This is a Challenge mod that restricts how the player is able to accumulate research points. Every resource, research sample, and research item in the game has had its 'bytes' value reduced to 1, with the exception of those items found inside the EXO Dynamics Research Aids, which are the triangle pods scattered around. The other exception is the EXO Chips, found inside the EXO Caches. Lastly, the power cost of research has been increased to 20 units per second.

The spirit of this challenge is to force the player to spend more time exploring, hopefully making more use of rovers and building more bases on more planets, as opposed a single large base.

If there is interest, I may add a mission to the mod which would give the player an ultimate goal of accumulating some arbitrarily large number of bytes and keep track of their progress. Please leave a comment if this is something you would like added.

This mod uses the AstroTechies modloader, which you can find here:
https://github.com/AstroTechies/astro_modloader/releases