Building upgrades with tokens, list showing the most population gain per token

I wanted to know which building offered the most population gain per token spent so I made this list
Its based on the maximum upgrades and shows how much population gain you get per token spent.

Although the Dark Castle seems to be the highest pop gain per token, it is very expensive.
White Castle, Pirate Residence and Tipi are in second place and seem to be a good option to upgrade

(This list is based on the total gain you get not the starting pop you get at level 1)


https://i.imgur.com/aBlJNtq.jpg

[EDIT] added requested buildings, also column with size footprint, but Im unsure how to calculate token vs size

Thank you for putting in the effort of making this easily understandable guide for everyone to see.
I will be making this a sticky for the foreseeble future so as not to be lost further down the page.
- MOD_Daz

A couple of points:

Your column heading is incorrect - it shows the population at each level, not the population increase at each level.

the numbers for the Dark Castle should be 100 | 210 | 320 | 430 | 540 | 650

Having said that, it's a useful reference for people that haven't crunched the numbers themselves. :)

Personally, I think I might be upgrading my bone churches first

Despite everything, I went for a dark castle: it's there, awkward in footprint so at least now it will have a justification of staying put thanks to the increase of pop.

Ah thanks for the heads up, I updated the image
although that 640 typo was made by BB and I copied it 0_0

https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/...aining-Grounds

Nice table lord. Thanks for taking the time to do and share this, was hoping for something like this. Dark castle isn’t expensive as you say but already it seems to have gone up five fold in price since new feature was added!

I haven't had a Dark Castle on my island for ages 'cos I cleared them out to make Mag Res spaces.... I just completed my 300th BK since the last one dropped.

Nice table, but I got a note, I think you should make pop/token for each level not for the total as for example it is maybe better to upgrade 1 level or 2 then stop.

Nice. I have 4 Dark Castles trading during various events (left over Event Resources, much better use than simple coins). Yes, they are big and obscure the map, but I dropped them in a corner, so it ain't that bad. The first week of "Weekly Challenge" got me enough tokens to upgrade all 4 of them - +440 Pop was worth the resource drain of the "challenges" even without the nice XP bonus too.

Nice table, thanks. Altough it of course misses the space aspect. I prefer to invest tokens in high end buildings which take less space per pop, which will give me more pop in the long term. Tokens are hard to come by :)

let's say you have 57 T . which building will give you the most pop for your buck? ;)

Great Table found it very useful.

Perhaps you could add the improved floating residence as well? :-)

great.
but wiki`s is better

Thank you for sharing the list.

Arabian Tower seems missing :)

Imp floaters, river house, water mansion?

Not a bad list. But tokens are one point of view. Another one is area used by building. I did similar table for both tokens and area for 22 buildings. While dark castle is number 1 in token view, it is 17th in used area view. Probably the best building nowadays is water mansion. Number 5 for tokens, number 1 for area.

thank you.. i really needed this :)

Magnificent Recident 720 settlers on lvl 3.

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and so on and so on

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Fraud again
write something under my name dates change
and so on and so on

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it is all a bit vague really


You didnt post today or you didnt join in october?

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connection errors are back on sandycove, game takes forever to load, and when i finally get in i can't stay connected for more than 30 seconds until i get told to refresh.
Can this be solved more permanently please?
just like this




are you writing something in my name
i did not say this
change everything .............. So now i want to know who said this
definitely bb

pont s comas i don t do

I also have no complaints about loading times
That just happens to me in a game every now and then

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Quote Originally Posted by rxaxm777 View Post
connection errors are back on sandycove, game takes forever to load, and when i finally get in i can't stay connected for more than 30 seconds until i get told to refresh.
Can this be solved more permanently please?
just like this




are you writing something in my name
i did not say this
change everything .............. So now i want to know who said this
definitely bb

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Trust me, BB has much better things to do than post fake messages on forums in someone elses name, especially if the message is a negative for BB

If you didn;t write em, best assume your login is compromised and change that

Now, if youw ere saying how wonderfull the servers and events have been running and complimented BB, it would be a whole lot more believable that they faked messages under your name- but even then it is a far stretch of imagination and reality though. Why post fake messages under a real player name who is a recent joiner and hence relatively unknown except for forum spam, when they can make plenty of fake accounts and post on those if they wanted to ....

server down i have

no i don t trust you

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no i don t trust you

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Then don't- but i doubt many will believe your claim taht BB is posting fake messages in your name