Academy

Academy

Academy

General Information

Academy helps the development in terms of production, construction and military operation. The higher its level, the more technologies it can research. One academy can only conduct one research at a time. However, several academies in your cities can perform multiple researches at the same time. Technologies can be shared in all your cities so long as their academies reach the required level.

In an Academy, you primarily spend Gold to research particular technologies. If you have a second city, it will need an Academy of the same level to "share" the already completed technologies. Construction Research is the one exception. The time reduction from Construction will apply to all cities, regardless of their Academy status.

History

An academy was a school for advanced learning. Though China, Egypt, and India had such institutes earlier, the term "academy" was first applied to the Athenian school of philosophy, founded by Plato in approximately 390 BC. The academy was an important asset for a city as it attracted both brilliant scholars and the children of wealthy or noble parents, who sometimes decided to settle in the city. The academy provided a broad, general education, or it may have concentrated on mathematics, art, natural philosophy, or even the martial arts. Even today many institutions use the name "academy."

Upgrading

All upgrades to the Academy increases the Lord's prestige.

Level	Prerequisite	Food	Lumber	Stone	Iron	Costs Time	Unlocks Research
1	Town Hall Lv.2	120	2,500	1,500	200	8m 00s	Agriculture Lumbering Military Science
2		240	5,000	3,000	400	16m 00s	Masonry Mining Military Tradition
3		480	10,000	6,000	800	32m 00s	Metal Casting Informatics Iron Working
4		960	20,000	12,000	1,600	1h 4m 00s	Logistics Compass Archery
5		1,920	40,000	24,000	3,200	2h 8m 00s	Horseback Riding Construction
6		3,840	80,000	48,000	6,400	4h 16m 00s	Stockpile Medicine
7		7,650	160,000	96,000	12,800	8h 32m 00s
8		15,360	320,000	192,000	25,600	17h 4m 00s	Engineering
9		30,720	640,000	384,000	51,200	34h 08m 00s	Machinery
10	Town Hall Lv.2 Michelangelo's Script	61,440	1,280,000	768,000	102,400	68h 16m 002	Privateering

Quest awards

Scientific Research:Academy Upgrade
Target	Item	Food	Lumber	Stone	Iron
Level 1	Primary Guidelines (1)	150	2,500	1,500	200
Level 2		300	5,000	3,000	400
Level 3		1,000	10,000	5,000	1,000
Level 4		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 5		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 6		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 7		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 8		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 9		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000
Level 10		2,000	20,000	10,000	2,000

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