The turn before discovering a tech?

[Heroes]

In Civ3 we need to drop science slider in the last turn before knowing a tech lest wasting beakers. Is this still true in Civ4?

 

[gravix]

No, extra carries over to the next tech...

 

[Gargantutron]

yep it carries over. thank you firaxis! that really is something that reduces micromanagement. (same for hammers btw)

 

[ainwood]

yep it carries over. thank you firaxis! that really is something that reduces micromanagement. (same for hammers btw)

And if you change techs & production builds without finishing them, the research / hammers aren't lost.

Hammers do decay over time I think, to prevent the case where you (say) build 10 different units to within one turn of completion then queue them to be finished-off one-a-turn for 10 turns.

 

[Raziaar]

Oh damn! It carries over? I didnt know that! I just kept lowering it! Well, at least I get more gold that way... but damn, I didnt know! :-/

 

[fightcancer]

I've been wondering about this. thanks for the Q&A.

 

[azurefx]

Research decays too, but only by a tiny amount. Know from the Future Tech I had 0% research on - out of 6,000 beakers, it decayed 3 beakers a turn.