Celestial Empire - это an atmospheric city-builder set in Ancient China where handcrafted maps, changing seasons and a dash of fantasy let you grow a humble settlement into a city worthy of the Emperor's visit. As the newly appointed Governor you must balance citizens' needs, answer imperial demands, and design efficient production chains and infrastructure that withstands harsh winters and catastrophic weather-because unhappy townsfolk (and angry couriers) are bad for your reputation.
Send caravans along imperial trade routes to cooperate with neighboring settlements, seek out perfect plots for food and resource extraction, and manage complex supply lines so your city runs like well-oiled bamboo. Build shrines and curry favor with the gods for blessings and miracles-just don't forget demons exist to make your life interesting.
Key features:
- Handcrafted maps and dynamic seasons that shape planning and aesthetics
- Deep city-planning: production chains, resource extraction and resilient infrastructure
- Emperor-driven objectives and citizen happiness management
- Trade routes and caravans to exchange goods with nearby cities
- Religion and supernatural elements: gods' blessings vs. demonic threats
Keep the Emperor smiling, your granaries full, and maybe bribe a deity with incense-tea works too.
Academies are coming to the game! Discover the new system
New mechanic: Academies This mechanic introduces a new resource: Manuscripts. You will be able to obtain them thanks to a new building: the Academy. The building has three levels:AcademyRegional AcademyImperial AcademyScholars are employed to produce Manuscripts. On the first level: 500, on the second: 750, on the third: 1000 plus 200 Elites. With each level, the Manuscript creation speed increases. At base, on the highest level the Academy can produce 4 Manuscripts per minute. Production speed increases if the Academy is within range of:Library (max +3 Manuscripts per minute)Observatory (max +4) This is a new building that increases Science Points production in Inventor’s Workshops within its range.Debate Room (max +6) This is a new building that increases Science Points production in Inventor’s Workshops within its range.Calligraphy School (max +12) This is a new building that increases Science Points production in Inventor’s Workshops within its range.Two resources can be used to increase Manuscript production:Book (max +6) Red Ink (max +15) Red Ink is a new production chain: It consists of 4 new buildings:Castor Farm producing Castor Castor Oil Press, which presses Castor Oil from Castor seeds Sap Maker producing Sap; the building requires direct adjacency to a Forester to operate Red Ink Workshop producing Red Ink Manuscripts will be needed for:Unlocking advanced technologies (alongside Science Points)Purchasing the highest level of improvements, which is new in this update Purchasing new special improvements in the Shrine and Temple, which incre...
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