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LOCATION AND PURPOSE
OF 9 RESOURCES:
There are currently 9 Resources that can be found in the world. All
resources are found on certain types of land and are automatically received
and collected simply by owning the land that produces those resources.
Here are the 9 resources and where to find them:
|
RESOURCE |
LOCATION |
PURPOSE |
|
Food |
Various fruit trees,
shrubs with berries, both fresh water and salt water, rivers |
Required to feed all
settlers in your colony |
|
Water |
Fresh water lakes, rivers
(not oceans or salt water lakes) |
Required for all
settlers in your colony to prevent thirst |
|
Furs |
Open grassland or snow
regions, dead trees or logs, shrubs, scrub brush |
Used for trading.
Can be sold in towns to generate an income for your colony. |
|
Lumber |
Trees |
Needed to build most
types of structures such as fences or buildings. |
|
Stone |
Mountains, Rocks |
Used to build stone
walls and for certain other structures. |
| Iron |
Desert or dirt areas,
mountains |
Used to build steel
walls and certain other structures. |
|
Medicine |
Rare varieties of flowers
and cactus |
Used to heal settlers in
your colony from various afflictions and epidemics. |
|
Gunpowder |
Mountains |
Used to make land/sea mines. |
|
Gold |
Gold mines can be
discovered in the Mountains |
Gold is used as a
currency in the game. |
RESOURCE PRODUCTION INDICATORS:
You can tell whether a parcel of land you own produces a resource by simply
looking at the parcel. A tiny color-coded triangle with a number in it
will appear on the parcel. The color indicates which resource is
produced and the number indicates how much of the resource is produced.
For example, 
indicates 1 water is produced. If you do not see the symbol, the land
does not produce any resources. The colors match the color of your
resource list that is displayed on the left side of the screen as well as
the color of depots that are built to hold a particular type of resource.
 You can
also right click on any parcel of land you own and it will tell you what is
produced (if anything). A summary of all your resource production of
all land you own can be displayed by clicking the PRODUCTION button:
NOTE: Do not
confuse Growth indicators
 with Resource Indicators. A Growth indicator
can also appear on a parcel but has a circle symbol rather than a triangle
and always uses the same color.
DEPOTS AND
STORAGE CAPACITY:
 Initially, a colony can hold 25 of each resource but a colony can build a
depot for any type of resource to expand their storage capacity. Each
depot adds 100 storage capacity and an unlimited number of depots can be
built. If you click the RESOURCES button
 on the side of the game
window, your current inventory of resources is shown as well as your storage
capacity. For example:
Water 52/125
indicates you currently have 52 water and can store up to 125 max.
GROWTH INDICATORS:
Although Growth
Indicators are not related to a particular resource, they are similar and
are used to indicate the growth of settlers in your colony. Some
parcels will attract settlers to join your colony and others won't. If
a parcel attracts settlers, you will see a growth indicator symbol on the
parcel such as which
indicates it attracts 1 settler on a regular basis. The overall growth
rate of your colony can be seen by clicking on the PRODUCTION button
. Some parcels
you own can even deter settlers from joining your colony! Those have a
similar growth indicator shown on the parcel but the number is
red
to indicate negative growth. You can also right click on a parcel and
a phrase will indicate if the parcel is contributing to positive or negative
growth of your colony:
|
A Thriving Community |
+2 or Higher Growth |
|
A Growing Community |
+1 Growth |
|
A Stable Community |
No Growth |
|
A Declining Community |
-1 Growth |
|
A Struggling Community |
-2 or Lower Growth |
GROWTH RATE:
Your total growth rate in your
colony determines the number of new colonists that will want to join your
colony. Initially, the growth rate is exactly the number of new
colonists that wish to join. As your growth rate gets larger, it takes
more points of growth to attract each additional settler as shown in the
chart below:
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GROWTH RATE |
# of Settlers That
Wish to Join |
| 0-10 |
100% of
Growth Rate |
| 11-50 |
1/2 of
Growth Rate |
| 51-100 |
1/3 of
Growth Rate |
| 101-200 |
1/5 of
Growth Rate |
| 201+ |
1/9 of
Growth Rate |
There is also a maximum number of
new colonists that are willing to join your colony at any one time which is
the lesser of:
1) The number of Forts you own times 30 settlers
2) 70% of your growth rate
However, the maximum is never less
than 30 settlers.
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