User Guide
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
To reach this screen, click on RES from the screen transfer panel. From here
you can develop inventions, ranging from better mining equipment to an im-
proved plumbing system for all of Harmony. The primary function of the Re-
search area, since Harmony’s forced conversion to a military power, however, is
to develop better weapons, defenses and computers for the Harmony military to
improve its ability in battle.
In the upper left-hand corner of this screen is the stats/text box. It contains the
basic statistics for this area. Budget and Staff are arrow controlled here as well.
There is a minimum budget and staff for this area. See the section covering the
Governor screen for details.
In the upper right-hand corner of the screen is the projects box. Normally, this
box lists the active projects with basic statistics. The arrows at the top of the box
allow you to scroll through the projects one at a time. In addition, when an R&D
team completes a project, if a description of the completed item is available,
then it will be displayed here.
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The statistics in this box are:
Project #
/Consecutively numbered projects you have initiated.
Item Type
Staff
Manager Name
The general area of research being investigated. These are
examined by clicking on the arrow buttons near this listing
Number of general staff assigned to current project.
Name of person you have hired to work on project.
Occupation
~
Manager’s general area of knowledge.
Specialties
All managers have scientific areas in which they are
partic-
ularly
competent. Assigning research in these areas in-
Date Started
Percent Complete
IKnowing
when the project started, you can tell approxi-
~ going take.
mately how well and how long the particular project is
~
Below these items is a single button, marked INIT PROJECT. When a project is
ready to go, clicking here starts everyone working. The button then toggles to
read STOP PROJECT. Each day, the percent complete is updated, unless the
STOP PROJECT button is pushed, which will hold the work at the current level.
In the lower right there are
five
function buttons, one of which is PERSON. The
other four are marked STATS, NEW, SCRAP and CANCEL.
The lower left comer is a vid-screen with CONNECT/DISCONNECT buttons,
used for speaking to research managers when projects are completed. The text
of their speech appears in the project box.
To start a project, you need only have a free research group: one project man-
ager and four free staff members working in the RES area. Click on NEW, and
the projects box will be filled with a project information form, with spaces to be
filled in. The stats/text box will list all available managers, and you can select
one with the Holo-pointer. Note that this list might conceivably be empty. If so,
the automatic Executron overrides will send an appropriate message. To hire
more project managers you must go to the Personnel screen. (You can get there
directly by clicking on PERSON.) You are able to do this at any time while in
the RES area, without affecting whatever you are doing at the time, and when
you return to the RES screen any changes in personnel will be shown.
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