laboratory

[Highlander]

am i correct in thinking that as i am at lab level 6 there is no point in pushing it any further as anything above level 5 is a waste unless you are building catapults which i wont need to do now that the cornershop stocks them

[Natmus]

That would be correct. If you can build Sail, Spear, Shield and Bow to level 10, then it's all right.

[Highlander]

cheers

just checking so not to waste my resources

[sparrowhawk]

So, is a L20 Lab required for cats, or is an L20 barracks? Or both?

[Highlander]

lab level 15 reqd for cats then you have to research cats upto level 15 after that before you can build any.

barracks do not matter for cat production.

[ashimar]

Not quite correct.

There are "only" 10 levels of catapult research you need to go through before you can build them in a level 15 laboratory. Bringing your laboratory to level 20 will only bring down catapult productiontime down to 12 hours. I'm at level 19 and it takes me 13 hours to produce one and at level 15 lab it should take about 16 hours if memory serves me right.

Considering all tghis and our plans for the future it is indeed wasteful to invest in more levels of laboratory and even mainhouse and barracks, unless you want to build a level 1 statue which will give you a boost in your maximum starehouse capacity (nothing else though) but is insanely costly.

However, building barracks to level 20 *is* useful in that it cuts down the time it takes to train troops and as it already takes a long time to do that, even a few minutes off per fighter makes a difference when you're aiming for hundreds of them over a week's time.

At level 20 I have the following production times:

ST: 18.36 min.
SF: 31.01 min.
A. : 43.25 min.

It's not staggeringly shorter, but every bit helps in upping daily troopproduction in my case.