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TL;DR

Labs being able to target research AFTER the first one in the queue IF they are missing science packs

What ?

I see people having to baby sit research whenever a new delivery from gleba comes in and it just looks extremely annoying to do and if they don't keep track of it they just lose an entire shipment

They can choose between 3 things
NEVER researching gleba tech so they don't need gleba science packs
ALWAYS researching gleba tech so they don't need to keep track of the shipments
OR keep track of the shipments which just sounds like a huge hassle and will force them to drop whatever they were doing to prioritise gleba research and deprioritise it after all of the science packs have been used

By allowing labs to skip researches they don't have science packs for it would allow people a peace of mind, but this would introduce another issue of having to allow labs to research different techs at the same time

Why ?

I believe that reducing the time spent having to micro manage research in order to use up all of the spoilabe gleba science packs can only improve the player experience