University Research, how long does it take?

[LordJestix]

In addition to the how long does it take to max a base, i am also going to do the University Research.

*These numbers are based off of the wiki. Not all information is there so I am assuming worker/time cost to the best of my ability.

So far i only have Gunpowder Age Research done:

Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount
Gunpowder	2.46465	29828	1789680	1254185	20903.06	870.960833	29.03202778	2.386194064

With the above numbers, you can essentially do 6 researches at the same time. The above numbers also have you doing musa/hiwatha only until you get the max time discount, then finish the tree for the worker discounts. Then it has you doing levels 1 and 2 for all other leaders with a Level 1 and Level 2 research.

But to make it easy, you can do all of this research, if not doing any buildings in .3976 years or 145 Days/4.8 30-day months

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Even though EA is nearly 300 less research days than GP it takes longer because of the worker requirements only allow 4 leaders to be researched at the same time.

Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount	Actual Upgrade Time Years / 4 upgrades at once	Days	30-day Months
Enlightenment	4	20280	1216800	851760	14196	591.5	19.71666667	1.620547945	0.405136986	147.875	4.9291667

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Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount	Actual Upgrade Time Years / 3 upgrades at once	Days	30-day Months
Industrial	4.735537	22776	1366560	942480	15708	654.5	21.81666667	1.793150685	0.597716895	218.1667	7.2722222

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*Lots of missing data here, I assumed 7 days and 8 base workers for capstones, based off of Earheart capstone.

Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount	Actual Upgrade Time Years / 3 upgrades at once	Days	30-day Months
Global	4.836364	19488	1169280	736272	12271.2	511.3	17.04333333	1.400821918	0.466940639	170.4333	5.6811111

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*There are no time discounts or gold/food worker discounts as all upgrades are oil based. Also you can only do 1 research at a time currently since Earheart is the only Atomic age upgrades.

Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount
Atomic	5.096774	696	41760	41760	696	29	0.966666667	0.079452055

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Overall the total years to fully max an Atomic Age base (buildings/forrest/research) is nearly 21 years in total time.

Age	Workers Needed	Research Time Hours	Research Time Minutes	Min after Discount	Hour after Discount	Days After Discount	30 Day Months After Discount	Years After Discount
Overall	3.63127	93068	5584080	3844025	64067.08	2669.46167	88.98205556	7.313593607

 

[LordJestix]

Here is the grand total of all worker required upgrades to max FULLY max a single base

Age	Years Per Age	Days	30-day Months
01 Stone	4.09113E-05	0.014932622	0.000497754
02 Bronze	0.000609299	0.22239409	0.007413136
03 Iron	0.004857663	1.773046935	0.059101564
04 Classical	0.020113451	7.341409714	0.244713657
05 Medieval	0.055010464	20.0788195	0.669293983
06 Gunpowder	0.519776388	189.7183815	6.32394605
07 Enlightenment	0.605051076	220.8436429	7.361454762
08 Industrial	1.049986189	383.244959	12.77483197
09 Global	1.13461028	414.1327523	13.80442508
10 Atomic	1.091406872	398.3635084	13.27878361
Grand Total	4.481462594	1635.733847	54.52446156

Yes you read correctly, it takes nearly 4.5 years to fully max an AA base.

This is over 2x the length in time it takes to fully max a CoC base. In CoC it takes 3,768.01 days in upgrade time to max the base. Divide that by 5 workers and you get 753.60 days or 2.064 Years to fully max a CoC base.

 

[Berny]

Thanks a lot for sharing this work. I guess it would be more optimal to max Hiawatha first, then start Mansa Musa (or vice versa), then the other leaders.
Could you please add the total worker-hours (maybe even per leader). I realize it's a theoretical number because you can only do one research at a time per leader, but I think it would make a good comparison to buildings.

 

[Bedlam]

Wow...good work. Slightly depressing but still good work

 

[SiuYin]

I did a similar study, I would said it required less time than your expected, (number with atomium)
1. Basic offense:
complete Range Infantry / Heavy Infantry / Cannon, It required 906 Man-days to complete, less than 2 months for 16 workers
2. Basic Defense:
Complete HP / DPS for Tower + Anti Tank + Motar + Garrison + Tank Deposit and Wall HP, you need another 2334 man-days, another 5 months for 16 workers
3.Hold the gate
Another 1134 man-days, or 2.4 months for 16 workers

 

[rising_meatball]

I guess BHG is completely out of touch expecting players would do nothing, sucking on their thumbs for the next 4.5 years to upgrade a single building within the game. I have said this before, University is the most bizarre and down-right outrageous idea ever come up for an online game.

What’s worse? They are keeping adding more leaders. The game designer can just spontaneously pull stuff and put them in University, and poof, another couple of years added to the game research time. How about another 10% hit points to library, that’s 2 month of research time requiring 6 workers full time, they can just keep adding this nonsense forever, until you quit.

 

[ReekyBullet]

Well it's not designed to be "maxed" like the library, it's designed to target the research that will be useful to each player. Don't have a whinge because you're approaching the situation wrong. Most of the useful research is towards the top anyway with exception of probably Saladin who is mostly useful no matter the player.

Don't use mortar troops but want something below it? Do the bare minimum and move on. Ez

 

[LordJestix]

I did a similar study, I would said it required less time than your expected, (number with atomium)
1. Basic offense:
complete Range Infantry / Heavy Infantry / Cannon, It required 906 Man-days to complete, less than 2 months for 16 workers
2. Basic Defense:
Complete HP / DPS for Tower + Anti Tank + Motar + Garrison + Tank Deposit and Wall HP, you need another 2334 man-days, another 5 months for 16 workers
3.Hold the gate
Another 1134 man-days, or 2.4 months for 16 workers

My numbers are assuming you max each research that you unlock at the age you unlock it. so all level 1 and 2 gets fully researched at GP age. So if thats the case, only atmoic levels would get an additional 10% time reduction.

 

[LordJestix]

Thanks a lot for sharing this work. I guess it would be more optimal to max Hiawatha first, then start Mansa Musa (or vice versa), then the other leaders.
Could you please add the total worker-hours (maybe even per leader). I realize it's a theoretical number because you can only do one research at a time per leader, but I think it would make a good comparison to buildings.

I have another thread that shows the most efficient upgrade route to start your research for the time reduction, you would then want to finish up Hiawatha to get the capstone because all of his research is only 2 workers required while Musa is 3, so finish hiawatha after you unlock all the time research, that way you can reduce the rest of musa to 2 workers required.

 

[FroggyKilla]

That's poor design imo.