[0.77 Suggestion] No research warning

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Please add a warning message event that will pop up if you do not have anything selected for research.  In just about every game I have played so far, at some point my research objective gets cleared and I spend the next 30 turns researching NOTHING! 

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If there were a turn event message "You do not currently have a technology selected to research.  Pick one, dummy!", there would be less tears.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top


I second this while running the 0.76 I downloaded last night.  I got pop-up attacked at the start of a turn with a research completed message which then morphed right into a battle screen.  Never opened the research screen after the battle and hero level up screens.  Caught it after 10-12 turns... but annoying nonetheless.... the city snooze zzzz thing on the UI is nice but not very pronounced... something similar for research would be good...

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top


Thirded. Seems easy enough to do.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Please! Same goes for cities without production. I keep missing those, too, when I could be building something instead.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Lord, reply 3
Please! Same goes for cities without production. I keep missing those, too, when I could be building something instead.
End of Lord's quote

Don't agree on that. For one, you already have the "zzz" that appears next to idle cities on the lists to the right, but also there are various times that unlike research, you actually don't want to be building anything. Like when you've got nothing you want to build, or when you have any of the improvements that gives you bonuses specifically when production is idle.