Lord of Ultima: Warehouse City Layout

Here is my Warehouse Layout which you can see in the LoU Flash City Planner.

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Storage: 14,575,000 wood/stone/iron/food

Shipping Capacity: 7,400 carts and 240 merchant ships

With the Ascension patch, processing of resources, that is, purification, should be done in your resource/military farm cities. There is simply too much volume to ship it to a warehouse city to process, especially with the increased military city farm rates (due to unit travel speed and unit combat strength research). You also do not need to balance out your resources like you did for moonstone creation. It is better to put in one moonglow tower in your resource/military farm city then have multiple marketplaces.

Therefore, central processing, that is, the moonstone creation function of a warehouse city is gone. However, warehouse cities are still very important. Here are the remaining functions of a warehouse city:

• To store resources for when they are needed, for example, new city builds or war supply. 
• To ship resources to support new continent builds/invasions.
• To consolidate food for feeding your armies.
•  Here is what I do during city maintenance. I go to a warehouse city serving a cluster of military cities, and request excess food from positive food military cities and food resource cities. Then, as I go through checking each military city, I request food as applicable from the warehouse city. I find this technique a lot quicker then shipping directly between cities, as you need to match/look a lot more then.

My design logic is:

• The storage available is a good amount but not overly high. You should not be storing an excessive amount of resources, as if you do, you are not being efficient. In general, most resources should be used as soon as they are produced.
• If you do get excessive resources somehow, the moonglow tower allows for purification of them.
• The City guard house is there to recruit city guard for defense.
• There is a food cluster to feed your city guard. There are times whereby you might ship all the food out unintentionally, so this prevents starvation.
• There is no trinsic temple as I normally recruit barons in paladin military cities. It is a lot faster there anyhow. If I do have to send barons to another continent, I have a few paladin military cities on water with harbours to allow that. However, if you do not have that situation, and do want a trinsic temple in your warehouse city, you can always drop a marketplace for a trinsic temple.
• You might notice there is a much higher shipping capacity here then in other warehouse cities you might have seen. You will find it is very useful to have such a high shipping capacity as you can pretty much do all your shipping in one go, as opposed over several hours, waiting for carts to come back.

For towers, I recommend:

• Lookout tower x2 to give 21 hours of attack advanced warning. I find 1 tower/11 hours is not enough.
• The remaining 22 towers depend on whatever defensive troops you have. For me personally, I use Ballista towers as my alliance has full continent control, so no one is there to plunder me from within the continent. Thus, Ballista towers are there in case someone decides to plunder from offshore, which is very rare anyhow.

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  Set in the legendary Ultima universe, the game takes you to the new world of Caledonia, formed from the remains of Sosaria which was shattered into countless islands. You start your journey with a humble village which you grow over time into a mighty and prosperous capital. On your path to glory you will have to expand your power by creating additional cities, exploring new continents and forging a vast empire. You must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering, attacking and sieging enemy cities to finally become the mighty and feared Lord of Ultima."