Thanks, that's very helpful; I didn't understand how the water/steam and per-tick stuff worked, but that makes sense. I got the 85% from the ratio of the temperature to the ideal temperature (220 / 260 = 0.846). I was basing things on the reported values in the tooltips and trying to work it out fro...

Okay, I did some calculations and it seems like 2 Mk2 boilers can feed 3 Mk2 engines at a reasonable efficiency. If I'm understanding the math properly, that should produce 5.27 MW (lesser of 2.1MW * 3 * 0.85 for engines vs 3.1MW * 2 * 0.85 for boilers.) You can get another 0.085MW by using 4 Mk2 en...

It would be much less obtrusive to have the research complete show up as a large indicator icon in a corner of the screen (similar to many strategy games). Clicking on the icon would bring up the research screen and right clicking would dismiss it. I find myself very frequently dismissing the resear...