***SOME Defaults have changed since this note was posted***

First off this is not an upgrade shop it is a research shop. This means that it upgrades your skill not the item, as your skill gets higher the stats on the items will also get higher but not from it's base ONLY from your skill.

How it WORKS:
you put a primitive axe in, and you put 500 gold in you will lose the axe and money and get a new axe based on your skill level. usually the first one doesn't change much at all. the sencond one you usually notice about a .01 increase on weapon damage so instead of 100% you see it has 100.01% damage.
Now lets say you have your skill up where it's making 200% weapon damage. if you throw in a primivite 100% it will convert that to a 200% weapon but if you throw in a 300% weapon damage it will convert that to a 200% weapon. this is slightly random also, if you are making 200% you will get anywhere from 190% to 250% ISH (I don't know the exact ranges as it's based on wildcards rules not mine). but as your skill grows your potential item level will also grow. when you first start seeing greens you will notice you can still get a few primitives (THIS IS ON PURPOSE) if this didn't happen everyone would use this as a free repair shop.

As always it will be customizable like all the others.

• cost per each Research (will allow group costs or individual costs)
  
• the rate each Research increases the total (default is .01) a total of 65 I believe guarantees ascendant gear and will be the cap. (6500 upgrades required to hit max )
  
• the way upgrades will be handled.. by individual items, groups (weapon, tools, armor).
  
• whether or not the upgrade CAN fail
  
• if it fails does it destroy the item being researched?

These will be the things that admins choose (if I get the can it fail to work they will set the % chance to fail).
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NOTE: everytime you pick up this shop all upgrade values will reset. Also upgrade levels on the notes don't update til you open and close the inventory but they do still have the upgraded effects.

Here is what you need to know about the research shop I made a lot of custom options which will allow admins to customize things the way they want.

First by default the shop is set to no fail, .01 increment per upgrade(this means it takes 6500 upgrades to max it out), 100g per upgrade attempt, and destroy=0 and mode large category(explain later in this article).

So basic setup options:

[Research]
flatrate=XX (this will set all items in the shop to XXg cost to attempt an upgrade)
increment=XXX (this will divide by 100 and set how much quality per successful upgrade)
failchance=XXX (well as it says what is the chance to fail when attempting and upgrade, 1 = 1%, the failchance is %, options are 0 to 100)
destroyitem=X (Will the item be destroyed on fail? 0 for no, and 1 for yes, )
mode=X (0 (default) for lg category, 1 for small category, and 2 for individual)


MODE explanation: this is how the items upgrade, do they upgrade as a group? or do they upgrade individually?
Large category: if I upgrade shotgun in lg category all weapons gain the upgrade amount.
Small category: if I upgrade shotgun all normalweapons gain upgrades.
individual: if I upgrade shotgun only the shotgun gets the upgrade.

each item can still be individually removed even when using large or small category simply use it's name with =-1 and it won't be upgradable.

the item names are done in the language of the server just like the current sell shop. They are on a note inside the shop if you are unsure of what that is exactly.

Current Category settings (these can also be set under

Large Category(default)

[Research]
weapons=100
turrets=100
tools=100
armor=100

if you didn't want to use flatrate and wanted each category to set the price for the group you simply use these category names for the value to set in gold.

Small Category:

[Research]
advancedweapons=100
autoturrets=100
mannedturrets=100
tools=100
melee=100
normalweapons=100
cloth=100
leather=100
fur=100
flak=100
ghille=100
chitin=100
scuba=100

and individual well those are individual.

I know it sounds like a lot but when you build it and use it you'll see it's really not :) just a lot of options so admins can make theirs different if they want to.



Currently in game as of 1.948:


Ok, that's everything
basically if you have small category everything with the same second listing above gains a level
if you have large category everything with the same first listing above gains a level


**********ADDED RESEARCH LEVEL PROGRESS TO THE alternate inventory slot******

SPECIAL NOTE this is a research shop not an upgrade shop, meaning if you put an upgraded item in and your skill is very low (ie you haven't researched that item class yet) you will lose item value not gain it.