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The more buildings you have the higher the price goes for each building.

Generally buildings costs Xgold+25Xstone+.25Xtree (oversimplification, differs from race to race and varies based on city size). For Human/Troll/Elf/Orc it would cost 'about' 100 Gold to build a building at 5k land, 250 Gold for a building at 31.7k land, 500 Gold a building at 70k~ land, etc. This scales upwardly to amounts like '10,000+ gold a building' at well over a million land where you probably aren't building a building unless your are building some taverns to shame Tico instead of working on a VUwiki.

Does that help at all? If I feel like no one reads this stuff I won't write it.

Working on it at the moment, building price relative to land is actually one of the categories I will need help filling in the blanks in some places (That's what a wiki is for anyways!) and I haven't recorded every single land-cost number, only the important ones.

Does that help?

That's from a city on valhalla

does this help? human

i gave him all my cities :)

I briefly hinted at that, but didn't want to get into it in great detail because it would be too complicated for people who don't even have the fundamentals down. You do bring up the a very good point though Random, as tree/stone costs are affected by the city's visual size

01:12:48 Dec 28th 14 - Mr. Barney: Generally buildings costs Xgold+25Xstone+.25Xtree (oversimplification, differs from race to race and varies based on city size).

I could sort of simplify this to TL;DR city sizes that are 's2' cost about half as much tree/stone and 's1' cost 'about' a quarter of that.

Here are the formulas for building cost based on city size for those interested:



s1 city, building cost is:
Xgold+.08265~Xtree+.0625~Xstone
 

keep up the good work Barney , its good to see the positive attitude you are bringing back to the game.

This will probably be the last forum post I make today because I am busy trying to make sure the wiki is done before GvE is arma'd if possible.

22:14:10 Dec 30th 14 - Mr. Soccer Balls: if i have 1k houses and 5k mines i get 24 gold per mine. if i build 1 farm, that gets decreased correct?

Nope! This is actually an entirely different concept unrelated to land cost, and farm count doesnt hurt your mine production.

 This mechanic ties into how VU balances fighting players who have millions of land when you have hundreds of thousand. It was implemented in 'The Fifth Era' which began on Fantasia Age One. (Which isn't documented correctly in the HoH. Ravage Regime didn't exist in The Fifth Era, only iPWN, Relentless, and MAD. The era that was before the one I linked above was actually during the 4th era).

If you have 5k mines and you build 1 farm, the mine production doesnt get reduced. If you have 5k mines and you build 1 mine, the mine production does get reduced.

There are also other less known things that combo into this mechanic to reduce the effectiveness of having millions of land like tax gold and such tying into total peasant count, but people generally understand '1,000,000 million land isnt 10x as effective as 100,000 land'


I hope that helps, and understanding the concept in purple should make it clear why land-drops are so effective in The Fifth Era!

Land-drops and stuff were always used, especially in The Fourth Era, but they were mostly only useful to low-land STGers who were already very secretive and veteran players.

it depends on how close your city is to a mine

a mountain in a way is a mine but yeah what Mallikor said!

if a city has 30k mines and is clearly close enough to mountains.....is it possible to only get 2 gold per mine if the population is extremely low?

that's the answer, thanks!

Barney hasn't played in awhile

He had probably had a draft of it somewhere in his life of VU

takes 10 mins to put a wiki up. who gonna write all the shit to go into it?