Research

Research is completed in a Research Lab, which is unlocked during the introductory section of Mitton University. An essential aspect of managing the Foundation, research grants access to new Courses which allows for new methods of teaching, and for Equipments to be upgraded to the latest tech Two Point County has to offer.

Research 101
To start a research project, the player must either click on the Research Hub, or the Research Lab. In the research screen, a project may be selected from the available projects list.

Once a project has been started, a Teacher will be required to carry out the work, who can most suitably be trained with. They will contribute research to the project over time, based on their research skill, which can be upgraded with further Staff Training.

The researching Teachers are not required to have the, but some projects may require a Teacher trained in a course-specific qualification.

Research progresses over time. There are two main methods to speeding up the generation of Research Points: 1) Staff: By default, the Research Lab is set to allow one Teacher to work at a time. A setting in the Room Inspector can allow further researchers to operate in the room at once. 2) Items: Several items are available which provide extra Research Power. These are usually small increases, but installing many items will have a cumulative effect.

When there is no active research, Teachers, in their free time, can visit the Research Lab to generate a new type of Commercial Research over time.

It should be noted that projects do not have to be completed in a single session. At any time, a project may be halted in favour of another, and no progress will be lost. Projects may even be started in one campus and resumed in another. Each time a project is resumed, either in the same campus or another, the Greenlight Fee must be paid again.


 * Greenlight Fee
 * Indicates the monetary cost of beginning the project

Once a project has been completed the course/item/upgrade will be permanently available for all campuses, and any researched money or kudosh will be added to the total for the campus or Foundation, respectively.

Projects
Research projects can be broken down into two main types:

Academic Research (Base-Icon.png Base Game)
Academic research is used to unlock new courses, items and item upgrades

Robo-Construction-Icon.png Robotics Project
Note:  The Robotics Project II is granted during the Initial Objectives of Mitton University. Only Robotics Project III needs to be researched.

Commercial Research (Base-Icon.png Base Game)
Whenever a Research Hub is not in use, it will generate random projects from this section. Each project will be saved for the player to run when ready; however, each project is associated with a certain Course. As such, the project may only be run on a Campus where that Course is being run, so that Teachers with the correct Qualifications are available.

Patient Research (MS-Icon.png Medical School DLC)
Every time a Patient is successfully treated in Pointy Peak, there is a chance that a Research Project will be made available, in order to provide a boost in Treatment Power to further sufferers of the same Illness. These projects may be completed on other Campuses where the Medical School or Nursing are running, including those outside of the Medical School DLC.