Research BUG cant finish research

[Nesterus]

lok lok lok lok lok oh dears

[ViralBunny]

ive got as far as steel bars tech 3 and it went into the minus`s didnt look until it had got to -14 hours

[Nesterus]

I had 3 guys going on research benches and it seemed to drastically scale up the time required, I wonder if that is what bugs it out?

[ViralBunny]

me too 3 guys on lv 6 bench but ive let it run now after -15 hours it finished

[ZombieBear]

I have the same issue but with steel bars 2.

[philthymcnasty]

I am experiencing the same bug but with a different research topic(weapons 13(edge 4)). I also have 3 guys on three work benches.

[Nordstage]

Same thing with 2 high level science (85ish) dudes on 2 IV benches.

Edit: after several -hours it suddenly finished.

[philthymcnasty]

problem persists after starting new game importing squad and buildings.

[Marilous]

+1 on this, same issue.

[Hatsune_Neko]

also having the issue as well
1 guy on a research bench

[Nordstage]

Let me state it again:

It solved it itself after perhaps -12 hours for me.

Might be the actual research times are wrongly stated in the UI.

[Damageatrix]

Seems the science progress bar in the research window now takes into account the skill for science but the actual progress to the research does not - so if it says its a 22 hour job the progress bar may 'finish' after 9 but the job actually finishes 13 hours after that...at least that's my theory and I'm sticking to it

[RinVindor]

Yeah I'm having the same issue.

[zibathy]

for some reason i can't attach my .png, so i'll just say one of my research things reached -26 hours... yeah...

[d3m0nc1ld]

Allright, I've got the same problem as well. However, if the research "does" in fact complete if a large chunk of -hours is completed then the only thing I can assume that this is a bug resulting in the update that supposably fixed the issue with the research speed. It works, the research speed does in fact get increased based off of science skill, however on the other hand now apparently after finishing the research, your scientist goes on a coffee break then, goes on vacation for several hours, long enough that once the research is completed, it will go into -hours until the research "would" have been completed before the recent update.

[d3m0nc1ld]

Hum, Apparently rebooting the game fixes the issue temporarily, I still haven't figured out a lot about this bug, however it "may" have something to do with adding both a base research and it's upgraded version to the research quene. For example, when I first encountered the bug, I added weapon smithing 5, and weapons mithing 6 (which was red at the time) to the quene, and then, it researched weapon smithing 5 no prob, then when it went to research weapon smithing 6 I hit the negative time. It was at this time I looked around on the forum to see if anyone else had this issue, and then posted my previous responce. Afterward, I reloaded the game, and the bug was gone, and stayed that way, I researched 6 or 7 more researches no problem. And then I went ot resarch advanced outposts and outpost type 3 (which was red at the time) and added them both to the quene, and BAM bug hit me again, and has stuck around for a while cuz I'm too lazy to reboot the game, guess I could try that again now.

[hbrown]

Curously the same thing happened to me today after be reading about this same bug, 1 scientist, 1 bench lvl IV, however unlike d3m0nc1ld i had no "red research" in queue, to me happened with the third lvl of training dummies.

Seems that after some time, idk if regular time that should be researched or what, because i was not with my eye totaly n it nor calculated the time it got negativem, bt as i was saying, seems after some time the research does complete (at least to me).

[Zaik]

edit: previous content was entirely incorrect.

this bug was totally different from what I initially thought it was.

you have to do 2x the hours currently listed to complete any research. if it's 13 long, you have to go to -13 to complete. if it's 42 hours long(like level 6), you have to go to -42 to complete.

still technically decreased the overall time per research if you're researching faster than 2x, but still rather frustrating!

edit: wrong again, i'm at -44 hours on level 6, no clue what's going on anymore.

edit 11298749283675: it completed at -45.

[smouha88]

I believe that the problem is, the research benches max efficiency is 100% but the character using it has a higher rate so if your rate is x2 it will say it has taken twice as long, but it has only take the posted amount of time. if its say 42hrs it will go until its -42hrs because the bench can only handle 100%

[Brandenfascher]

I got the same issue too with Level 4 and weapon smithing 5. Restarting the game, in some cases, resets the hours to a positive number, but they still end up going negative again when I research. Maybe I'll try the suggestions here to try and let the research keep going into the negative...