Research

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Research allows you to unlock new buildings, transports, vehicles, edicts, recipes and ship upgrades.

You may add more than one research to the research queue and they will be researched in the order you have added them. The number of technologies in your current research queue are represented by the "+X" number that is located next to the current research in the research bar. You can remove items from the research queue by selecting them, and clicking on the "Remove From Queue" button. However, you must remove the items from the queue in the order they were added as well. If you wish to cancel the entire research queue, simply cancel the current research and it will also clear the current queue.

Research Points

Each Research Lab produces a different amount of research points each cycle.

Each technology has a "difficulty rating", which defines how many research points you need to research in order to unlock the technology. The difficulty rating can be seen next to the technology name in the research screen, e.g. "Construction III[9]".

How to calculate the amount of research points necessary from difficulty rating:

Formula: difficulty * 10 + (difficulty - 2) * 18

Difficulty 1 and Difficulty 2 are 10 and 20 points respectively. Each difficulty thereafter represents a 28 point increase in research points necessary to research the technology. For example: Difficulty 25 requires 664 research points. (25 * 10 + (25- 2) * 18)

The amount of research points needed also correlates to the amount of Lab Equipment necessary for the research in its totality. This would mean that in the above example, you would need 664 lab equipment to research a difficulty 25 technology.


Research speed per lab
Research Labs Research Speed (points per 60)
Research Lab 3.2
Research Lab II 4
Research Lab III 4.8
Research Lab IV 5.6
Research Lab V 6.4
Research Information By Difficulty
Difficulty Points Needed
1 10
2 20
3 48
4 76
5 104
6 132
7 160
8 188
9 216
10 244
11 272
12 300
13 328
14 356
15 384
16 412
17 440
18 468
19 496
20 524
21 552
22 580
23 608
24 636
25 664
26 692
27 720
28 748
29 776
30 804
31 832
32 860
33 888
34 916
35 944
36 972
37 1000
38 1028
39 1056
40 1084
41 1112
42 1140
43 1168
44 1196
45 1224
46 1252
47 1280
48 1308
49 1336
50 1364
51 1392
52 1420
53 1448
54 1476
55 1504
56 1532
57 1560
58 1588
59 1616
60 1644