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[Gamerlord]

link me.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Here you go.

[MarcAFK]

One thing to note if you are going for a mobile society, research is tied to the specific colony the research labs are on. So you can't do some research towards a tech, pick up and move on to the next planet and then resume from where you had reached, you will have to start over from scratch again.

Of course you can just SM mode all the techs you already learned.

[Girlinhat]

Actually where are you getting this info?  I've never observed research to be colony-specific.  Not even lab-specific.  As far as I can tell, each research item starts with a given amount, say 10,000 RP.  Every research lab put to it will decrease the cost by ((RP/tick * lab) * scientist_buff).  If you finish the research, your empire has it.  If you cancel it midway, it will retain the decreased amount.  For instance, if a research takes 8,000 to complete, and you spend some time on it and your scientists add 1,000 RP towards it, then it will be at 7,000.  You can cancel the research and it will appear in the available list as 7,000 and a different colony could start the research from where the first left off.

This also works with salvaged tech - if you kill an enemy ship and salvage a component off it, and then reverse engineer it, it will supply a certain number of RP towards that tech field instantly.

[Metalax]

Ah Steve may have altered it's functionality then, as the way I described it is how it has worked for a long time. I'll have to check it out to confim it has changed.

[forsaken1111]

I can confirm that it USED to be this way, but I don't know if its changed. Research progress at one colony was NOT applied to others until the project completed, at which point it became available empire-wide.

[Sheb]

And if you salvage components, you'll only get the RP when you touch a colony an dhtis colony will get the RP.

[Flying Dice]

I can confirm that it USED to be this way, but I don't know if its changed. Research progress at one colony was NOT applied to others until the project completed, at which point it became available empire-wide.

As can I, at least to pre-6.00. I'm pretty sure it's still like that. That is also, incidentally, why you only let salvagers stop or unload at your central research hub; dropping the data or parts on a backwater would be a waste of RP.

[Another]

I even went as far as ordered 3 additional jumps for my salvagers to my main hub to not move through a minor system with a lab after I noticed this effect. They unload the data as soon as they are in the same system as a colony with a lab. I am not sure about what would happen if a single system would have multiple colonies with labs.

[Jacob/Lee]

And if you salvage components, you'll only get the RP when you touch a colony an dhtis colony will get the RP.

A question for a select few situations: if your salvager(s) get ambushed and blown up, will you re-download all the schematics if you salvage the destroyed salvage ship?

[revo]

Downloading this now. I sure do hope i can get into it quick!

[Flying Dice]

And if you salvage components, you'll only get the RP when you touch a colony an dhtis colony will get the RP.

A question for a select few situations: if your salvager(s) get ambushed and blown up, will you re-download all the schematics if you salvage the destroyed salvage ship?

I'd say with about 85% certainty that you wouldn't. The whole 'technical data' aspect of salvage is drawn from the original tech of the salvaged ship. I've always visualized it as being something like this: When the crew of your TL5 ship examine the TL7 reactor they just salvaged, they draw some conclusions on how to replicate it. Possibly they recover engineering manuals, etc. as well.

In other words, from an RP sense, the stuff you'd be recovering from the wreck of the salvage ship would be the same sort of information, but on your own technology. From a pure gameplay perspective, no, as the RP was tied to that specific ship.

[Girlinhat]

Or to make a little more sense...  When a salvage ship discovers something about a higher-tech item, it's stored in the ship's computer.  When the ship is destroyed, the computer is lost.  You can salvage the salvage ship, but you'll only be getting the actual salvage ship.

[Zeebie]

Can someone give me an overview of how NPR generation and behavior works?  The wiki is pretty vague.  Some specific things I'm wondering about:
- Do any NPRs exist at the beginning of the game? Or are they only generated when I explore a jump point?
- If NPRs exist before I discover them, where do they live? Is their system pregenerated? Are their ships out exploring and generating systems?
-  When an new NPR is generated, what level of population/industry/military are they given?

[Shooer]

Can someone give me an overview of how NPR generation and behavior works?  The wiki is pretty vague.  Some specific things I'm wondering about:
- Do any NPRs exist at the beginning of the game? Or are they only generated when I explore a jump point?
- If NPRs exist before I discover them, where do they live? Is their system pregenerated? Are their ships out exploring and generating systems?
-  When an new NPR is generated, what level of population/industry/military are they given?

The starting NPR value is the number of NPRs that are created at game start (kind of part of it's name and description in game).
Yes they start in a pre-genned system and are given the same values that are on the bottom left when you gen a game (Sol start industry values).  They will travel around exploring and activating systems, and newly active systems can spawn a new NPR or a Spoiler.
Kind of random, it's usually around what ever the planet would support (if you gened a empire there) or your starting values at game creation.