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You shouldn't really start your 2nd city until the first is producing enough resources for itself with extra to share with the new city. This new one won't take as long because it won't be bottle necked for resources as much. You might have some construction research for it so the process goes faster. And you'll be more familiar with what to build.
Just don't start a new city unless you have an hour or two to get it running.
Oh I fully understand the process of it all. All I am saying is that if I build an academy in a new city it should have the same abilities as the one I have in my original city. It should take longer to build and be more expensive most certainly but once it is built it should have the same ability as the others I have. That's all I am saying... Heck even charge for the full price... if I have a level 5 academy in my main city and I build an academy in the new city make it cost the full amount that it would to do it from 1 2 3 4 and 5 but let it get built as a level five... so it may cost me a couple hundred thousand in materials and might take four hours to build but at least it would be as capable as the others I have.
Again this would only have to be done for those buildings that are control menus for sub actions such as Barracks, Markets, etc it is merely a suggestion and an expression of my own frustration with having to go through each level even though all the things in them show what I am capable of etc...
Sorry to have caused such a stir and what not and sorry I did not make myself understood. I am not saying the game is defective nor am I saying it is err'ed, just was pointing out a frustration simple really. I'll just bugger off and go back to enjoying my one city. Take care all and happy gaming.
Leveling it 5 times is essentially going to get you the same end result as if it were to begin at level 5(for example) but at a higher cost/longer build time.
The academy is probably one of the better buildings to burn speed-up scrolls on when you're throwin down a new town.
Other buildings like barracks, use them to produce warriors, scouts, pikes as they are leveling up. ;) If you had to wait say 10 hours for a lvl9 barracks to be build from an empty lot that's 10 hours of troop production you could have used. Hypothetically speaking, using your idea.
In that respect I agree that it gets tedious buildin' low lvl things...I hate buildin' resource fields cuz I cannae take my attention of it, considerin' they all finish withi 90 seconds...and sittin' there clickin' Upgrade every minute and a half on all my resource fields is such a drag.
For Academy I get why they make you lvl it up in pieces. I mean, typically I lvl mine up to lv5 straight away for construction, but at an earlier stage I left it at lv2 for the production researches and then focussed on other things for a while before expendin' any more of my limited resources on the academy; namely I lv9s my resource fields and upgraded cottages/walls.
if u lvl up ur accademy to the one in ur main city it will have the same abilities as ur first