[.99] Apothecary improvement provides no benefit

Lord Reliant

Join Date 03/2006

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Could someone confirm/deny this is a problem in 1.0?

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You are not building it in a essence-less city, are you? Given that it gives mana per essence, it would have no effect.

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DerekPaxton

Join Date 03/2003

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Herbalist gives +1 mana. Apothecary gives +1 Mana, +1 Mana per Essence. So if your conclave was built in a location with no Essence it wouldn't offer an advantage and should probably be skipped. Its upgrades would be slightly better for your city, but are also powered off the city's amount of Essense, so not very good in that location.

Alternatively if you select the Oracle at levelup you will get some Essence and start getting bonuses from these improvements.

I should probably block anything above a Herbalist unless you have Essence, otherwise it seems like a bad choice.

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Lord Reliant

Join Date 03/2006

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Quoting Derek Paxton,

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Herbalist gives +1 mana. Apothecary gives +1 Mana, +1 Mana per Essence. So if your conclave was built in a location with no Essence it wouldn't offer an advantage and should probably be skipped. Its upgrades would be slightly better for your city, but are also powered off the city's amount of Essense, so not very good in that location.

Alternatively if you select the Oracle at levelup you will get some Essence and start getting bonuses from these improvements.

I should probably block anything above a Herbalist unless you have Essence, otherwise it seems like a bad choice.

I think you hit the issue here, Derek. In my example, I believe it was an Essence-less location. If you could add in logic to prevent that as an option, that would seem good. My only hesitation there would be if any upgrades after Apothecary provide other benefits that might be good to have, but if that's the case, maybe those benefits could be rolled down instead.

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