Research

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Research is produced by colonists working in Research Facilities on your planets. The more Research Facilities a planet has the more research that planet will produce. Constructing higher level Research Facilities will increase the research output of the planet also.

In addition, the more colonists on a planet the more output each Research Facility will produce.

For research to be conducted you must select which technologies you want them to work on. This is done by visiting the Research section.

Most technologies have prerequisites; before research can begin on a technology, all of its prerequisite technologies must be researched fully. You can view the prerequisites of any tech, as well as which other techs and projects it can lead to by viewing the tech tree.

Every technology has an associated Research Cost. For example, an empire must generate 30,000 research units to discover the technology "Titanium alloy".

To indicate which technology you would like to research, simply click on the little grey box next to the technologies name and select a priority. You can set the technology to Priority, 1, 2 oe 3. This will then research all the required technologies leading up to the technology you selected. Technologies with priority 1 will be researched first, then 2 and then 3.

If you want technologies to be researched in a specific order, then make sure to make use of the priority system to ensure they are researched correctly.