Template:Constructible service buildings

Alpha-2 service building construction animation.^[1]

Once materials are contributed to it and it's ready to finish, there's gonna be any variable from like 15 to 20 minutes to even a couple of days for it to finish constructing, depending on the power that the building offers to the players.^[2] – Chris Justo

Alpha-2 Smithy constructed building in the Winstead Village (stage 3) node.^[2]

Constructible service buildings are service buildings that are available to every type of node in every location, and can be placed in any available building plot in a node.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Mayors decide which buildings are placed in which plot (via a node map UI, or physically walking the node).^[6] They may select any empty plot in the node but their choices may limit them from placing other buildings in the future.^[3]^[7]^[8]^[9]

The plots in a node are predefined but the plots are universal. So you can put any constructed service building in any plot.^[5] – Chris Justo

Service buildings become objectives during events, node sieges and node wars. It is therefore important for mayors to select defensible locations for the most important service buildings.^[10]

When it comes to either events, or sieges against the node, and even wars, those building locations also serve as objective locations as well; and there is a varying degree of footprint and level design that's associated with access to those plot locations. So if your smithy that has your workstation to build the T5 stuff is next to the door, there's a difference there in strategy.^[5] – Steven Sharif

When the constructible service building types are determined by the mayor, they can initiate buy orders to bring resources into the node in order to construct the buildings.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[9] In addition to buy orders, citizens will be required to come to the node to directly contribute resources to a construction foreman NPC to aid in building construction.^[14]

This is our way of ensuring that citizens want the thing that the mayor is asking them to do, or is spending resources on. So if you're a mayor and you're just like 'I'm going to build a bunch of this building that no one wants' then players aren't going to contribute to it and they're not going to get built.^[14] – Chris Justo

Once all resources have been contributed to a building, it will take between 15 minutes to a couple of days for construction to complete depending on the type and tier of building.^[15]^[2] Construction times may be reduced through node policies.^[15]

Different mayors may destroy and construct different service buildings within their node. Destroying buildings has a node mandate cost and will require player buy-in via a vote.^[11]^[16]^[9]