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I had the idea to make the game more interesting when playing with friends by making bases far away from each other & developing separately then using rails & similar to 'trade' and similar things. the only problem is that the research is globally shared, I have no idea if it's even possible but it would be really cool if someone could create a mod that would somehow make it local to seperate players in multiplayer. Thanks for any help! even if it is just to tell me it isn't possible

I think you can't do it for now, researches only are separated for force (faction), in a future, you can create how many forces you want.