Rare ships, unique upgrades, bundles of signals, and other valuable rewards—
all these items can be obtained from the Research Bureau.
The Research Bureau is a section of the Armory
that becomes accessible immediately after you research five Tier X ships,
or after you receive your first Research Points during a temporary event.
After gaining access to the Research Bureau,
you additionally receive a welcome bonus— 10,000 Research Points.
Research Points are a resource
that can be exchanged for any item in the Research Bureau.
How can you earn them?
After gaining access to the Research Bureau,
a Reset button appears below every researched ship branch.
If you click it, then, after an additional information message,
all ships within the branch and their modules will be sold,
except for the Tier I ship.
Any equipped upgrades, signals, flags, and camouflages
will be transferred to the Inventory section,
and the ships’ Commanders will return to their places in the Reserve.
Any undistributed XP that has been accumulated on the ships
of a reset branch will be transferred to the Tier I ship.
Despite the fact that a branch can be reset at any moment,
the most profitable time to do so
is at the beginning of each new Research Bureau Season.
Thus, a multiplier for resetting the first branch
during a Season on an account
will grant you double the amount of Research Points.
Information about the start of each next Season
can be found at the very bottom of the Tech Tree tab.
Let's review how the multiplier works,
taking the example of resetting the Japanese cruiser branch.
A single branch that’s reset without multipliers
usually provides 10,200 Research Points in total.
Let's imagine that it's the first branch reset of a Season—
in this case, the multiplier comes into effect
and the player receives 20,400 Research Points.
If you have a decent amount of Free XP,
you can reset a branch and research it again several times over.
For example, imagine that you reset
and research the Japanese cruiser branch three times.
Together with the seasonal multiplier,
doing so will grant you 40,800 Research Points.
Immediately after the first reset,
ships of Tiers V–X will have a special victory bonus applied.
The bonus will grant you Research Points.
To get the Points, you need to research a ship with the bonus,
purchase the ship, and win a battle with it.
A victory with a Tier V ship will grant you 200 Points;
victories with Tier VI and VII ships will grant 500 Points;
a successful battle with Tier VIII and IX ships will provide you 1,500 Points;
and a victorious battle with a Tier X ship
will add 6,000 Points to your stock.
You'll receive the aforementioned 10,200 Points in total.
If seasonal multipliers are available,
victories at various levels will bring you
an increased amount of Research Points.
Thus, the first victory playing a Tier V ship
will grant you 400 Points instead of 200.
You can also gain Research Points for completing combat missions
and taking part in various temporary events.
By the way, a Clan Base building— the Research Institute—
adds 5% to any Research Points obtained.
We're going to add that, starting from Update 0.9.9,
actively resetting branches will also grant you
with the following achievements:
Junior Shipbuilder, Senior Shipbuilder,
Shipbuilding Inspector, and Chief Shipbuilding Inspector.
The Armory is a significant source of various in-game items.
The Research Bureau section acknowledges that
by granting players access to the helms of battleships Ohio and Slava,
cruisers Colbert and Siegfried,
and destroyer Paolo Emilio.
What’s more, you can always give your
favorite researchable Tier X ship a new look
through the use of unique upgrades.
Sound exciting?
We recommend that you take a look at the Research Bureau rules
to familiarize yourself with all the opportunities
this section can offer you.