Watch Tower

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Prerequisites Building Level Main House 1 Gold Mine Stone Quarry Lumber Mill Storehouse Stone Wall Watch Tower Laboratory Harbour Barracks Technology Level Spear Shield Bow Catapult Sail

	Watch-Tower

The watch-tower looms far above your island and warns you of foreign ships approaching your island. The more it is expanded, the better the visibility will be.

Visibility and Canceling Fleets

The watch-tower reveals any transport or attack fleets traveling to your island within its visibility range. This range is determined by the formula Visibility = 1.2^level. You can cancel your outgoing transports and attacks until they reach one-tenth of your watch-tower's visibility.

Protection Against Espionage

The watch-tower provides some defence against Espionage, and will alert you of approaching ships. If the enemy's espionage fails you will be notified of the attempt and the origin of the spy.

Evidence from German and .co.uk players suggests that the watch-tower gives a 1% chance of detecting an espionage attempt per nautical mile of visibility range. A level 20 watch-tower will give you a 38% chance of detecting an espionage attempt, while no tower provides a 1% chance.

Charts

Visibility Level  Range 0 1.0 1 1.2 2 1.4 3 1.7 4 2.1 5 2.5 6 3.0 7 3.6 8 4.3 9 5.2 10 6.2 11 7.4 12 8.9 13 10.7 14 12.8 15 15.4 16 18.5 17 22.2 18 26.6 19 31.9 20 38.3

Cost Per Level     Gold    Stone Lumber - - - 30 90 50 36 108 60 43 129 72 51 155 86 62 186 103 74 223 124 89 268 149 107 322 179 128 386 214 154 464 257 185 557 309 222 668 371 267 802 445 320 962 534 385 1155 641 462 1386 770 554 1663 924 665 1996 1109 798 2396 1331 958 2875 1597

Build time Level Build Time - - 1 0:09:22 2 0:11:14 3 0:13:29 4 0:16:11 5 0:19:25 6 0:23:18 7 0:27:58 8 0:33:33 9 0:40:16 10 0:48:19 11 0:57:59 12 1:09:35 13 1:23:30 14 1:40:13 15 2:00:15 16 2:24:18 17 2:53:10 18 3:27:48 19 4:09:22 20 4:59:14

• Build times assume a Level 10 Main House