Cost's of Research?

Anyway to view it?

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Hi all,
First, let me say just how much I love this game, it's sucking me in and eventually I won't have any friends. Anyways, I was wondering if there was any way to view the actual cost of a research, ie, I have a planet that produces 20 research, how can I possibly know how much more I need?
I did a search here and found a sort formula, but I was wondering if there was a button or something that I press to view...say TechX cost 139081 research. Is there a way or mod?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can probably find it in the XML files, though I don't know where and that wouldn't be very convenient.

*shrug*
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the reply, but I have downloaded the Glactopedia and have all the info. What I was wondering was, if there's a quick method of figuring it out on the fly, I don't even care if it's within the game itself or not.

The files help, but if I suddenly change my research I won't be able to figure it out.
ex) I know "Planetary Invasion" = 900, thus if I have 90 research, it will take me 10 turns. But if all of a sudden I change my research to 75, then 80, then 10...I have no quick method of figuring it out.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is a little window in the lower left that shows the time left to research the current tech. That will update as you add research facilities or change slider settings.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Galactopedia shows the basic research cost of a tech. Pretty sure it is not the total research cost of a tech -- the more techs you have the more costs go up, I'm pretty sure. I played around doing the weapon techs and found out the second weapon tech tree i did cost around 16-20% nore than when i did it first; third weapon tech tree was around 30% more.

This is sort of hinted at on page 32 on the game manual. Read the first paragragh under "Research" on that page.