er, larger pic please.

I got a 700% research square myself either last game or the game i'm still playing

I've had both the 700% Production and 700% Research squares - on Earth

My current game, I took the Arcean tech capital with a 700% research square...

... Right next to a planet with a 700% AND a 300% manufacturing square.

Which leads me to the question, can you move your manu/tech/political capital? As in, demolish them and build them elsewhere?

Just played a gigantic obscene game and the Darth had 3 700% research squares. They had completed the total reasearch tree half way through the game. Had tech and influence victories turned off.

Took me 25 mins of restarts to get that!

Sad, I never restart.  

The precursor mine went from mythical (ie... non-existant) to fairly common, possibly too common. After installing 1.2, the first game I played got a precursor mine on the very first planet I colonised. No others in the galaxy however so just really, really lucky I guess (advanced spying on all other races), so I have checked all 50 inhabitated planets in the game.

Perhaps it should be made a little more rare in a future patch/expansion?

One last point the planet with it on is constantly at a minus tax wise, so 1-2 other planets are needed to fund just one of those mines with a tech capitol, very powerful...

I once killed the humans and grabbedt he earth which had 2 700% research and 1 700% manufacturing.

lets say I moved my home planet there pretty darn quickly. and guarded it with the biggest fleet I could assemble

In my current game the Arceans seem to have gotten all the good stuff.

So far I've taken a planet with not only the 700% research but also had 2 300% and a 100% tiles on it too. The next planet had 700% manufacturing and 3 300% tiles.

They also have all the high PQ planets too, so far captured a 32, 30 and a couple of mid twenties.

I'm sure you can figure out why I declared war on them