How exactly does the decay work? Do I get less research value of the agricultural science pack only, or also from all the other packs that I use for research?
My first research was tree planting, the second research was fish breeding. I dropped 600 space science packs from my space platform and produced only agricultural science packs on Gleba (aside for the packs for the tree planting research). Before the research was done (costs 500 space and agricultural packs), I ran out of science packs; I was using 5 research labs at first, upped to 9 research labs later on. Running out of space science packs makes me believe that the agricultural science packs affect the research gained from all the packs?
Or are my other science packs "safe" and I only have to overproduce agricultural packs, to account for their decay? If so, why did I need more than 600 science packs for the fish breeding research?
Some background on how I play (and so why I ask), I generally have small factories that I let run over long periods of time, while I do other things
I generally aim to consume as little resources as possible from resource patches.