Research

[okerker]

I am not able to research anything. Have enough building materials, energy and floater but nothing happend.

[Fretlen]

Does your research station have power?

[okerker]

Yes it is connected and has power. Do i need research points?

[WinterCypher]

a couple things to check
1. make sure its turned on in the early stages you can tell because another crew member will start on power winding
2. Check your priority settings and make sure youve increased the research priority for someone
3. in the window for the research building make sure something is selected

[okerker]

Thank you. I will check it.

[Lunae]

same problem the research station has stopped working, my request is only half completed. I have power and one worker. This is the 3rd time this has happened (not in the same game). The research is for the large storage.

[啊呸OvO]

I have researchers who have increased the priority of research. The research station has electricity and enough floats, but I don't study

[Shamrock2211]

The other thing to check is, not that it's just connected to power, but also that your boat has power available. Early game the crank shaft generator supplies less power when in use, than the research station uses, so you end up draining power to zero most times.

I believe there is a bug in the game where if your power hits zero, the researcher will keep researching with no power and not progress. You have to manually turn off the research station, let the power build back up, then turn it back on. I'd do the manual power generator research first, as the bicycle generator "breaks even" (when in use) and produces the same amount of power the research station uses, so you don't go down to zero.

Also when your doing research (if you don't have a lot of drifters early game) make sure you don't assign them other tasks so someone is available to ride the bike/turn the crank while research is active. Early game I wouldn't research anything costing more than 2 plastic until you have better power setup and more drifters. It's not really about the plastic cost, it's that stuff that cost more than 2 plastic takes much longer to research. Once you get multiple solar panels built everything is much easier.

Also turn off your unbottler while doing research early game. If that's in use while researching it's going to drain you to zero quick.