System of Hubs for Palace Donation

You do not need this until later in the game, when donation to palaces is the focus.  It's most useful when donating to places lvl 4 or more.  Each city can ship out 16 million in resource in 1 shipment.  If you have 10 cities, that's 160 million resources!  You can fill a level 1-3 palace in 1 wave!!!

You need at least 2 cities, but you may want to build as many as 10 or more.  Build these cities as close together as you can to cut down shipping time.

City 1: See Palace Hub
When use in the system of hubs, this city should not be used to send resources to palaces manually.  Carts should be available to fill cities 2-10.

City 2-10: Shipping http://bit.ly/oXElhX
Set wood/stone level at 8 million each.  With 16,600 carts, you can ship out all 16 million in 1 shipment.  This city can be on water or landlocked.

Palace Hubs

Continental or Palace Hub - Ideal for shipping resources to palaces.  

• Layout: http://bit.ly/nun8Tk
• Storage: 40 million wood, 40 million stone, 7 million iron, 7 million food
• Carts: 6200
• If use as a palace hub, this should be built close to a shrine.
• Should be on water to receive intercontinental shipments
• All cities in the region should ship surplus resources here

Other Hub Layouts - You can build fewer of storage and more carts/ships as you need.  I also like to add a barrack and a trinsic temple to send barons to new continents.

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System of Palace Hubs

As the game progresses, you'll need more and more and more storage and shipment to palaces.  I will show you how to create a system of hubs, consisting of 2, 6, or 8 hubs in a later entry.

Gold City/Hub

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