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TL;DR

Ability to pin trigger technologies, like pinning an achievement

What?

Pretty straightforward. Have the option to pin a trigger technology so that it's always visible.

Why?

Currently, it's not simple to keep track of what trigger technology you're trying to work on, since if there's more than one trigger technology that you're making progress towards, it will switch between them. Also, if a trigger technology has a single event, like crafting a specific item, you basically have to memorize what the condition is. Trigger technologies also seem to get deprioritized in favor of traditional technologies if you're currently researching them.

If you could pin the trigger technology, similar to how you can pin an achievement, it would make keeping track of which trigger technology you're working on easier.

This would be especially pertinent if a mod adds new and more complex trigger technologies.

The research progress in the top right corner often shows a trigger technology, but then it disappears after while.

It would be great be able to add a trigger technology to your research queue, so it stays on the top-right and technologies that depend on it automatically start researching once you've done the trigger

Seconding this (used different wording, and I think it should be on by default, but otherwise I think we came up with exactly the same idea).

I love the trigger tech system, but it's easy to lose track of what techs you have yet to trigger.