Technology graph visualization

[RedRafe]

Hello,

I have a question about how techs are rendered in the thechnology tree UI.

From what I've gathered from the other topics (viewtopic.php?p=589068&hilit=technology+order#p589068), this is roughly how techs are sorted:

- ordering by the required science packs (most expensive pack used)
- (if the same then) ordering by the technology-unit-cost (it completely ignores the time costs)
- (if the same then) ordering by the technology-order
- (if the same then) ordering by the technology-name

However, in this proof of concept mod, 2 techs are sorted in an order I cannot predict/modify via mod:

tech-tree-order.png (704.97 KiB) Viewed 43 times

I would have expected "electric-weapons-damage-2" & "military-5" to be inverted in the graph (should have EWD-2 on the left of M-5), as they also are ordered correctly on the left side list..

The two techs are basically declared as:

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{
  {
      name = 'military-5',
      order = 'b-b-a',
      unit = { cost = 500, ingredients = { RGMBYW} },
  },
  {
      name = 'electric-weapons-damage-2',
      order = 'b-a-a',
      unit = { cost = 500, ingredients = { RGMBYW } },
  }
}

I'm leaving a copy of the src mod to test this (requires SA + this mod) if somebody can test this behavior and cast a light on how the tech tree is displayed, even if the answer is a simple "the tech graph follows different rules to organize techs" and there's simply nothing to be done to obtain the result.

Thanks