Do you mean the Market seller? I've bought lots from the Market at the full price, what else am I going to do with all this gp laying around since I don't have to save for techs anymore lol
This makes me miss the old system of tech purchasing. It's like paying for techs always used to be in the back of my head as a side-strategy going on in my head all the time along with all the other strategizing. Now that piece of strategy is gone, the difficulty of balancing everything was made simpler, not necessarily better I think.
Maybe what TP needs is a method of funding added, like a sliding scale you can toggle in the tech section to "increase/decrease research investment". If you push the slider to cost 10% of income then you can generate 1tp, if you drop it to 5% then you can get 0.5tp, if you push it to 20% you can get 1.5tp. At least that would somewhat make the techs feel more involved of a process.
Idk, just spitballin. I know I miss the satisfaction of having saved the gp to bang down the research though.