[Suggestion] Speed Up Research (and options for story maybe)

[TheGreenLing]

I find the most annoying thing about this game is the research. There are 3 things VERY annoying about research.
Starting with the most annoying,
1. Queuing research (or the lack of) - Currently when you complete a research you have to run back to the nearest research station and set a new research. This is okay once or twice, but looking at how massive the tech tree is you will end up doing this hundreds of times. I also have to constantly look back at what I want next, which slows down the game. It makes it very hard to make a cohesive plan for advancement as you may forget what you were going to research next. If I could simply queue up 5 research it would make this a lot better and as a feature I would think it would be quite easy to implement.

2. Research Package Creation Speed - Research packages are created very slowly. I find myself having to make like 16 assemblers per research pack. However, this requires a lot of resources and space for no particular reason. If research packs were made 4x as quickly, but required the same amount of resources, the only thing that changes is the amount of space I need. As a feature its just changing the production rate so very easy to implement.

3. Research Speed - As with the above, research facilities research very slowly starting once you getting into red packages and getting progressively worse. The solution is to make more and more research facilities. However, This creates the same problem as above as I am using huge tracks of land for research facilities.

Thus my map is just a huge region of research production without much else due to the huge amount of area required to create research packages.

Another option would be more like satisfactory and less like factorio, where you can simply turn in X research packages, and unlock the research automatically. This could use some kind of radar beacon to beam it up to the star base.

THINKING OF IT, this actually makes MORE sense for the story, as we are helping the star base restore its bank of blueprints. (Although might have to adjust the origin story for the drone as if it came from the starbase doesn't really make sense as the drone has the blueprints, but maybe the drone is some from another culture or civilization which is why it talks in only beeps and thus what is says needs to be translated.

[kremlin]

You don't need to go back to the research stations, you can just hit G.
4 to 8 spm is plenty for this game. If you're going higher you're probably overbuilding.
Later tier assemblers means your total number of buildings stays about the same as you increase it.
Research goes as fast as you can supply it, as fast as you've built up to do....
The whole point of the factory is to create those research packages, what else do you expect it to be doing?