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I brought this up before but could you please include the resources required to build something on the research screen. It beginning to really annoy that I cannot find this out until it's researched or unless I manually go though the resources in the Expansion planner.

Hi Chris,

Can you be a bit more specific on what exactly you want? Are you talking about the resources for certain components? These can be seen on the Design screen as well and in the Construction Summary for each design. You would like to see that information on the research screen as well?

Regards,

- Erik

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Hi Chris,

Can you be a bit more specific on what exactly you want? Are you talking about the resources for certain components? These can be seen on the Design screen as well and in the Construction Summary for each design. You would like to see that information on the research screen as well?

Regards,

- Erik

OK. I did post earlier on this but here goes with an example of the problem everybody has but some may not find it a large problem.

It's the start of the game I have Beam weapons researched (Maxos Blaster) and nothing else. The AI has selected Missiles for research. What resources do I need when the missiles are researched? You cannot find out through the research screen, the resources needed are not shown on the topic popup and you cannot find out though the ship design screen as you don't have this component yet. The only way you can find out what resources are needed is to reverse the process, i.e. looking in the expansion planner, selecting each resource in turn.

It gets more fustratrating in that this info is not anywhere in the Galactopedia nor in the pdf manual.

While composing this I've found two further problems with the, dubiously useful, Expansion Planer. There are no components listed for Caslon and the links to the components do not work for any of the other resources but these are minor problems.

Yes, you are right you can't find any component info at the Research or Galaktopedia.
But you have a Game editor.
Save your game.
Enter the Game Editor.
Raise the Tech level of your Empire.
Check the Components at the Ship Design.
Load your game.

There are no components listed for Caslon

Maybe no Components need Caslon ?
Caslon and Hydrogen are only used as fuel.

ORIGINAL: Canute
Save your game.
Enter the Game Editor.
Raise the Tech level of your Empire.
Check the Components at the Ship Design.
Load your game.

analogy:
create a company
hire developers
develop a game
play a game
go in bankruptcy

why do i need to do that,only to have angrybananas ? angrybirds could just add simple skin and save me all this pain.

@Chris H
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Chris wants to be able to see the resources needed to build a component before it is unlocked, either from the research screen or available in the Galactopedia. This allows you to make sure you have a decent supply of the resources needed for the component in advance. This is useful when, for example, changing weapon systems, as that can be very resource-intensive.