Sorry, my fault for being unclear, Spardason21 was correct, I meant per research level.
phader2k2
Not really much of a modder myself, but I attempted to change the value of Return of the Fallen (15% per shot, just to be different) and sure enough it crashed the game. Just for grins, I changed the rate to 3% per shot, and it worked, so I wonder if the 10% max is hard-coded. (which incidentally, would be very strange) Modded again to 9%, still didn't crash (Checked the tech and it did indeed say 9%, but didn't play to see if researching it twice would crash it
I figured out the cause of this, at least for me and my friends, its bad data in the game.perf file (located in the Demigod folder in Documents), a quick fix is just to delete it, but just be warned it will wipe out your settings/favor. You can get a fresh copy and then compare and contrast to find the missing data (For me it was under game options) and replace the corrupted data. What can be troubling with this is if someone hosts with the corrupt data, it will copy the corrupted options to