Step by Step Guide to Claiming Sovereignty

Ector i see that you have some 300 pop, you will learn in time what is best depending on your cities location and troops you want to make in each city.

Sloter, I'm not going to build some cities at bad locations and then "learn in time" that they are bad.
I want to build my cities in the best places possible, and thus I'm trying to determine which places are the best. I'm a dwarf, and I know that I will go to war eventually, though I like trading too. Which souvereignty squares should I seek for?

Unfortunately, nobody answered still: how good are resource bonuses compared to equipment bonuses and troops production bonuses?


Edited by Ector - 27 Oct 2011 at 22:23

i have had many lv 2 or lv 3 sov squares, when at war I have made almost all of them quicken the production of military unit, usually cav, so I can replace troops quickly, but once the fighting slows down, i can quickly change those sov squares to speed up production of the equipment I need to make troops. Once I have a huge stockpile, I can again change the sov to work on resources or diplos or whatever.

Ector wrote: Ector, I think no one discusses it because this is an area where playstyles determine what is valuable to the player. For example, if you're a human who wants a big knight army, then sov that have bonuses for knight production or the production of equipment needed to produce knights would be valuable.If you want to be a merchant, finding sov that speed up production of high-price items on the market would be valuable. If you plan on putting 3 advanced buildings in that all have a high hourly cost in clay, for example, then a square with a high clay bonus would be useful. The thing I've asked for is the list of the playing strategies and the corresponding souvereignty sites. Especially, how good is resource gathering bonus (20% max) compared to equipment bonus (40% max) and army building bonus (35% max)? Is it good to claim, say, two Cavalry bonuses, and no Horses bonus?

if you have big horse supply from other towns, why not?
still, depends on what race you are, so you can focus on yer prime weapons, your tier units

Ector, I think no one discusses it because this is an area where playstyles determine what is valuable to the player. For example, if you're a human who wants a big knight army, then sov that have bonuses for knight production or the production of equipment needed to produce knights would be valuable.If you want to be a merchant, finding sov that speed up production of high-price items on the market would be valuable. If you plan on putting 3 advanced buildings in that all have a high hourly cost in clay, for example, then a square with a high clay bonus would be useful.

The bottleneck in army building... Hmm. Well, when you start building an army, the bottleneck is usually in producing enough of the advanced goods. At little later, it's usually in having enough gold to sustain the army. If you're being attacked and you have a stockpile of the needed equipment, then it would be in the production time. This is why it's nice you can change structures on the sov squares.

Does that help?

It reduces the cost of the first level, and that "savings" carries over into the TOTAL cost of each additional level.  Think of sov as a stack of shoeboxes.  Each shoebox costs 100 gold and 10 rp.  The Chancery reduces the cost of the first "shoebox" by up to 40% (regardless of how many shoeboxes you buy) but does not affect any of the other shoeboxes in the stack.