Anomalies Investigated, Techs still hidden

[hekele]

So I'm still working on my first play-through and Ive seen mention of some very useful techs that I don't yet even see on my tech tree. Still has a lot of ? tiles. I've investigated every planetary anomaly and uncovered about 6 breakthrough techs, but still can't build domes bigger than basic, have no lasers, no apartments, etc. Can't even see those techs. Now that I've investigated every anomaly, how can I uncover the techs I can't see yet so that I can then research them?

[bcrehore]

research. all those techs are in your tech tree. you just have to continue to research, and find them. the tech tree is one of the interesting/frustrating things about the game...it changes every play. it makes you learn to how succeed using different approaches, as you can't count on getting what you want, when you want. enjoy!

[Bobucles]

One of the major mid game challenges is getting a research team up and running. The colony needs to be fairly well established (food, income, etc.) before it makes sense to haul in scientists, but they will quickly make up the bulk of your research efforts.

In general, try to run as few research labs as possible. Each active research lab imposes a 10% penalty on ALL research labs; the hawking institute has a separate penalty for other hawking institutes. Wiki says the penalty stacks all the way down to 50% efficiency. There are clever strategies for how many of each building to keep, but keep them fully staffed and roughly in equal number and it'll work out fine.

[hekele]

Huh I have all those research buildings and staff, and I seem to be getting close to running out of techs to research. There's only 4-5 that I have available to be researched right now, none of which are useful in my colony. Maybe when I have researched all of then, more will become available?

[NotThatHarkness]

Originally posted by hekele:

Maybe when I have researched all of then, more will become available?

Each tech you research will reveal the next one down on that particular tech tree. Anomalies reveal techs allowing you to skip over techs somewhat, but generally if you want to reveal a certain tech in a tree you need to research the already revealed techs. If none of the revealed techs are useful to you, then start with the cheapest one in whatever tech tree interests you. Eventually you'll uncover what you want or something useful.

For example, Low-G High-rise (apartments) occur in Engineering randomly (depending on map) in positions 1-5. If that's not revealed yet, start researching whatever is currently revealed in Engineering to eventually uncover apartments.

[Ericus1]

Unless you've fully deep scanned every sector on your map, you haven't revealed all the anomalies on it. Plus you'll get additional planetary missions. You're nowhere near close to getting all the things that reveal techs.