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Most grand strategy games have some sort of tech tree, andCrusader Kings 3is no exception. But whileCK2gives each county its own technology level, inCK3your technology bonuses are completely based on your ruler’s culture.
Each Innovation inCrusader Kings 3comes with a few useful bonuses, but not all of them are equally helpful to the average player. So if your ruler ends up being the head of their culture, it helps to know which Innovations to focus on first.
How to Get Innovations Fast
To see what Innovations your culture can access, you should click on the candle icon above your ruler’s head in the lower-left corner. This will bring up the menuthat shows your ruler’s culture, and from there you can select the Innovations tab.
To have any control over this menu, your ruler must have more counties with your culture in their realm than any other ruler on the map. You don’t need to be an independent ruler, but your liege will count as the culture head if they belong to the same culture.
A culture head also needs to be an adult. If a childyoung enough to need a regencycontrols the most counties of a culture, the adult with the next-most counties becomes the culture head until the child grows up.
If you want to research a particular Innovation, you’ll need to meet a few requirements.
Every Innovation a culture can research has a five percent chance to progress every month, but you can increase the odds in two ways.
The last factor that matters to Innovations is your culture’s Development. Each time an Innovation progresses, no matter what the odds are, it increases by 0.3, plus a bonus based on the average Development of every county that belongs to your culture. This means that a small, highly developed culture can innovate faster than one that’s spread out. In other words, it may be worth the hassle to keep your ruler’s culture as an imperial core instead of spreading it out to every province.
