Development

Development is your primary method to grow your nation. It represents your nation's investment into your national infrastructure.

### Developments Positive Effects

Building Slots: For each 100 development you have, you will gain 1 buildings lot. This the single largest source of buildings slots in the game.

Population: For each 100 points of development you have, you will gain 10000 population (multiplied by 1.05 for every level of the Urban Planning tech one has).

Event Effects: Most events factor in your development level into the event outcome. This means the more development you have the more bonus buildings you will get from events. Development does not affect any event outcome that has a percent effect or directly grants index bonus's

Immediate Action Effects: Development directly increases the amount of resources you get from the "Lease Mining Site" and "Dismantle Precursor Site" action

Land building slots: Development effects how many building slots you get from land. If you have 2 times the amount of land as development, then you will only be gaining half the amount of buildings slots from new land as you would otherwise get.

Score: Development directly affects your nation's score

### Developments Negative Effects

Development does have some negative effects for your nation that you need to consider before buying it

Reduced Index Levels: Every building in the game that affects indexes is affected by your development level. Effectively, if you double your development you will need twice the number of buildings to generate the same index output. It is highly recommended to make sure you have the cash to use all your building slots you are expecting to get from new development before you expand your development.

Repair Cost: The cost to repair devastation in your nation is based on the perceived development that was destroyed. For instance, if you have 5000 devastation at 20000 development then the cost to repair will be based on the cost of development levels 15000-20000. However, if you have 100000 development then that repair cost will be based on development levels 95000-100000 and will be much more expensive.

### Development Cost

Development cost comes from the formula below. Note that it is calculated in increments of 50, so buying development in an increment of 50 is most efficient.

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{\displaystyle DevelopmentCost=DevelopmentCostReduction\*DevelopmentBeingBought{\Bigl (}{\frac {TotalDevelopment}{100}}{\Bigr )}^{2}}

### Development Cost Reduction

Development cost reduction comes from a number of different sources. All reduction math is multiplicative in nature, rather than additive to avoid cost going to zero. This means if you have a level 10 tech that provides 2% cost reduction per level that it is providing 0.98^10 = 18.2% reduction rather than a flat 20%.

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> * Land Cost Effect: Can either increase or decrease cost depending on the amount of land you have
> * Civil Engineering Tech: 2% reduction per level
> * Civil Engineering College Project: 5% reduction
> * Government Focus Policy: 5% reduction
> * Infrastructure Budget: -10% - 10% reduction for 30 days depending on setting
> * Prioritize New Development Policy: 10% reduction for 7 days
> * Codify Construction Standards: 1% reduction per level
> * Events: Can be positive or negative reduction
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### Other Sources of Development

* Fund New Development Purchase Immediate action: 250 development per use
* Events: Various amounts depending on the event