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So....how come stuff keeps disappearing out of my build window?
When you say it disappears from the build window, is it your build que or the actual possible buildings to build.
Clerics in particular require essence in the city in order to be built, and if you don't have essence they do not build.
Does the description mention they require essence? Or do they show up as greyed out with that reason in the build list?
Nowhere in the description does it mention that it requires essence, hence my confusion when they are randomly unavailable. That makes a lot of sense now, thanks, parrotmath!
In FE, where Clerics provided a bonus dependent on the amount of essence the city had, it made sense for them not to be available to cities without essence. In LH, where Clerics provide a flat bonus, it just feels like an arbitrary distinction which punishes not taking spots with essence.
I believe that Guardian Statues, Guardian Idols, and a few of the upgrades to Conclave buildings also require essence for construction since they required it in FE, but I'm not certain.
Does it grey it out with a description that says you can't build it with no essence, or does it just not show up at all?
IIRC, Derek Paxton confirmed some weeks ago that this is working as designed (clerics and their upgrade - shrine/temple of essence still requiring essence). i guess that's another point where the game could be easily(?) improved with better descriptions/tooltips. if i had to name one thing for the next patch that absolutely should be done, it would be better descriptions for buildings/traits/(some) other game concepts (such as swarming for example)
It doesn't show up in the build menu.
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