Why Can’t I Research in EU game strategy?
Another ridiculous Newbie question I am afraid. I am playing my first game as England, and all of a sudden cannot allocate funds for research.
The ‘Tresaury’ bar is greyed out and all my funds have to go straight to the Treasury. Can someone please tell me why this is and how I can change it please? I want to develop my navy more quickly!
Xanadu 15-05 19:55
It is possible that you locked the slider bar on your tresury by double clicking on it. Just double click again to unluck slider. You can do this to all of your slders if you care to in the future (locking them).
Johan IV 15-05 19:57
This exact same thing happened to me the first time I was playing hehe, wondered wtf was going on too 
Jehangir 15-05 22:44
Thanks - I was wondering if there was a locking mechanism on the sliders (after some rude suprises) but couldn’t remember reading about it anywhere. This is great info.
Big Angry Jimmy 15-05 22:45
I didn’t know you could lock the bars…
That is good, very good indeed…
Temple Houston 16-05 21:05
Locked Sliders
My experience is that the locked sliders do not really lock the numbers, they just lock the slider. Try locking your treasury slider at hidden object games zero. The slider may be gray, but the number changes anyway.
Michael James 16-05 21:45
And for some reason your treasury slider won’t lock under certain circumstances. If I lock my treasury at it’s lowest point and my stability at it’s higest (to regain quickly) when my stability goes back to +3 it’s always my treasury that jumps up. Sometimes I won’t notice it until I notice I have tons of ducats. Screws my inflation up. So be careful.
Don Malloy 16-05 21:47
it just changes the ratio between the different tech/money sliders… if your income change, so does the percentage that’s being allocated to a specific “tech”
Johan IV 16-05 21:50
Once you research a tech to its maximum level, the money you had assigned to research in that tech will automatically always go to your treasury. Stability is a ‘tech’ for game mechanics/game balance reasons. Its the same with the rest of the techs too, but its not that hard to see if you are at 3 stability or not and go change the sliders
Michael James 16-05 21:53
well usually the only time I’m not at +3 is when I’m at war and then I often have other things that are holding my attention…