#Cathedral of aachen forge of empires update#
#Cathedral of aachen forge of empires series#

You should try advance the GB at least one level for every Age you progress. SUMMARY: Cultural Great Buildings are all excellent if you can get them to level 10, and good if you can get them to at least level four (with lower-age GBs needing to get to higher levels). 5 High Middle Age goods can be produced for 800coins and 800supplies, so would be shown as 5G => 800* These are then equated with a value in both coins and supplies, that those goods would have cost you to produce (in a production building). 'G' refers to random goods (of the current age) produced by the GB.

's' normally refers to extra supplies produced by the GB 'c' normally refers to coins produced or provided by the GB For example, a Bronze age GB costs 150 bronze age goods, which cost 3000 cash and 3000 supplies to produce. COG = 'Cost of Goods' - Total of both supplies and coins (same number of each) needed to pay for the goods required build the GB. Tabular summary of Great Building benefits, at different levels of the Middle Ages Personally, I recommend the Lighthouse, St Mark's and Frauenkirche as three of the best GBs in the game (so far, at least). Check first if you really need them for your type of game, before building. If faced with a choice between similar GBs, you should normally build the highest age GB for which you can afford the space and goods construction costs.Д®xception: I have rated several GBs as marginal or weak, because they either become obsolete (Colosseum), have negative effects (Tower of Babel), require excessive Goods costs for their benefits (Deal Castle), or require you to get them to very high levels for them to be worthwhile (Colosseum). GBs of later ages tend to be a BIT better than those of earlier ages, to offset their significantly higher costs. To summarize though, all GBs are great at level 10, and many are good at fairly low levels (although the benefits of specific GBs might not be of any use to you). (Reality will be different of course, but it is a useful gauge/estimate). For the purposes of the latter issue, I made a table where I estimated the output value of GBs in the Early, High and Late Middle Ages, with an assumed standard set of houses and supply production buildings. Further complications are that each GB has different combinations of benefits, and some benefits are worth more in different ages (or when boosting better buildings).

However, it uses less than half as much space (4x4=16 vs 6ењ†=36 squares). The Lighthouse, for example, produces 12% less goods than St Marks. Likewise, the space needed is also a big factor. So is the Deal Castle 267 times better than the Tower? Probably not). Building the Deal Castle though, requires Colonial Age goods that would require 800,000 each in supplies and coins to produce. (A Tower of Babel, for example, costs the equivalent of 3000 coins and 3000 supplies to produce the 150 Bronze Age goods needed. In part, this is because the initial resource costs of GBs go up significantly - by nearly a factor of 3 for each age.

It's difficult to figure out exactly how much though, and whether the difference is fair or not. On reviewing their benefits, it is clear that some ARE better than others. In effect, they are like large Premium buildings (often much better!), which makes sense given that many were at least partially bought with diamonds, and/or require a LOT of investment to complete. Great Buildings are definitely better and more interesting than regular buildings.

#Cathedral of aachen forge of empires update#

I am also trying to update this analysis with some thoughts about what minimum levels you should try to achieve, for the GBs to be worthwhile. The calculations are based on data in the Encyclopedia of Great Buildings.

#Cathedral of aachen forge of empires series#

This is a series of ideas and thoughts about just how good Great Buildings actually are, as well as how they compare with each other.