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NPC Amounts

Population Requirements for Cities

Symbol

Key Code

Label

Min

Max

#

Settlers

Population

Flag

F==

Few

1

3

Wink

;)

Handful

4

10

2

1

450

Grin

:D

Several

9

23

3

2

2,000

Smile

:)

Pack

22

83

4

3

5,000

Straight

:|

Many

77

128

5

4

10,000

Frown

:(

Gathering

140

235

6

5

20,000

Tounge

:P

Horde

205

481

7

6

40,000

Pirate

:ar!

Throng

561

823

8

7

75,000

Thumbs Down

:-q

Host

822

2.5k

9

8

130,000

Thumbs Up

:-b

Legion

3k

9.9k

10

9

233,550

Myriad

10k

24.9k

11

10

515,500

Sea

25k

49.9k

Cornucopia

50k+

very advanced city guide

What to look for: This is for a more advanced city guide, once you know the basics of research and basic city construction. This is city specialization and how to set up your cities to be ultra specialized for an individual city. 

All the buildings that i list are on top of the basics, Marketplace, Counsolate, Barracks, mage tower, kiln, flourmil, carpentry, stonemason, foundry,and  library. For a total of 10 base city squares. 

Spear Cities: In a spear city the resources needed are clay and iron, In that city you should identify what equipment you need for spear production, for elves it is: Spears, chainmail, and leather armour. So you should have all 3 of the buildings that make them in this city, which are spearmaker, blacksmith, and tannery. Additionally, you should build 3 of the spearmen billets, which reduce the amount of upkeep for spears in that city. If you are into crafting, i would put 2 or 3 of the crafting buildings in there and depending on what else is around your city the 1-3 guilds, depending on what your goals are. I would have them focused on what kind of stuff is around your city and what would support your spearmen troops equipement wise.  

Sword Cities: In a sword city the resources needed are stone and iron. in addition u just need a blacksmith for this city for elves, because all they require are swords and chainmail. In this city, i would also place 3 of the swordsmen buildings to reduce the upkeep, and if in a cluster use this as your magic location with 1-2 geomancers which takes clay, wood and stone, These will help you increase the power of your food spells for the city. or any other city u put a spell on for resources. After that, it would be up to you on how you would fill up your city spots. 

Cav Cities: Cav takes wood and clay, for elves, the resourses it takes is spears, saddles, and chainmail. so you need 3 of your cav parade ground buildings.  After that it is your choice. 

Archer Cities: Archers take wood and iron. for elves, archers take beer, leather armour, and bows. so you need a brewery, bowyer, and a tanner. Also 3 Archers fields. 

Trade Cities:Trade buildings take wood, clay and stone, if you wish to do a dedicated trade city, i would mix it with gathering, you will have the most available space, and you can build a small army out of other cities excess equipment, therefore you wouldn't need much t2 res production in this city, so you can do trade/crafting/gathering all in one city. And from here, you can move all your goods to all other cities. I would place this in your cluster for easy defense, And, i would place a foriegn office in this city as well, this increases the distance you can see incoming diplo attacks, and the distance you can see troop sizes. This will allow you to get more time to get ready for any diplo attacks. and I would make sure you have a vault in this location to protect your t3 weapons and t3 res as well. 

Clusters: A cluster is a large amount of cities in a small area by either 1 player, or an alliance, If done right you can protect your cities in a short amount of time with a varried amount of troop types to counter any threat, In this cluster i would not focus on one type of troop, and i would not focus on one type of terrain, because it prevents the enemy from just overwhelming u with one type of troop type. Unless you are an orc and want all your cities spear cities, but that is the exception to the rule. 

Factions: This will be becoming more of a factor as the months move on, factions are going to becoming more important consideration, unless you are trying to provoke a war, you should settle in an area friendly with factions near you, this will allow you not only to hide and trade goods in the nearest hub, but you won't have to worry about getting attacked by the factions. 

Terrain considerations:

Terrain Combat Multipliers

Identify what type of city you are going to make, then identify the type of terrain is optimal for the defense by that type of troop. then subset it with a focus on res spread, for an example, in a spear city you need clay and iron, Spears are best on the defensive on a large mountain so you would be best served to either terraform a magic mountain with 5 clay and 5 iron with 7 food and either 3 wood or 3 stone, or just do your best finding a nice location with large amounts of food sov nearby. This is just an example. 

Exodus/terraforming: Here i am not going to reinvent the wheel, I will give u 3 guides for this

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/the-magical-7-food-mountain_topic4094.html

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/stepbystep-guide-to-terraforming_topic6711.html

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/why-a-7food-square-is-so-important_topic5469.html

Sov: Here is a how to guide on sov. A notation on this, when looking for a city, once you figure out what type of city you are building, look for a large amount of that type of sov near where your city is going to be located. and Food as well. 

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/step-by-step-guide-to-claiming-sovereignty_topic2659.html

High Population ONLY: This is if you are going for 30+ cities, when doing this you are required 7 food for all your cities, no exceptions, also, you need to look for a large amount of food sov near all your cities, you also need to focus on a large amount of your high population buildings, 

http://arcanum-illyria.com/wiki/Building_Charts here is the chart, you will need to max out all your res buildings and you will need to work on getting 30k + per city. Be warned, more then likely you will NOT have a barracks at this time, also you will not have much space for many troops. do not i say again, do not go about this lightly,