Research and technological advancement is vital to any nation. Researching new levels in each of the fields grants access to new units, new infrastructure, and new technologies. In the world of Project Terra, research is necessary to further expand your nation past the opening stages.
Overview[]
There are four main categories of research: Science, Infrastructure, Military Infrastructure, and Military. Almost all research builds off of research in the Science category, and many technologies have multiple prerequisite technologies.
For every technology you research, your level of research increase by one. Some technologies have effects on your nation similar to laws while others act simply as stepping stones to higher-level technologies.
Requirements[]
Your nation will be able to start researching technologies after purchasing a University. Academics, however, are not required. Your first level of research will cost $10,000, and the cost will increase at a slight exponential rate for every level purchased afterwards. Only one technology can be researched per university at any given moment, and it can take anywhere from two to ten days.
Science Research[]
Fibre Optics
Description: Development of technologies that employ optical fibers, made of glass or plastics, using light signals to transfer large amounts of information.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Ramjet
Description: Development of small and simple engines, utilizing their own motion to compress air, capable of high speeds, useful for missiles and high speed aircraft.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Turbojet
Description: A basic jet engines design based on a turbine which drives a compressor, compressing the air that, while burning fuel, providing thrust.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Diesel Engine
Description: Research and development of an internal combustion engine that uses a high pressure compression to heat and cause the self-ignition of fuel.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Nuclear Enrichment
Description: Developing processes whereby a natural mixture of unstable isotopes is treated so that the end product contains more fissile material.
Time to research: 4 Days
Prerequisites: None
Silicon Refinement
Description: Perfecting processes for obtaining pure silicon used for the manufacture of semiconductor devices.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Reinforced Steel
Description: Development of new types of hardened steel and testing of its uses and limits in en engineering capacity.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
High Strength Concrete
Description: Development of re-enforced concrete using metal frameworks and other new materials and testing of its properties and limits.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Capacitors
Description: Improving technologies for production of integrated devices used for storing electrical charge in electronic circuits.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Transistors
Description: Development of semiconductor devices, used as parts of electronic amplifiers and switches.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Antibiotics
Description: Helps cure the diseases caused by bacteria. Useless against other microbes.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Key Hole Surgery
Description: Development and perfection of modern surgical techniques based on minimally invasive procedures.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Hydraulics
Description: Research into using pressurised liquids, usually oil, to control various things from land gear to control surfaces.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Rifled Barrel
Description: Inventing a process of making helical grooves in the barrel of a gun, spinning the projectile and stabilizing its trajectory.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Parachutes
Description: Research into an item that helps people and objects exit aircraft safely and descend to the ground.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Reactive Armour
Description: Research that helps develop armour types that protects armored vehicles more adequately by using counterexplosions.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
The Internet
Description: Research of methods to incorporate national information technology infrastructure into a global network.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Fibre Optics, Computing
SABOT Shot
Description: Development of projectiles which use directed kinetic energy to pierce thick armour plate.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Wireless Technology, Processors
Rocket Engine
Description: Development of rocket engines based on burning fuel internally, producing forward thrust by rapid release of gas in the backward direction
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Ramjet
Air to Air Missiles
Description: Development of air to air missile technology to replace cannon and machine guns is required for most modern aircraft.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Rocket Engine, Gyrostabilisation
Helicopters
Description: A rotary-wing aircraft that provides personnel quick movement from one location to another. It can also engage enemy personnel and structures.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbofan
Turbofan
Description: Design of more complex, less noisy and more efficient than turbojet engines, based on a divided gas flow. Most common type of a jet propulsion engine.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Marine Turbine
Description: Development of a large jet engine turbine that can be used to power large shipping vessel efficiently.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Thrust Vectoring
Description: Testing and development of movable thrust exhausts for aircraft allowing them to perform STOL, VTOL and other more-complex manoeuvres.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Gyrostabilisation
Description: Development of devices that can be used for maintaining direction or reducing the sideways motion of a ship or aircraft, or stabilizing the barrel.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Computing
Containerisation
Description: Development of the process of moving things via large metal containers that allows increased transportation efficiency.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Computing, Fibre Optics
Radio Encoding
Description: Development and testing of the uses of the full radio wave band, radio wave detection and encryption.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Computing
AA Cannon System
Description: A system used to take out enemy aircraft. Cheaper than a SAM site but less accurate.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Computing
GPS Network
Description: Research into devices that give civilians and the military the ability to look at the locations and terrains of the Earth.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Computing, Fibre Optics
Radiology
Description: Research into medical procedures that use ionizing radiation from both natural isotopes and powered machines to diagnose or treat various disorders.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Enrichment
Nuclear Fission
Description: Research into nuclear reactions, mostly involving Uranium and Plutonium, are split into lighter nuclei releasing energy.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Enrichment
Advanced Reactor
Description: Development of a smaller, more efficient fission reactor that can be used in situations where those properties are required.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Bomb
Description: The nuclear bomb is the most powerful weapon in existence, and with it comes great power and responsibility.
Time to research: 10 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Fission
Steam Catapault
Description: Currently has no description.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbine Generator
Turbine Generator
Description: Research and development of the new techniques to improve the efficiency and performance of wind power generators.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Heat Exchanger
Solar Cells
Description: Research into increasing the efficiency of the devices that convert light directly into electricity.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Silicon Refinement
Heat Exchanger
Description: Development of devices enabling more efficient exchange of heat between different fluids such as hot gas and cold water.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Reinforced Steel
Transformers
Description: Changes the AC electrical voltage allowing for large amounts of power to be transported over vast distances.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Reinforced Steel
Processors
Description: Development of smaller and faster semiconductor devices for data processing, using integration techniques, based on transistors.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Capacitors, Transistors
Computing
Description: Development of machines that execute programs to achieve a specific data processing task.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Processors
Wireless Technology
Description: Development of more efficient methods to use wireless transmissions to exchange data.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Radio Encoding
Sonar
Description: Research into technology that helps detect naval vessels.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Radio Encoding
Radar
Description: A device used to detect and locate enemy and friendly aircraft. Makes aerial missions easier to complete.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Radio Encoding
Infrastructure Research[]
Airport
Description: Research into Air traffic control, commercial flight patterns, Airport management and runway technology to allow the construction of Airports. Unlocks Airport.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Freight Yard, Radar, High Strength Concrete
Nuclear Power Station
Description: Research into the theory behind a nuclear reactor and the construction of test reactor to trial the fission processes of a real power station. Unlocks Nuclear Power Station.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Fission, Heat Exchanger, Reinforced Steel
Wind Turbine
Description: Testing and development of the most efficient wind turbine design in order to reduce noise and boost output. Unlocks Wind Turbine.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbine Generator, Reinforced Steel, High Strength Concrete
Reservoirs and Dams
Description: The development and testing of Dam building construction and design for improved efficiency and power output. Unlocks Hydro Electric Power Station.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Turbine Generator, Reinforced Steel, High Strength Concrete
Solar Plant
Description: Investment into the latest solar cell technology to help improve efficiency and make construction of a full scale power plant feasible. Unlocks Solar Power Plants.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Silicon Refinement, Solar Cells, Reinforced Steel
Seaport
Description: Research into the operation of commercial port facilities, cranes, automated container systems and ship control for future Seaports. Unlocks Seaport.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Reinforced Steel, Containerisation, Radio Encoding
Freight Yard
Description: Development of the operational systems and requirements to build and run a Freight Yard and the trains based there. Unlocks Freight Yard.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: High Strength Concrete
Hospital
Description: Research into Hospital design, equipment, training processes and management in order to make future Hospital construction possible. Unlocks Hospital.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Antibiotics, Key Hole Surgery
Military Infrastructure Research[]
Aerodrome
Description: Research and development regarding the more detailed aspects of an airfield thus maximizing efficiency of commercial and militarized airfields. Unlocks Aerodrome.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Freight Yard, Radar, GPS Network
Airforce Base
Description: Research into construction, storage, and launch of a variety of militarized aircraft as well as base defences and mission planning. Unlocks Airforce Base.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Aerodrome, Radio Encoding
Missile Silo
Description: Research into the storage and launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles including the development of a missile launch control center. Unlocks Missile Silo.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Computing
Naval Port
Description: Research into the logistical operation of militarized port facilities including deeper excavation for larger vessels and ammunition dumps. Unlocks Naval Port.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Sonar
Radar Tower
Description: Research into the development of a tower and associated infrastructure that utilize advances into radar technology. Unlocks Radar Tower.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Radar, Computing
SAM Site
Description: Research into missile launch technology to intercept and bring down enemy aircraft from the ground. Unlocks SAM Site.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Radar
Military Research[]
Marines
Description: Unlocks Marines.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: None
Cruise Missile
Description: A heavy missile launched from ground silo's and/or naval vessels, designed for heavy damage. Unlocks Cruise Missiles.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Rocket Engine, Gyrostabilisation, Radar
Stealth Fighter
Description: Unlocks Stealth Fighter.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet, Air to Air Missiles
Muti-role Fighter
Description: Unlocks Multi-role Fighter.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet, Hydraulics, Thrust Vectoring
All Weather Interceptor
Description: Unlocks All Weather Interceptor.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet, Air to Air Missiles
Fighter Bomber
Description: Unlocks Fighter Bomber.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet, Air to Air Missiles
Supersonic Fighter
Description: Unlocks Supersonic Fighter.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Swing-wing Interceptor
Description: Unlocks Swing-wing Interceptor.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet, Air to Air Missiles
Stealth Bomber
Description: Unlocks Stealth Bomber.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Heavy Bomber
Description: Unlocks Heavy Bomber
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Refuelling Aircraft
Description: Unlocks Refuelling Aircraft.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Transport Aircraft
Description: Unlocks Transport Aircraft.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Turbojet
Battleship
Description: Unlocks Battleship.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Marine Turbine
Frigate
Description: Unlocks Frigate.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Marine Turbine
Destroyer
Description: Unlocks Destroyer.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Marine Turbine
Main Battle Tank
Description: Unlocks Main Battle Tank.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Diesel Engine, Gyrostabilisation, SABOT Shot
Heavy Tank
Description: Unlocks Heavy Tank.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Diesel Engine, Rifled Barrel
Lightly Armoured Vehicle
Description: Unlocks Lightly Armoured Vehicle.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Diesel Engine
Armoured Personnel Carrier
Description: Heavy infantry transport vehicle, designed for urban warfare and used in transport columns for troop mobilisation. Unlocks APC.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Diesel Engine
Light Tank
Description: Very manoeuvrable and quickly moving, lightly armored attack vehicles, primarily used as a support for main battle tanks and infantry in offensive action. Unlocks Light Tank.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Diesel Engine
Self Propelled Artillery
Description: Design and development of a long range self propelled artillery vehicle. Unlocks Self Propelled Artillery.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Gyrostabilisation ,Diesel Engine, Rifled Barrel
Attack Submarine
Description: Unlocks Attack Submarine.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Advanced Reactor
Aircraft Carrier.
Description: Unlocks Aircraft Carrier.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Advanced Reactor, Steam Catapult
Airborne Infantry
Description: Unlocks Airborne Infantry.
Time to research: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Parachutes
Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
Description: Research into long range missiles that can enter orbit and can carry nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Unlocks ICBM's.
Time to research: 6 Days
Prerequisites: Nuclear Bomb, Gyrostabilisation, Rocket Engine