Speed of research

[dorn]

I am now playing game as UK with game budget and small fleet. It is my fist game which has not very large fleets and historical budget.

But I am quite suprised as I am in half of 1901 and I have already 2 levels in one field. What is even more suprising that game states me as "behind".

When I played with historical budget and very large fleets I did not inveted so much technologies so early.

So question is? Is it normal? Is large of the fleet thus budget transferred to speed of research in same proportion? I am still in half of 1901 however with so many technologies and beeing behind it seems quite strange.

FYI level of technologies as 6/1901:

Machinery 2

Armour 1

Hull 1

FC 1

Subdivision 0

Turrets 1

Ship design 1

AP 1

Light forces 1

Torpedo 1

Submarines 1

ASW 0

Explosives 1

Fleet tactics 0

Guns - no new gun

I will monitor progress further.

[yemo]

Looking at the savegame from the AAR, I guess it depends on the priorities you have assigned to research areas.

Eg if you have low priorities in a research areas, which have many early techs and high priority in areas which have few early techs, you are essentially harming yourself.
Since it is very hard to research techs before their time, I guess the "high" priority "wastes" a lot of effort on stuff you simply can not yet research efficiently.

Eg you have high priority on subdivision, yet this field has no 1900 tech, only a 1901 tech. Same goes for submarines. Those are 2 of your 3 high research settings not being efficient in the first year.
And you have a lot of low priority areas, making the effect even more pronounced by redistributing even more research into those 2 areas.
In contrast, turrets, ship design and torpedos have low priority although they have relatively easy 1900 research projects.

I m not 100% certain that this is how it works, though it would explain it and I seemed to have better results when I took that into consideration (though I sill have not figured out how to reliably research better than 12 inch guns as germany).

Another issue might be, that you have a UK research advantage in "ship design", yet you have that area set to low priority. I suspect the research advantage works as some sort of multiplier, so the higher your initial input into that area, the stronger the effect of that national advantage (I guess up to the point where all techs in that area for that year are researched and you waste research points as described above).

[dorn]

Mar 11, 2019 19:25:27 GMT -6 yemo said:

Looking at the savegame from the AAR, I guess it depends on the priorities you have assigned to research areas.

Eg if you have low priorities in a research areas, which have many early techs and high priority in areas which have few early techs, you are essentially harming yourself.
Since it is very hard to research techs before their time, I guess the "high" priority "wastes" a lot of effort on stuff you simply can not yet research efficiently.

Eg you have high priority on subdivision, yet this field has no 1900 tech, only a 1901 tech. Same goes for submarines. Those are 2 of your 3 high research settings not being efficient in the first year.
And you have a lot of low priority areas, making the effect even more pronounced by redistributing even more research into those 2 areas.
In contrast, turrets, ship design and torpedos have low priority although they have relatively easy 1900 research projects.

I m not 100% certain that this is how it works, though it would explain it and I seemed to have better results when I took that into consideration (though I sill have not figured out how to reliably research better than 12 inch guns as germany).

Another issue might be, that you have a UK research advantage in "ship design", yet you have that area set to low priority. I suspect the research advantage works as some sort of multiplier, so the higher your initial input into that area, the stronger the effect of that national advantage (I guess up to the point where all techs in that area for that year are researched and you waste research points as described above).

I decreased priority after the first lvl on any field. So it is not issue. As example, submarines were on low priority whole 1900, ship design with high priority till the 1st lvl.