Residential Area

Residential Area Output and build times

The residential area is where gold resources are generated. You require gold to create and upgrade buildings as well as to make purchase from the Trading Center. You can have a max of 12 residential areas fully upgradable to level 24 according to the game data files. A minimum level of Civic Center is required to upgrade the Residential Area.

Once you have a full set of level 12 residential areas it begins to become cost effective to build Landscaping Structures. A level 16 residential area will cost 1.33 million resources and will give  780 per hour. A 1% landscaping structure will cost 0.88 million resources and gives  550 per hour. If you have significant resource collection bonuses through Corp membership then it is far better to upgrade your residential areas as the  780 is multiplied by your corp bonus while the  550 is not. This is also true to a lesser extent with bonus gold from research but it won't be significant enough unless you are close to maxing out the 10% bonus.

Residential Area Data by Level

Lv.	Residential Area Output	Upgrade Time in HH:MM:SS	Upgrade Cost	Required Civ. Lv.
1	1,300	00:00:40	78  72  65	1
2	1,339	00:01:09	134  124  112	1
3	1,393	00:01:59	232  214  193	2
4	1,462	00:03:27	404  373  337	2
5	1,550	00:06:02	707  652  589	3
6	1,658	00:10:38	1,244  1,148  1,037	3
7	1,791	00:18:49	2,202  2,032  1,835	4
8	1,952	00:33:30	3,919  3,617  3,266	4
9	2,148	00:59:57	7,015  6,475  5,846	5
10	2,384	01:47:55	12,627  11,655  10,522	5
11	2,670	03:15:20	22,854  21,096  19,045	6
12	3,017	05:55:31	41,595  38,395  34,662	6
13	3,439	10:50:35	76,118  70,263  63,432	7
14	3,955	19:57:04	140,058  129,284  116,715	7
15	4,588	36:54:35	259,107  239,175  215,922	8
16	5,368	68:39:08	481,938  444,866  401,615	8
17	6,334	128:22:47	901,225  831,900  751,021	9
18	7,538	241:21:13	1,694,302  1,563,971  1,411,919	9
19	9,045	456:09:30	3,202,232  2,955,906  2,668,526	10
20	10,945	866:42:03	6,084,240  5,616,221  5,070,200	10
21	13,352	1655:23:55	11,620,898  10,726,983  9,684,082	11
22	16,423	3178:21:55	22,312,125  20,595,807  18,593,437	11
23	20,365	6134:14:42	43,062,401  39,749,908  35,885,334	12
24	25,456	11900:26:08	83,541,057  77,114,822  69,617,548	12

• Note: Build times and construction costs may vary depending on your construction boost and Quality Materials research.

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