Asteroid research vs New research

[Vega]

I understand asteroid research, but where is new research coming from? Not understanding what makes it go up faster. Not sure I seen it in the tutorial either.

Thanks

[Zorkololos]

new reserch ist just an rogress from asteroid reaserch and others, it dosent matter where the research comes from it just have to fill the bar.
asteroid reaserch ist a specific research that you can pile up for later

[JDub]

I don't get it. If I get one point of asteroid research that counts as "standard" research **and** asteroid research?

[slims]

Originally posted by JDub:

I don't get it. If I get one point of asteroid research that counts as "standard" research **and** asteroid research?

There are 4 types of research: Asteroid, Planetary, Stellar, and Black Hole. Each can be gained through their own means, or by killing enemies.

New Research just means you've collected research of any kind.

All research points you gain are tracked forever in their respective bucket. So if I kill an enemy and it drops 2 Asteroid research points, 2 points are contributed to whatever research is currently active as "New Research", and 2 points of lifetime Asteroid research points are added to your total Asteroid Research bucket.

Some technologies require a minimum amount of lifetime research for a specific type. So if something say it needs 100 Asteroid Research that means you need to have collected at least 100 asteroid research total through the lifetime of your game.

[JDub]

I see. I'd rather the "generic research" portion was just gone. It's a tad confusing.