Research, how does it work?

Hello! So, since I have had some extra time during this update I have been working on Sarah’s workshop. I have gotten almost all of the code done for the groundwork, the only thing left is talking to Sarah, but that shouldn't be too hard (will probably be very hard). Anyways here is an explanation of how the research works, what it does, and what will be added in future updates.

How research?

Well, in order to start researching you first need Sarah’s workshop, and to get this you need to hire Sarah then wait. After a random amount of time (Between 7 and 14 days) you will get a court event where she asks you for money to build her workshop, this will then take 14 days to finish.

Once this is done you will have the ability to go to her workshop, from here you will have many options, you can choose to talk to Sarah, browse upgrades that have been researched, look at the workshop settings and of course research stuff.

Once you open the research tab you will be given the option to look at the research, which has been categorized into different sub tabs: agriculture research tab; Civil Construction research tab; Military research tab; Castle upgrades research tab. These are the four current research tabs with more being planned to be added later on. At the moment the only research tab which has any research is the agriculture research tab, here you can research stuff to make your farms grow more food so you can finally stop running out of food.

How does it work?

Well once you have picked whatever you want to research, the “current research” variable will be given whatever research you have picked. From here it will go to the tab of pain (yes, that is what it is called in the game files) and search for the case that matches with the “current research” variable. It will then take the “Research time” variable and give it the same value as the research you picked. Basically this is just a number that represents how much research there is. Once this is done you will be told how many days it will take at the current research speed to finish the research. This is done by just dividing the “Research time” by “Total research”, this then gives us the number of days it will take for the research to finish.

Once “Research time” reaches 0 or less than 0 it will wait for you to check on the research. Once you check on the research you will be taken to the tab of pain2 (And again, yes this is what I named it). Here it will essentially repeat what it did when you first researched something, only this time it sets everything to 0, allowing you to research something new.

What will come next?

Well, that really depends on what people want and what would fit well with whatever is being worked on at the time. At the moment the research tab is just there to fix the food issues that have been encountered later in a play through along with adding some more stuff to do. Anyways, that's it for the research tab as of now.