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Developments are primary objectives available for player completion that enhance gameplay and statistics for players. Developments are split into faction-trees, with one tree available for each faction providing specific enhancements useful to said faction.
There are four current trees: Economy, Expansion, Military, and Statecraft. Whilst each tree is geared towards a specific faction, players may interchange trees to achieve a desired effect.
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Each technology takes an amount of knowledge to research depending on tier they are in the development tree, the amount of knowledge required is derived from the following formula:
Where TotalStepResearched is the sum of all researched development steps And StepForCurrentDev is the current tech tier you are researching.