User Guide

Once you have a manager and staff for a research group, you can assign the
group a research direction. All discoverable items have an item type (i.e.: laser,
magnetic, organic, etc.). The list of available item types includes:
Electrical 1 Laser Magnetic
Nuclear
Organic Thermal
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Missile
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General
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At any time during the set-up of a group or when assigning it a research direc-
tion you may click on CANCEL, which will cancel the entire project. Once the
group has been assigned an item type, click on
INIT PROJECT and the team
will begin working on it.
CANCEL also duplicates the STOP PROJECT button. Clicking on it when no
project is selected will bring up the projects list. Select a project and it will be
stopped. Clicking on INIT PROJECT restarts it as always. Clicking on CAN-
CEL again stops
the project.
You may scrap a project at any time. This is done by bringing up the project
using STATS, or by cycling to the correct one using the arrow buttons at the top
of the project box. Then click on SCRAP. If you click on SCRAP without a proj-
ect displayed in the window you will be shown the list from the STATS button.
After selecting the correct project, click SCRAP again.
When a project is scrapped you will receive a confirming message. Scrapping a
project will disperse the research group and make its members available for
other projects. It will also destroy any collective momentum this team has
achieved.
When the project has been completed, the project manager will call the you
from the RES area and give you a description of the newly invented item. If the
item is intended for the military, it will henceforth be available to you through
the Buy screen.
Every Research project manager has two specialties, and when the name of a su-
pervisor is put on the blank form, that supervisor’s specialties will be listed
under his or her name. (There is no relevance or importance to which of the
skills is listed first or second.)
At any time the you may click on STATS to tell the Executron to display all of
the current projects in the projects box. Click on one of the projects listed and
this will take you to the STATS screen for that project.
When a project has been completed and approved, the supervisor (and his team)
will be available to start another one. Restart them by choosing a new research
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item type (if desired), adding or subtracting from general staff, and then clicking
on INIT PROJECT again.
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