Are there any plans to include cooperative research? If I have several particle rifles lying around, I'd like to be able to share them among several bases and have the scientists in all those bases researching particle rifles (to shorten research time) -- assuming that they can ccoordinate their research over the Internet or something. (It might not be as efficient as having all the scientists conducting the research be all in one place, since there'd be a much greater chance of one base duplicating some of another base's research, but it shouldn't be flatly impossible.) I'd also like to be able to "hand off" research to other bases -- if Base A started researching particle rifles, and later sent some to Base B, allowing Base B to research particle rifles alongside Base A, then something interesting came to Base A, I'd like them to be able to drop particle rifles to go check out the new shiny thing while Base B continues looking into them.
I'd also like to be able to make aircraft, not just buy them, if I have the production facilities for it. If possible, it would be nice to be able to manufacture aircraft components, too, like the weapons and the armor and such.
In a related vein, is there any plan in the future for being able to monitor the progress of things that are being transferred from one base to another?
Thanks for your time. Sorry for the long post.