Technology, Research Points, and Inventions.

= Technology, Research Points, and Inventions. =

Technology is the applied result of the collective knowledge garnered by humans, it manisfests itself in the forms of new contraptions, improving old processes, new tools, etc. Technology helps propel the development and improvement of human civilizations by generating an advantage that if used well, could grant the civilization of the means to end up overwhelming their opponents. Technology can also improve the life of populations by diminishing risk of disease outbreaks, improving their crop outputs, etc. Because of this and many other reasons, technology is a key part of the world of A National Legacy, and any nation that wants to get ahead of the curve, or simply doesn't want to cease to exist, as a result of being left behind, will invest in it.

The Research System.
In order to discover new technology, you need to research it. There are many fields of research in which you can as a nation invest your focus on. Those fields are: Military Technology, Industrial Technology, Naval Technology, Medicine, and Applied Technology. Each of these fields will grant you bonuses, will allow you to discover new inventions, and will allow for the use of new contraptions, processes, etc, on their respective area. You can only focus your research on the development of one technology though, however with the discovery of new social improvements, you might be able to attain the capabilities of focusing on more than one technology at a time, this will increase the development time, though.

Development Time.
Development time is a measure of how much time your technology will take to be reasearched. Each technology has different times of completion, which can range everywhere from 20 days to almost 2 months. The development time of a technology is set, meaning that once those 20 or 30 days have passed you will be able to obtain it. However development time might increase due to differents factors. Such as low spending on research, world events, economic downturns, etc, etc. However it can also diminish thanks to research points, other technological inventions, how many nations have already developed that tech, etc.

Research Points.
Research points are a measure of your nation research capabilities, they are crucial when developing technology, as they diminish the development time by set percentages. For every 10 research points, your technology will take 0.5% less time to be researched. The amount of research points you get depends on a few factors, the most important of which is literacy which will increase not only the ability of the population to obtain better jobs, and thus improve their standard of living, but also will grant you more research points. However the research points you obtain by literacy are capped at 50% meaning that you can only get 50 research points maximum from literacy alone. To obtain the other 50, you need to invest in social improvements, but most importantly invest resources on technological spending. These combined will give you the rest of the research points you need to reach that hunted 100.

Inventions.
Inventions are derivated from technological research, each time you develop a new technology, a set of new inventions will appear as a result, however these inventions unlike technology, don't have set development times, meaning that they will take a "random time" to be set off, they do have a base chance however which is 5%, meaning that for every 10 days that happen, there's a 5% chance of that invention being created, this base chance can be increased up to 50% if the rights conditions are met such as, other nations already creating that invention, other technologies adding to the invention, powerful heads of research, etc.

Prestige from technological research/inventions.
You can obtain an insane amount of prestige by being the first to develop a new technology or invention, the amount is calculated by the technology value itself, but can be increased, if there's a well known head of research. The name of your nation will also appear on top of said researched technology, as being the first to have researched it.

Technological Aid from Key Powers, and Powerhouses.
Key Powers and Powerhouses can aid nations that are on their spheres of influence, or nations which they enjoy good relations with, through research exchange, which diminishes the development time that a technology would normally have taken. They can also full on donate technology to you. Although some kind of deal might be involved, inventions base chance will also increase if a Powerhouse or Key Power is helping you research. Finally they are also able to lend you aid with the exchange of leading heads of research.

Barbarian States and Technology.
Barbarian States unlike civilized powers, cannot research technology until they modernize.