Von_Lipwig's Blog

Hello there! With the Battle System being discussed quite thoroughly, an important aspect of this game is already being seen to. Another very important aspect of this game is the management aspect.


Cities
All players have a main city, and scattered across the map are towns. The main cities (or Capitals) are all players' main source of income and recruiting offices. Each city will by default have 5 buildings slots. You can use those slots to construct buildings that will have certain effects on your faction, troops, or recruitment possibilities.

Each faction will have their own choice of two unique buildings as well as five standard ones. Some buildings can also be augmented with an addon, which will require no building slots but will cost quite a bit of money. These addons will be useful in the long run, but you need to think it through. These are my current ideas:

Noble Mansion - Noble units receive an increase on their stats and/or morale (addon=Stables, a slight increase for noble mounted units)
Mercenary Office - Enables recruitment of foreign mercenaries

Tavern - increase in troops' morale across the board as well as a small increase in income
(addon=Brewery, increases income a bit more)
Hunting Grounds - Enables recruitment of hunters

Guild House - Enables recruitment of Guildmasters' cavalry
Trading office - Adds extra income for each owned trade route
(addon=tax office, increases income from owned towns)

Tranquil Garden - Increases morale of all monk units
Temple - Enable recruitment of Templar
(addon=stables, enables recruitment of mounted priests)

Sparring Grounds - Increases stats of all infantry
Stables - Increases stats of all cavalry
Archery range - Increases stats of all ranged units
Market - Increases city's income
Defences - Adds health to the city (making it harder to attack for enemies)

Of course, what I could also do is leave out the standard buildings altogether and give each faction JUST their specific buildings, and only 1 building slot so they have to choose between the two. In that case, both buildings need addons and effects that are just as powerful but in different ways.



This concludes part 5 of the blog: City Management. In the next part I would like to ponder the use and concept of Policies and how they affect EVERYTHING.