3.0 Commercial Production, Management, Technologies, Increasing Number Of Cities/Your Territory, Terraforming, Commerce Reputation, the Market, Transporting Resources/Parts, Archons
(NOTE: Any Cannons that are stated in Section 3 are Airship Cannons, not the cannons used in Flagships or Cloudports.)
3.1 Resources
*3.1.1 Resource Types
Food, Sandstone, Metal, Wood and Crystals are the resources that can be produced automatically in the game, no matter if you are online or offline, with the amount being produced every hour stated on the right side of the screen. Your main city does NOT come with Desert terrain for Crystal production and building Refineries, so you will either have to Terraform it to get Desert Terrain, or make the city nearest to the desert shown on the Big Map your first Branch City, as it is almost sure to have some Desert Terrain, without the need for any Terraforming. There are also bonuses that can be obtained to increase resource production by a certain percentage:
There is the
Archon bonus, which increases resource production through making a hero the Archon of your city, increase in percentage is according to the level of the hero's Light stats, the higher the better.
The
Science bonus, which comes from researching Commercial Technology in the Natural Institute.
The
Miracle bonus, which comes from your alliance's Light Miracle.
The
Item bonus, which comes from purchasing services in your Item Mall with Sky Points.
*3.1.2 Resource Production
Resource production is done through building resource production buildings on the city outskirts. However you need to build resource storage buildings (warehouses) inside your city first before you can build the resource production buildings. The rate of production is increased by upgrading the resource production buildings, though you need to have a warehouse of a higher level than the current level of the resource production building to proceed with upgrading.
Simply put, you will need your warehouses to be of a higher level than the corresponding resource production buildings. Also, please note that resources in a city will not disappear if they exceed their warehouses' storage capacities. The resources of those types in that city will just simply stop any further production.
*3.1.3 Resource Usage, Transportation and Safekeeping
Uses of resources:
Food: Food is used to keep your army's morale high.
Sandstone: Used for construction and upgrading of buildings.
Metal: Used in the Arsenal for production of Cannons and Missiles, and the Shipyard for various Cloudport weapons.
Wood: Used in the Carpenter's Workshop for production of Wooden Wings and Wooden Frames, and the Shipyard for various Cloudport weapons.
Crystals: Used in the Energy Workshop for production of Boost Engines and Power Sails, and the Shipyard for various Cloudport weapons.
Transportation:
Resources can be transported to and fro among cities using the market or fleets of Cargo Ships.
Safekeeping:
The resources that you have can be stored in the market for trade at ridiculously high prices, keeping them safe from enemy raids and ensuring that most people will not buy them from you. Even if someone does buy them, you will gain more than you lost, seeing as they were overpriced goods.
3.2 Increasing Number Of Cities/Your Territory
*3.2.1 Why should I increase my number of cities?
More cities means more resource production fields available, which means an increased rate of income for every hour.
*3.2.2 How should I increase my number of cities?
Research Dominance in the Cultural Institute, 1 extra level of Dominance means 1 more city available for you. You also need 1000 gold and 2000 sandstone to create a new city. Then just click on a city inside your territory and choose the option to "Create City" there.
*3.2.3 What is my Territory and how can I tell?
Your territory is the plot of land that you can build your cities in. The cities that allows you the option to create a city in it are all part of your territory. Each territory has 10 cities in total, your Main City being one of them, while the other 9 can be used to create branch cities.
3.3 Terraforming
*3.3.1 What is Terraforming, what are its benefits?
Terraforming is the ability to transform the landscape outside each city completely.
Why do it? Simple, because it saves resources. Here is the
modified excerpt from the Official FO Encyclopedia on it:
In general, there are 4 types of resource fields outside of each city. If you upgrade all of them to level 15+, four types of level 15+ warehouses will need to be built. However, it will take a lot of money and time. If you transform four different resource fields into the same type, only one type of level 15 warehouse is required. This will save you a lot of resources and time.
*3.3.2 How to Terraform?
The Official FO guide for it is here.
However, there are some things left unsaid in it, so I'll say them here. Contrary to what the terraforming button says, the Castle Level required for terraforming is actually
Level 2 for your Main City, and
Level 1 for your branch cities.
*3.3.3 Suggestions on Terraforming
Obviously, the best type of terraform will be 8 types of the same resource fields, or 7 of that type with 3 or more special resource fields included, as each special resource field has a production bonus of 30%. All that is according to the reason given in Section 3.3.1
However, only aim for such high standards of terraforming when you have enough gold and sandstones for the job.
3.4 Parts
*3.4.1 Parts Types
The respective parts that can be produced are:
Cannons and Missiles
Wooden Wings and Wooden Frames
Boost Engines and Power Sails
Advanced Parts
*3.4.2 Parts Production
You will need different factories for production of different parts. There is the Arsenal which produces Cannons and Missiles; the Carpenter's Workshop which produces Wooden Wings and Wooden Frames; and the Energy Workshop which produces Boost Engines and Power Sails. Advanced parts can also be produced in these factories through blueprints using the Advanced Part Production option.
There are also bonuses that can be obtained to increase the speed of parts production:
There is the
Archon bonus, which increases resource production through making a hero the Archon of your city, increase in speed is according to the level of the hero's Shadow stats, the higher the better.
The
Science bonus, which comes from researching Commercial Technology in the Natural Institute.
The
Miracle bonus, which comes from your alliance's Shadow Miracle.
The
Item bonus, which comes from purchasing services in your Item Mall with Sky Points.
*3.4.3 Parts Usage, Transportation and Safekeeping
Uses of parts:
Cannons: Used in making Attack Planes and Battleships.
Missiles: Used in making Frigates and Cruisers.
Wooden Wings and Boost Engines: Used in making Recon Ships, Attack Planes and Frigates.
Wooden Frames and Power Sails: Used in making Transport Ships, Battleships and Cruisers.
Advanced Parts: Used in building Flagships.
Transportation:
Parts can be transported to and fro among cities using the market or fleets of Cargo Ships.
Safekeeping:
The parts that you have can be stored in the market for trade at ridiculously high prices, keeping them safe from enemy raids and ensuring that most people will not buy them from you. Even if someone does buy them, you will gain more than you lost, seeing as they were overpriced goods. Advanced Parts and Blueprints do not need to be stored, as they can't be taken from your cities.
3.5 Specializing
*3.5.1 What is it?
Specializing is focusing ALL your effort into mass producing just one type of resource and making huge amounts of its corresponding parts to sell.
*3.5.2 Why do it?
Simple. You save more resources and skill points by just having to research and level up one type of resource/parts production, and you can max out the corresponding technologies faster that way.
*3.5.3 How to go about it?
Well, here is a detailed guide about specializing that will tell you what to do. (adelena's guide)
3.6 Other ways of obtaining resources/parts
*3.6.1 Plundering (NPC and PvP)
You can plunder the cities of other players (and the NPC cities in the NPC Zones) and load resources/parts onto your ships. Though you will first have to defeat any army of theirs floating above the city you are going to plunder.
*3.6.2 Treasure boxes
Opening treasure boxes has a chance of rewarding you with resources/parts,
more info in Section 7.3
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