Cities

A lightly developed city

Cities are the centers of population, production and power. When founded or captured, a city is assigned to a Family.

City sites

City sites are the only locations where Settlers can found new Cities. A city site can be claimed by a Nation as long as a unit is located on it.

Barbarians

Barbarians occupy City-States like other Tribes, but they are in a permanent state of War with all Nations. They have a number of special units: Marauders, Skirmishers, Elite Marauders and Elite Skirmishers.

Culture level

Each city has a culture level, which is increased each time the Culture bar fills. Culture level provides increasing bonuses to the city but also increasing costs per population.

Culture Level	Projects Tier	Hamlet Limit	Victory Points	Governor XP/Year	Can Hurry Production	Population Upkeep	Improvements
Weak	I	1	+1	+4	No	1 Food
Developing	II	2	+2	+6	Yes	2 Food 1 Iron
Strong	III	3	+3	+8	Yes	3 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone
Legendary	IV	4	+4	+10	Yes	4 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone 1 Wood

Improvements

Improvements can be used to grand various bonuses to a City. There are two types of improvements: rural and urban. If a Worker is selected the game will suggest the tile where each improvement is most effective.

Improvements without a Specialist will increase the City's Maintenance.

Rural improvements

Rural improvements may be built on any non-urban tile. Specialists working on a rural improvement cannot be upgraded.

Improvement	Yearly output	Cost	Specialist	Terrain	Required technology
Farm	+5 Food	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Farmer	Lush, Temperate, Arid, Wheat, Barley, Sorghum, Marsh (requires Centralization law)	None
Mine	+5 Iron	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Miner	Lush, Temperate, Arid, Hill, Ore, Salt, Gems, Gold, Silver	None
Nets	Various	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Fisher	Dyes, Pearls, Fish, Crabs	None
Fort	+50% Defense if Friendly/Neutral Territory +2 Unit Vision Can Heal in Neutral Territory Destroyed when Pillaged	40 Stone 1 Orders		Lush, Temperate, Arid	Stonecutting
Quarry	+5 Stone	20 Iron 1 Orders for 3 years	Stonecutter	Lush, Temperate, Arid, Marble, Adjacent Mountain, Adjacent Volcano	Stonecutting
Granary	+2 Growth -1 Wood +60% Adjacent Farm Yield	40 Wood 1 Orders for 4 years		Lush, Temperate, Arid	Administration
Camp	+20% Adjacent Lumbermill Yield	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Trapper	Camels, Elephants, Game, Fur	Trapping
Pasture	+40% Adjacent Farms Yield	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Rancher	Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats	Husbandry
Grove	Various	20 Wood 1 Orders for 3 years	Gardener	Citrus, Honey, Incense, Lavender, Olives, Wine	Land Consolidation

Urban improvements

Urban improvements expand the urban area of a city by transforming the terrain underneath to urban. Most urban improvements need to be constructed next to two urban tiles, or one if the tile is coastal. Specialists working on a rural improvement can be upgraded.

Improvement	Output	Cost	Consumption per year	Specialist	Terrain	Required technology
Odeon	3 Culture	40 Stone 1 Orders for 4 years	2 Stone	Poet	Urban, lush, Temperate, Arid	Drama

Hamlets

Hamlets may be built anywhere. In 20 turns it will grow into a Village, and in another 20 turns it will grow into a Town. Only one Hamlet may be built for each Culture Level of a City.

Shrines

Shrines may be built anywhere and gain various bonuses depending on their location and the Nation's Religion. They may not be built next to each other.

Specialists

Specialists are unlocked by certain Improvements that can be trained to boost the yield of the Improvement. All Specialists also produce a small amount of Science. A Specialist's production cost increases with each one built in a city.

Rural specialists

Rural specialists produce 1 Science. They can also provide Luxuries if the Improvement is built on a natural resource that can produce it.

Specialist	Improvement	Yearly effect	Cost
Farmer	Farm	150% Improvement Production 1 Growth	40 Civics
Miner	Mine	150% Improvement Production 1 Training	40 Civics
Stonecutter	Quarry	150% Improvement Production 1 Civics	40 Civics

Urban specialists

Urban specialists can be upgraded, improving their bonuses.

Projects

Projects are internal City enhancements that on completion grant an instant bonus and a permanent bonus. Each Project can only be constructed in Cities with the same tier of Culture Level.

Project	Tier I			Tier II			Tier III			Tier IV			Requirements
	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost	Production	On Completion	Cost
Council		+40% (one turn) +40% (one turn) +40% (one turn)	1 Turn		+60% (one turn) +60% (one turn) +60% (one turn)	1 Turn		+80% (one turn) +80% (one turn) +80% (one turn)	1 Turn		+100% (one turn) +100% (one turn) +100% (one turn)	1 Turn
Festival	1 per year	20 20	40	1 per year	40 40	60	1 per year	60 60	80	1 per year	80 80	100
Treasury	10 per year	100	40 20	20 per year	200	60 40	30 per year	300	80 60	40 per year 1 per year	400	100 80	Administration technology
Forum	1 per year	20	40 20	2 per year	40	60 40	3 per year	60	80 60	4 per year 1 per year	80	100 80	Rhetoric technology
Archive	1 per year	10	40 20	2 per year	20	60 40	3 per year	30	80 60	4 per year 1 per year	40	100 80	Metaphysics technology
Olympiad	1 per year	50	40	1 per year	100	60	1 per year	150	80	1 per year	200	100	Greece nation