Major City

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In the Extended Edition, this unit/building is affected by a damage bug. Missing +100% damage vs Naval Units.

Major City
Civic Building
Base cost	50 Food 50 Timber
Ramping cost	50 Food 50 Timber
Build time	40 seconds (600 frames)
Hit points	5000
Armor	7
Attack strength	11
Attack range	0-10 tiles
Attack speed	30 frames
Maximum garrison	20 units
Maximum garrison power	4
Line of sight	16 tiles
Economic radius	28 tiles
Gather rate (per 30 sec)	10 Food 10 Timber
Prerequisites	Industrial Age
Upgrades from	Large City
Hotkey	C

The Major City is the second and final upgrade to the City, occurring automatically in the Industrial Age once a given city has nine different types of buildings in its economical radius. In addition to appearance, several stats on the city change as well. These changes reflect the technological advances acquired from the progression in age. Buildings in its economical radius also get an increase in Hit Points by 70%, which applies to all Civic buildings, Wonders (excluding the Red Fort) and Military buildings (except for Towers, Forts and the line of Detector structures).

The following stats are increased from the Large City:

• Attack increases to 11
• Hit points increases to 5000
• Armor increases to 7
• Maximum number of shots increases to 4
• Maximum garrison increases to 20
• Line of sight increases to 16
• Economic radius increases to 28

Graphics quirks

• In the Extended Edition, the non-snow versions of each of the Major City sprites has had the windows on the bottom-left section (underneath the bridge) dulled. The snow versions keep the original highly-lit windows.
• In the Extended Edition, the non-snow versions of each of the Major City sprites has a black pixel added to the trash can (far left) which is not present in the EE snow versions, or in any of the non-EE versions.
• In the Extended Edition, the non-snow versions of each of the Major City sprites have had the nation/team color panels modified to have no transparency, which breaks all such panels. The snow versions of these panels still work.
• All versions of the game feature one missing pixel on the snow and non-snow variants of metro_6.tga (middle-right of the main column) and four missing pixels on the snow and non-snow variants of metroplis_6m.tga (the bottom-left awning).