Research

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Research[]

By conducting research, you can upgrade your ships and weapons to be more effective.
There are several catagorys of research, some easier than others to complete.
Development research is focused on new ships/devices and weapons.
Enhancement's boost the base stats of your ships/planet buildings and weapons.
Special research (Such as Alien technology) require rare materals from alien raids.
In order to conduct more powerful research, the cosments and research needed increase.
It is important to note that picking one branch of research does not lock you out from the others.
However generally it is best to focus on one or two types which match your playstyle.

[ Fig 01. Research Menu ]

[Enhancement research]

By conducting the research, you can boost your fleets durability/evasion, weapons damage/accuracy.
Enhancements in these fields are very powerful, increasing your ship/weapons dur/damage by 2% a level.
Ship evasion and weapon accuracy get boosted by +1 per level.
You can also boost your planetary buildings base effectiveness by 2% per level.

Each enhancement can be leveled up to 60 times, making it a very powerful tool for your nations growth.

[Weapon development research]

You can develop 4 kinds of weapons by completing the research.
Beam weapons have balanced stats and range, making them easy to use and effective.
Missle weapons have the highest accuracy in the game and good range.
Fighter weapons have the highest attack and rate of fire, but very low range.
Cannon weapons have the highest range, but very low rate of fire and moderate damage/accuracy.
The higher your research from your planets, the higher rank of each weapon you can research.
Beams are the cheapest to research, followed by missles, then fighters, then cannons.
Each weapon has its own strengths and weaknesses, using them in synergy with your fleet is key to success.

[Fleet development research]

You can develop 4 kinds of ships and multiple ship devices in this catagory
The ships are destoryers, cruisers, battleships and motherships.
Destoryers are your starting ship, they carry great evasion and moderate firepower, but are very fragile.
Cruisers are medium sized ships, they have balanced durability/resist and evade but lack damage.
Battleships are large sized ships, they have the highest attack in the game, but weakest defenses.
Motherships are giant sized ships, they have extremely good durability and attack, but terrible evasion.

Ship Devices:

There are 3 main types of ship devices: Engines, armour, and special devices.
In each catagory of device, there are multiple branches to pick and research which effect different attributes.
For engines, you can pick a general evasion boost, or one more speclised to two types of evasion.
For armours, again, you can pick between armours which boost certain resist values.
For ship devices, you can pick between evasion, durability, resistance, weapon damage and accuracy
There are even more special devices from alien raids and hyper lab research to unlock as you progress!

[Formation development research]

Each formation boosts certain stats on your fleet, while some also have drawbacks.

Each formation also changes how your fleet goes into battle and which ships get targeted first.
Generally, you want to put the heros which have more defensive power on the 'front line' slots.
Damage dealing heros are best suited in the backlines, so they are protected from most damage.
ALL ships in the formation will recieve the same boosts, regardless of location!

[Alien technology research]

This research can be conducted with special cubes which are obtained form Alien Raids, available from level 30.

Alien technologies include powerful weapon systems and special devices.
While each alien weapon and device is very powerful, they all have clear weaknesses at the same time.

This research requires alot of cosments even for low level weapons and requires dark-matter aswell
Dark matter can be obtained from any alien raid you take part in, even doing 1 damage will grant a small amount.