I'd also like to take a stab at making a clearer tech-trading post.  I'm going to ignore what others have posted so far, so this will be a bit redundant (except merlinme's example, which I'm stealing):

Your cities each produce a certain number of Research Points (RP) each turn (it's a decimal value, although usually you only see the whole value displayed).  These RP are put towards whatever technology you're currently researching.  If that technology requires 100 RP and you're producing 10 RP per turn, it will take you 10 turns to finish researching it. 

Each time you finish researching a technology, you get a percentage (I think it's 30) of the amount of RP it took to research that technology in the form of Knowledge Points (KP) in the category that the technology was in (Civ/War/Magic).  KP is a tradeable resource.  KP you received from researching does you absolutely no good, but KP you receive from another faction is immediately converted to RP in the KP's category (so if you get Warfare KP, it becomes RP for a seemingly random Warfare technology).  You don't get to choose what technology the RP you get from trading goes to.  Even if you were researching a Magic technology and traded for Magic KP, the RP it becomes wouldn't necessarily go towards the specific technology you're researching (and it doesn't tell you what tech it goes to).

When you trade away KP, it's like trading away money, in that you lose it.  Maybe it's best to think of it as documents for "how we discovered this", and you traded away your only copy of those documents.  It doesn't really make sense from a realistic perspective.

So, the whole point of getting KP from researching technologies is to trade it to others.  KP you get from trades is the same as the RP you get from cities, but you don't get to pick the specific tech it goes towards, only the category.

And that's all there is to it.  You're basically just trading RP that you can't use for yourself.  It's actually quite simple (just not intuitive).

@Darxim-Thank you for the info on research and thank you for pointing me to your mod (I had already taken note of it, actually. Good work).

Two questions about your mod: 1)Can I use your mod and Heavenfall's mod concurrently?

2)Is there anyway to prevent the loading screens from transitioning to the game screen until I click to start the game? What I mean is, sometimes, while the game is showing the loading screen and the game tip, it then goes to the game screen so fast that I am not able to read it. Is there a way to make the mod go to the game screen only after the player left clicks on the screen, giving the gamer a chance to read and digest the information? I would guess that the transition from loading screen to game screen is hard coded, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to inquire.

Excellent. I will try your mod. Thanks again Darxim (I like your avatar, by the way).

Yes, I'm interested in the wiki too.

If a wiki does go up, the first thing I'm going to put on it is the stats for all the champions.  I want to be able to easily look up the details of each before making my choice (looking at the XML is more trouble than it's worth).  You know, when I'm not choosing solely based on magic trees.  If neither choice gives me access to a new tree...

is there a recommended site where we can check to see if a domain is empty for you?

How do you see what tech it went to? I never see the diffrence and when I look at the right top of the research screen the RP stay the same over the 3 trees (civ, war , mag) even though I just traded like 100 KP warfare points (going to me ofc).

You have to look at the tech tree and see what's increased.  If it went to the tech you're currently researching, you'd just have to know how much was there before.  There's no clear indicator other than "Hey, there's RP in that tech I haven't done any research on yet."

You can't accidentally trade RP.  You can't trade RP at all, for that matter.  Only KP.  You can only see how much KP you have to trade by opening up a trade dialogue with another faction.  It'll show it on the left side.

I also feel a Wiki could be very useful, but don't have any experience in setting one up.

It's looking great cardinal. Thanks for spear-heading this.

Thanks Cardinal, a wiki will be a great source of informations for Elemental universe player

The navigation tree seem to cover all the topic related to the games.

Almost ready

pmath, still available to help admin?