The mod works. It's very simple. Doesn't need updating.
I use it in most of my games to fix the shafting engineering usually gets.

doesn't work, please update

sure, thanks for asking.

Hello. I want to include some of your ideas in my mod (which is going to be close to vanilla features-wise, but with many little fixes), so I ask your permission (with credits and link to an original mod of course).

Ok, thanks. Just making sure. Great mod friend.

this should work as is I think?

Update please.

I used to have the same problem others have mentioned, but closing the launcher, unsubscribing, resubscribing, and reopening the launcher fixed it. Others may need to fiddle with a different order of those steps. The launcher has been buggy for as long as I can remember.

huh, ok, Ill have to take a look when I get a chance.

I'm afraid I can confirm, the policies don't work in the current version.

https://ibb.co/B2mJJVx as you can see, there is no explanation. enabling this policies has no effect.

i don't mean to say the version, it really doesn't work

it does. This really isnt the kind of thing that needs to be updated, its just the version number.

doesn't work in version 2.8.1

I tried this with the current version and it worked. Thank you!

This works in the current version, no reason it wouldnt

please update... please...

neat idea

yeah I can change the version number tho

This should work with 2.6 right?

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on the log!

Conflicts will only show up if you have two mods overwriting the same file, not if two files overwrite the same individual entry, so it wouldnt catch that. But I went ahead and renamed my file so it will probably be last and win the overwrite war.

good point, so I checked and have 0 conflicts with your mod. Anyway, I'll figure out if there's any issue at all when I start a new game.

This should work on its own, I have the researcher modifier categories defined. It is possible another mod you have also changes the category too, but does not generate add modifiers, and is overwriting this. In that case it would overwrite both this and the mod you linked.

just noticed this mod is throwing errors like so "[11:04:18][persistent.cpp:34]: Error: "Unknown modifier: planet_researchers_engineering_research_produces_add, near line: 51
" in file: "common/policies/research_policy.txt" near line: 51"

can't check if it actually works in-game or not 'till I start a playthrough though

would it need the linked mod to work?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1688887083

Well, It's working for me now, and if it isn't a problem for anyone else, then there's nothing to worry about :)

weird. I double checked and both files have the same entry for planet_researchers. Not sure what the difference could be.

It also happened on a verified game integrity Stellaris 2.2.7 and no other mods situation.

Strangely enough, I did a local mod with only the relevant files from the Technology Ascendant files, using breakthrough_categories instead, and it miraculously worked... go figure...

Likely you have another mod overwriting my economic categories file. In this its called guided_categories, while in Tech Ascendant its breakthrough_categories. So possibly its some other mod with an entry for planet_researchers that has a name after B but before G. See if renaming it to !guided_categories.txt works

Weirdly enough, this mod doesn't work for me while Technology Ascendant does. The policies are there but they don't work. Looked around on the mod files but didn't find anything wrong as the code seems to be exactly the same where it matters.

I love the intro to this mod post. xD
And thanks for the disclaimer about TA -- I was getting excited for this mod, but it turns out I already own this mod, in the form of TA...!

A problem we all can relate to.

This is great for when my space engineers are inexplicably better physicists than engineers

modern problems require modern solutions

@Musashi Isnt there already a 10 year cooldown to change policies? There should be.

@Vaeringjar Good point, some one suggested this on the pdx forums to, will do

nice solution, but what about the reverse, to reduce one field by -2 ?

In the original mod also.... :)

Can I suggest a cooldown to change the policy of 3 years or 5? Because it seems too easy to change it every single time you need to speed a research