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HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURand you’ll see the team’sname and its areas of expertise.If you haven’t yetassigned a project for it towork on, you will also see acomment that it is idle and thatit does not currently requirefunding. Idle teams may bereplaced by clicking theReplace button and selectinga new team. The new teamwill be placed in that projectslot and the old team will bereturned to the team pool.Research ProjectsSelecting and Assigning aProjectAcross the top of the screenare a set of buttons listing thevarious general categories oftechnology in DH. Eachcategory has many individualprojects, each of which has itsown set of componentadvances. When you click onone of the category buttons,the main section of the folderwill display a colour-codedflowchart of all of the projectsthat are part of that category. Adark green entry indicates thatyou have already completedthis project;● light green indicates thatyou have all the prerequisiteadvances necessary to beginresearching the project;● yellow indicates that a teamhas already begun work onthe project; and● red indicates that you lacksome of the prerequisiteaccomplishments to beginresearch. The arrows in theflow chart indicate theprerequisites for each project,making it easy to see whatsteps must be taken if you arelooking far into your researchfuture. Tooltips also displayuseful informations likerequired and unlocked techs.The various secret weaponsfields are a special case.There are prerequisites inother categories that must firstbe completed, and at sometime shortly thereafter aspecial “event” will fire that willunlock one or more secretweapon projects. Until theevent has triggered, you willnot be able to begin researchon that project even if yousatisfy the technologicalrequirements.Clicking on any one of theprojects will display the ProjectDetails and its componentadvances. Each componentwill have a difficulty rating anda specified field that is theprimary discipline that relatesto the component. The overallproject completion time will bereduced for each of theassigned team’s areas ofexpertise that correspond toone of the components’primary fields, but a higherdifficulty rating makes for alonger research schedule forthat component. You will alsosee a list of the benefits youmay expect upon completionof the project.Each project has one otherfactor that can play a role indetermining how long it willtake to research: the historicalyear that it appeared. Thisreflects the need for other subcomponentsthat aren’t directlyincluded in the technologytree’s multitude of componentsbut nevertheless played ahistorical role in makingscientific advances in this areapossible. If you beginresearching a project beforeits historical time period, it willtake longer to complete sinceyour team will need to spendadditional time inventing thosehypothetical subcomponents.You can easily change thenumber of available techteams by editing db\misc.txt(located in the main and ineach mod folder) and playat your will with theseparameters:5Max active tech teams at atime (cannot be more than50).1# Min active tech teams ata time (available teamsregardles of current IC).20# Required IC for each techteam above the min 20Progression in advancedlevels of rocketry research willbe nearly impossible withoutthe construction of appropriatetest facilities to assist yourscientists. If you intend topursue this field, you shouldbuild at least one rocket testsite as soon as you are ableand then increase its size45