Technology

Technology is what advances your nation, increases your income and productivity and allows you access to more advanced improvements and military equipment. Your scientists work to produce Research Points, initially at a rate of 1 per hour, and you can spend research points to develop new technologies. A new nation is awarded 100 research points – spend them wisely.

Research Stats

Every technology you research adds some points to the seven national statistics:

• Productivity: How efficiently your national industry is run. Each point of Productivity reduces improvement and military upkeep costs by 0.5%, and increases the rate at which improvements operate by 0.5%.
• Influence: How important your nation seems to the populace. Each point of Influence allows you to occupy tiles further from your national capital.
• Economy: How economically advanced your nation is. Each point of Economy adds 1% to your net income from each tile.
• Research: How good your nation is at performing technological research. Each point of Research adds 1% to your production of Research Points.
• Agriculture: How efficiently your agriculture is managed. Each point of Agriculture adds 1% to the base Production value of each tile.
• Intelligence: How well your advisors can determine the actions of other nations. Each point of Intelligence adds 1% to the effectiveness of your undercover units. Intelligence is not currently used.
• Counter-Intelligence: How good your security services are at discovering and stopping enemy action within your borders. Each point of Counter-Intelligence adds 1% to the ability to detect enemy undercover units in your nation, and 1% to your defence against intelligence operations against your nation. Counter-Intelligence is not currently used.

If you have no further specific technologies that you wish to research, you can direct your scientists to focus their efforts on a particular area. For the cost of 100 Research Points you will gain 1 point in the stat of your choice.

Improvement and Military Benefits

All but the most basic of improvements and military units have technology requirements. By researching the technologies that they require, you open up more advanced items for your nation. You can also research special ammunition for your forces.

Special Benefits

Certain technologies confer special benefits upon your nation. These technologies allow you not just to perform better, but to perform tasks that you could not before you researched them. These technologies are:

• Trade and Marketplace, which allow you access to individual trade deals and the global commodity exchange. The technologies which require these two reduce the commission you pay on trading.
• Mining and Deep Mining allow you to see and exploit underground resources.
• In the future there will also be technologies allowing you to colonise less hospitable land, and occupy areas of ocean.

Technology Reference

You can find information on technologies here, units here and improvements here.