Infrastructure Specialization

[Tiojion]

What's the deal with infrastructure specialization? (The bonuses related to it are shown on the far left on the research screen).

This appears to be a significant bonus influencing research. Is it determined by choice of race? Is it tied to the special abilities chosen? There's no mention of it in the race descriptions or on the custom race screen. It seems like info that should be present when choosing one's race or have some info about it somewhere.

Is there any means to alter this bonus?

[Medway]

I think you're referring to the bonuses from the infrastructure choices on each planet. It's located at the top of the planet info on the colony screen. there you can see the choices and their bonuses.

[aReclusiveMind]

Infrastructure specializations are what you pick whenever you level up infrastructure in one of your colonies. Each one of those provides a boost to the colony and boost your research in a specific area.

For instance, there are 3 civil developer infrastructure specialization levels in a colony. Expert, Master, and Legendary. You can get +1, +2, or +3 RP (research points) per population in the colony depending on how high you level it up there. Of course, you might level something else instead. This is where those research points you are seeing in the research screen as Infrastructure Specialization are coming from.

Infrastructure also boosts production in general, no matter what specialty you pick upon level up, and provides a nice bonus to some other aspect of your colony ontop of the research bonus. I'd advise everyone not to underestimate the power of building up your infrastructure.

[Mnemon]

You can get the bonuses from race features(utopia -50% to weapons, +X% to other areas), infra and building on planets and leaders(probably other sources too).

[aReclusiveMind]

Originally posted by Mnemon:

You can get the bonuses from race features(utopia -50% to weapons, +X% to other areas), infra and building on planets and leaders(probably other sources too).

That's correct. There are also data core artifacts, and even event bonuses that can appear here.

It is important to note though that all of those are listed as separate line items from the Infrastructure Specialization line item in the research tooltip for each area.

[Tiojion]

Thanks for the info. Are the Infrastructure Specializations already present on one's homeworld the same for everyone, race specific, or random? While most of the specialization stuff is planet specific we only start with that one world so those starting research bonuses are pretty big in terms of influencing one's research choices before you even have other planets.

[Medway]

Originally posted by Tiojion:

Thanks for the info. Are the Infrastructure Specializations already present on one's homeworld the same for everyone, race specific, or random? While most of the specialization stuff is planet specific we only start with that one world so those starting research bonuses are pretty big in terms of influencing one's research choices before you even have other planets.

On the game startup screen there are race bonuses displayed, did you check if what you're seeing was there?

[Tiojion]

Not there Medway.

[Medway]

Originally posted by Tiojion:

Not there Medway.

What do the bonus descriptions say when you hover over it in the research screen? Most of the stats in the game show where that's coming from.

Or do you mean some of the planet's infrastructure slots are already unlocked when you first start the game?

[aReclusiveMind]

Originally posted by Tiojion:

Thanks for the info. Are the Infrastructure Specializations already present on one's homeworld the same for everyone, race specific, or random? While most of the specialization stuff is planet specific we only start with that one world so those starting research bonuses are pretty big in terms of influencing one's research choices before you even have other planets.

Each race has specific preset infrastructure specializations.

They do help guide your early research along with the government type.

They help guide you in other ways as well.

For instance the Moltar start with level 2 infrastructure specilization in planetary engineering. Notice their unique ability is unlocked when they reach level 3 (Legendary Planetary Engineers) in planetary engineering in a colony. Ontop of that, havjng 3 points in planetary engineering on a planet provides a +25% bonus to planetary engineering efforts empire wide. This makes adding a 3rd point there early highly beneficial. It also means they have strong support ships to help eco-engineer and terraform new colonies.

The Draguul on the other hand start with a more aggressive infrastructure setup focused on ship support and ship building. This combined with their unique abilities and traits make them good early conquerers in my experience.

Each race can be played a number of ways, but they are certainly well suited to certain playstyles.

[Medway]

Good to know. I've only played Humans and never really noticed the starting infrastructure.

[Tiojion]

aReclusiveMind, thanks for the clarification. =)

[Vexorg]

OK,i cannot figure out the infrastructure specilization stat. I am playing Moltar. I have support ship over a planet, and i mouse over the construction production triangle and it says zero production local and empire infrastructure.... Where do i see my empire infrastructure stat? Alot of stats are not very intuitive to find....

[Adam Solo]

Originally posted by Vexorg:

OK,i cannot figure out the infrastructure specilization stat. I am playing Moltar. I have support ship over a planet, and i mouse over the construction production triangle and it says zero production local and empire infrastructure.... Where do i see my empire infrastructure stat? Alot of stats are not very intuitive to find....

The support ship production bonus can be seen in the colony view production tooltip, the "blue gears" icon.

If you have a support ship on the system and planetary engineering infrastructure perks unlocked in the empire you will see a boost to planetary engineering on the Habitat Control tooltip, for example, the terraforming action tooltip or any other eco-engineering or terraforming action tooltip as long as there's production allocated to planetary engineering activities.