Infrastructure Research


Background

With the loss of peace and war is going on all around the universe, small empires will have to pay more attention towards improving their empire's infrastructure efficiency. There are, in total, 255 known blueprints that will improve the efficiency of any infrastructure. That is why empire leaders will have to decide on which infrastructure type they want to improve on.

For every blueprints researched on, the specific infrastructure will be working 10% more efficiently. With only 255 blueprints available, empire leaders will have to decide wisely on which infrastructure type they want to research. Usually, empires that focus on one or two researches will be stronger in time.

The blueprints, which were spread out by the United World Council, are all different. Although there are 255 of them, every blueprint will be harder and harder to research on due to the fact that they are encrypted so that the knowledge will not fall into the wrong hands. Before they could send out the decryption code, the leaders of the United World Council were all murdered. That is why, being the only intelligent person in your empire, you will have to spend turns on them to decrypt them yourself. With each blueprint encrypted more secure than the other, you will have to spend more and more turns to decrypt more blueprints. There are no easy shortcuts to this as there are so many languages in the universe you will need to spend turns on them. Being an intelligent leader, you will start off with the easiest encrypted blueprint first working your way from the easiest to the hardest.


Below is the information for the five main researches, which empires can research, on using the blueprints..

- Housing:
When in time of peace, population in the universe seems to multiply by the second. Due to this reason, blueprints were made so as to improve the efficiency of houses. With the blueprints researched, houses can be built higher, bigger and stronger so that it will support more population. With more population, the leader will get more tax from the population. However, bear in mind that for every population you have, it will mean that you will be able to bring up a bigger army. That is why 10% of your empire's total population amount will be added to your empire's Power Rating.

- Commercial:
Now, population in your empire will trade among themselves. They will do businesses and go on living. As their leader, you have the privilege of collecting tax from the commercial activities they make. You will be collecting tax in the form of commercial building rents. However, the process of this money reaching your money reserve is hideous as your empire is big and the process is troublesome. Some of the money will be used to deliver the money to you. Having researched blueprints on commercial infrastructures, you will increase the efficiency of commercial infrastructure. You will gain 10% more money collected from commercial building for every successful commercial infrastructure you researched on.

- Agriculture:
Food has always been the essence of life. Being in peace and harmony with increasing populations, empires will have to give food to its population. There are two ways of getting food for your empire. You can either buy food from the market or make your own. Agriculture infrastructures are the only place you can grow food for your empire. With this infrastructure, everything produced is not wasted. The edible part will be made into food while the rest will be packed up as raw materials for industries. Now to increase the production of food in your empire, you can resolve to research on blueprints on the agriculture infrastructure. With every successful level researched, your agriculture infrastructure will produce 10% more output.

- Industry:
Here is where it gets a bit tricky, the industry's sole purpose is to convert raw material produced from agriculture infrastructure into sellable goods. All the other infrastructure types in your empire don't need anything to produce what they produce. The industry infrastructure will need raw material to produce goods. Therefore, you will need to have sufficient amount of raw material in order to produce goods. As the blueprints can be used on these industry infrastructures, researching on them will help making the process of producing these goods more efficient. Goods can be sold to your populations or sold in the market. Goods are sold to your population at a fixed price of $5 per unit. Using the blueprints to research on this industry infrastructure will increase the efficiency of industry by 10% for every level researched.

- Mining
Basically all planets are made of minerals, there are six different types of major minerals in the universe. Every planet is made of a certain mineral. Empires will need these minerals to build ships for exploration, defense or offense. Without minerals, empires are a dead stick. That is why minerals are the most important resources you will want to have.

There are two ways you can acquire minerals. One is to buy them from the market. The other is to mine for them yourself from the planets you have. It is always a privilege being able to mine for minerals. During the time of governance by the United World Council, the mining technique was spread to all the races. However, being miners from the beginning of time, the Aspha Miners do have a major mining technique advantage. Utilizing the Aspha Miner's knowledge in mining the blueprints made also helps to improve the mining infrastructures of other empires. You can research your blueprints on these mining infrastructures. Each successful implementation of blueprint by research will let you mine 10% more effectively.



Tips & Suggestions

Before you start doing your researches, take a look at your racial modifiers. Figure out which infrastructure research will profit you the most. Plan your researches.

Every race will have its different most profitable means. Focusing research on that will ensure that you make the most for your empire out of every turn. It is advised that you try to focus on only one research and at the max two. This is to ensure a better resource generation outcome. For an example, a Terran who have 20 level research of commercial will definitely make more money than a Terran who have 10 level of research on commercial and 10 levels of Housing.

It is always best to do you researches when you are in protection. Another tip for you is when you are doing your researches, and you are in DP, it is best to disband all your ships to save up money because your ships will use money for upkeeps.