Upgrade Residence or Noble Residence - same benefit, different cost?

[Jovian69]

Hi,
To upgrade a Noble Residence costs 240 HW + 100 marble for a benefit of +10 pop.

To upgrade normal residence costs 120 HW + 100 marble also for the same benefit.

Is this correct?

[Sinister-King]

Hi Jovian69,

Noble residence gives a larger population increase than residence when upgraded.

Check out my spreadsheet - Building Input / Output .

[Jovian69]

Hi Sinister-King,

Thanks for your reply - that's a very useful spreadsheet, I hadn't seen it before.

In the game, when you put your curos on the level 1 upgrade for the Noble Residence it shows increase of 10 pop - must be a fault in the rollover text.

I'll try and upgrade my NR now:

EDIT:

Upgraded my NR level 1 to level 2 and pop increased by 10, not 30.

So I spent twice the resources I needed to - I can upgrade a normal residence for half that amount and get +10 pop.

Sorry to say, but your spreadsheet's wrong.

[King-Fero]

You didn't consider maybe replacing the residence with noble residence? A noble residence doesn't need to be upgraded at all and it will give the same pop increase as a residence with two upgrades. When comparing the costs of these options, I believe it's clear which option is cheaper. In practice every player above lv25 that I've ever encountered has done so, so either you (one person) are mistaken or then in the entire TSO player base there are no smart players. I wonder...

[Sinister-King]

Hi Sinister-King,

Thanks for your reply - that's a very useful spreadsheet, I hadn't seen it before.

In the game, when you put your curos on the level 1 upgrade for the Noble Residence it shows increase of 10 pop - must be a fault in the rollover text.

I'll try and upgrade my NR now:

EDIT:

Upgraded my NR level 1 to level 2 and pop increased by 10, not 30.

So I spent twice the resources I needed to - I can upgrade a normal residence for half that amount and get +10 pop.

Sorry to say, but your spreadsheet's wrong.

I just double checked, and the spreadsheet is accurate. I think you are reading it wrong.

The sheet shows the population of level 1,2,3,4,5 not how much it increases by each upgrade.

Noble Residence:

LEVEL 1 30 Population
LEVEL 2 40 Population
LEVEL 3 50 Population
LEVEL 4 60 Population
LEVEL 5 70 Population

Residence

LEVEL 1 10 Population
LEVEL 2 20 Population
LEVEL 3 30 Population
LEVEL 4 40 Population
LEVEL 5 50 Population

Its accurate .

[EDIT]

A normal level 1 residence starts at 10 population and goes up by +10 each time.
A noble level 1 residence starts at 30 population and goes up by +10 each time.

Noble residences are better because its always +20 higher than a normal.

[Jovian69]

@Sinister-King - Thanks for explaining, yes I misunderstood your spreadsheet, which is correct of course.

@King-Fero - No, clearly I didn't consider that, otherwise I wouldn't have raised the question. I must therefore be the stupidest person to ever have played this game. I can only dream of attaining your immensely superior level of understanding.

[Ferro219]

Simply put... noble residences give 20 pop more at the same level for the same building licence. Unless you got it from the gem store, then it won't even need a licence.

Considering you will run out of licences rather fast, but will eventually have a good supply of HWP/marble, you will be switching to nobles only.

[Sauronamon]

It's about saving licences which will always make nobles better no matter the cost