Medium Hull Construction Level 1 ??? |
Can't seem to get past level 1 in medium hull construction - at a research setting of 100% of 122000 research points available, it will still take 4.5 years to research this technology - what's up with that?
Any suggestions would be helpful since the largest ship i can construct is a light cruiser!
You probably missed the
You probably missed the report when it happened...
Check the news log
You should check the news log as it will some times report the sabotage if your counter intelligence noticed it, but didn’t stop it. You might also find a lot of successful Intel ops against you on the empire status page though this won’t tell you what they did only how many succeeded and how many failed. The only way to fix it is to re do the research or to go back to a prior save and build up your counter Intel capacity to stop it before it happens.
I personally find Intel hits annoying as I do many other nasty things such as running out of resources, rioting planets and sneak attacks on colonies that can’t defend themselves, but its part of the game. The way round it is to expect it and prepare accordingly.
You didn't sign a treaty
You didn't sign a treaty that forbids you to do research did you?
Actually
Actually the stock tech damage project deducts about a MILLION research points, if I remember right. So yeah, that's probably what happened.
Just a liiitle bit imbalanced, that.
I hope it gets fixed
Fallen Haven,
I certainly hope they fix this so that only the last increment of research on a project gets trashed. This total trashing of a research project series through sabotage is way too extreme.
Omnius
Perhaps you got hit several times
Perhaps you got hit more than once or each hit has a damage range and you rolled high rather than low. The other possibility is that you are not applying all your research points to the one objective. Check research in progress
I've had this happen to me too
I've had entire tech fields "locked" because of a successful Intel attack against me. Seems a bit unbalanced to me, but there it is.
One way around it is to make a treaty with another race that gives you their tech, or make a tech swap to get what you need. Once you get to level 5 in Medium Hull tech, you can then put your research points into the next Hull size tech.
Tech sabotage -10M points not 1M
Tech sabotage actually subtracts 10,000,000 points!! - not 1M.
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Sort of an overkill don’t
Sort of an overkill don’t you think ?
The only reason you would
The only reason you would need 10M RP for the next level would be because you got hit with another Tech destroy in the exact same field. otherwise you will be fine and you'll just have to put in another 10M in a different tech.
Dragagon
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
-- Robert Heinlein
Not just Intel Points
archenemy,
It's not just the intel points it's also the intel levels for each intel area. Pumping up points alone won't protect you if you don't pump up your intel espionage and sabotage levels. In this game it's really important not to fall behind the intel race.
Omnius
Did you get sabotaged?
If an enemy managed to sabotage your research, you will need an insane amount of research points to get the research going again... It sucks but that's how the game was made.