Researching

In the Academy you can research new things such as technologies or new units for your city. These researches and subsequent discoveries only apply to the city that made them. Everything must be researched individually in every city which means it is very possible to have different research strategies in almost every city you have.

Research Points

Research points are a form of expendable resources. The more you expand the academy the higher the number of research points you have available. There is an upper limit of 160 per city. However you can receive 12 further research points through the building of the Library on a city. You should spend these wisely as it is impossible to research everything within a single city.

In the academy you can check under research points how many research points are available and what discoveries you have made so far.

Technology Research

The requirements that need to be met in order to research a technology, are:

• 'The level of the academy' - in the Academy you can check which academy level is required for this research.

• 'Sufficient research points' - if you hold the mouse over a particular research, it is indicated how many research points are required for this. These are deducted when you carry out the research.

• 'Sufficient raw materials' - the necessary raw materials required can also be seen in the tool hint.

• 'free places in the research building arc'

If all Prerequisites are fulfilled, you can click on the required research and the necessary points and resources are taken automatically. The research arc is then adjusted to suit.

All research orders follow on in logical order.

Above the table, you can see this pointer:

This indicates the current level of the academy. This allows you to see at a glance which Technologies are available. In this case, all researches that are in the first two columns could be carried out. With the pointer in the third column, The first 3 columns would be available, and so on.

Roll-back Research

It is possible to undo your research using a culture point, you can find culture points in the culture tab in the Agora!

Technologies

Picture	Technology	Description	Cost
At Level 1
	Slingers	Enables the training of Slingers.	300 500 500 4
	Archer	Enables the training of Archers.	550 100 400 8
At Level 4
	Hoplite	Enables the training of Hoplite.	600 200 850 8
	Town Guard	The city guard strengthens your militia with a extra fighter per farm level.	400 300 300 3
	Diplomacy	Diplomacy lowers the risk of resistance in a farming village by 20%.	100 400 200 3
At Level 7
	Demanding Forces	You can Demand Forces from Farming Villages.	600 600 600 4
	Booty	Your troops can carry 30% more loot.	1200 1200 1200 3
	Ceramics	Your warehouse can store 2500 more Resources.	700 1500 900 4
At Level 10
	Horseman	Enables the Training of Horseman.	1400 700 1800 8
	Plow	The farm can provide for 200 additional residents.	1000 1100 700 4
	Instructor	Instructors encourage the training of your soldiers. Your Barracks works 10% faster.	800 1300 1600 4
At Level 13
	Bireme	Allows the construction of biremes.	2800 1300 2200 8
	Crane	Increases the Senate building speed by 10%.	3000 1800 1400 4
	Conscription	Introducing Conscription reduces the cost of land units by 10%.	1900 2100 3000 4
At Level 16
	Chariot	Allows the construction of Chariot.	3700 1900 2800 8
	Light Ship	Allows the construction of Light Ships.	4400 2000 2400 8
	Architecture	Through the development of architecture, the cost of raw materials in buildings can be reduced by 10%.	3700 4200 2500 6
	Shipwright	Shipbuilders support your shipyard workers. The Harbour works 10% faster.	5000 2000 3900 6
At Level 19
	Fire Ship	Allows the construction of fire ships.	5300 2600 2700 8
	Catapult	Allows the construction of Catapults.	5500 2900 3600 8
	Cryptography	Through the development of cryptography, it is 20% more difficult for enemy spies to obtain a report.	2500 3000 5100 6
	Democracy	Your people are behind their leader. It takes 10% longer to overthrow your city.	3100 3100 4100 6
At Level 22
	Colony Ship	Allows you to build a colony ship.	7500 7500 9500 0
	Quick Transport Boat	Allows the construction of Quick transport boats.	6500 2800 3200 8
	Meteorology	Your Infantry move 10% faster.	3500 2700 7500 4
	Bunks	Your transport ships can carry 6 additional units.	8900 5200 7800 6
At Level 25
	Trireme	Allows the construction of triremes.	9000 3800 4700 12
	Phalanx	Your troops form a powerful Phalanx and thus fight 10% stronger than normal.	4000 4000 15000 9
	Breakthrough	Makes it possible to attack by breaking through. Your ships enable a better breakthrough of your transport boats to the land. But this reduces the fighting strength of your ships by 50%.	12000 12000 16000 6
	Mathematics	Through the development of mathematics, raw material costs for vessels are reduced by 10%.	7100 4400 8600 6
At Level 28
	Ram	The fighting power of your ships increases by 10%.	7900 9200 14000 10
	Cartography	Through the development of cartography your ships can navigate better and are 10% faster.	10000 6700 12500 8
	Conquest	Allows you to conquer enemy cities.	12000 12000 16000 0