How to invest in technological or cultural advances?

[ferbenz65]

I want to apply the Imperial Administration law. I have almost everything requiered: all the right laws, the needed piety and my councelors' favors ready to have their support... but my Majesty is only 4 and I need 5.

When I click on the boxes of any technological or cultural advance, it shows something like 'Investment: 500'. It seems like I can advance if I invest on it. But my question is: how?

I mean, I don't see any click or window or anywhere to put my money on it so I can speed up the needed advance. Help please.

 

[Frank327]

You need a number of tech points (not money) and then the button in the "majesty" box should turn blue in the technology tab. It's the button with a looking glass and an upward arrow. If you want to speed up the process of getting majesty up, take the scholarship focus, build an observatory and take the option "is there something... weird out there?". You'll get loads of cultural tech points in that event chain.

 

[ferbenz65]

Oh... Thanx!

I thought money could help...

 

[gmoney]

Money can help a bit. You can buy buildings in your hospital that help you earn a few fractions of a point towards cultural/economical tech. Monastic schools in churches and universities in cities also generate a small bit of research. It isn't immediate but over time it will help.

The other way is sending your spymaster off to study tech. Use the map mode and see if you can find someone with the tech you want and send your spy there. He'll increase your rate of research in any area of tech in that province that is higher than yours. Even if the province doesn't have the correct tech at a higher level you will sometimes get 'spymaster studies tech' event worth a random 50 points into one of the three tech areas. Of course the spymaster risks being caught by the local ruler and imprisoned which can be a bonus if you don't like the guy.

 

[Olligarchy]

Get 20+ skill spymaster and park them on Rome/Constantinople/Baghdad and rake in all the points you can.

 

[JJMerrill]

Get 20+ skill spymaster and park them on Rome/Constantinople/Baghdad and rake in all the points you can.

This is my default for the spymaster most of the time. This strategy and using the Observatory event chain will get your tech going very quickly.

 

[kmh42]

This is my default for the spymaster most of the time. This strategy and using the Observatory event chain will get your tech going very quickly.

I did this too before conclave, but I often need to discourage vassals (in a big realm and lack of close family members) since 2.5 and with conclave. That's what I like in this DLC/patch.

 

[nanoboy]

You can get quite a few tech points with the scholarship focus. Build an observatory, and you will get a series of events that generate tech points. Many of those require money. One branch of events costs you sanity as you probe the cosmos for things man was not meant to know.