Gold City/Hub
As mentioned in the previous post about gold income, pure gold city is less efficient than putting some gold in every city. The exception to that is a gold city/hub. When you have 5 cities, you need a hub. The goal of the hub is to store resources as well as transport resources to other cities as needed. So it needs a lot of warehouses, marketplaces and harbors. Marketplaces and harbors also increases gold production, so a gold/hub hybrid is a good mix!
Small Hub - Ideal for regional hub. Empire has 5-50 cities, mostly resource cities.
- Layout: http://bit.ly/qTRLVP
- Storage: 3.5 million wood, 3.5 million stone, 1.1 million iron, 1.1 million food
- Gold/hr: 40,800
- Carts: 2800
- Ships: 180
Medium Hub - Regional hub. Ideal for when you have about 50-100 cities, resource and military cities.
- Layout: http://bit.ly/qAyhIG
- Storage: 8.9 million wood, 8.9 million stone, 4.1 million iron, 4.1 million food
- Gold/hr: 36,000
- Carts: 2400
- Ships: 180
What about hubs without gold? I'm trying to construct my first hub (at the moment I have 10 cities), but my allies guide me to don't put gold on hubs. What is better? How a hub without gold needs to look like?
ReplyDeleteSry for the bad english. xD
Thanks in advance.
Townhouses is only necessary very early stage of the game, before you start raiding. During mid-stage and late stage, it's mostly useless because raiding will bring in so much more gold than townhouses. After you have a few raiding castles, you'll probably have more gold than you'll need.
ReplyDeleteSo if your alliance can supply you with gold early stage for you to advance your title while you build your empire, skip the townhouse and just build a full hub. Here are some layouts with varying amount of marketplaces and storage. Depending on what you need, you can just pick one.
http://bit.ly/T6DY8D
http://bit.ly/Og6Mgy
http://lordofultimastrategies.blogspot.com/2011/07/continental-or-palace-hub-for-shipping.html