Hey, thank you for reading my idea and responding. It was just an idea I had to make the late game more interesting. Point being is, that maybe ONE intermediate product could be made as well - maybe for higher cost and only for high research cost. But I see your point, and the more I think about, I ...

TL;DR Have the assembly machines producing one of the "lower" products AND the desired final product. What ? I'm suggesting that the assembly machines could (by research) be enabled to produce one of the ingridients of desired products itself. Take the electronic circuits for instance, in...