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Research

Research is a per-village progression system managed through the Academy. It contains 63 research families and 171 purchasable rank rows across Economy, Military, and Utility.

Points, ranks, and capacity

A village generates RP per day equal to population × server speed. RP belongs to that village and cannot be transferred.
Task resource rewards also grant RP equal to 20% of the reward amount.
The tree has three lanes with three branches each. Every branch contains three 3-rank Minor families, three 3-rank Major families, and one single-rank Keystone.
Rank costs are 200 / 500 / 1,300 RP for Minor ranks, 1,400 / 4,400 / 11,000 RP for Major ranks, and 16,000 RP for a Keystone.
Base allocation across the whole tree is 18 Minor ranks, 9 Major ranks, and 3 Keystones. RP can buy up to three extra Minor slots and three extra Major slots; Keystone capacity cannot be increased.
A Major’s first rank requires rank II of its paired Minor. A branch Keystone requires at least three Major ranks in that branch, plus its building requirements.

Resets and conquest

Individual ranks or the whole village tree can be reset. A reset refunds 80% of the removed RP and starts a 3-day cooldown. The game blocks a reset if removing an effect would leave invalid buildings, queues, routes, pacts, Wilder Sites, or active research actions. Purchased capacity survives a whole-tree reset. A conquered village retains its research and RP state.

Rested Campaign

During Safe Time, a village banks Rested Campaign value. Eligible attacks and raids against normal Ancient villages and unowned Wilder Sites can add up to 15% loot, paid out of that bank.

Branch overview

Lane	Branch	Keystone	What it unlocks
Economy	Builders’ Guild	Second Work Crew	Two simultaneous building/field upgrades; Embermark can run three through its split queues
Economy	Industry Guild	Grand Work	Stores 10% of production as protected materials for one upgrade, up to half its cost
Economy	Merchant Guild	Merchant Charter	Smart Trade Routes with minimum stocks and alliance-village destinations
Military	Command & Maneuver	Operation Plans	Up to 15 saved raids that can be dispatched together
Military	Siege & Armory	Heavy Bombardment	Siege mode: +25% attack, double travel time, minimum 1,000 units and one ram
Military	Raiding & Fieldcraft	Bounty Board	Daily target reveal and RP bounty
Utility	Logistics & Reinforcement	Consolidated Legions	Merge troops into another owned village for twice their original training cost
Utility	Training & Recovery	Twin Barracks	One additional normal Barracks or Stable
Utility	Frontier & Diplomacy	Frontier Command	One extra Wilder Site claim slot

Frequently confused effects

Loaded Caravans raises merchant capacity by 5% / 10% / 15%. Pack Discipline instead raises raiding-troop carry capacity by those values.
Safe Time Study grants 10% / 20% / 30% more RP during Safe Time. Quiet Administration makes building upgrades and troop training 2% / 4% / 6% faster during Safe Time.
Surplus Exchange converts 10% / 20% / 30% of storage overflow at the current Quartermaster rate.
Quartermaster Bargaining improves the rate to 2.85:1 / 2.65:1 / 2.5:1.
Wave Drill raises the Wave Builder limit from 8 to 9 / 10 / 11 waves.
Extended Recall raises the normal 2-minute cancellation window to 4 / 6 / 8 minutes.
Signal Fires raises the defender’s incoming troop-count reveal threshold by 5 / 10 / 15. Masking Drills lowers that threshold by 5 / 10 / 15 for attacks sent from the researched village.
Field Medicine raises Herbalist recovery from 40% to 45% / 50% / 55%.
Pact Charters raises the personal-pact cap from 3 to 4 / 5 / 6.
Reconstruction Crews changes the rebuild time multiplier from 0.75 to 0.65 / 0.50 / 0.35.

The Academy shows every current prerequisite, tier value, activation rule, and cooldown. Because many researches create runtime state rather than a passive percentage, the in-game tree is the definitive reference for less common nodes.