Economy Reference Sheet

[Olleus]

I made this to help myself understand the relations between the many resources, terrain improvements, and city structures in the game, I thought I'd share it here in case others find it useful. Note that it is *not* complete - including every culture-related and tome-specific variant would make it too messy to be usable. I've omitted the wizard tower and fortification buildings for the same reason.

[img]https://imgur.com/j1k5I14[/img]

The legend at the bottom shows what the "standard" buildings do at each tier. Many buildings have additional benefits, ie, food buildings produce more than the given number, draft infrastructure also give free experience, etc.... The solid lines show which infrastructure a terrain improvement is most linked to, while the dotted lines show what's required to get the production boost. You typically need 1 (or 2) of the relevant improvement to build tier 3 infrastructure, and 2 (or 4) for tier 4; water buildings are the main exception here and need 1 water province per tier. Note also that you can only have a single guild in any city. To get the production boost, you need as many of the required improvements as the tier of infrastructure you're building. In the case of knowledge and stability infrastructure, which have a mixture of 2 different boost requirement, what you need is listed in the relevant tables.

As far as I could check, all the cultural replacement buildings follow the same requirement and boost rules as in that diagram (except for Artisan and Woodcarvers' Workshop), they just have different effects. This was all compiled using the paradox wiki and, as I'm also not fool proof, please do let me know of any mistakes so I can correct them.

I hope that this might be useful both for noobs like me trying to get their head around the game, and maybe also for theory crafting build orders.

[Outis]

good job. Here is another resource outside of the Wiki. The database is regularly updated
https://minionsart.github.io/aow4db/HTML/CityTreesNew.html

[Olleus]

Oh yeah, that's a nice summary of how the buildings relate to each other. Very complementary to the spider diagram showing how they link to terrain improvements.