Research Lab

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The Research Lab is where you build new technologies. Generally technologies can do one of the following things:

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 worker), or worker friends (4% per friend), or a scientist (25%).
  • 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
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:

Time(hours) =
Ore Cost + Crystal Cost
1000 * (1+Research Lab Level)

Dependencies

Requires

(none)

Required For

See Also