From Unknown Horizons

(1) Sailors / (2) Pioneers / (3) Settlers / (4) Citizens / (5) Merchants / (6) Aristocrats

Proposal

Ideas for new buildings are found at DD/Buildings/Ideas.

Summary

QUESTIONS TO COVER HERE:

1 What exactly is affected by an increment?

1.1 If this is specified in another article, link to it

Not really. But for additional details have a look at Automatic development of residents, marketplaces and branch offices and Manual updates of companies and service institutions. Both articles are not uptodate, but might help to answer some basic questions or at least to raise new crucial ones.

1.2 Production: speed, capacity

Not sure about this one. The speed of collectors - especially carriers - is influenced by the streets used. The producers could work a bit faster with each increment or need less resources to finish their production - e.g. a lumberjack could make 2 quantities of boards from 2 quantity of wood in less time or 2 quantities of boards from 1 quantity of wood in the same time. The capacity of producers should be changed in two ways with each increment - a) the company's inventory should be able to store more resources to take more time before company is idling full - b) the amount of carrier units should be increased with each increment like the branch office having 2 carriers in increment 2.

1.3 storage capacity

This one should be increased with every increment by a certain amount while this mainly affects branch office and warehouses. As said in 1.2 the storage of companies should also be slightly increased in every increment.

1.4 buildings: size?

This will not change. Although buildings will upgrade or will be able to be upgraded (depending on how we will handle this issue) the dimensions will be the same. Newer versions of companies with bigger dimensions will be available via build menu as a whole new building, but NOT as an upgrade. Also have a look at Building dimensions.

1.5 available buildings (new menu for new buildings?)

Each increment will have its own tab in the build menu (the ones with the roman numbers).

1.6 gui looks? (different colors, slightly different style?)

This is currently NOT planned. Might happen in later development, but do not care about right now.

2 When is an increment reached?

see Requirements for a settler to level up As soon as all those requirements are reached a resident will upgrade and although it might only be just one of the residents this will unlock the new increment. An increment represents the maximum of "technology" available for a settlement, and although a resident might downgrade to a lower increment (due to a lack of happiness) or even all the current increment residents (like already reached settler increment, but due to downgrades only pioneer residents in settlement) this will NOT affect the increments!

3 Settlers:

3.1 do they need building material for levelling up, and do they have to get it themselves?

Settlers need certain resources (depending on reached increment) to upgrade and yes, they have to get them on their own from the market place. Those resources should be defined as limeted needs. Some more information on how this is meant to work can be found in the article about Market Place.

Implementation related note

Currently none.

Workings

This will happen automatically if the player successfully set up the economy of the settlement. Depending on how we handle upgrades some buildings will need manual upgrades made by the player while residents will ALWAYS upgrade automatically as soon as all needs are fullfilled (including the availability of the resources needed to upgrade).

Graphical content

The gfx sets for each increment differ.

Open questions

None so far.

Phasing

General

Soon.