Investment
Research Investment
Research buildings create research points, while individual technologies consume both those points and economic resources as progress advances.
Research points are produced each tick
Branch priorities split output
Resource costs follow progress
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How it works
- Empire Headquarters, Research Centers, Starports, and other specialized effects can add research output when operational.
- Research is allocated among active branches and technologies according to priority. A technology receives funded progress only when its proportional credit and resource costs can be paid.
- Insight and diplomatic or hostile effects may modify progress, but they do not remove the need for a stable research economy.
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Command advice
- Fund fewer decisive technologies when resources are tight; too many equal priorities spread progress thinly.
- Build research where power and labor are dependable, then reserve the materials required by the selected technologies.
- Time expensive unlocks so their completion coincides with the construction capacity needed to exploit them.