The current tech tree.
Research allows one access to new technologies. A library, university or research centre (depending on your civilization age) is required to do research. The research is divided into ages. Bear in mind that once you go two ages ahead of the possible research option, it will be locked so it is recommended to research as much as you can before advancing too far (you will only be able to research technology from the age before yours). Also, only one technology can be researched at a time even if you have more then one research facility. However, more and/or higher leveled research facilities do decrease the time it takes to do research.
Researching can:
- Increase the amount of resource gain
- Give you access to new units and buildings
- Lower the trading time
- Improve specific or all units
- Lower the building time
- Allow you to build on specific resource tiles
- Allow you to make (aditional) settlements
- And get you many more advantages!
Often, one kind of research requires another. The technologies unlocked often are linked, so for example a sawmill will grant you access to the research of springboards, both increase the amount of wood you gain. This is known as a tech tree.
List of Research per Realm
| Research |
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Ancient • Classical • Feudal • Renaissance • Imperial • Industrial • Modern • Future |
| Buildings | |
| Military | |
| Resource | |
| Obsolete |
Barracks • Craftsmanship • Farm • Forestry • Library • Lookout Post • Parade Ground • Quarry • Storehouse • Village Centre • Hardened spears • Spearman • Sport • Improved irrigation • Philosophy • Religion |
| Buildings |
• Armoury • Blacksmith • Currency • Expert masonry • Fishing • Forest construction • Mine • Plaza • Reconnaissance • Sawmill |
| Military |
Agile boots • Archer • Ballista • Chevalier • Flaming Archer • Gladii • Hardened Swords • Knight • Phalanxes • Polyboli • Re-Curve Bowman • Riding Technique • Ritter • Scorpio • Swordsmanship |
| Resource |
Clearcutting • Improved drainage • Iron working • Manure • Mine carts • Monocropping • Springboards • Stone saws • Tilling |
| Other | |
| Buildings |
Capitol • Cottage • Hill Construction • Stone Mason • Stone Road • Tax Office • Town Hall • Training Yard |
| Military |
Agincourt Bowmen • Catapults • Crusaders • Halberdiers • Hardened Arrows • Horsemen • Knight Training • Longbowmen • Mangonel • Master Archer • Onager • Pikemen • Pollaxers • Rations • Supply Chain • Templars • Torsion Ballista |
| Resource |
Box Mining • Fishing Weir • Hematite Enrichment • Metallurgy • Room And Pillar Mining • Selective Logging • Smelting • Timber Management |
| Culture | |
| Other |
Bartering • Caravans • Governance II • Revenue • Taxation |
| Buildings |
Architecture • Customs House • Engineering • Foundry • Market • Recruitment Office • University • Warehouse |
| Military |
Arbalest • Bowmanship • Commandeering • Conditioning • Couillard • Crossbowman • Demi-Lancer • Explorer • Firebrand • Gendarmes • Horse Breeding • Incendiary Missiles • Logistics Corps • Pikeman Training • Repeating Crossbow • Trebuchet |
| Resource | |
| Culture |
Education • Fine Art • High Fashion • Humanism • Literature • Scientific Revolution • Social Reform • Opulence |
| Other |
Exploitation • Governance III • Logistics • Progressive Taxation • Redistribution • Representation • Repricing • Secure Transit • Tallage |
| Buildings |
Academy • Apartment • Blueprints • City centre • Coal Mine • Coke Furnace • Factory • Farmland Construction • Gunsmith • Optical Surveyance • Processing plant • Watchtower |
| Military |
Basic Training • Cannon • Cavalryman • Combat Training • Conscription • Dragoons • Falconet • Grenadiers • Hardened Bolts • Hussars • Long Gun • Musketman • Redcoat • Seigniorage |
| Resource | |
| Culture |
Antiquities • Capitalist Agenda • Expansionist Theory • Imperialism • Public House • Theatre |
| Other |
Governance IV • Improved Production Methods • Income Tax • Manufacturing • Railroad • Subsidisation • Sustainability |
| Buildings |
Army Fort • Bank • Desert Construction • Oil Well • Refinery |
| Military |
Artillery • Cavalry Theory • Commando • Field Gun • Field Medic Training • Flintlock Muskets • Howitzer • Marksman • Mortars • Officer Training • Resocialization • Rifleman |
| Resource |
Anthracite Enrichment • Longwall Mining • Opencast Mining • Prospecting • Pumpjack |
| Culture | |
| Other |
Cotton Mill • Governance V • Industrial Revolution • Machine Tools • Sales Tax • Tax Policy • Trade Unions • Urbanisation • Windfall Profits Tax |
| Buildings |
Aerodrome • Aluminum Plant • Bauxite Laboratory • Metropolis • Research Facility • Shopping Centre • Vehicle Bay |
| Military |
Assault Rifle • Attack Chopper • Bomber • Explosive Shells • Fighter • Flak Cannon • Infantry Fighting Vehicle • Infantryman • Marines • Nebelwerfer • Panzergrenadiers • Rocket Artillery • Special Forces Training • Tank • Tank Hunter |
| Resource | |
| Culture | |
| Other |
Air Freight • Cargo • Corporation Tax • Governance VI • Governance VII • Inheritance Tax • Mass Production • Mechanisation • Pigovian Taxes • Poll Tax • Recycling |
| Buildings |
Commercial Building |
| Military |
Interceptor • Interceptor Railgun • Laser Weapons • Magnetic Acceleration • Medibots • Mobil SAM Battery • NGAD • Sonic Superpositioning • Uranium Shells • VTOL |
| Culture |
Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Photosynthesis • Augmented Cognition • Augmented Reality • Phased Array Optics • Quantum Computing • Quantum Dots • Semantic Web • Ubiquitous Connectivity • Virtual Worlds • Web 3.0 |
| Other |
3D Printing• Air Tax• Carbon Nanotubes • Connectivity Tax • Freedom Tax • Governance VIII • Governance IX • Ministry of Plenty • Perpetual Inflation • Synthetic Genetics • Wireless Energy Transfer |