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Table of Contents:

• Hot Keys
  
• Faction Bonuses & Unique Resources
  
• Province & Biome Info
  
• Biome & Era Bonuses
  
• Resource Information - Food
  
• Resource Information - Materials
  
• Resource Information - Luxuries
  
• Storage
  
• Housing
  
• Farming and Crops
  
• Power
  
• Winning and Score
  
• Other Game Play Tips

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A list of hot keys and combinations, all in one place for quick reference!

*Note* Some options are only available once the player has sufficiently advanced their civilization or completed research.

Provinces are the areas of land that can be purchased for the player to start and then expand their civilization. Initial starting provinces must have enough open buildable tile spaces (i.e. not primarily mountain or water) and not be too close to an AI controlled town. Players should strongly consider NOT buying their initial province as a single island province or small group of provinces on an isle, as it can greatly hinder expansion. It is wise to purchase land with or near special province based resources, indicated by an image of the resource. Additionally, being near the ocean and a river that connects to the ocean is also helpful.

On land, players can begin to purchase provinces adjacent to their Town Hall province in any direction. Province borders must touch somewhere, max distance is no more than 7 connected provinces from the Town Hall in all directions. A province cannot be claimed through a sea or mountain, except when a tunnel passes through the mountain. Colonies allow for continued expansion once oceanfront and/or distance limit is reached, to access resources not available within the capital city territory (in addition to Resource Outposts).

Default Province Based Resources
*Requires Petroleum Technology to unlock
**Can also be purchased from the Card Shop

With sufficient fertility, anything can be farmed in most biomes, not just the indicated resource in special provinces. Additional resource breeder buildings available to all factions, can also be purchased through the Card Shop. Only one breeder building (or any other provincial building or Shrine) per province area.

If the initially purchased province is not the Eden it seemed, use the Abandon Civilization button in the Town Hall to start over. Player will lose all cities and all civilization progress.

Shrines and crates can be found in provinces across all biomes, and offer one of three building-slot cards when purchased. Tribes offer the same, in addition to more citizens, but their province area can only be purchased prior to becoming a Minor City. Thereafter, Minor Cities must be Razed to the ground before their province area is available to buy. Deepsea Tuna is only visible in the deep ocean once the Deepsea Fishing Technology is unlocked. Water only areas cannot be purchased.


As of 0.190 release 02/August/2023, there are 7 biomes. There is only one ruin per biome per game map. Provinces show fertility for the majority of the tiles within the area. Player irrigation improves land fertility. Disease rate is the # of medicine/medicinal herb used per citizen per year (base value 1).

Biome Specifics
*Fertility influenced by nearness to fresh water sources. Shown are base value ranges without irrigation.
**Other Info changed from Difficulty Ratings as of 0.213 version released 24/February/2024.

Biome and era bonuses present as cards, though cannot be changed once selected. They provide permanent buffs to the player's civilization. Biome bonuses are dependent on the majority tile type the player Town Hall is built on (e.g. desert tiles, etc.). Placement of Town Hall is key, as most provinces have a mix of tile types. Era bonuses are the same regardless of faction or biome.

Bonuses by Biome

Bonuses by Era

Food for the citizens, an essential need. Can be exported only through Wandering Traders, and exported/imported through Trading Posts/Ports and Trading Companies.

On Normal mode, one citizen consumes 34 food per year.

Faction specific foods are noted. As of 0.213 release 24/February/2024, there are 30 foods.

Materials are required for construction, production of more advanced resources, and to upgrade buildings. Can be exported only through Wandering Traders, and exported/imported through Trading Posts/Ports and Trading Companies.

Faction specific resources are noted. As of 0.213 release 24/February/2024, there are 33 materials.

Resource information for Materials continued.

Research is required to produce Luxuries using the appropriate building and resources. Luxuries are required to upgrade house levels. They can be exported only through Wandering Traders and Trading Posts/Ports, and exported/imported when Trading Companies are within the Luxury Importer building area of affect.

Faction specific resources are noted. As of 0.213 release 24/February/2024, there are 29 luxuries.

Storage...the bane of players everywhere.

Storage Yard:
Basic resource storage, one block is 1 storage slot (1 slot can hold 120 units of 1 type of resource). One storage area block is 2x2 tiles. Max storage area is 16 blocks or 64 tiles, up to 1,920 units of storage. Cannot be longer or wider than 8 tiles. Player can set what is allowed to be stored, defaults to storing everything.

Storage Yard Areas - Maximizing Efficiency

Storage Depot:
Large basic resource storage, 1 storage slots (1 slot can hold 4,800 units of 1 type of resource). Can upgrade to have a hauler and a delivery worker. Player must set what will be stored, defaults to storing nothing.

Granary:
Food resource storage only, 30 storage slots (1 slot can hold 240 units of 1 type of resource, max 7,200 units). Player can set what is allowed to be stored, defaults to storing all foods.

Warehouse:
Advanced resource storage, 30 storage slots (1 slot can hold 120 units of 1 type of resource, max 3,600 units). Player can set what is allowed to be stored, defaults to storing everything.

Large Warehouse:
Large advanced resource storage, 300 storage slots (1 slot can hold 240 units of 1 type of resource, max 72,000 units). Player can set what is allowed to be stored, defaults to storing everything.

Houses keep citizens warm and sheltered, and produce money and science points passively when occupied. Luxuries are required to upgrade house levels to increase occupancy. Houses that run out of luxuries downgrade. Extra housing space allows the town population to increase. Available military unit slots varies based on population. Era advancement and some technology and upgrades can only be unlocked for research when the player has the required number of houses at the specified level and/or above.

Requirements to Upgrade House Levels

House Level Requirements for Research Unlocks
--Applies to all factions unless otherwise noted.--

Farms allow the player to grow food, raw materials, and other crops. Harvest occurs in the autumn. Farms do not run in the winter, during which time those citizens become laborers. Crop types come from breeder building and seed cards. Breeders only allow their crop to be produced on farms within their area of affect radius, when at least 50% of the farm area is within the radius. Farms can be made anywhere except on water and mountains, and Tundra or Desert tiles where the fertility is too low. They cost 1/2 wood unit times the farm area. Max area is 500 tiles, minimum is 16 tiles. Max width or length is 50 tiles.

Farm Area to Worker Ratios - Maximizing Efficiency

Crop Information

As of the Industrial Age, after the player has researched the Electricity technology, some agriculture, industry, and other buildings can be upgraded to boost efficiency (worker speed) by consuming power. Once a building is upgraded to use power, it is REQUIRED for the building to work thereafter and cannot be undone. Power plants supply electricity automatically to the buildings that need it, as long as they have workers and adequate resources to run.

One fully staffed Coal Power Plant can produce up to 50 kW of power.
One fully staffed Oil Power Plant can produce up to 50 kW of power.

Table below shows base values with initial purchase of Electric Machinery upgrade. Additional purchases of Advanced Machinery doubles Steel cost each level (e.g. 10, 20, 40, etc.) and increases efficiency by 5% per level. Buildings not listed do not have the option to be upgraded to consume power.

Power Upgrade Info by Building (A-Z) - As of 0.235 release 23/May/2024

In multiplayer, domination victory is possible when one player is able to vassalize all others (human and AI) on the map.

In single player, victory is only possible (as of 0.190 version, 02/August/2023) for the first player to construct all wonders of their faction. Single player cannot win through domination. Play can continue after.



Score Breakdown

Getting Started - Camp:

• With thoughtful first province purchase a river (ideally with ocean access), coal, and fertile land access should be no more than 1-2 provinces away.
  
• Houses first. Then, slow and steady building is key. Too many construction projects and the hoi polloi get analysis paralysis and nothing gets done. But double the storage yard immediately. Thank me later.
  
• Cannibalism is bad.
  
• Heat, food and medicine. Gather, hunt, farm, repeat. The trinity of survival, and don't forget it.
  
• Except for tools, without which citizens quiet quit and slow to a watch paint dry while it's raining work speed.
  
• Endeavor to be a coal baron, mine at soonest possibility and don't let houses burn wood.

The Next Year - Village:

• No one wants to live next to a paper mill or a mine wastewater collection pond. Keep house appeal in mind when building.
  
• Homelessness is not all bad. They always come back, eventually. If not, immigration office!
  
• Khajiit has wares, if you have coin. Always sell leather to the wandering trader until the first trading post/port is built.
  
• Channel your inner Caesar and give the citizens bread and circuses...or at least a tavern for entertainment.

Then

Expansion - Town:

• Start producing luxuries: tulips and cannabis require the least effort, pottery and sake/beer are also good bets.
  
• Sell extra resources like you need the Skooma. Trading Companies are your friend.
  
• Buy provinces like a housing developer who has no idea 2008 is coming.
  
• Raid provinces like a pirate who is looking for rum, kidnap and make off with a poppet or three, and steal for your pocket money (beware of revenge theft).

. . . 100 Years Later . . .

Empire - Capital City

• The only resource you need to keep/store more than 10,000 of is food.
  
• Port colonies are easier.

In the end

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