[0.15] Stopping active research

[jonatkins]

With 0.15 and the new infinite research, it's possible to start research that can take many hours, even days, to complete.

Given that research progress is now remembered when you switch to new research, it would also be nice to have the option to just stop (pause) the current research progress without starting another - to give an overloaded factory a rest, for example.

[Aeternus]

It'd be handy, but you can already do so - stop supplying your labs with research items, or just set the labs on a separate power grid so you can kill their power with the flick of a button. But yea, a "no research" button in the List of Technologies that you could switch to would work as well, shouldn't be too hard to implement I think. No requirements, no rewards and no chance on progress whatsoever

[jonatkins]

I wouldn't make it that complex - currently where there's the "research" button on the non-active research, there's nothing on the one currently running. Just add a "stop"/"pause" button instead.

Also, looking at the current UI, there's a "saved progress" bar on any that have been paused by switching to others. Would be nice to have a "current progress" bar on the one currently active too.

Basically, more visual indications and control on research in progress - as at the moment it's not obvious at a glance which research activity is currrnely actice. While I think about it, another nice visual indication for currently running research. There's green for done, yellow for available, red for not available - perhaps blue for currently active?

Also, on the icon in the list of technologies, showing the saved/current progress bar would be a nice touch.

[DRY411S]

+1 from me. It bugs me that research cannot be temporarily stopped automatically.

[Engimage]

Upvoting adding pause/resume to research. Would be very handy.
It is really useful when you suddenly have a brownout or some resource outage and you need to fix it asap without disrupting main production lines.