Research

The main feature of the free world is the ability to conduct reseach.

Research
Once inside a town you can get various bonus' all gathered through the usage of new technologies gathered by research.

Technologies
All the technologies available for research are broken into branches with some branches locked until certain technologies are researched. To start out with a twn has access to research into the Learning, Expansion, and Spiritual.

Each branch carries about a specific theme and grants different bonus'. Where Expansion goes solely into giving a town the ability to claim more land another branch like Spiritual will give you the ability to designate a religion along with other things which gives players the ability to decide what is the most pressing matter and work towards that.

Branches vary widely on how many techs they contain. The biggest branch at the moment contains seven techs while the smallest one only has three. Each branch could gather more techs and are not limited to a max number of techs.

As you progress through the techs they become harder and more time consuming to research. Each tech has an independant amoutn of research that needs doing meaning that all techs wil take the same amount of time to research no matter when you decide to do it. Easy techs will always be esy and hard ones will always be hard.

To get farther in your research you don't have to do anything special since all actions in one way or another contribute to fulfilling your rearch. Everything from mining to killing another player will help your research however if you die your research will take a big hit.

A town can only be conducting research on one tech at a time and switching will reset all progress. As well you are told on what you are researching will grant you.

A player made list of technologies can be found here.