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, unless you have researched Advanced Research Communications Network (ARCnet - read for more information)
- To increase research speed, you need Lab Droids (2% per Lab Droid), or worker friends (4% per friend), or a scientist (25%) which is credit bought.
- The number of workers that can be used depends on the research lab level. You may add one worker to a Lab, plus one extra worker for every 3 levels. (So a level 4 Lab can have 2 workers, a level 7 may have 3, etc.)
Costs
| Level | Ore | Crystal | Hydrogen | Research Time % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 400 | 200 | 100.00 |
| 2 | 400 | 800 | 400 | 66.67 |
| 3 | 800 | 1,600 | 800 | 50.00 |
| 4 | 1,600 | 3,200 | 1,600 | 40.00 |
| 5 | 3,200 | 6,400 | 3,200 | 33.33 |
| 6 | 6,400 | 12,800 | 6,400 | 28.57 |
| 7 | 12,800 | 25,600 | 12,800 | 25.00 |
| 8 | 25,600 | 51,200 | 25,600 | 22.22 |
| 9 | 51,200 | 102,400 | 51,200 | 20.00 |
| 10 | 102,400 | 204,800 | 102,400 | 18.18 |
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:
| Time(hours) = |
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Where Research Bonus% is 0.02 per Lab Droid, 0.04 per worker friend, and 0.25 per Scientist assigned to your Research Lab.
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)
