So I was researching the Business technology yesterday and trying to how many points i would need to make it to 200% bonus.

I already have 3000 points in business and it gave me an 8% gain, but then after purchasing 600 more tech off the market and adding that, I jumped up to 21%!

Now maybe it's because I don't have a formula for how research is calculated, but if it took me 3000 points to get to 8%, it should take me another 3000 to get to 16% right?

Does being a communist have anything to do with this?

Just now I added another 1131 research points in to business and I went up to 26%, only a 5% gain. Before I added 600 points from the market and had a 13% gain.

So what is going on here? Should I only be buying tech from the market due to its enormous bonus or am I missing something totally obvious here?

I just bought 500 more points from the market and I gained 2% this time.

I'm now at 28%

http://wiki.earthempires.com/...x.php/Technology_Formulae

hope that link helps with calculating your tech. i think there are even some free tech calc's out there that'll tell u how much more tech u need to buy to reach a certain percentage.

If you would like some more indepth help with playing your country, and you play on a solo (no clan/group activity) i'd suggest using the Get Help link in the menu and getting advice through the forums.

As well as that, there are quite a few clans that have been around a long time and have a lot of people who can help teach you to specialise and play a recognised strategy.


As to your bug report, this seems the only report that tech might not be calculating correctly, so that leads me to believe that either you've land grabbed someone and gained more tech or you didnt realise what percentage you'd gone up to after buying.

That is helpful, thank you!

When I get home tonight I will try to recreate the error that took place.

As far as I know I have not been land grabbed or done any land grabbing while researching. The whole reason for that was to avoid changing my numbers when figuring out the formula.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted in the event I do find anything.

:)

ok. good luck!

http://www.eestats.com/techcalc

There's a pretty good tech calculator.

I cant find the bug thread. Did you account for the 20 acre daily login bonus. The free land will alter tech% at lower land size

busi tech to 200%? i think you mean agri.

Example
Think in 1% increases
First 1%=5 points
First 2% =7 points
First 3%=9 points

The points needed to increase to the next % increases as tech % increases. Also with the ever changing land gains and losses you really can't just simply say 500 points will get you another 5%. You need to use the formula or a pre designed tech calculator