Research (Apocalypse)

Description

On Apocalypse scientific research by X-COM falls into two specialized categories, Biochemistry and Quantum Physics. Essentially what this means is that it will be necessary to have 2 types of scientists and laboratories doing parallel research, with the resulting doubling of costs.

The original base will contain 5 Biochemistry and 5 Quantum Physics scientists, together with a Biochemistry Lab and a Quantum Physics Lab . Each scientist has a skill level that can vary from 60s to 100 and can be assigned to any lab of his scientific skill.

Each research facility can be assigned to any project available. It is possible to transfer research projects over laboratories on different bases. When a laboratory has a project assigned it the total value of the scientists skill assigned to it will contribute towards reaching its total 'research cost' every hours.

Research cost is the "skill hours" required to complete a project. If a laboratory has 5 scientists assigned, with a total of 400 skill hours per hour, that means that a research topic that takes 8000 will likely be complete in 20 hours when you put 5 scientists to work on it (20*5*80=8000).