Research rate doesn't matter

[IntentionallyHardToPronounce]

So I'm playing as the high elves and have made it to the epilogue to finish grinding out the last few faction achievements, namely the one for 50 technologies. Through a combination of buildings, lords, and heroes I am totaling over 500% for my research rate, and everything still takes the same number of turns as at the beginning of the game, military techs take 2-3 turns for the first one and 6 for the second. What the hell?

[Fey Dragonette]

So end game techs take the same amount of time as starting game techs?

I assume end game techs take much longer than the earlier ones so with 500% research time that sounds about right.

[Hyen《A》 ♧]

Originally posted by Radiant:

So end game techs take the same amount of time as starting game techs?

I assume end game techs take much longer than the earlier ones so with 500% research time that sounds about right.

It does. Having them take the same amount as initial research is a good thing. It means your research rate is higher.

[Fey Dragonette]

Originally posted by Hyen《A》♧:

Originally posted by Radiant:

So end game techs take the same amount of time as starting game techs?

I assume end game techs take much longer than the earlier ones so with 500% research time that sounds about right.

It does. Having them take the same amount as initial research is a good thing. It means your research rate is higher.

Well that answers OPs question. Research rate is very relevant.

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If you wanna get the good ♥♥♥♥ faster, yea it matters.

[IntentionallyHardToPronounce]

No, that's not what I'm saying.

There are several low teir techs that I decided were unimportant and so left unresearched in favor of other more useful techs. At the begining of the campaign tech A took 4 turns and tech B took 6 more for a total of 10. This was at 100% research rate this was around turn 20. At the end of the campaign (~150), when I had a research rate of over 500% tech A and B were still unresearched and still would take the same amount of time to complete (4 and 6 turns respectively)

[Hyen《A》 ♧]

Originally posted by IntentionallyHardToPronounce:

No, that's not what I'm saying.

There are several low teir techs that I decided were unimportant and so left unresearched in favor of other more useful techs. At the begining of the campaign tech A took 4 turns and tech B took 6 more for a total of 10. This was at 100% research rate this was around turn 20. At the end of the campaign (~150), when I had a research rate of over 500% tech A and B were still unresearched and still would take the same amount of time to complete (4 and 6 turns respectively)

Have you tried researching them yet? If you haven't it might be a number generator bug (like the level 92 for lords). If it did really cost 4 or 6 turns then it really is a bug. Because it should have been 1 or 2 turns to research.

[Fey Dragonette]

Originally posted by Hyen《A》♧:

Originally posted by IntentionallyHardToPronounce:

No, that's not what I'm saying.

There are several low teir techs that I decided were unimportant and so left unresearched in favor of other more useful techs. At the begining of the campaign tech A took 4 turns and tech B took 6 more for a total of 10. This was at 100% research rate this was around turn 20. At the end of the campaign (~150), when I had a research rate of over 500% tech A and B were still unresearched and still would take the same amount of time to complete (4 and 6 turns respectively)

Have you tried researching them yet? If you haven't it might be a number generator bug (like the level 92 for lords). If it did really cost 4 or 6 turns then it really is a bug. Because it should have been 1 or 2 turns to research.

Yeah investigate it and if it is a bug file a bug report.