Extremely Confused how to progress with core docs.

[MythN7]

What am i missing, so much needed to do basic things past the buildings you start with need the core docs, with the yellow plus on there icon.
from what i can tell, to make a white lightbulb invention with the plus (core invention doc) you need to have a core doc of the color of the corp building you have.

BUT! to get the corp doc of that color you need the white core invention doc as a required mat, which is the orig item you are trying to get in the 1st place.

This is a chicken and egg seneraio to me.

so in a more simple analogy,
-you need item A
-but to get it you need item B
-but to get item B you first need item A.

what am i missing here?

[tabla_redonda]

Originally posted by MythN7:

from what i can tell, to make a white lightbulb invention with the plus (core invention doc) you need to have a core doc of the color of the corp building you have.

Hello, you can use the resource panel (press F2) to get all that info clear, according to it what you need to get a Yellow Core Doc:
5 yellow docs

It will produce:
1 Yellow core doc
40% chance to produce 1 White core doc

[pasa]

As a general tip, on that F2 panel you can use the cog to select production, including red ones that are not currently available. And somewhat to the left there is a small button that explains what is needed to unlock.

[MythN7]

Originally posted by pasa:

As a general tip, on that F2 panel you can use the cog to select production, including red ones that are not currently available. And somewhat to the left there is a small button that explains what is needed to unlock.

ya i figured out on my own much later on, as a wish i would have known concept,
if you upgrade the corp spec 2x you can convert to other color.
Also, in the one faction, blue i think, (not sure) but it lets any corp create core docs.

But without going 2x in a core, and without that one blue tech that affects this for all corps, so without those, it is very much a chicken and egg thing, so I wish the tutorials covered this core doc stuff, and not just this is how you make food.

[pasa]

Sure, if you only stumble on that "core doc" blue tech that's in the open, indeed it looks chicken/egg. The normal route that is in the 2nd upgrade of the corp is not easy to discover from the tech panel.

But the F2 thingy is pretty central, I think I would got nowhere in the game without extensive use of it, even having the PDF document with all the chains. :)