have nothing left to build

[Jesse]

Hi

what happens when you have nothing left to build in a town? i finally got the hang of the game, am playing on an easier difficult and am crushing everyone but my towns build everything ine like 2 turns and i have nothing to build

is there a later tech to build into like how Civ has build science, money, etc? should i just build units just cuz? is there an option i'm missing?

[Gilmoy]

Yes, you can run out of things to build. No, there is no "build science" tech.

- If you have either (or both) stockpile tech, you can build stockpiles to soak up excess industry. Build science stockpiles, and you effectively get a "build science" item. The conversion rate isn't great, but it's better than 0.

- If you have Era I Mercenary Marketplace, you can design all-dust troops with the best non-strategic equipment, build them, then promptly sell them to the marketplace. That gives you an industry => dust conversion.

[Nefrogitis]

You could build stockpiles of schience, industry, or food if you have the right tech. You could also build naked units, and then sell them, to get more Dust.
Just don't build decked-out troops, because you might end up fighing them :)

[Jesse]

Originally posted by Nefrogitis:

You could build stockpiles of schience, industry, or food if you have the right tech. You could also build naked units, and then sell them, to get more Dust.
Just don't build decked-out troops, because you might end up fighing them :)

this advice is really helpful - thanks!

though uhhh....i still don't really understand how stockpiling works at all

[Nefrogitis]

Stockpiles give you a huge boost to either science, industry, or food. Say, for example, you wanted to grow your city very fast, but that you didn't have enough food tiles to grow as fast as you would like, so then you would buy a food stockpile and apply it to your city, and that would make your city produce workers faster.
The same goes for schience and industry stockpiles. Say you are building the Megapole structure, but it would take you 30 turns. You would buy an industry stockpile, and then apply it to the city in which you are building the Megapole, and that would cut the number in turns in half. And you could keep doing that, until you have built the Megapole in 5 turns or less, instead of the 30 turns you would have otherwise waited for.

[Jesse]

Originally posted by Nefrogitis:

Stockpiles give you a huge boost to either science, industry, or food. Say, for example, you wanted to grow your city very fast, but that you didn't have enough food tiles to grow as fast as you would like, so then you would buy a food stockpile and apply it to your city, and that would make your city produce workers faster.
The same goes for schience and industry stockpiles. Say you are building the Megapole structure, but it would take you 30 turns. You would buy an industry stockpile, and then apply it to the city in which you are building the Megapole, and that would cut the number in turns in half. And you could keep doing that, until you have built the Megapole in 5 turns or less, instead of the 30 turns you would have otherwise waited for.

wait...are stockpiles a different thing from the stuff you hold during winter?

[Nefrogitis]

Yes. If you go into the Market place tab, you will find a tab that says stockpiles. Click on it, and it will show you how many are available.