Buildings (Empire Earth)

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A Building is a fixed part of the game, created by the player or any computer controlled player. They are built by commands given to Citizens or other units capable of construction.

List of Buildings

In Empire Earth there are four types of buildings,

Defensive Buildings

• Tower
• Wall
• Gate
• 88mm AA Gun
• Barbed Wire
• Pillbox

Military Buildings

• Barracks
• Archery Range
• Stable
• Fortress
• Dock
• Siege Factory
• Naval Yard
• Tank Factory
• Airport
• Cyber Factory
• Cyber Laboratory

Civilization Buildings

• Granary
• Hospital
• Temple
• University
• Settlement
• Town Center
• Capitol
• House

Constructing and Usage

To construct a building, the player must first select a Citizen. Buildings available according to the current epoch will be displayed as buttons near the bottom of the screen. Buildings that are available but cannot be built due the lack of the player's current resources will appear to be shaded out. Clicking on an building button will cause a "ghost" of the selected building to appear on the players mouse pointer. If the "ghost" is green, that means that the building can be built at that spot. If red, it cannot. This could be due the uneven terrain in that spot or the presence of other buildings or non moving entities such as trees. Units cannot affect this, and if the foundation is laid on top of friendly units, the units will autocratically move to the side.

Left-clicking on a location on the map will cause the building's foundation to be placed, deducting the required resources from the player's inventory, and the selected Citizen will walk toward it and build it, regardless if it was doing something else at that time. Building foundations laid by other players cannot be seen until a Citizen begins its construction.

If a foundation is destroyed or deleted before construction begins, the resources used will be absorbed back into the player's inventory. If it is already in the process of being built, only a partial amount will be restored. Repairing buildings also cost a small amount of resources.

Constructing buildings can be queued in the same manner as training Units, by pressing the Ctrl button and clicking on the desired building.