good mod. But even 1% for a kill is too much, the research ends too quickly. Need more flexible customization or nerfing

Honestly I agree with this so much.

I just got this today, and agree 1% is waaaaaaay to much. I did go into the lua files and edited control.lua line 33 and changed:

attackingForce.current_research.research_unit_energy / 60 to attackingForce.current_research.research_unit_energy / 0.001 and that decreased the research time 100 fold. Still fiddling to find the sweetspot.

After digging through the code, it appears we got the damageEffectScale setting backward. From line 37 in control.lua

local researchDelta = entity.prototype.max_health / (researchTotalCost * damageEffectScale) * (1 + attackingForce.laboratory_productivity_bonus)

we can see researchDelta (research gained per kill) is inversely proportional to damageEffectScale. So we need to set damageEffectScale to a big number if we want to reduce research speed.

Changing the setting on "effect of damage on research in %" from 100 to 10000 gave me a reasonable speed on research.

Oh my God, I can't believe it. This whole time it's been inversely proportional, not actually a percentage. I ended up making a Deathworld were I put it to 1% but then increased the research cost multiplication to 1000 to get that sweet spot... but now using the research lab is so pointless. I wonder if I can change it after I already started.