how unfortunate..

So true, you speak the truth Orc Warlordess 

edited: for proper title

I don't see any logical reason for the storehouse to be a prerequisite, other than to make the research appear where the devs wanted it to on the research tree (since the research tree appearance is based on the prereqs).  

If you made the storehouse a prereq just to make the research tree look nice, then you need to seriously rethink the automatic layout of the tree.  Because this does affect gameplay for some people.  

Making things more complex to add depth is a good thing.  Making things complicated for no reason (or just to make coding easier) is not so much.

Hopefully there is some other really logical reason for this requirement that will be apparent to everyone soon(tm).

What does that mean?  Researching Inventory Management enables the Warehouse.  If you "needed" a lvl 15 storehouse to build a warehouse then every exodus should destroy the warehouse.  I've got lot's of exodused cities with lvl 12 storehouse and lvl 20 warehouse.

Unfortunately this is probably impossible unless they move the research to the City portion of the research tree, since that is where the inventory management research is.

Indeed, but they might not have considered the effects on established players; sometimes when one looks at something from a particular angle, one misses other ramifications.  I'm not saying that is definitely the case here, but I also don't think that there's any reason to just assume the developers had some sort of Deep Plan.

This is the suggestions forum; we're allowed to ask for what we want and comment about the game, and indeed the developers want to hear it.

This particular prerequisite does not appear to be meaningful from a gameplay perspective; it is possible that there is some deep meaning, or it is possible that they set it up to make their research tree tidy.  We don't know.

Is not a matter of what is right or not. It's just about user experience.

Having Storehouse 10 requirement don't stop people who demolished it. It just ANNOY them as HELL, making the game experience worst. For nothing. They will just demolish wathever, go to storehouse 10, research, demolish again, rebuild the old building.

So this is not something changing the gameplay or the ability of people to do it, it is just something annoying people as hell for no real reason.

[EVIL ON]

Or may be they know we will do it on prestige.

[EVIL OFF]

would not be surprised if suddenly food would be rated down on the scale of "necessity".. o the hilarity.. 

We are not crying, we just politely are pointing something which have no functional value and only annoy people.

The building only have to be up the time needed to do the research, than you can demolish it again, and you still keep the research and ability to wear gear. So the intent of the game designer is not to force us to have a Storehouse (otherwise they would make it a need to wear the gears), but instead to limit the development of the research until you have Storehouse 10 done.

Well, even if you have demolished Storehouse you had it, so the intent is saved.

Is not a matter of game mechanic, but a matter of player experience.

It add nothing to the game, it only detract from it.

But, what the hell, I even have storehouse in all my cities... so do whatever you want, gupta cavat lapidem, one player at a time. 

"its to expensive!"

Well it is! 

Here a member is asking a change which could make life easier for many members. Other people, who don't lose anything from the changes, just step in battering the proposal.

I just don't get it...

 

Hmmph.... Snuggling = whining

It doesn't affect me either.

Devs should know *exactly* how many cities are out there without a Storehouse.

Again. If they want us to keep it when we want to wear gear, just make it a REAL prerequisite.

The way it is implemented now, it is only a time waster, it only is there to annoy people.

This could even be ok, but I would like the devs say that: "we will not change it because we want people who demolished it to lose a week or so..."

I said enough on the argument, will not return on it. There are bigger problem than this.

they so could of added a clause that said lvl 10 storehouse and higher or any lvl warehouse, but, like others said, it was, imo, a deliberate choice by the devs...for some reason, and i hope they can explain it????

I think atm devs have other problems to solve relating to the release and when they would have a moment for this, people have already fixed it them self's and can be aware of this rule so it is bit annoying but I think we will survive. Its not like the same situation can happen later since you have to build storehouse in new town anyway.

Well you are assuming there are any free spots left in town... What about there are only lvl 20 buildings and no storehouse?

I don't need cottages, I will buy basic new resources. I need crafting buildings in just one of my cities and I will put them in just one, because all the research is interdependant. The 2 merchant buildings will also be in only one city. I will be able to craft anything and I will be able to trade anything. I will not gather much, but I'm not a gathering type anyway. The only problem is military outfitter, this is the only new must have technology in every city and the requirements for it are just silly. Storehouse is a waste of plot in every city that has build wall to lvl 20. 

The difference is that you need it only to do the research, you keep getting the benefits even if you demolish the building after doing the research. That is not the case with cotter, once you demolish the cottage, you wouldn't have your cotter anymore.

There are quite a few buildings in this release which are required only to research something, after which you can demolish it and keep getting the benefit. 

Suppose with one free plot in your town, you want to build a bladesmith to make obsidian swords. You have to build a spearmaker to unlock spearsmith research. Then you have to demolish spearmaker and build spearsmith which lets you research obsidian spear, which is required to unlock the obsidian sword research. Now you have to demolish spearsmith and build swordmaker to unlock the obsidian sword research and start making the swords.

Since all these buildings are required only at level 1, it is not difficult to build and demolish. Not sure if this was intended to be this way.

E.g., queue 1000 spears in a temporary spearmaker,  demolish and build temporary brewery, queue 1000 beer, demolish and build temporary bookbinder, queue 1000 books, and so on.  Production times in demolished buildings are poor, but still better than nothing.  Everybody demolished their "don't really need this now" buildings, check out the hilarious beer prices.  IOW, maybe the devs really wanted it the way it is.

hmmm ... maybe that beer sov is worthwhile after all ...

Good beer is priceless :-)