Technology Reference

Following are a list of main technologies and their related powers, sorted by technology type. Each technology has several associated items that tell about those technologies in a standard format. The description is a text commentary to help understand the technology. The invocation is how the technology can be used once it is available to a team. The Modifier Technologies is a list of other technologies that can affect the functioning or effectiveness of the described technology. Next is at least one example of a technology in use.

Unless there is a listing, no other technologies directly affect another. This does not preclude indirect relationships. Unless otherwise noted, technologies cannot be combined. At the end for the technology are the specific fees, percentages and other values for each level of that technology in a table. Please note that a lower level of a technology cannot be used. If you have level 4 Plagorism, any time you use Plagorism, it will always be used at level 4, even if you wanted to use the values for level 3.

For the tables, Fees normally refer to the money cost in credits. Research Costs refer to costs in tech points. Percentages vary depending on the context. If you are confused, look at the example for that technology. When the computer checks on a random occurance, this is often refered to as "rolling the dice". No actual dice are involved, it just means that the computer chooses a random number.

Military Production(Factories)

Industrialization

Description: This technology is used to increase the output of your Military Factories. For each item produced in one of your factories there is a percentage chance of a second copy of the item being produced in addition. The percentage chance increases with each level. The extra items produced will have normal resources costs. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: Once you have the technology it is automatically used when the team's military items are produced by the factories.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Chance Success	5%	8%	11%	14%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Advanced Manufacturing

Description: For a game where there would be little selection on the items available for creation, this technology may not be useful. In a game like Netmech with many items that can be produced, this technology will be invaluable. Normally in a league the items that can be produced will be split up into 4 technology bands. To produce an item of higher technology bands you need to get the higher level of the technology. Otherwise, you have to buy them off the more expensive free market. This technology is not useful for minor classes of teams.
Invocation: Passive: This technology will just make more military items available to be produced for a group's factories. For leagues with mutliple military items that can be produced. More advanced items will be on the production list.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Research Cost	50,000	100,000	150,000	200,000

Robotics

Description: This technology allows you to build multiple factories on the same destination which is developed for military production. The number of total factories increases with each level. This technology is not useful for minor classes of teams.
Invocation: Passive: Higher technology levels allow a higher limit of factories that can be built on the same Military Production sector.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Maximum Factories	2	3	4	5
Research Cost	35,000	70,000	105,000	140,000

Transportation

Please note that transportation technologies cannot be combined. You must pick the one you want to use in a particular circumstance.

Stealth Move

Description: This technology is used to move past a pin. If this technology fails, the movement will be to a random destination within one jump of the target destination, other than a capital destination. The percentage chance of success increases with each level. There are extra movement fees for a Stealth Move.
Invocation: Select Stealth Move on the movement form. Pick the originating and destination locations, as well as the military items to be sent.
Modifier Technologies: Stealth Detection
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Movement Fee	7%	9%	10%	11%
Chance Success	55%	70%	85%	110%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Stealth Attack

Description: This technology is used to immediately attack a capital before taking 3 other destinations of the square sector. If the technology fails, the movement will be to a random destination, other than a capital. The percentage chance of succes increases with each level. There are extra movement fees for a Stealth Attack.
Invocation: Select Stealth Attack on the movement form. Pick the originating and destination locations, as well as the military items to be sent.
Modifier Technologies: Stealth Detection
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Movement Fee	8%	10%	11%	12%
Chance Success	50%	65%	80%	105%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Stealth Detection

Description: This technology decreases the percentage chance of success for both Stealth Attack and Stealth Move. The effectiveness of this technology increases with each level.
Invocation: Passive: This technology is invoked automatically anytime a stealth move or stealth attack is made with a destination owned by the group possessing the technology.
Modifier Technologies: Stealth Move, Stealth Attack
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Success Modifier	20%	35%	50%	75%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Skip Jumping

Description: With this technology a movement starts from an unpinned destination and picks intermediate points to it's final destination. As the levels increase, the number of intermediate destinations that can be skipped increases. The percentage chance of success is determined for each intermediate point that is being skipped. If it fails at any point, the movement ends at the intermediary point where the failure occured. There are extra costs for a skip jump. The percentage chance of success increases with each level.
Invocation: Select Skip Jumping on the movement form. Fill in the originating and destination locations, as well as the intermediate movements along the way and the military items to be sent.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Movement Fee	15%	17%	20%	24%
Maximum Jumps	2	3	4	5
Chance Success	50%	65%	80%	90%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Quick Move

Description: Normally moves take 4 hours after being filed to arrive. This technology allows the movement to take place in less time. The amount of time to make a move is less at higher levels.
Invocation: Select Quick Move on the movement form. Pick the originating and destination locations, as well as the military items to be sent.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Movement Fee	5%	6%	7%	8%
Time	3 Hours	2.5 Hours	2 hours	1.5 hours
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Scavenge

Description: This technology is only useful in leagues based on games which have either mission based scenarios or capture the flag to determine victory over a scenario. For more details, see the league configuration for your league. This is a special attack where besides losses on both sides, if the attacker is successful in the mission, they get to take some of the resources being produced on the destination, if there are any left. This could be resource value worth of military items, tech points worth of research or credits worth of money. Whatever is taken will be subtracted from what is produced at the next accounting period. No more than total production can be stolen during the month.
Invocation: Select Scavenge on the movement form. Pick the originating and destination locations, as well as the military items to be sent.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Movement Fee	5%	6%	7%	8%
How Much Recovered per Drop	250 units	500 units	800 units	1300 units
Research Cost	35,000	70,000	105,000	140,000

Commerce

Discount Brokers

Description: This technology gets the inside track on market prices and lowers the amount you pay for prices on the open market. This technology does not affect player auction items. The chance of success is determined for every open market purchase. The percentage chance of success increases with each level. Fees acrue wether success or not.
Invocation: When you use the open market system to buy military items select discount broker on the form to use the discount broker on that purchase.
Modifier Technologies: None.
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Broker Fee	2%	3%	4%	5%
Chance Success	60%	75%	85%	95%
Open Market Discount	7%	10%	14%	19%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Trade Routes

Description: This technology is used to increase the profitability of investments made into commerce. The percentage of improvement increase with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: This modification is made automatically whenever the profits from the group's commerce sectors are accrued.
Modifier Technologies: None.
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Increase	5%	8%	11%	14%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Salvage

Description: This technology increases the scrap percentage for a team. This is in affect both for salvage winning a battle and for the percentage received when scrapping military items for money. The percentage improvement to your scrap percentage increases with each level.
Invocation: Passive: This automatically increases a group's salvage percentage.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Salvage Improvement	20%	40%	60%	80%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Black Market

Description: This technology allows a group to still get a small percentage of their commerce even when a destination developed for commerce is pinned. This technology does not add to a destination developed for commerce that is not pinned. The percentage of normal profits received increases with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: This effect goes into affect automatically as soon as a destination developed for commerce is pinned.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Effective Commerce	6%	13%	21%	30%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Mass Marketing

Description: This technology allows you to build multiple bazaars in the same destination developed for commerce. The number of total bazaars increases with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: Higher technology levels allow a higher limit of bazaars that can be built on the same destination developed for commerce.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Max Bazaars	2	3	4	5
Research Cost	35,000	70,000	105,000	140,000

Technology

Standardized Experiments

Description: This technology is used to increase the output of your technology research. The percentage of improvement increases with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: This automatically affects the research output on the group's destinations developed for technology.
Modifier Technologies: None.
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Research Improvement	5%	8%	11%	14%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Plagorism

Description: This technology is used to copy a certain amount of technology production that an oppponent makes. This can only be used against one opponent at a time. If you pick a new target, the technology will no longer affect the previous target. If the technology works, additional technologies production will be available to the team using the technology. The percentage chance of success will increase with each level, the fees paid to use the technology will increase and the effectiveness of the technology will also increase. Note that the patents technology works against this technology. This technology cannot be used against an ally. This technology can be used by or against minor classes of team, even though they do not have destinations.
Invocation: Plagorism Form: Each time you want to target a group, fill out the Plagorism form. Pick the group to target for the technology. The technology remains in effect against the current target group until the Plagorism form is used to turn it off, by choosing 'None' for the target. The maintenance fee will be charged each accounting period as long as the technology remains on.
Modifier Technologies: Patents
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Attempt Fee	5,000	10,000	15,000	20,000
Maintenance Fee	3,000	6,000	9,000	12,000
Chance Success	60%	75%	90%	105%
Research Copied	8%	12%	17%	21%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Engineering

Description: Engineering provides two benefits. First it reduces the cost to build destination improvements. There is also reduction in the costs to repair destination improvements that have been damaged. Both percentages increase with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: This technology automatically comes into effect anytime your team repairs a destination improvement or builds a destination improvement.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Build Cost Improvement	8%	12%	17%	22%
Repair Costs Improvement	10%	14%	19%	24%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Patents

Description: The patent technology reduces the chance of success of Plagorism. Even if the Plagorism technologies succeeds, it will reduce the effectiveness of the opposing technology. The protection against Plagorism increases with levels.
Invocation: Passive: This technology is automatically in effect whenever the Plagorism is used against your group.
Modifier Technologies: Plagorism
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Reduction Success	10%	20%	30%	40%
Reduction Accuracy	20%	30%	40%	50%
Research Cost	25,000	50,000	75,000	100,000

Defense Spending

Description: This technology allows you to build multiple research labs in the same destination developed for technology. The total number of research labs per destination increases with each level. This technology is not useful to a minor class of team.
Invocation: Passive: This allows a higher limit on the number of research labs in all destinations developed for technology.
Modifier Technologies: None
Example

	Level1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Maximum Research Labs	2	3	4	5
Research Cost	35,000	70,000	105,000	140,000

Technology Dependencies

Most technologies require another technology to be learned before the next technology can be earned. For instance, you must learn Robotics Level 1 before you can learn Robotics Level 2. You might also be familiar with this concept used in many real time strategy and turn based strategy games.

Technology	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Discount Brokers	None	Discount Brokers (Level 1)	Discount Brokers (Level 2)	Discount Brokers (Level 3)
Industrialization	None	Industrialization (Level 1)	Industrialization (Level 2)	Industrialization (Level 3)
Advanced Manufacturing	None	Advanced Manufacturing (Level 1), Engineering (Level 1)	Advanced Manufacturing (Level 2), Industrialization (Level 1)	Advanced Manufacturing (Level 3), Defense Spending (Level 2)
Robotics	None	Robotics (Level 1)	Robotics (Level 2)	Robotics (Level 3)
Stealth Move	None	Stealth Move (Level 1)	Stealth Move (Level 2)	Stealth Move (Level 3)
Stealth Attack	None	Stealth Attack (Level 1)	Stealth Attack (Level 2)	Stealth Attack (Level 3)
Stealth Detection	None	Stealth Detection (Level 1), Stealth Move (Level 1)	Stealth Detection (Level 2), Stealth Attack (Level 1)	Stealth Detection (Level 3), Stealth Attack (Level 2), Stealth Move (Level 2)
Skip Jumping	None	Skip Jumping (Level 1)	Skip Jumping (Level 2)	Skip Jumping (Level 3)
Quick Move	None	Quick Move (Level 1)	Quick Move (Level 2)	Quick Move (Level 3)
Scavenge	None	Scavenge (Level 1), Salvage (Level 1)	Scavenge (Level 2), Stealth Move (Level 1)	Scavenge (Level 3), Stealth Attack (Level 1), Salvage (Level 3)
Trade Routes	None	Trade Routes (Level 1)	Trade Routes (Level 2)	Trade Routes (Level 3)
Salvage	None	Salvage (Level 1)	Salvage (Level 2)	Salvage (Level 3)
Black Market	None	Black Market (Level 1), Salvage (Level 1)	Black Market (Level 2), Salvage (Level 2)	Black Market (Level 3),Salvage (Level 3)
Mass Marketing	None	Mass Marketing (Level 1)	Mass Marketing (Level 2)	Mass Marketing (Level 3)
Standardized Experiments	None	Standardized Experiments (Level 1)	Standardized Experiments (Level 2)	Standardized Experiments (Level 3)
Plagorism	None	Plagorism (Level 1), Forged Data (Level 1)	Plagorism (Level 2), Forged Data (Level 2)	Plagorism (Level 3), Forged Data (Level 3)
Engineering	None	Engineering (Level 1)	Engineering (Level 2), Patents (Level 1)	Engineering(Level 3)
Patents	None	Patents (Level 1)	Patents (Level 2)	Patents (Level 3)
Defense Spending	None	Defense Spending (Level 1)	Defense Spending (Level 2)	Defense Spending (Level 3)