Starting off in R&D

[Superballs]

Introduction

People are puzzled on how Aito Kusanagi gets to high research levels in such a short amount of time with just the items produced in the lab and with no materials from mining.

This guide is for people who have mid-tier or entry level experience in R&D and wish to improve their efficiency and speed.

(NOTE: This guide is only to max out research levels with no external help. Illegal technologies will not be discussed in this guide yet.)

But how do you get that technology?

In the R&D Lab there are levels and the ways to increase those levels are:

• Deconstructing an item with a technology equal to the one you have

• Deconstructing an item with a higher technology level equal to the one you have.

how do i level up

Goto the Research console > Settings > Device Linkage Menu > "Re-sync with Nearby Devices"

Now, we can start deconstructing for more R&D levels. The list to deconstruct follows, all of these can be found or made inside your lab.

high-cap power cell

high-cap power cell

micro manipulator

analyzer

tracking beacon

optical meson scanners

PanD.E.M.I.C. 2200 board

flamethrower

health HUD

advanced mining drill

nano-manipulator

nano-paste

clone-pod board

subspace receiver board

relay mainframe board

telepad board

Durand weapon control and targeting board

Durand weapon control and targeting board

Durand weapon control and targeting board

 

Once you have deconstructed that list, you will hit a wall where most of the items to deconstruct do not have a high enough reliability.

This problem can be resolved by upgrading the parts in your Deconstructive Analyzer. With your current Research Levels, you should be able to construct a pico-manipulator, a high-power micro laser and an advanced scanning module. These parts will upgrade the stock parts in your Deconstructive Analyzer.

DO NOT USE THE RAPID PART EXCHANGE DEVICE FOR THIS STEP. This is mainly due to the deconstructive analyzer being bugged and not being able to deconstruct lower reliability items when parts are exchanged with the RPE rather than manually.

So, you must screwdrive the panel open on the deconstructive analyzer, crowbar the parts out and replace the circuit board and upgraded parts, then you can proceed to deconstruct the following list. Don't forget to re-link your deconstructive analyzer through the R&D console!

pico-manipulator

radio-enabled man machine interface

super-capacity power cell

super-capacity power cell

advanced reagent scanner

 

Your research levels should be:

Materials: 6

Engineering: 5

Phoron: 2

Power: 6

Bluespace: 5

Biological: 5

Combat: 5

EMP: 5

Data Theory: 5

This will allow you to produce many advanced prototypes for the crew right off the bat without any assistance from Robotics or Mining, making R&D self reliant to get to these levels of technology.

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This next list is assuming you have all of the materials received from mining, this will maximize your research levels.

phoron sheet

plasma cutter

phoron pistol

diamond mining drill

 

Upgrade your deconstructive analyzer with a phasic scanning module and an ultra-high-power micro-laser and re-link the deconstructive analyzer.

Finish off with this list:

phasic scanning module

hyper-capacity power cell

 

You should finish R&D with these levels, if you've followed the guide:

Materials: 7

Engineering: 6

Phoron: 5

Power: 7

Bluespace: 5

Biological: 5

Combat: 6

EMP: 6

Data Theory: 5

Edited May 9, 2016 by Guest

[Guest]

Don't waste unnecessary metal on the stun revolver. You can print 3 Durand Weapon boards and still reach Combat 5. You can also substitute the medHUD for building the PANDEMIC circuitry and then a Cloning Machine circuitboard thereafter. Decon both consecutively. Sub out the medHUD for the high-focus laser.

 

autolathe board

 

also why

[Superballs]

Don't waste unnecessary metal on the stun revolver. You can print 3 Durand Weapon boards and still reach Combat 5. You can also substitute the medHUD for building the PANDEMIC circuitry and then a Cloning Machine circuitboard thereafter. Decon both consecutively. Sub out the medHUD for the high-focus laser.

also why

 

Thanks, will fix the list.

[DatBerry]

You can get 100 reliability batteries by syncing and asking robotics to make some

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Thank you for this, been looking for an up-to-date R&D guide.

[ArcBot]

Aito, don't forget you can just put all the items that are needed to upgrade the DA inside the RPE first, then just screwdriver the DA open and use the RPE on it. Screwdriver shut, ready to go. You don't need to reconstruct the whole DA.

Edit: Thanks for the list to, it will definitely speed up Toms process in RnD.

[Superballs]

Aito, don't forget you can just put all the items that are needed to upgrade the DA inside the RPE first, then just screwdriver the DA open and use the RPE on it. Screwdriver shut, ready to go. You don't need to reconstruct the whole DA.

 

This saves time as well, I never used the RPE extensively to use it properly. Thanks.

[ArcBot]

I also want to point out while trying your guide step by step, after upgrading the destructive analyzer you still can't deconstruct the next list of items you have.

[Skull132]

How to deconstruct powercells 100% of the time: have robotics print them.

[Superballs]

Updated a few errors in this guide.

[MrSmooooth]

An Energy Relay can be made by robotics once they have gold and silver. This is Illegal tech 2, and will open some doors for you. One item you can make is Binary incryption keys, Illegal 3, once you use those to get to Illegal 4 you can get chameleon kits. The gun in that kit is Illegal 8 and can be used to escalate Illegal Tech to level 9, however going beyond illegal 4 won't unlock anything new.

[ArcBot]

An Energy Relay can be made by robotics once they have gold and silver. This is Illegal tech 2, and will open some doors for you. One item you can make is Binary incryption keys, Illegal 3, once you use those to get to Illegal 4 you can get chameleon kits. The gun in that kit is Illegal 8 and can be used to escalate Illegal Tech to level 9, however going beyond illegal 4 won't unlock anything new.

 

I honestly wondered what jump-started illegal technology, couldn't be bothered to check in code for it though. Thanks for the cool information man.

[Filthyfrankster]

I don't like the idea of the pro as heck guide to RnD and max shitterly (How to achieve antag items) being posted on the forums.

Please delete this thread

[Guest Complete Garbage]

I don't like the idea of the pro as heck guide to RnD and max shitterly (How to achieve antag items) being posted on the forums.

Please delete this thread

It's a useful guide. Nobody's forcing anybody to use it. But it is expected that a trained scientist would know how to get the R&D levels up.

[SierraKomodo]

I don't like the idea of the pro as heck guide to RnD and max shitterly (How to achieve antag items) being posted on the forums.

Please delete this thread

 

I'd prefer it to be knowledge available to anyone, not something that only an 'elite few' get to know.

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Also, the guide itself says nothing about how to get illegal tech(Which is where antag shit comes from.)

[Filthyfrankster]

Also, the guide itself says nothing about how to get illegal tech(Which is where antag shit comes from.)

 

*Points above at Mr.smoooth post*

And it's not the hard to simply ask an RnD guy his recipe for being cancer and have him write it all down for you.

it's called 'rp'

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Also, the guide itself says nothing about how to get illegal tech(Which is where antag shit comes from.)

 

*Points above at Mr.smoooth post*

And it's not the hard to simply ask an RnD guy his recipe for being cancer and have him write it all down for you.

it's called 'rp'

 

An R&D guy might be shit at his job. Who exactly is this guide harming, and in what way?

[ArcBot]

An R&D guy might be shit at his job. Who exactly is this guide harming, and in what way?

 

No one, this guide is perfect and always has been. Mr. Smooth made the guide even better letting us know about the energy relays.

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Also, literally anyone can download the code from Git and look at the research levels of ANY item in the game.

This guide simply puts it into a useful and cohesive format.

[Dreamix]

If something can be put in the forums, it doesn't mean that it should be posted where everyone can see it. Especially if it's a literally hand-holding walk-through on how to max out research levels (including the illegal tech, if you wish). Powergame, one may call it.

Also, this is "guides & tutorials" sub-forum. There should be hints, pro-tips and clues on how to raise research levels efficiently, apart from information on how to raise the first few levels, and overview of the whole research system.

Can someone post a guide on how to explode the supermatter crystal without generating any logs? How about coordinates of every nice ready-to-steal item for telescience?

[Guest]

Can't do either of those, Dreamix, because one method would leave fingerprints and the other is impossible to do now what with a randomized telescience formula.

Every significant player input has its own neat little watermark somewhere, just gotta know where to look.

[vtipoman]

Even if you guys delete this from the forums people will still share it amongs themselves.

[Dreamix]

Even if you guys delete this from the forums people will still share it amongs themselves.

Long live the rebellion.

If it gets deleted, people will not use the forums as an excuse to power/metagame. If... (And it probably won't, but I can at least manifest my aversion to such """guides""".)

 

Can't do either of those, Dreamix, because one method would leave fingerprints and the other is impossible to do now what with a randomized telescience formula.

Every significant player input has its own neat little watermark somewhere, just gotta know where to look.

...That's, not the point.

[Guest]

...That's, not the point.

 

The difference is that someone who set off the SM for no real reason would be either warned or banned, and the issue of telescience is no longer a real issue given it was made more difficult.

There's really nothing wrong with an R&D guide, it requires a present effort from mining before science can really do anything with it.