Research costs (again...)

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How are research costs determined? They seem to be more or less random in my current game. Two examples:

9 to 10 in military land tech: 6200D
10 to 11 in military land tech: 1650D
11 to 12 in military land tech: 3200D
12 to 13 in military land tech: 7800D

And even more confusing:

9 to 10 in naval tech: 1600 D
10 to 11 in naval tech: 970 D
11 to 12 in naval tech: 650 D
12 to 13 in naval tech: 4800 D

All the while, infrastructure and trade level cost a fixed amount of (gulp) 19000+D for going from 4 to 5. BTW, how many infrastructure and trade levels are there?

All of these occurred in fairly short order, so the differences are not the result of inflation or changing country size.

 

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Trade and Infrastructure has ten levels
(supa powa)

And yes, the cost of some naval/land techs
are really strange. For example, say that level 30 cost 4000D, and after that, level 31 to 38 costs about 300D.

Suddenly you breeze through a great number of levels that costs nothing.

This is not the case with Trade/Infra, just Land/Naval.

Anyone have a clue to this?

Mormegill

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The obvious reason, though I don't know if it's correct or not, is that those levels with greater cost lead to important breaktroughs (and bonus effects).

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You can read more about those important breakthroughs at my site's EU FAQ, under Game Engine in depth: Military Tech Classes.

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Maybe the technologies were weighted according to how they were historically developed? It's possible that historically several technologies appeared in a short time followed by a long dry spell.

 

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i think delerium is right, the higher costs are for the major breakthroughs.