The game currently allows you to start artefact research on new turrets despite not being able to finish it if your crystal moves past the exit door, which wastes science and is a situation that the first game dealt with by making players unable to start research that they can't finish. 

The crystal moving and artefact triggered waves should not be able to occur at the same time to prevent players from figuring out the hard way that the game is wasting their science

Agree haha, to me there are 2 solutions.
A. You are not able to do research when moving crystal.
B. If you can and success to finish the level/move crystal, you get that research done.

I get confirmation that if you start a research while the crystal bot is on the way to final door you should "finish" the research if you success and your Research Terminal stands up ofc (like not being destroyed on the process)

On that topic: I haven't quite figured out yet if there's a wave incoming and I move the crystal or start research, does that trigger a double-sized wave, or is it essentially "free" (since a wave was already incoming)?

I've had many times where I'm deciding research and I see "wave incoming" so I quickly pick research and assume that it isn't making the wave even bigger, but this thread suggests maybe the waves are stacking up?

mgiuca wrote:

On that topic: I haven't quite figured out yet if there's a wave incoming and I move the crystal or start research, does that trigger a double-sized wave, or is it essentially "free" (since a wave was already incoming)?

I've had many times where I'm deciding research and I see "wave incoming" so I quickly pick research and assume that it isn't making the wave even bigger, but this thread suggests maybe the waves are stacking up?

It's a double-sized wave ^^

Thank you for the suggestion EmbEro.

There was a bug in the Open Dev build where artifact researches were not validated when completing a zone or a district.

It has since been fixed and it shouldn't be a problem anymore.