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Research Lab view

  • Power Allocation Slider: horizontal slider across the top. Left (0) sends 100% inverter output to the grid; right (100) sends 100% to the lab. Real-time feedback shows EC/min and research kWh/min.
  • Reset button: manual prestige trigger; confirmation dialog showing EC cost.
  • Message display: notifications such as "ITEM Research Completed!" when a research item finishes.
  • Economics panel: EC/min, EC earned today, maintenance spend today, lab kWh/min.

Fourteen research toggles:

State Visual Interaction
Locked Gray Tooltip shows unlock prerequisite
Available White Click to activate
Active Green Click to deactivate
Completed Blue Level 5; toggle disabled
At capacity White + badge Click shows toast; must deactivate another project first

The lab only draws its share while at least one project is active. With none active, that share diverts to the grid.

Generation tab

The center of the tab is a unit grid: one tile per unit slot of the selected source (scrollable). Tiles wrap to the available width.

Each unit tile shows, top to bottom:

  1. Slot title — source unit name and slot number (e.g. “Solar Panel #7”)
  2. Tier name of the installed unit (e.g. “Polycrystalline”), or the slot’s empty state
  3. Action buttons — Buy (empty slot, tier 1 price) or Upgrade (next tier + price; disabled when research-gated or at top tier), plus Repair (price; disabled at 100%)
  4. Condition bar — that unit’s individual effectiveness
Element Behavior
Source list Left rail; one entry per energy source
Unit grid One tile per slot; per-unit Buy / Upgrade / Repair
Bottleneck indicator Warns when inverter or controller caps output
Efficiency meter Output vs theoretical max; includes weather, degradation, research
Maintenance controls Per-source Full Maintenance and Maintenance Contract

Power flow (bottom status bar)

Icons for Generation, Battery, Inverter, Grid, and Lab are spaced with conduit lines. Marching-ant flow pips indicate flow speed, scaled to fractional inverter capacity at max speed.

  1. Generation Total — auto-scaling major units every 1,000
  2. Battery Input — auto-scaling major units every 1,000
  3. Battery Stored — kWh of kWh Total (1 decimal place)
  4. Battery Output — auto-scaling major units every 1,000
  5. Inverter Output — auto-scaling major units every 1,000
  6. Fork
    • Top: Grid Power — auto-scaling major units every 1,000
    • Bottom: Lab Power — auto-scaling major units every 1,000

Status bars

  • 24-hour production graph (bottom): last 24 in-game hours of total generation (kW).
  • 5-day weather forecast (top): refreshes at the day boundary.
  • Time / season / EC (top): every tick.

Platform hotkeys (PC)

Key Action
1 Generation tab
2 Mechanical Room tab
3 Research Lab tab
4 Achievements tab
R Reset allocation slider to 50%
M Open maintenance on focused component

Mobile uses touch targets (48×48 px minimum) and swipe between tabs; no hotkeys.

Expandable Details panels on Generation and Research Lab show live values for Formulas.