Quote Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
Warehouses are essential if you're the type of player who only checks up on their game once a day and can at times have millions of unspent resources when you return to your game 12-24 hours later. If I scout someone and see that they would present a fairly hard fight but they have 2-3 high level warehouses, I'd leave them alone no matter what my privateering research is doing.

Depends what you are after, if I just want their city, or want them out of my area I don't care what they build or how much resources they hide. If I capture the city its mine regardless.

Warehouses, even with the little they hold can be helpful but it only in one particular event. Most of the time they are doing nothing, whereas cottages or barracks are always useful.