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Oh dear, I don't have either at PT or a Lighthouse. I may be able to make enough space for one of these buildings. If you had to choose one of them, which would it be? Or do you need both of them in order for the strategy to work?
Lighthouse of Good Neighbourhood is essential for this strategy to work, because you need to be able to get your 12% extra culture per enchanted and polished culture building.
I'm Ch.23 with 14 Magic Residences. I'm keeping up, just barely. As I come to the end of Ch.23 Research I will probably need to switch all 14 MRs to community work for the first time ever.
If you don't need the supplies, you probably don't need the PT, provided that your culture level is stable enough to keep up the minimum 170% before you start adding the extra from the enchanted polished culture buildings. Remember, though, with a PT upgraded into the 20s, with its self-collection and the extra power it gives to PoP boosts, it would give enough supplies to remove at least two more workshops. On the other side of it, though, if you remove all your workshops then you will struggle to have enough prosperity.
Yes, no doubt. You're looking at the 5 images of the sun, or the sun with cloud... You're looking for full sun.
The mechanics of prosperity are the same as culture, but it is generated by the main hall, workshops, residences and barracks. It is used by all your guest race buildings. So the former supports the latter.
Thanks Pauly7. I don't have full sun. I have just found the five sun and/or cloud images. I am on the middle one at 155%. As my supplies pot is always full, I assume that to improve my culture %, I will need to build more culture buildings and/or keep upgrading my MM, CL, Thrones, and Thermal Spring AWs. Also, I see now that the settlement buildings need prosperity. From what you said previously, prosperity is generated by various things including supplies. Your unused culture increases your coins, supplies and community work. So these things seem to feed into each other. I must say that I am finding it all rather confusing, but it will probably come to me sooner or later.
This implies you have one enchanted/polished culture building (without LOGN), fyi.
There are two ways: Either to increase the amount of culture you have with culture buildings (including most evolving buildings), or to reduce the amount of culture that is required in your city by having less workshops, residences or manufactories. This is where Prosperity Towers can help because it will allow you to remove workshops and hence to reduce the required number. [As an aside, adding Blooming Trader Guild would allow you to buy more goods from the wholesaler, hence you would need less manus, and this would also reduce your required culture].
Not supplies, per se, but by having more residences and workshops. Barracks and Main Hall also count, so upgrading any of these things gives you more prosperity.
Yes, but this is the key thing again - All the unused culture in the world can only get you to 170%. In my city I have about 1.8m excess culture, but the only way to increase the culture bonus still further is to have buildings enchanted with EEs that are also polished.
It can be confusing, but the rule of thumb is - If your priority is to increase your culture stats and to live in the world of plenty, in terms of coins, supplies and goods, then you need to remove buildings from your city that give you ranking points and replace them with event won buildings and Ancient Wonders. If your priority is to have more ranking points and climb that ladder, then forget all of the above.
Only up to the point where you've hit full sun.
You are correct, only my Glory of the Nimble building was enchanted. My required/total culture is now 1.13m/1.48m. I am still on the middle sun, but at 175%. Btw, I do have a Blooming Trader Guild and it's at level 17, whuich gives me 15.5% reduced trader fee and 376% wholesale offers. However, the most important thing for me currently is the 138.5% settlement production bonus. Thanks again for your help. I am beginning to understand these things a bit better now.
Thanks @Pauly7. I was looking for something around the Ch.23 timeline, so I completely overlooked this older AW. I've never reached Culture Bonus 4, which makes the alternative a moot point.