Kevin.C Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 I'm rather new to Supernova, but what does the following mean? And what is Slot One? "Also, Santa has instructed his elves to help your scientists to "Slot One" up to 3rd generation items instead of just 2nd and below." Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 You can buy techs with SRP – leftover points from your race creation. You could only buy up to a 2nd generation tech and it cost you the remaining points needed for that tech (not counting the current turn’s research). For example if you decided to buy a second generation (costing 12) and had already researched it for 6 turns, it would cost 5 SRP – i.e. 6 points from the last 6 turns, 1 from this turn’s research and 5 from SRP. Each turn, SRPs are spent on one tech. The program will check the tech in the first slot and buy it if it is 2nd generation or less. If not, it will try the second slot and so on. Once you have put in a SRP order, one tech a turn will be purchased in this way until you either run out of SRPs or you are only researching 3rd generation techs. On the anniversary of the start of the game (around 30 September), Santa Pete will deliver you some additional SRPs to be spent on first and second generation tech (as detailed in the previous paragraph). On the first anniversary, each empire received 75 additional points. Pete has now expanded this to 3rd generation tech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.C Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Thanks, Deep! Does this mean that the 3rd generation tech has to be researched in the first slot? In other words, does it mean that if I tried to use my Santa points on a third-generation tech in, say, the third slot, that it would not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isemann2 Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 It just means that the left over points and the 150 points of research just given will be put to the research in slot #1 up to Tech lvl 3. Which might complete whatever research that is. Points are only used in Slot #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.C Posted October 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Okay, great. Thanks, Frank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTGPete Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Points are spent beginning in slot 1, but if that item was just finished or doesn't qualify for your extra points (for example, it's too high of a generation, like 4th now in Draco), then slot 2 will be used. The code keeps looking, starting at slot 1 and running up to slot 25, trying to find an item that it can spend the points on. As soon as it finds one, it spends the points trying to finish it, and stops. If it can't find any items from slot 1 through slot 25, it doesn't spend any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.C Posted October 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Thanks, Pete! I think that answers all my questions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isemann2 Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Thanks Pete, i didn't know that it looked at other slots, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandarbian Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 And Thanks Pete! Sucking up points Slot 26 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardjohns Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Is Wild Weasel Drone a 3rd generation tech? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfouasnon Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 5th Gen , I believe . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardjohns Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxer Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Ah, that explains why the item I put into slot 1 didn't get researched, too high a tech level! I'll have to think again, and see if I can find a low level research item that will be useful ? Gixxer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magus666 Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Actually, I thought you could slot 1 up to 6th generation now for Andromeda, but regardless of that, I did a SRP and slotted a lower gen item there and got no results. Did anyone get their saved research points used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakarissa Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 I put Advanced Synthetic Materials into Slot 1 for one empire and it didn't pop. I had 3cm Chain Gun already in Slot 1 for another empire but did submit an SRP this past turn. Both empires are in Andromeda. A third empire did get its Slot 1 tech but it already had SRPs saved up and activated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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