Storage, Market and Bank

[Professor H. Farnsworth]

Are they actually necessary for the Campaign?

I mean, with the map layouts it's going to be damn hard optimizing them for efficiency (at least the market/bank). Storage would probably help a little on gaining more resources. However, I have yet to see myself in dire resource needs as I'm usually capped with little to no way of spending, mostly because I need the stone houses to support more soldiers.

[Three-Headed-Monkey]

market is great, storage & bank is (in my opinion) a waste of tech points

[Darth[SW]]

I used storage on maps with limited space for farms to boost food production. Also if you plan on building any wonders you need to use storage to get enough supplies for the costs.

[mistertristan8]

Bank and storage are yes very helpful, you can take them after shocking tower, there are not the first one to take

[ZERO]

storage is needed for some units / buildings in the tech tree and can boost resource gain.
market is a good gold sink if you have been having trouble using it all buy resources to upgrade houses faster
bank is good on some maps not all.

i would say grabbing market early is a good idea but for the other 2 leave untill you have more important upgrades.

[Andrewbh2003]

you dont need bank till like 50% of the campaign "they carried me through the valley of death and now as i speak the oasis" but yeah most early missions you dont need market the earliest mission i can think of where a market would be usefull is the lands of the giant mission as you know lots of wide open areas for housing bays

also if you ever wish to see lucifer or iron tech you literally need warehouses "and there nice to have anyway"

[Evilsod]

Market/Bank are extremely powerful boosts. Just because you can't get a perfect surround on them on 99% of maps and locations doesn't mean that the half decent surround you can get is any less good.

Do you need to rush them? No. Do you need them? Absolutely. Market auto-selling excess materials and giving you the ability to buy them is extremely important and it helps save on food. Bank is just free money and helps get your economy started sooner without having to keep pushing out to place down more cottages.

[FishyDishy]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

without having to keep pushing out to place down more cottages.

If you aint pushing, and using a bank to offset your lack of pushing

you're doing it wrong

[Andrewbh2003]

Originally posted by SemenSorcerer:

Originally posted by Evilsod:

without having to keep pushing out to place down more cottages.

If you aint pushing, and using a bank to offset your lack of pushing

you're doing it wrong

bank makes cottages much more cost-effective and once you get a full cottage bay add a market and your economy goes BOOM from like +800 to +1300

[FishyDishy]

I'm not saying a bank is bad.

i'm saying using a bank instead of pushing is bad

[mistertristan8]

pushing in easy difficulty is ok, in apo you can't always expand especially in the last maps

[!?!]

Can't build the foundry, inn or wonders without storage.

[One Man Army]

Storage is required if you want to build a Foundry or Wonders.

Market and Bank are not necessary but very nice to have.
Also the more markets you have the more money you get from excess resources autosold and the less expensive things are to buy. (Up to 3 Markets max)

[76561188078797539]

Personally, I do consider the Market necessary.

It will obviously vary depending on your play style, but the additional income you get from auto-selling, coupled with the ability to turn it into resources if you need them RIGHT NAO (building defenses right before an unexpected wave spawn is one such occasion) make them a critical choice make Market a crucial choice in my book.

It does depend on the map, but you may very well do without a Bank with Markets and good economic building placement instead. Warehouse comes in likewise crucial in this combination, and it also gives you a larger pool of resources to utilize as needed.

But that's just, like, my opinion, maan. ;)

[amordron]

Warehouse is worth just for the production boost alone near oil iron for example as often you only get plus 5 or stone 5 near you that’s a extra soilder per 16 hours witch is decent.

Market is worth as you swim in gold esp on higher diffs if you got gold from kills. Just so you can drop your gold onto the market for other resources beyond the amount you norm get.

Bank I find meh but it unlocks gold to kill witch is strong as hell esp on apoc worth well over 2m gold.

[snuggleform]

Market is a "diamond in the rough"; it gives you a meaningful way to dump your gold to trade for other resources, without it I gold capped a lot. As an added bonus it reduces the food need in a fairly large radius around it.

Bank/warehouse less so, but as pointed out warehouse does boost production which helps your stone/wood/food in the early game, and the extra storage it "feels good" to be able to store resources so you can dump say a lot of towers once you figure out which way the horde is approaching. Bank is on the optional side of things but it goes well with the market to make more use of the gold trade -> other resources. And as stated - if you ever plan to use a wonder or engineering center unit you are required to get a warehouse.