The Civic Centre represents the municipal heart of your Settlements, and as such hosts important, ground-breaking technologies and innovations to improve your civilisation, feeding into new technologies, buildings and of course new units. Generally, each new game begins with a Civic Centre already set up, so all that is required is to obtain resources required to buy the research it has to offer.

 

Four research paths are available in the Civic Centre: Culture, Commerce, Administration, and Military - the latter by far being the most favoured research track in any Rise of Nations game. Each one of them is a prerequisite for further research, which in turn might contribute towards bettering your units.

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• Military Research raises your Population Limit, and reduces the cost of upgrading and creating new units.

• Administration Research increases the number of Settlements you can build, whilst increasing the size of your territory by increasing the border push effect of your Settlements.

• Commerce Research raises your Commerce cap, allowing your faction to raise more resources -- otherwise, resources you collect in excess of the Commerce Cap are lost!

• Culture reduces the cost of all other technologies and upgrades. It also increases the LOS of certain structures and units, thus improving your information warfare capabilities.

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Note that Military research faces drastically increased research time after level 3 (Rank and File). This is because Hammurabi is a Bronze Age mod and such changes in research time were added to reflect the historic difficulties in amassing large armies in the Bronze Age.