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[WOTC] Basic Research and Engineering Redux

Originally posted by Isaac Newton:

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

This is a port of the Basic Research and Engineering Research techs from LW2/LWOTC.

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This mod introduces two new repeatable techs, Basic Research and Engineering Research. Completing each tech increases the respective Science or Engineering Scores by 5. This is effectively as getting an imaginary Scientist and Engineer. These imgainary scientists and engineers obviously can't be staffed, but they count for techs that have staff requirement. Imaginary scientists also increase research speed. Each time the tech is completed, its cost is increased.

In normal games this is probably redundant, and never has a use case, as you have more Scientists and Engineers then you know what to do with. In Covert Infiltration it's a bit harder to get those, so this is something that might help, although the author still thinks that the usefulness of this tech is questionable. Still, it is a good option to have in case the reader is screwed by RNG or something like that.

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The initial research time if configurable in XComStrategyTuning.ini. The increase in science/engineering score and the increase in research time for repeating the tech is in XComGameData.ini.

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Redundant with LWOTC, althuogh it should technically work, which might be considered cheating a bit (since then you have two copies of the same tech so you can do it twice before increasing the cost).
There is a positive chance which is strictly smaller than 1 that this mod will work in vanilla XCOM2.
Can be used in existing campaigns.
Consider using this author's "Show Repeatable Tech Count" mod to see how many times these repeatable techs were researched.

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All required mods are required.

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• None at the moment.

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The author is grateful to Pavonis Interactive for the original code. The author is also grateful to Xymanek and Σ12345 for their useful remarks. The author is also apparently grateful to SpartanCaeca for something, although at this stage it is not clear for what. The author would like to thank the members of the MEME Discord for the continued emotional support.