Assist Research?

[Grayhorse]

As the title says, does assist research still exist? If so how do I access it with my extra science ships? I cant seem to be able to find it if it does still exist. Someone enlighten me please.

[Vovarush]

No, you designate scientists as planetary governors instead

[[Bot] Skaven]

Originally posted by Vovarush:

No, you designate scientists as planetary governors instead

garbage.

[pauloandrade224]

so at some point just disband science ships now?

[Geoff]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

so at some point just disband science ships now?

Just a starting paragon with a jetpack and a pressure suit...

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

so at some point just disband science ships now?

Yeah, and fire most of your scientists, too :/

[Grayhorse]

I am not exactly a fan of this change. I know assist was kinda redundant, but it still was useful to an extent. Not sure why they made this change.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by Isaac_Clark:

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

so at some point just disband science ships now?

Yeah, and fire most of your scientists, too :/

oh yeah definetely

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by Grayhorse:

I am not exactly a fan of this change. I know assist was kinda redundant, but it still was useful to an extent. Not sure why they made this change.

i dunno the extra science was great.

[Battlehart]

I like the change. So far, I have only disbanded the science ships mid-to-late game, and I haven't fired any one my scientists yet. The new traits mean that even my explorer scientist, which used to be mostly useless from mid-game onwards, is now a superstealth scout, able to assist my covert ops. The game has skewed a bit, in that I am using far more planetary governors than before.

For me, first scientist is specced as an explorer, then I get one scholar type, and the rest are governors.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Isaac_Clark:

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

so at some point just disband science ships now?

Yeah, and fire most of your scientists, too :/

Why...

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

so at some point just disband science ships now?

You still need them occasionally.

[Kufesska]

Originally posted by Grayhorse:

I am not exactly a fan of this change. I know assist was kinda redundant, but it still was useful to an extent. Not sure why they made this change.

assisting research was still giving you a good bonus, but with leader cap you can't give scientist to each of yours science colonies
with one rigworld it was already 4, with second you needed 8...
now it is just 1-2 sectors where you put all science colonies/ringworlds - 1-2 scientists

[Elitewrecker PT]

You still get better results if you can assign one scientist to each ring section.

[NixBoxDone]

It's worth noting that the new changes to sector capitals and goobernors means that one really good statistician scientist (the category of scientists that give science boni on planets, afaik) can affect all planets in the same sector for half the value of their "planetary" buff.

I. e. you get more benefit per scientist if you add them to your best science colony and add a few more in the same general area of space so he benefits more colonies.

You'd get more benefit if each planet had a fantastic statistician to guide it, but the nature of random traits makes that relatively unlikely.
It's probably easier to just have a handful really good leaders boosting entire sectors than to try and finagle getting several leaders that have excellent synergies for a specific resource.

A bit of a mixed bag still because you had better output with a good goobernator and a scientist boosting the planet still further, but I think this way is a little less fiddly if you plan your sectors out well.
Only need one good egghead to pump those numbers up instead of herding a gaggle of scientists around the galaxy to boost various colonies as they become good enough to warrant it, if that makes sense, especially if your empire isn't very heavy in investment for leaders (so they level slowlier, have a higher chance of negative perks and less options for level-ups making it harder to get ones you need on the leader that needs em).