Progression

Overview

The Progression Tree is the way that the player progresses through the game by opening new tiers and unlocking technologies. The tree has four paths: Common Path, Labour, Kingdom, and Clergy. Each path has five tiers, within which are various unlockable technologies and abilities. Tiers are unlocked when the player reaches a certain level of Prosperity (for the Common Path) or Splendour (for the other paths), and the technologies within are unlocked by the player spending Influence. Prosperity, splendour and influence are all markers of the overall power of the city.

The Progression Tree is accessed via a button on the User Interface, in the group of buttons on the panel at the top right. There is also the Progression Panel, second from left at the top of the UI, which summarises the town's overall Prosperity and amounts of Splendour and Influence for the three Estates.

Prosperity

The Prosperity rating automatically unlocks new tiers in the Common Path as it rises. Players can then purchase upgrades in each unlocked tier with gold coins. As implied by the name, Prosperity is an indicator of how prosperous the village is overall. The breakdown of prosperity can be seen at the top of the Progression Tree. The factors that influence prosperity are:

• Wealth: highest monthly net income to date.
• Territory: the total number of territories the village owns.
• Commerce rating: an average taken from the number and level of trade routes available.
• Population rating: a combination of the number of villagers and their status.
• Splendour: an average of the types of splendour produced by buildings in the town.
• Beautification: an average of the beautification produced by decorations in the town.
• Gold Coins: the current total gold in the treasury and the total treasury space available.

In most of the above, natural city growth will lead to an increase in Prosperity; as the village grows, more villagers will arrive and the player will buy new territories, resulting in an inevitable increase.

Splendour and Influence

- Labour Splendour - Kingdom Splendour - Clergy Splendour - Labour Influence - Kingdom Influence - Clergy Influence

The Splendour rating automatically unlocks new tiers of the relevant path as it rises. Players can then unlock technologies within each unlocked tier by paying Influence of the appropriate type.

Splendour is gained by building and decorating monuments according to type. Civic buildings such as the Manor House, Tavern and Market contribute to Labour splendour, religious buildings such as Churches and Monasteries contribute to Clergy Splendour, and military buildings such as the Keep contribute to Kingdom Splendour.

It's important to note that not all parts of the above buildings contribute to Splendour. Building parts which do so are marked in the build menu with a Splendour star as pictured above. Typically these building parts are decorations and the more expensive core buildings and doors.

Influence can be earned as a Quest reward, but otherwise constantly accrues over time according to the corresponding Splendour rating; the higher the Splendour rating, the faster Influence builds up. The Splendour rating also imposes a limit on the amount of Influence the player can have, and if Influence exceeds this maximum (e.g. because of a Quest reward), it will gradually decrease until it matches the limit. For example, if the Splendour rating is at 0, Influence is also limited to 0.

Paths

Common Path

The Common Path offers technologies that are required for all towns, such as fences, bridges, resource storage, food and goods industries and decorations.

Labour

The Labour path focuses on civic technologies, unlocking the Manor House, Tavern, paved roads, improved Markets and different types of taxation.

Kingdom

The Kingdom path concerns military development, and unlocks weapons industries and various improvements to the Keep such as the Healing House and Provisioner.

Clergy

The Clergy path is orientated towards religion and unlocks improved Churches and Monasteries, including a number of monastery-specific industries such as the Apiary and Vegetable Garden.

Progression Tree

Unlocked at	Common Path	Labour	Kingdom	Clergy
	All upgrades cost 25 Storage: unlocks Granary and Warehouse Fishing: unlocks Fisher's Hut Village Wooden Bridge: unlocks Village Wooden bridge Village Fence: unlocks Village Fences	All upgrades cost 25 Manor House: unlocks Manor House, decorations and Great Hall and Tax Office sub-buildings	All upgrades cost 25 Unlock basic Castle Wooden Keep Barracks Armoury	All upgrades cost 25 Unlock basic Monastery Monk dorm Nun dorm Chapel Monastic Scriptorium Herb garden Berry garden Vegetable garden Monastic grange Refectory Great hall Tier 2 Church buildings parts
10 Prosperity (Common Path) 25 Splendour (Estate Paths)	All upgrades cost 50 Clothing: unlocks Sheep Farm, Weaver Hut and Tailor's Workshop Goods Market: unlocks Goods Stall sub-building and decorations for the Market Stonemason Hut: unlocks Stonemason Hut Tooling: unlocks Iron Quarry, Charcoal Hut, Iron Smelter and Blacksmith Butchering: unlocks Hunter's Hut and Butchery Farming: unlocks Wheat Farm, Windmill and Bakery Tier 2 Decorative: unlocks tier 2 decorations Lumber Camp Improvement: unlocks Lumber Camp extensions Storage Improvement: unlocks Granary and Warehouse extensions Extended Village Edict: unlocks an Edict slot	All upgrades cost 5 Labour Influence Tavern: unlocks Tavern, decorations and Public Lounge, Service Counter, Berry Brewery, and Great Hall sub-buildings Manor House Village Architecture: unlocks tier 2 Manor House extensions and decorations Village Fortifications: unlocks Watchpost sub-building for the Manor House, Village Watchtower and Village Fortifications Bailiff Office: unlocks Bailiff's Office sub-building for the Manor House Treasury: unlocks Treasury sub-building for the Manor house Tier 2 Labour Privilege: unlocks a Labour Privilege slot	All upgrades cost 5	All upgrades cost 5
50 Prosperity (Common Path) 75 Splendour (Estate Paths)	All upgrades cost 100 Beer Production : unlocks Wheat Farm, Hop farm and Brewery Common Wares: unlocks Common Wares Workshop Luxury Market: unlocks Luxury Stall sub-building and decorations for the Market Village Stone Bridge: unlocks Village Stone Bridge City Fence: unlocks Elegant Fence and Elegant Gateway Tier 3 Decorative: unlocks tier 3 decorations Stonemason Hut Improvement: unlocks Stonemason Hut extensions Farming Improvement: unlocks Wheat Farm extensions Extended Village Edict: unlocks an Edict slot	All upgrades cost 20 Labour Influence Manor House City Architecture: unlocks tier 3 Manor House extensions and decorations Tavern Splendour Package: unlocks tier 2 Tavern extensions and decorations Inn Lodge: unlocks the Inn Lodge sub-building and decorations for the Tavern Milling Taxes: unlocks Windmill taxation Paved Roads: unlocks Paviour's Yard Tier 3 Labour Privilege: unlocks a Labour privilege slot	All upgrades cost 20	All upgrades cost 20
101 Prosperity (Common Path) 150 Splendour (Estate Paths)	All upgrades cost 250 Jewellery: unlocks Gold Smelter and Jeweller's Workshop Cooperage : unlocks Cooperage Dairy Farming : unlocks Dairy Farm and Cheesemaker Candles : unlocks Candle Workshop City Stone Bridge: unlocks City Stone Bridge Tier 4 Decorative : unlocks tier 4 decorations Sculpture Workshop: unlocks Sculpture Workshop sub-building for the Builder's Workshop Glass Working: unlocks Glass Smelter, Stained Glass Workshop sub-building for the Builder's Workshop, and Stained Glass Extended Village Edict: unlocks an Edict slot	All upgrades cost 35 Labour Influence City Market: unlocks the City Market and the Market Hall sub-building City Fortifications: unlocks City Watchtower, City Wall and City Gatehouse Tavern Kitchen: unlocks the Tavern Kitchen sub-building for the Tavern Mining Taxes: unlocks taxation on mines Tier 4 Labour Privilege: unlocks a Labour privilege slot	All upgrades cost 35	All upgrades cost 35
200 Prosperity (Common Path) 300 Splendour (Estate Paths)	All upgrades cost 500 Tier 5 Decorative: unlocks tier 5 decorations Candle Workshop Improvement: unlocks Candle Workshop extension Common Wares Improvement: unlocks Common Wares Workshop extension	All upgrades cost 50 City Belfry: unlocks the City Belfry sub-building for the City Market Smithing Taxes: unlocks taxation on Smith buildings Drinking Taxes: unlocks taxation on the Tavern	All upgrades cost 50	All upgrades cost 50