# Metropolitan Research

**Entity Type:** Skill

**German Name:** Grossstaedtische Forschung

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Civic |
| Type | Inspiration |
| Knowledge Cost | 17,000 |

## Description

Metropolitan Research is a Civic category skill of the Inspiration type. Civic skills offer many upgrades for city administration, ranging from powerful attribute area effects to improvements for Medici, Vigiles, and Custodes. Civic skills make managing your cities significantly easier.

As an Inspiration-type skill, Metropolitan Research is placed deeper in the research tree and must be unlocked. Each Inspiration node has two conditions: you need a certain amount of generated knowledge, and you must fulfill a secondary requirement such as reaching a population milestone.

## Effects

Once unlocked, this skill node serves as a starting point for further research in the Civic skill tree.

## Unlock Requirements

- Reach **25,000 total Global Population**
- Produce at least **17,000 Knowledge**

## Related Skills

Other skills in the Civic category:

- Aleatoria
- Alliance Treaties
- Headhunting
- Asclepian Codices
- Market Forces
- Snuffing Sedition
- Well
- Cerere et Baccho
- The Art of Gift-Giving
- Empyrean Research
- Cult of Epona
- Epona's Hoofbeat
- Artificer Intelligence
- Conservation Ordinance
- Cognoscentic Research
- Fabulae Togatae
- Voluntary Vigilance
- Hospitality
- Hazard Fighters
- Seasoned to Taste
- Shrine Staffing
- Large Loans
- Warmer Hospitality
- Officialdom
- Hippocratic Corps
- Imperial Parades
- Recruitment Drive
- Concordance Research
- Cult of Minerva
- Cult of Cernunnos
- Cult of Mercury-Lugus
- Latrines
- Lingua Romana
- Marble Roads
- Night Watch
- Villa Novation
- Public Funding
- Aesthetic Aedificator
- Pax Amicitia
- Fenixwrights
- Portitores
- Gubernatorial Research
- Praetorian Pumps
- Cohabitive Collaboration
- Quartermastery
- Quinquiremes
- Right to Repair
- Sanitary Measures
- Sacral Spaces
- Legally Enshrined
- Solutio Ad Hominem
- Funeral Games of Tailteann
- Municipal Research
- Day Watch
- Trireme
- Devotional Research
- Via Tributum
- Villa Visitation
- Populist Research
- Watchtowers

## Source

- [anno.land - Metropolitan Research](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/grossstaedtische-forschung/)