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Building details | |
Cost | 540 · 2 · 2 · 2 |
Maintenance | 10 |
Prerequisites | 690 Patricians |
Size | 4 x 2 |
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- Must be built in the Harbour area.
Provides Mooring for Ships to exchange Goods.
The Pier is an Occidental Harbour building which creates additional places for ships to dock and trade goods at, reducing the wait time before Goods can be transferred. This only works for automatic transfers, however. You cannot manually exchange Goods with the Pier.
Having multiple piers at your busiest islands is essential. It's not uncommon to have 6 piers at your main warehouse harbor in the mid to late game.
Tip: Every so often check to see if you trade route ships are bottle-necked at any islands. If you see your ships sitting with an hourglass icon above them, this means they are waiting until a free space is available to unload/load goods. Build more piers to eliminate this problem.