Are these normal?

from Sins Forums

Ok, just checking but do these need to be fixed or are they supposed to be like this.

The other day I was playing the Vasari, I was able to get my tech level up to the Kostura Cannon.  When I fired it at a Tec Home world it did no damage.  I built 2 and fired them at the Tec home world and it did no damage.  When my ships fired at it they did damage fine.  The night before my friends and I were playing and one of them had the Tec Novalith Cannon and he was doing great damage on an enemies worlds.

The second thing was, I had researched everything in the military tech tree again with the Vasari.  After my research was complete I decided to eliminate some military research labs to increase commerce by building trade and refineries. I noticed that when I removed some of the labs the research areas became shaded out and you could not use or build the tech stuff you already researched.  In essence you have to keep all the research labs you built or you loss the ability to use the things you researched.  On e would assume that after you know how to build it you should not have to keep labs to research it.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The Kostura Cannon deals a certain amount of damage to everything in the gravity well of the planet it hits and shuts things down for a period of time. It's not a planet-buster like the Novalith.

And yes, the consequence of losing research labs is normal. Perhaps, in reality, completed research would be kept on-hand with or without a lab (then again, maybe the lab is providing some kind of necessary support for the new weapons and whatnot. Who knows) but in-game, the way it currently works offers different strategic opportunities and gives you a reason to keep labs around.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks for the info, at least now I know not to remove the research labs!
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