Tech maintenance values are not subtracted from lab research points per turn. When you click on database, it lists a "maint" value for tech maintenance. Per the decades old manual, more techs cost more research points to maintain. I know the manual was never 100% accurate, but I do remember this in 1.4 as well and remember having to mass produce labs in order to get anything researched in a timely manner late game.
Expected behavior:
You can always research techs at full steam ahead no matter how many techs you have researched.
Actual behavior:
Tech maint is not subtracted from Lab points per turn
no traits selected except for the 3 ancient documentarium traits
taxes are set so structure loyalty is constant.
Loyalty is set to 90% for Li Halan in the save file, and there is a -5% penalty for Orthodox research from the sect, which gives 85 points per turn in the lab.
If you add up all the maint values in Database, then you would expect 15 points/turn to be spent each turn on maintenance.
Press the end turn button then go into the lab each turn to see progress. You see that 85 points are deducted from Electron Microscopes each turn, instead of the expected 70 per turn.
Description:
Tech maintenance values are not subtracted from lab research points per turn. When you click on database, it lists a "maint" value for tech maintenance. Per the decades old manual, more techs cost more research points to maintain. I know the manual was never 100% accurate, but I do remember this in 1.4 as well and remember having to mass produce labs in order to get anything researched in a timely manner late game.
Expected behavior: You can always research techs at full steam ahead no matter how many techs you have researched.
Actual behavior: Tech maint is not subtracted from Lab points per turn
Game version:
1.51 vanilla
Steps to reproduce:
tech_maint_test.zip
see attached save file,
Press the end turn button then go into the lab each turn to see progress. You see that 85 points are deducted from Electron Microscopes each turn, instead of the expected 70 per turn.
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turn | Lab pts/turn | maint | Electron Microscopes pts left: | expected -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 1 | 85 | 15 | 325 | 325 2 | 85 | 15 | 240 | 255 3 | 85 | 15 | 155 | 185 4 | 85 | 15 | 70 | 115 5 | 85 | 19 | 0 | 49