Technology and Research Points

Research Points

Each technology costs so many Research Points (RP). These represent the amount of brainpower your country can put to use in discovering and inventing things.
RP acts much like CU, you get some of it every cycle.
Your baseline RP per cycle is 1% of your population (this can be increased by buildings). Of course, this would mean that you'd normally be earning around 90 000 RP per cycle! To keep the numbers small, we can use regular SI prefixes for RP, so 90 000 RP would just equal 90kRP (kilo-Research Points).
1000 kRP would equal 1 MRP (Mega-Research Point)
Simple and scientific!

To research a technology, first pick a technology to research. Then, every cycle, you can (and must!) dump all of the RP that you generated that cycle into that technology.
Once the RP invested in that technology hits that technology's RP cost, it will be researched.
Overlapping RP (say you put 10 RP into a 9 RP technology) carries over to the next cycle. However, if you don't start researching a new technology that cycle, the RP stored will be lost.

So, if you still don't understand, here's a quick example:

Example:

Sharing Technology and Collaboration
You can share any technology you own with another country, which gives them a 50% discount when researching that technology.
For collaborative technology-getting, the group pays RP pretty much the same as above. One country would have 1.0x the tech cost, two countries would have 1.5x the tech cost, three countries would have 2.0x the tech cost and so on.
All countries involved must have at least one university, be able to trade with the other countries involved and must all have the same technology targeted. If any country drops out of the collaboration, then the total cost remains the same, but the other members have to foot the bill. You can't add countries to a collaborative research once started.

The Tech Tree

Technology 1800 to 1900 - LARGE IMAGE:

Do we have to research everything by time period, ie, no rushing nukes in 1840?

Nope. Just research as you please. If people progress too quickly there might be a buff to the costs of tech however

Tech is entirely redone

I lol'd the example. Nicely done

So, with the stick example, did and could you spend 60 RP to start researching a tech at the end of one cycle, then when the new cycle starts, invest your new research points in finishing it?

I foresee a problem.

Merged nations will eat up the tech tree at double speed, while big alliances are sticked with normal speed research and the inability to share tech.

We have already had this discussion. Merged nations have 1.5x tech cost (assuming 2 people) which is the same as if 2 nations were doing a tech (first does 1x cost and shares to the other who has .5x cost. (When unlocked after a certain tech/building))

Well, you might admit my disconcert was legitimate, since this is nowhere to be seen up there. I guess the tech unlocking tech sharing is national lab, amirite?

Solved.

After a time period passes, if any nation researches a technology, will that technology become available to other nations after said time period?

Nope. Research it yourself

MysticPing wrote:Nope. Research it yourself

Thanks.

What mystic tried to say is that if you have an active nation from the start of the RP you have to actively research your technologies. If you arrive mid-RP, though, you are entitled a technological bootstrapping, IIRC.

A question. If two techs cost both 100 RP, and we got 200 can we research them both the same cycle?

Yes

I would assume so.

We should probably add a Bolt-Action Rifles tech somewhere around the late 19th Century.