Research Lab
From Starfleet Commander
The Research Lab is where you build new technologies. Generally technologies can do one of the following things:
- Improve existing items. For instance, upgrading weapons tech gives all of your ships 10% extra weapons rating in battle.
- Unlock new technologies.
- Unlock new ships, buildings, and defenses.
Some technologies have certain prerequisites, such as a certain level Research Lab or a certain level of another technology. They will not appear in your Research Lab until you've reached the requisite minimums.
Details about the Research Lab
- ONLY 1 research lab can be used at a time.
- To research some technologies, a certain research lab level in the planet must be reached.
- Research labs can use only resources from the planet they are built upon.
- To use resources from another planet for research, it must be transported from other planets to the planet with the research lab.
- Building laboratories in other planets will NOT give you increased researching speed.
- To increase research speed, you need lab droids (2% per worker), or worker friends (4% per friend), or a research commander (25%).
- The number of workers that can be used depends on the research lab level {1 + rounddown(level/3)}.
Costs
| Level | Ore | Crystal | Hydrogen |
| 1 | 200 | 400 | 200 |
| 2 | 400 | 800 | 400 |
| 3 | 800 | 1,600 | 800 |
| 4 | 1,600 | 3,200 | 1,600 |
| 5 | 3,200 | 6,400 | 3,200 |
| 6 | 6,400 | 12,800 | 6,400 |
| 7 | 12,800 | 25,600 | 12,800 |
| 8 | 25,600 | 51,200 | 25,600 |
| 9 | 51,200 | 102,400 | 51,200 |
| 10 | 102,400 | 204,800 | 102,400 |
Researching
Your empire can only research one technology at a time. The time it takes to research a new technology is determined by the following formula:
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Dependencies
Requires
(none)
Required For
- Energy Tech (level 1)
- AI Tech (level 1)
- Jet Drive (level 1)
- Laser Tech (level 1)
- Armor Tech (level 2)
- Pulse Drive (level 2)
- Espionage Tech (level 3)
- Expedition Tech (level 3)
- Particle Tech (level 4)
- Plasma Tech (level 4)
- Weapons Tech (level 4)
- Shield Tech (level 6)
- FTL Tech (level 7)
- Warp Drive (level 7)
- Advanced Research Communications Network (level 10)
