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Alliance tech · Territory

Caravans

+2.5%/lvl gathering yield.

Entity ID
caravans
Tree
Territory
Stat buffed
gather_yield — Gather yield
Bonus per level
+2.5%
Maximum level
10
Bonus at maximum level
+25%
First level costs
1,000 donated resources
Last level costs
10,000 donated resources
Total to max it
55,000 donated resources

Donation cost at every level

Alliance tech is funded by members donating earned resources — never money — and the bonus is a pure function of the funded level. Caravans adds +2.5% to gather_yield per level, to +25% at level 10. It applies to every member of the alliance at once, which is what makes a donation to it worth more than the same resources spent at home.

Caravans: what each level costs to fund and what the whole alliance gets for it.
LevelTotal gather yieldCost of this levelCumulative cost
1+2.5%1,0001,000
2+5%2,0003,000
3+7.5%3,0006,000
4+10%4,00010,000
5+12.5%5,00015,000
6+15%6,00021,000
7+17.5%7,00028,000
8+20%8,00036,000
9+22.5%9,00045,000
10+25%10,00055,000

Everything else that moves gather yield

Alliance tech is additive with the rest of the game's bonuses, so this tech's +25% at cap is a floor rather than a ceiling. These are the other sources of gather_yield recorded in this database:

The tree it belongs to

Caravans sits in the territory tree — what the alliance takes and carries. Its neighbours there are Outriders.

Guides: Alliances & Seats · Creating an Alliance · Alliance Leadership. Index: all 6 alliance techs · the whole database.

Every figure above is generated from the shipped game code — the same constants and formulas the running game uses — and regenerated whenever the balance changes. Nothing on this page is hand-typed.

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