Recovered Tech- how do I break it down?

[Hawkeye]

I just got a "Tech Data Scanned" Event type from a wreck salvaged.  It told me that I got 800 research points for Ceramic Composite Armour & 1500 research points for Ceramic Composite Armour.  I don't have the tech, nor am I researching it, but when I go to the research panel, I see that Ceramic Composite Armour costs 10000 RPs.  Shouldn't that be 7700/10000 now?

I think the ship has to make it back to your colony- check out it's info tabs, somewhere I seem to remember it listing research tech.

Correct, once you enter your system, you will get a message reading: "Tech download! 2300 research points in Ceramic Composite Armor downloaded" or something along that line.

[James Patten]

HOWEVER - if there's multiple colonies between your location and the colony you want to have the data (such as your homeworld or a major research colony) you should go into the ship's individual record (F6 tab I think?) and disable the download (there's a checkbox somewhere) - otherwise the first colony you encounter, whether it's a brand new one with barely a million people or one with 500 million, will get the information.  And there's no sharing between colonies.

[sandman662]

Ah, got you.  Thanks!!

[sandman662]

Ok, made it home and have tested your solutions and you are right.  What an awesome way of handling the tech finds.  This game is really great!!!!

[Steve Walmsley]

Oh, and by the way, this may be a given but if a component makes use of technologies less advanced than yours, those fields shouldn't be aided by said component's disassembly.

I mean, for instance, let's say you retrieve an active sensor that uses Active Grav Sensor Strength 21 and EM Sensor Sensitivity 6, and your current technologies in that area are AGSS 16 and EMSS 8. In this case, disassembly should contribute to AGSS research, but not that of EMSS.

Yes, that is already how it works

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

HOWEVER - if there's multiple colonies between your location and the colony you want to have the data (such as your homeworld or a major research colony) you should go into the ship's individual record (F6 tab I think?) and disable the download (there's a checkbox somewhere) - otherwise the first colony you encounter, whether it's a brand new one with barely a million people or one with 500 million, will get the information.  And there's no sharing between colonies.

The checkbox is on the "History / Notes / Tech Data" tab on the Ship window, where you can also see what tech data a ship is carrying.

Steve