Star Observatory
Everything it needs is in the game.
A wonder of the Middle Age, raised in four stages. Each stage cuts the price of your research by 10 %; once it is complete, each stage also adds 2.5 % to your science. One per realm.
Building window In game
What opens when you click it.
3D model In game
Card In game
The blueprint card you buy to unlock it carries the same glyph.
In the game now Game data
Its live recipes, who uses its goods and how you unlock it.
Research: tier 4 node, base cost 2700 research points.
Planned design Planned
Its planned design is built.
Planned window: the layout of windows; numbers are examples.
Age
Middle Age, hall 6+
Problems it fixes
- Does nothing live but appeal
- the Enlightenment is cut
Today
Enlightenment wonder, 4 stages of 295 wood + 305 stone; per stage -10 % on the Industrial lump, after it +2.5 % science; LIVE BUG: both wait for age 3 and a online age never leaves Dark
Modes
- Star charts: the design rule, read from the town hall, never the stored age
- Navigation: ships +5 % a stage
- Almanac: sowing / harvest window +1 week, blight warned a season early
- Survey: deposits shown 1 province link further a stage
Built from (stage materials)
The player decision
Ships, farms or prospecting on top of research
Two ages (merged)
Middle Age wonder, hall 6: every stage cuts research costs 10 %; finished, every stage adds 2.5 % science
Named by
Goods and chains
What it takes in and gives out, with the buildings on the other end.
Made by
Made by
All stats Game data
- Model
- m12c_star_observatory
- Footprint
- 20 x 20 m
- Door
- front side, offset 0 m
- Build cost
- 500 wood, 520 stone
- Build work
- 36,000
- Builders at once
- 8
- Tier
- a
- Built in stages
- yes
- Levels
- {"goods": {"wood": 500, "stone": 520}, "work": 36000}, {"goods": {"wood": 500, "stone": 520}, "work": 36000}, {"goods": {"wood": 500, "stone": 520}, "work": 36000}, {"goods": {"wood": 500, "stone": 520}, "work": 36000}
States In game
The plate above the building in town.
The green ring fills as the current batch is made.
Workers come here before Normal buildings.
Nobody is assigned.
You closed it; workers go elsewhere.
Upgrades 1 to 10 Planned
For this building only. Levels 5 and 10 are the big steps. Live today: 4 level(s).
| Level | Adds | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Built | The starting building |
| 2 | +1 workers | More hands |
| 3 | +10 % work speed | Faster work |
| 4 | -10 % upkeep | Cheaper to run |
| 5 | Seasoned crew | +10 % work speed for everyone here |
| 6 | +1 workers | More hands |
| 7 | +10 % work speed | Faster work |
| 8 | Better yield | +5 % work |
| 9 | -10 % upkeep | Cheaper to run |
| 10 | Master star observatory | Serves 25 % more people |