Research

**In-game description:**
*Enter the Research Facilities to improve your grinding potential. There you will be able to advance your research progress, unlock and buy special upgrades which will boost all your abilities hugely. Your research points in each branch are limited by the amount of Reincarnations you have.*
The **Research** progress system was implemented in the Secrets expansion series bringing "new perks to enhance each mythical faction. it is accessible from R16 for Vanilla, R23 for Neutral, R30 for Prestige Factions, R46 for the Dragons, and R75 for Mercenaries.

## The Facilities & Related Factions

Research consists of several specialized facilities, each containing upgrades which, once unlocked, will require strategic selecting. Each Facility is related to several Factions: Vanilla factions are related to one facility, Neutral to two, and Prestige to three. Each is unlocked by its related Vanilla Faction (see unlock requirements).

## Research Points & Slots

Research Points (**RPs**): Facilities are leveled-up with RPs, which in turn increase the production of the related faction. Each reincarnation, you will receive a defined, and increasing, amount of RPs to meet the increasing costs of the facilities.

Research Slots (**RSs**): At specific RPs, the facilities will gain new upgrades. The amount of upgrades you can use is defined by the amount of RSs you have. At certain reincarnation levels, additional RS upgrades can be unlocked. See following table for details.

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350

x

0.75

%

{\displaystyle 350x350x^{0.75}\%}

 or 0% if x is 0, where x is the number of corresponding Research Points}}
Facility cost: 10 Notg (1E121) coins, 1 M (1E6) related Faction(s) coins, 1 Dvg (1E69) gems

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Facility RP Cost:

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1
e
126
∗

1.5
x

{\displaystyle 1e126 \* 1.5^x}

 Coins and

(
x
1

)
3

{\displaystyle (x + 1)^3}

 Faction Coins(PA) Facility RP Cost:

1
e
42
∗

1.147

(
x
−
780
)

{\displaystyle 1e42 \* 1.147 ^{(x-780)}}

 and

(
x
1

)
3

{\displaystyle (x + 1)^3}

 Faction Coins RPs available per R
*Formula:

(
x
1
)
∗
x

/

2

{\displaystyle (x + 1) \* x / 2}

  where x is Reincarnation.*

As of 3.0, Research Points are capped at 5000 for each facility.

Upon abdication, your gained RPs will persist, and your RSs will get reset, enabling the player to make different research builds each run.

## Research Unlock Requirements

All the upgrades below, except the Unique building upgrades, only need to be bought once and do not count the bought-upgrade stats.

## Research Upgrades by Facility

* Sortable Research Table: Similar as the above tables, all together and sortable by "Facility", "RP#", "Faction", "What it does", and "What it's based on".

## Notes & Tips

* 1-135RP unlock order and tips by why\_amihere
* W320 build
* Flame of Bondelnar: There are 2 builds by artcrow for this
* 590RPs: 200 dwarf or drow Royal Exchanges. A full mana+assistant build seems to be fastest. Druidline outweights Elfline. source
* S300 can be done faster just by repeatedly casting Brainwave and abdicating, without waiting for the end of the spell.

## Links & Reference

**Guides**

* Research: Step by Step (A very simple step by step guide, by Wikia editors!)
* Fastest Route Through R16 Researches (A more complete guide by why\_amihere)

**Reference & Tools**

* Research Builds
* Sortable Research Table - by wikieditors!
* Purchasable Research Upgrades by Faction
* Research Upgrades by Effect
* Research spreadsheet (up to 400 RP) - by naabu
* Research build maker spreadsheet (up to 590 RP) - by Rahler
* Research Checklist google ods file to download (updated to Post-A by Lycentia) - by vailsixclaw Original

## References

* *Most Vanilla and Neutral research information and formulas come from Berkrooster's post.*
* *Some Prestige research information comes from Curunur's post. (As for the formulas, they are scattered all over the forum, hence no source link. Credit goes to many players, including Naidsipo, all the anonymous 'formula discoverers', also big thanks to those who have found them and taken the time to copy them here.)*

1. ↑ *RG v1 in the game description seems to have disappeared in v2.*
2. ↑ *Secret expansion series: Secrets of the Realm, Secrets of the Ancients, Secrets of the Underworld.*
3. ↑ (PA) *RP cost formula from game source code - source Pseudobyte - see comment.*