Economy

Economy is a research category.

Conservation
We have learned how to store our resources well protected and in the long term. Also a part of our resources is safe from pirates and other villains who want to steal from us!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows building Warehouses
 * Requirements: None

Pulley
A brilliant idea: A rope that is pulled over a roll gives a simple man the strength of Hercules. So now our workers can lift up huge blocks of stone on their own and construct our buildings even faster!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: 2% decrease in building costs
 * Requirements: Conservation (Economy)

Wealth
The earth is full of precious goods! We have learned how to mine sulphur and crystals, quarry marble and grow vines on our fertile slopes from which we get delicious wine! A new era of wealth will dawn if we benefit from those treasures and a trading post will allow us to offer our goods to salesmen from countries far away and buy whatever we need.


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows mining luxury goods and building Trading Posts
 * Requirements: Pulley (Economy)

Wine Culture
A happy population needs festivals in which they can spend hours reveling and drinking our fantastic free-flowing wine. Dionysus loves seeing us enjoying what he has given us!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows building Taverns
 * Requirements: Wealth (Economy)
 * Well Digging (Science)

Improved Resource Gathering
Some time has passed since we learned how to use the treasures of our island for our needs. We should now educate our workers and let every forest, quarry or vineyard, every sulphur pit or crystal mine administer by men who are not only strong but also skillful. This way we will gather even more income and our civilization will get richer than ever!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows for the building of : Forester's Houses
 * Winegrowers
 * Stonemasons
 * Glassblowers
 * Alchemist's Towers
 * Requirements: Wine culture (Economy)
 * Expansion (Seafaring)

Geometry
Right angles, triangles, circles – a few bright minds can calculate how we can construct our buildings even better and more beautiful. And soon our towns will serve as examples for the whole world!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Additional 4% decrease in building costs (6% total)
 * Requirements: Improved Resource Gathering (Economy)

Architecture
A good house can withstand the harshest elements. It can withstand them even better when a bright mind takes care of it with many drawings and a little mathematics before hand, so that all walls are straight and the roof is tight. Thanks to angle and compass our buildings will be much more stable and well protected from the rain. An architect's bureau would spare us much marble, just think about the savings constructing a new building!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows building Architect's Offices
 * Requirements: Geometry (Economy)
 * Invention (Science)

Holiday (Relaxation Holiday)
A worker who has had a good rest is much more eager to work than an exhausted one. That's why every citizen should have one day off per week. This will make all our citizens happier!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness Happy.gif in each town by 25 points and the housing capacity in each town by 50 spaces.
 * Capital : A total of +100 spaces
 * Colony : A total of +50 spaces
 * Requirements: Architecture (Economy)

Culinary Specialties
Our culture is truly rich in delicious treats! If we have cooks joining our soldiers in battle it won't take more than the aroma, that reminds them of their home kitchens, to strengthen their fighting spirit. And it shouldn't be forgotten, that a hearty meal has always brought a man back onto his feet. And of course a cook has a sharp knife he can jump in to the fight with.

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 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows recruiting of Cooks at the Barracks
 * Requirements: Holiday (Economy)
 * Market (Seafaring)

Helping Hands
If our citizens help out a little underground instead of tanning themselves on the beach, we'll get more raw materials and they'll get less sunburn. There's always a need for help down the mines, saw mills and vineyards.


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows overloading of resources
 * Requirements: Culinary Specialties (Economy)
 * Cultural Exchange (Science)

Spirit Level
Water is always even. We should use this knowledge so that our buildings become even, too! Our town will become even more beautiful and we will use less stone and wood for constructing our buildings!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Additional 8% decrease in building costs (14% total)
 * Requirements: Helping Hands (Economy)

Wine Cellars (Wine Press House)
What an event those annual wine feasts are! The whole town is up on its feet when the best grapes are stomped into wine and when the liquid gold splashes around, the kids have their most fun! With a Wine Press though, handled by an experienced winemaker, we would lose much less. The winemaster could also care for a proper storage that allows us to let the wine age and mature well!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows building Wine Presses
 * Requirements: Spirit Level (Economy)

Bureaucracy
Now our palace has even more shelves, boxes and drawers, even more piles of records and forms and clerks who can understand it all. Finally we can afford to build and administer another building in our towns!


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Allows the usage of an additional building space in all towns.
 * Requirements: Wine Cellars (Economy)

Utopia
Our citizens are living in wealth and prosperity. They are happy and healthy and have very little to worry about. Yes, one could say we are living in one of those places that you can only find in the scriptures from one of the great philosophers.


 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness and housing space in the Capital by 200 points.
 * Capital :  A total of +300 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +50 spaces
 * Requirements: Bureaucracy (Economy)
 * Diplomacy (Seafaring)
 * Letter Chute (Science)
 * Gunpowder (Military)

Economic Futures
Our citizens live in wealth and the marketplace is spilling over with delicacies from all over the world! The streets are clean and developed, this way the building material reaches the building site quicker.


 * Cost: x Level
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town per level.

Level 1

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +320 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +70 spaces
 * Requirements: Utopia (Economy)
 * The Archimedic Principle (Science)
 * Canon Casting (Military)
 * Mortar Attachment (Seafaring)

Level 2

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +340 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +90 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 1 (Economy)

Level 3

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +360 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +110 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 2 (Economy)

Level 4

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +380 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +130 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 3 (Economy)

Level 5

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +400 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +150 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 4 (Economy)

Level 6

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +420 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +170 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 5 (Economy)

Level 7

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +440 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +190 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 6 (Economy)

Level 8

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +460 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +210 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 7 (Economy)

Level 9

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +480 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +230 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 8 (Economy)

Level 10

 * Cost:
 * Effect: Increases happiness by 10 points and housing spaces by 20 spaces in every town.
 * Capital :  A total of +500 spaces
 * Colony :  A total of +250 spaces
 * Requirements: Level 9 (Economy)