Research

Research will allow you to research new technologies. These new technologies will allow you to build new machines and upgrade others.

Obtaining Research
Resarch is an item made in a research lab. It takes one hundred of each item in the lab and converts it into research. If the amount of items in the lab is not one hundred or more it will not be able to use them. If a single item type has more than one hundred it will only use one hundred. Having a varity of items will increase the production of research.

Researching
Once you have a enough research go to the research page. It is the flask button. There you can spend you research to start researching something. It will take at least 100,000 research and one day to buy something. There are several different things to research.


 * Researching a producer will allow double output. This stacks with double output from being on special land to have a maximm four times as much produced.


 * Researching a machine will allow it to process ten times more items.


 * Researching energy will allow new machines to be built that create energy more efficiently.


 * Piping will allow pipes to be upgraded to hold significantly more. They also allow warehouses to be upgraded to allow teleporting between other upgraded warehouses, upgraded bases, and orbiting stations. The base will now also be upgradeable.


 * Defence will allow defence stations that are ten times more efficient.


 * Computing will allow computers that are ten times more efficient.


 * Orbiting will allow one hundred orbiting stations to be placed in space. Items can be teleported to them by other orbiting stations, upgraded warehouses, and upgraded bases.

Upgrading a Machine
Once you have finished researching something you can now buy or upgrade that machine. If you researched the "Lumber Yard" then vew your planet, go to the build panel, then click the "Research" button (it is the green 'U'). Then click on your existing lumber yards to upgrade them. Each machine will cost different resources to upgrade. A "Lumber Yard" will cost 1,000 fertalizer. After it is upgraded (it will have a red mark in its lower right hand corner when it is upgraded) it will start automatically producing twice as many resources as before.