Observatory

Observatory
Building Requirements	Adjacent Mountain
Production Cost	200
Unlocked at	Astronomy

The Observatory is a building available in the Renaissance Era.

Game Info

Building an Observatory requires a Mountain adjacent to its city.

• +50% Science

With Social Policies / Tenets:

• Sovereignty (Rationalism): +1 Gold
• Academy of Sciences (Order): +1 Happiness

Overview

An observatory is a building dedicated to the study of the sky. Early Man was convinced that the movement of the stars had mystical importance, and many of the first observatories were religious structures. As time passed men realized that they could chart the passage of the seasons with extreme accuracy by the rise and fall of the stars, eventually concluding that such information was critically useful when choosing the correct day to plant or harvest crops. Such revelations reinforced the observatories' religious and practical importance to the community. Modern observatories are computer-driven and equipped with advanced telescopes (or communicate with even more powerful space-based telescopes), providing the scientists with far more information than their primitive ancestors could ever have dreamed of. But the job remains the same: figuring out the how the universe works by studying the sky.

Unique Building Replacements

Icon	Building	Civilization	Bonuses
	Cheomseongdae	Silla (Seondeok)	Has no terrain requirements. Provides only +25% Science, but also yields +2 Faith. Converts 25% of this city's Faith output into Great Scientist points.
	Dzib Actun	The Mayans (Lady Xoc)	Requires an adjacent jungle tile instead of a mountain. Provides +25% Science instead of +50%, but this increases to +35% Science during a We Love the King Day. Jungle tiles provide +1 Science.
	Translator's Mission	Lesotho (Moshoeshoe I) (TranquilSilence)	When expended for a Great Work of Literature in the Capital during wartime; the units of defensive partners and City-State allies will be partially healed.
	Vedh Shala	Gupta (Kumaragupta)	Unlocked at Mathematics. Must be built in a city on a Hill. Provides +25% Science and an additional +5% Science for each trade route from this city with a city following a different Religion. Contains a slot for a Great Work of Writing.