Resource Allocation

Other Research dialog features

More Stars! Dialogs

Resource Allocation shows the detail of your current resource budget and allows you to adjust the percentage of available resources that are spent on research.

Annual resources from all planets

Shows the total resources you have at your disposal. 

Total resources spent on research last year

Shows how many resources were actually spent on research last year. This can differ dramatically from last year's projected research budget due to uncalculated increases in productivity, population growth and leftover resources from planetary production queues.

Resources budgeted for research

Specifies the amount of each planet's total resources to siphon off for research before allocating to production. (A planet with 100 resources will have only 85 resources available for production if the research percentage is set to 15%.) 

Planets whose production queues are empty or blocked due to a shortage of minerals will automatically allocate all of their resources to research.

You may adjust the research percentage from 0% to 100%. Hold down the SHIFT key and left-click on the arrow buttons to raise or lower the number in 10% intervals.

Next year's projected research budget

A conservative guess of how many resources will be invested in research in the coming year. (conservative unless you are currently being slaughtered by another player's bombers - then it may be liberal due to diminished output the next year on the planet(s) currently being attacked)

If the projected research budget does not seem to change when you adjust the budget % it means all of your production queues are blocked or empty.