Can anyone explain how projects work now? In previous beta ver the projects transferred unused manufacturing into population, research, etc. Projects still do this but it seems more complicated of a formula and very unclear to me. In my current game I used a custom synthetics race and built purely manufacturing on every planet, expecting to switch to research project. After maxing out all my planets I switched to the research project and was rewarded with 0 points of research. I found by sliding the bar all the way (100%) to research I got points (as you would expect without the research project), however somewhere in between manufacturing and research gave the most research points. On most planets it seemed that there was a certain split (individual to that planet) between research and manufacturing (40/30% manufacturing/60-70% research) that resulted in the most research points. On one planet as you slide between research and manufacturing there seemed to be different peaks where research would go up then down then up again. Can anyone explain what is happening here, or how research projects work?