I know mixed tech is getting a major change in the future, but in the short term, I was wondering if both the cost of the research and the time it takes to do the research could be reduced.  Vessels that could be exploitable, like the V-15 Dreadnought, are so slow now and take so long to build that you can no longer make them part of an early fleet, and whatnot.  That's good.  But it takes 7 minutes and 45 seconds to do mixed tech research, not including the time it takes to build the yard, and the insane cost for the tech.  Most games are usually over by the time you could reasonably afford and make the tech, let alone produce any vessels from them.

We like our mixed tech ships!

What if we could increase the cost but decrease the time?

Even the Dreads aren't worth it to me.   I tried making them later in a game once, and the speed at which they crawled was just sad.  They're basically only useful as base defense, like a mobile turret, in my eyes.  Which is what we saw them doing mostly in the show, but I hope they get a little faster so that they can be used in fleet actions again.