Research
Research allows transport companies to improve and invent technologies that apply to vehicle properties and construction speed and abilities. Examples of technologies that are available to invent or improve are:
- - Belpaire firebox
- Westinghouse air brake
- jet engines
- diesel engines
- hydrofoil ships
- tempered steel
- track-laying machinery
Improving existing technologies is executed by a transport company's own research division. How large improvements are also depend on the research climate and on how many outside researchers have been contracted by the transport company.
When transport companies merge the inventions and technology improvements of the dissolved companies revert to the newly formed transport company. Competing transport companies can take a license on inventions from other transport companies for an annual fee per vehicle or constructed object.
Research is a selectable game feature that is switched off by default.
Question 1: are transport companies able to choose research per vehicle type?
Question 2a: do researchers recieve a salary?
Question 2b: if researchers recieve a salary, is this a fixes salary or a negotiated salary?