Getting into fights and refining scrap, the captain keeps researching whatever strikes his fancy but I've been noticing we have 7 'white' research items but rarely any blue or black.

Do people know for a fact if some research is more rare than others?

I'm asking because we I want to convince him to prioritize certain research over others.

[rancher3000]

i think some are rare, the one that that is grey that flashes at the right end of the board, i think you have to find a planet that contains an enormous tree, to get. as a side note, the names of the research materials are color coded to match with the colored symbols, so you can identify them by name.

[obvious]

Some research is rarer than others. But you can get black research from more than one spot.

[Bugs]

rancher3000 lähetti viestin:

i think some are rare, the one that that is grey that flashes at the right end of the board, i think you have to find a planet that contains an enormous tree, to get. as a side note, the names of the research materials are color coded to match with the colored symbols, so you can identify them by name.

Yeah I never got their names down, I just sorta went by color. It almost seems a better strategy to save them up and start researching when you have 4 pages of research options.

[obvious]

No that is not a particularly good strategy.
Because you will need the buff of the talents to progress smoothly in the game. It makes more sense to know which researches are useful and go for them as early as possible.
Also it makes sense to see that you research talents for those members who have points to spare.
As a rule of thumb get those two researches first:
Scanner mode: item pickup (one purple)
Auxiliary Power (3 blue, 2 white)

Also useful are:
Reaction time for pilot, armored skin cells for weapons, gun cooling for weapons, all engineering talents that increase reactor performance, probe xp boost (dunno the name) for scientist (to level up quicker), talents for weapon specialist which increase turret performance, stamina boost and the talent for captains that gives the crew more armor.
Like I said, check who has talent points to spare. Makes no sense to research all the engineer talents and engineer has not enough points to skill them all.

Also: You can buy research materials at the Burrow. But it is expensive.

[Bugs]

We already bought the Burrow research items, I'm avoiding buying the XP boost cause leveling isnt' an issue, that infection stuff is however and it progresses with level. Thanks for the tips though

[obvious]

Infection progresses with CHAOS level. I am not aware that it would be tied to PLAYER level? Two different things!