Description
Adaptive Tooling allows factories to reconfigure around new designs without discarding an entire generation of machinery. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+3%
Strategy notes
Adaptive Tooling develops the Production discipline within Industrial Megastructure Empire. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works. Its immediate value is +3% construction throughput; unlocks Space Shipyard. The principal counterpressure is that its fixed yards, long supply chains, and visible projects are vulnerable to blockade and sabotage.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its Production benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects.
Research cost
8KRP
6KCredits
3KCommon
800Rare
500Strategic
400Fuel