User Manual

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The Construction Menu
Aside from your ship, the trading office is perhaps your most important tool to aid you
in your quest for social ascent (not counting your wits, of course). You need to have a
trading office in a city before you can construct other buildings. Also, you can only
trade with a city in which you don’t have one of your ships docked if you own a trading office
there. The trading office is the place where all the goods you buy or sell are stored (provided
that you don’t trade directly with your ship). Moreover, all personal information regarding a
particular city, e.g. your wife’s popularity, is gathered in your trading office. Therefore, you
should do your best to build trading offices in as many Hanseatic towns as you can.
Here you have the option to build roads, merchant’s houses, gabled houses, half
timbered houses, wells, and hospitals. Once you have decided what you want to build,
you receive further information on the costs, the build time, the material requirements,
how much of each material you already have in stock, and what materials you will have to buy.
Using the ‘raw materials’ button you can manage all your buildings that produce raw
materials, such as the fisherman’s house, the corn farm, the cattle farm, the sawmill,
and the hemp farm. Just select one of these building types to display information about
the construction costs and time.
Here you will find a list of all businesses that process raw materials to produce more
refined products. Provided that you have all the necessary resources, you can build all
of these buildings, which include the workshop, the salt maker, the brickworks, the
forge, etc. Again, to get further details, click on the type of business.
The construction of city walls and watchtowers is reserved for the municipality.
Therefore, this menu will not be accessible until you are elected mayor of the town.
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