Research Lab
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 1. ONLY 1 research lab can be use at one time. 2. To research some technologies, a certain research lab level in the planet must be reach 3. Research lab use only the resource found in the planet it is built on. 4. To use resources for research, it must be transported from other planets to the planet with the research lab. 5. Building laboratories in other planets will NOT give you increase researching speed. 6. To increase research speed, you lab droids (2% per worker), or worker friends (4% per friend), or a research commander (25%). 7. Number of workers can be place is depended on 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)
