Research

From Fleets Game Guide

Researching is an important part of any newly growing empire. Through researching technologies you can further enhance and expand your empire as you wish. With research you can discover technologies faster and can build a tactical advantage with ships that your opponents cannot build yet. Upon starting each zone your empire will start with the initial three basic starting techs already researched.

These are:

• Zero-Gravity Construction - Enables construction of basic Frigate hulls
• Spatial Ballistics - Enables basic Autocannon
• Deep Space Logistics - Enables basic support abilities

Research rate is at a base of 250 to start, you can improve this with what your satellites and support carriers add.

Technologies

It is your responsibility to queue up the remaining technologies to research in your tree. You can do this in the Research Manager at the top of your screen.

Laboratory Satellite and Support Carrier

• Each Laboratory that you build takes up 1 Satellite slot from an Outpost(2), Station(3) or Colony(4). A Laboratory Satellite adds 100 to your Research rate.
• Each Support Carrier adds +50 rater per every 5 ranks to your research rate.