How do I upgrade districts?

[dietz.martin]

I have a quest to upgrade a city district (or main part) of a specific city to level 2, but I can't see how. I can't rebuild a district over a district I already build, and adding a district to the borders of my city didn't trigger this quest as solved. I also don't see any upgrade option in the build list.

What am I supposed to do?

BTW: Steam offers a manual, but when I open it, I see only the right half of the page, but can't read it without the left part...

[Caldazar]

You need a district to be surrounded by districts ( i think 4 enough? Not sure) then it will upgrade

[starshatter]

Caldazar is right. Move the mouse to the district in any city and you will see a tooltip about it.

[Gilmoy]

Borough Streets (district) and City Center (district) will show the explanation in their tooltips. Other kinds of districts don't, because their texts are already busy explaining their own effects.

Briefly: Grow the city to at least 8 pop, so that you are eligible to build 4 Borough Street. (You get 1 every +2 pop, i.e. at 2, 4, 6, etc.) Plant those Borough Streets (or any other kind of districts) adjacent to your City Center (or vice versa; it's OK for a Borough Street to be in the middle and the City Center to be one of its adjacent satellites). Every district with 4+ districts adjacent to it levels up by +1 level. So if it's adjacent to 4+ level 1+ districts, it becomes level 2, which suffices for that quest. (Cultist's faction trait is that its singleton city can level its districts to level 3, which happens when they're adjacent to 4+ level 2+ districts.)

Generally, you want to build the biggest city you can, in the layout that maximizes the number of district levels. More simply, you want as many level-2 districts as you can fit (and for Cultist, as many level-3s). The short answer is the 2xN stick or the big triangle. Ardent Mages have other reasons to not do a perfect stick, in particular if their radius-2 pillar effects compensate for the approval penalty.

[dietz.martin]

Thanks, it worked. I somehow was so concentrated to find a button or building option or similar in the city development menu that I missed the hint displayed on the tooltip...

[CBR JGWRR]

Originally posted by Gilmoy:

Briefly: Grow the city to at least 8 pop, so that you are eligible to build 4 Borough Street. (You get 1 every +2 pop, i.e. at 2, 4, 6, etc.)

Just to add - Allayi get their equivalent (I forget the name right now) at each population, and this process works for any kind of district, not just Borough Streets. It's just you'll mostly be doing it with Borough Streets.

Edit - and Necrophage, the thread below reminded me...

[Groo the one]

Thoughts about and illustrated ,optimized district/city building is described in this thread: https://www.games2gether.com/endless-legend/forums/9-tips-tricks/threads/3824-building-big-efficient-cities-borough-streets-leveling-districts