Moving Cities - a heads up 16SEP10

some random guy wrote: I think you should add a bunch of new plots for a port.  You can use these plots to make naval buildings. The plots would be connected to your city by a road a maximum of 5 squares long.  in the city view, there would be a little button saying "go to your port" and in your port vice versa.  obviously, the port would have to be touching water.  a city would look like this:          road \/     |water| <city>======<port>|water|

From what ive seen so far as to what the devs want of this game, i would assume there wont be plots added
there probably wanting something like "Im going to be building a navy so maybe i dont need a barracks in this town or stone sinks in the water so i wont need a stonemason in this city" etc so pick carefully which city you may decide to build new structures in and research demolition

some random guy wrote: so... you won't be able to defend your ports from the land?  I can count only 4 (5 for elfs) buildings that aren't vital to a city's welfare (kiln, flourmill, vault, warehouse).   will there be only 4 new naval buildings?

When all this comes out troop trading should be out so build land troops in your other cities and move whats needed to defend or just reinforce when under attack

flourmill- very important in larger cities, as food is the limiting factor on growth
warehouse- very important since storehouse max capacity is 109k which isnt enough to build higher level structures

the other buildings are up to the individual players to decide how important they are to the newer buildings, but its all assumptions and we will have to wait and see whats in store for us

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Dock cities will be able to build barracks, they just won't be able to build everything, this may seem like a big deal to a new player but the fact is that it is not essential to have a spearmaker or any other production building in every city, you can import goods that you don't produce, a tannery, saddlemaker and siege construction is certainly not essentail in all cities as at level 20 of each there is almost no way your going to be able to produce enough cattle to supply the productions.

So yeah, Vault, Kiln are not essentiall and your choice of production buildings to eliminate (do you really need level 20 bookbinders in all of your cities).

Basically with multiple cities all the problems will resolve themselves. Is 500 population really that long to wait?

will the pathfinding and the way of crossing rivers(bridges, boats etc) come out together or will a player have to be stranded from the most populated areas for a long time