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if the trigger for a technology is "scripted" you seem to be unable to set saved_progress on it in order to indicate it to the user, for example when there are multiple entities a player can mine and not just one so you can count it in your script and just update the saved progress and once its ready to hit 100% then you call script_trigger_research() instead.

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+1, i have the same usecase of having multiple entities to mine

Part of the issue is how saved progress is stored/used by the engine. It is a value between 0 and num-research-units. So when a technology does not *have* research units there's no context for what percentage the number represents (there is no max-value).

Perhaps you could have a count property like some of the other TechnologyTriggers so there is a maximum to reference to?

That might also be better served by converting LuaTechnology::saved_progress to a uint of the units researched/'used' by script, relative to num-research-units

I feel like it would make more sense as a 0-1 fraction, like if you research 50 units out of a tech that has 100 and a later mod update bumps it to 200 it feels fair that the 50% progress gets preserved than it falling back to 25% progress.