Technology Research

Technology research offers you the possibility to gain unique bonuses impossible to gain in other ways. You can't tell your scholars exactly what to research, you can however give them some guidance. You may tell them to research in one off the following areas: Military, Civil bonuses, Magic, Spying or Miscellaneous. To be able to research some technologies they may need to know some other technologies, and these is sometimes from another area, so spreading the resources out may give you a benefit.

You may spend gems, mercury, lumber, stone, iron, Coal and CC in researching, how much progress a specific amount of a resource gives depends of the research. However mercury tends to be what your scholar needs, followed by gems, iron and coal. CC, stone and lumber tend to only give limited support to your scholars, except for some special technologies.