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I find that the research window popping up when research is complete very intrusive. It's like saying, "STOP EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! RESEARCH IS COMPLETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It's very annoying when you're using the mouse to measure out spacing for something, when you're fighting and many other instances. I would think something like a little ding sound and having the little panel on top of the minimap (the one that shows research progress or says "No research being conducted." flash a few times every 5-10 seconds would be sufficient.

Agreed.
At the very least there should be a switch in the options somewhere "pop up tech screen on research complete", or something of that sort.

With multiplayer this must be changed of course. So this must be already in the queue.

I can usually work around things I don't like, such as modding certain things, changing hotkeys or just dealing with what can't be changed. But this is really getting on my nerves soooooo much. Just today, I crashed into my solar panel array destroying panels and accumulators because of this stupid window popping up. Every single frickin time it disrupts my playing experience by closing my inventory window, chest I'm trying to put stuff into, setting a recipe on an assembly machine, etc.

PLEASE GET RID OF THIS STUPID THING!!!!!! THERE IS NO POINT IN HAVING IT POP UP!!!!

I'm interested to see how research will work in multiplayer. It would be good if there was an option for global science or individual science (for competitive play), but for that you might need player-owned buildings, and it gets fiddly pretty fast.