Tue Nov 12, 2019 6:31 pm
sort of. A lot of inventions require you to uncover the lower one, but its mostly very linear - discover one type of rifle, start a new one.
given you have so little control (speed is related to nation type and loosely to average education level) its something that goes on mostly in the background.
Depending on your faction you can usually invest in speeding 2-4 techs and once you get the university cards you can have some impact on average education