Research changes in ToA?

from GalCiv2 Forums
New to posting on the forums, but not new to the game. I've been playing ToA and for some reason every time I tech up a research level, the research costs for all techs increase dramatically. Meaning, when I go from say research centers to research academies (correct me if its the other way around), tech A goes from 100 research points to say 300 or 400. Now, I don't think this is a bug b/c it would be a very weird one, but I haven't seen anyone mention it on the forums. Anyways, if no one else is experience this, let me know so that it can be classified as a bug. If this is the new way research works, anyone have any tips on research strats.  b/c I have no idea how to handle this. Thanks
2,135 views 5 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sorry for the triple post. It was my first time posting, and it was having problems going through.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Technologies have always become more expensive the higher you go. This is especially true of industry and research technologies. Fortunately, with the research techs, you have the option of researching the new buildings, building them, and then using that new researching capacity to finished the more expensive follow up tech.

As for research strategies? Varies by race now that everyone has unique tech trees. Experiment, mess around, and see what works.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for letting me know it was always that way. From recent memory I have just used my base research to research all the way up to the level just below invention matrix and never really built anything past that. Just recently I started using the lower buildings to speed things up and then upgraded later, thus the confusion.

Just out of curiosity, did they increase research cost at all the levels (i.e. normal, fast, etc.) for Twilight?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
if you want to get things going faster, try getting advanced computing, then all the mini techs, and then do some of the morale and economic research techs. After that, go on other brancesh and finish the morale and economic techs as time goes on. but if you get all the mini techs going, you will see how fast planetary invasions can be researched compare to at the beginning, or say some of the other weapons research.