Emporiai - worth building?

[Durnaug]

Sorry if I am being an "Alexandree DUMBASS" asking this question but it is the negative population impact that puts me off building Emporiai (as KH). So I suppose my real question is does the reduction in population neutralize any financial benefits from the increase in trade via the subsequent reductions in taxation?

NB

Emporiai structure:

Public order bonus (law) 5%
Population penalty -.5%
Increase in trade

[Casual Tactician]

If the settlement is struggling with it's growth and/or you want it to grow faster and/or are using that settlement to recruit many units, don't build it (for now).

It's better to build other buildings that help your trade/income and don't negatively affect growth first. Also keep in mind that settlements with a larger populace give more income compared to smaller settlements with the exact same buildings.

In most case it's probably better to build the Emporiai later, once the settlement has grown a good deal and has a sufficient growth due to health buildings.
But if you don't use that settlement for troop recruitment and/or it has a good pop-growth (and/or a young governour that will give extra pop-growth for many years due to farm-skills or the like) then it's a good option.

Also the law-bonus of the Emporiai helps against corruption, which can eat up a settlements income to a large degree. Corruption is a big issue for settlements far from your capital. So for far away settlements that have a good pop-growth and in which you don't want to recruit many troops it's a good choice.

Hmm... imo there's no "that's what you should definitively do"-tip - it's all relative, and you have to make your own choices.

Note: only Large City settlements with Gov2-buildings can build the Apoikia (the second tier of the Emporiai).


EDIT: In case you haven downloaded them yet, here you can get the EB building trees for all factions: http://www.europabarbarorum.com/downloads_guides.html

[Durnaug]

If the settlement is struggling with it's growth and/or you want it to grow faster and/or are using that settlement to recruit many units, don't build it (for now).

It's better to build other buildings that help your trade/income and don't negatively affect growth first. Also keep in mind that settlements with a larger populace give more income compared to smaller settlements with the exact same buildings.

In most case it's probably better to build the Emporiai later, once the settlement has grown a good deal and has a sufficient growth due to health buildings.
But if you don't use that settlement for troop recruitment and/or it has a good pop-growth (and/or a young governour that will give extra pop-growth for many years due to farm-skills or the like) then it's a good option.

Also the law-bonus of the Emporiai helps against corruption, which can eat up a settlements income to a large degree. Corruption is a big issue for settlements far from your capital. So for far away settlements that have a good pop-growth and in which you don't want to recruit many troops it's a good choice.

Hmm... imo there's no "that's what you should definitively do"-tip - it's all relative, and you have to make your own choices.

Note: only Large City settlements with Gov2-buildings can build the Apoikia (the second tier of the Emporiai).


EDIT: In case you haven downloaded them yet, here you can get the EB building trees for all factions: http://www.europabarbarorum.com/downloads_guides.html

Fantastic. Thanks for the comprehensive answer.

[athanaric]

Emporiai are important because the KH is short on law bonus buildings. in the later stages of your campaign or even in mid-campaign, they can seriously increase your revenue, mainly because of the law bonus.