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Should I upgrade the R&D building to speed up research instead of spending KCT points?NOTE: These formulae only take into account the resarch speed boost upgrading the R&D provides. In case you are research capped with science points to spend, then of course go ahead and upgrade your facility (you'll not make any progress in the game unless you get new technologies)! If you've dried up on science points, then you should probably spend your KCT upgrades on build rates instead and send some probes out into the wild blue yonder to get your scientists working again. The formulae also fail to account for the upgrade time of the facility: purchasing research rate with KCT build points is an instant boost to research speed, while facility upgrades may take several hundred days to finish before their effects are felt. Thus you are probably best off getting the facility upgrade slightly before the break-even suggestion, since you may collect a few KCT points in between paying for the facility level and actually getting the research boost. That is all up to you: I'm just a spread sheet, I don't make the rules!
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How to use: enter the number of KCT points you have spent thus far on the R&D facility, as well as the level of the facility (hint: the research rate in the spread sheet should match your research speed in-game if you have set the correct level of facility upgrade). If you have spent enough points in the R&D facility that it is more efficient to just upgrade the facility to boost your research, the suggestion box will tell you to spend another 0 KCT points before upgrading. If you are not yet at that breakpoint, the suggestion box will tell you how many more points you have to spend before the research boost alone makes it worthwhile upgrading the R&D facility.
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KCT research points:25Your current research rate is0.054 Science points/day.
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R&D facility level:11 KCT point increases this by4.13 percent at a cost of 20,000 funds.
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Upgrading the facility gives you an increased33percent research speed at a cost of250,000funds.
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In other words, upgrading the R&D gives you as much of a boost as spending8.1KCT points, equivalent to spending161,535funds.
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Suggestion: You should invest another25KCT points before your next facility upgrade.
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