International Wars Contest - epic final or epic fail?

On 23 december, after the first war contest, countries presidents has received a prize depending of the number of countries that their country has conquered.

Number 1 : 500 gold plus and 50 gold / country 
Number 2 : 300 gold plus and 40 gold / country 

Number 3 : 100 gold plus and 30 gold / country

The winners were:

- Hungary, 12 occupied countries, +1100 gold for shaoko
- Greece, 10 occupied countries, +700 gold for SirDiman 

devteam said: "Congrats to all fighters. The war module is 5 days old, and we had a lot of bugs to solve. We are sorry for that, but this is the only way to a solid software. Testing." 

This is a small review of the first Europen War : 

- Russia conquered over 10 countries in the first 4 days. but...

- 12 hours before contest end, Russia was conquered by Portugal and we were sure that we have a winner.

- 4 hours before the end, Portugal was conquered by Italy and lost all occupied countries in Italy's favor. We again had a winner with 15 occupied countries.

- 2 hours before end, in a smart move, Greece occupied Spain, which was a key country. Without Spain, Italy lost the link to ALL conquered countries. Not one, not 5 but all of them, because they were ALL linked with Spain, by sea. Spain was the only link between Italy and Atlantic Ocean. All 15 countries became FREE countries. 

2 hours before the end, Italy lost everything, while Hungary and Greece presidents received a much bigger prize.

EPIC FINAL.
After the success of the Europen contest for countries presidents, they have decided to make it a permanent weekly worldwide contest. The contest will begin every monday. It will end every saturday, at 24:00 (Bucharest hour, GMT +2). The strategic rules are unchanged from the European contest. The contest is won by the top 5 countries by the number of conquered countries. The prizes are :

1 st place - 1000 gold and 25 gold / occupied country. 
2 st place - 750 gold and 20 gold / occupied country. 
3 st place - 500 gold and 15 gold / occupied country. 
4 st place - 250 gold and 10 gold / occupied country. 
5 st place - 100 gold and 5 gold / occupied country. 

The prizes are received by country presidents and it can further split the prizes. The first contest began on 7 january, 2013.
You can attack any country in the world.

Workers and Specialists

In cashtowns, your citizens are able to perform a variety of labors.

Among the many tasks, they can be trained to become workers or specialists.

In order to create a new worker, click on your town-hall. At lvl1, 1 new worker cost you 10 meat, and it takes 6hr to complete.
(make sure you have some housing space for your new worker)

The City hall is the heart of your city. If you upgrade your town center you will be able to train more workers at the same time:

level 1: 1 worker - 24 hours (24 hours / worker) level 2: 2 workers - 24 hours (12 hours / worker) level 3: 3 workers - 24 hours (8 hours / worker) level 4: 4 workers - 24 hours (6 hours / worker) level 5: 5 workers - 24 hours (<5 hours / worker)

Specialist is a person who specializes in or devotes himself to a particular area of activity, field of research, etc. The following buildings need specialists to function properly: Police Station, Firehouse, Brothel, Bank, School, Restaurant, Casino, Churche, Hospital. In cashtowns you can bought specialists from market at the cost of 1 gold or you can train them in their specific building. For example, the police station requires policemen as specialists.

If you want to train a policeman just adding one of your free workers to policestation at the cost of 10 food and wait 24 hours.

Houses

Houses are the only buildings that can be upgraded to level 10. Without free houses, you cant recruit new citizens. Every citizen needs a house to live in. The houses accomodate up to 20 citizens at a time, depending on the level. If you want to find the house capacity multiply the level with 2. 

The houses are very important for an other indicator called happiness.

The happiness is calculated with formula:  H=(Houses sum of levels)*10/(House Number)

Let's say you have one Q3 houses, one Q4 houses and one Q10 house. The sum of houses levels is 3+4+10=17. The house number is 3. 

H=17*10/3=56

Why is happiness important ? Let's SUPPOSE, you have a 56 happiness

- When you attack and conquer a city, the city will pay you a tax equal to 56% of 25% from all production, which is around 14%

- If the owner of a city buys gold for real cash, you will receive 56% from 25% of the ammount bought.

- When you withdraw a governamental bonus you will receive a NET of 56% of that bonus.

- When you fight in a war and receive tax money from the defeated country, you will withdraw 56% of your share.
The rest goes to government.

Houses needs access to utilities from hospitals to banks or schools : 

Q1 House - Nothing
Q2 House - Access to a market and a Q2 road to the city hall
Q3 House - Access to a police station and a Q3 road to the city hall
Q4 House - Access to a firehouse and a Q4 road to the city hall
Q5 House - Access to a hospital and a Q5 road to the city hall
Q6 House - Access to a church and a Q5 road to the city hall
Q7 House - Access to a restaurant and a Q5 road to the city hall
Q8 House - Access to a casino and a Q5 road to the city hall
Q9 House - Access to a bank and a Q5 road to the city hall
Q10 House - Access to a brothel and a Q5 road to the city hall

This is a Q9 house, that can accomodate up to 18 citizens : 

from house small tutorial:

http://forum.cashtowns.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=783

The world map

The world map is activeted!!!

World map is one of the most important components. 
It allows you to get a big picture of the cashtowns eWorld. 

You can find anytime the product prices, towns number.... You can also see the distribution map of any of those parameters.

Lets say you want to know the iron price in Portugal. You can find it in 3 easy steps:

1. Go to the world map (third button on the main page) 

2. Choose Prices (third button at the bottom of the map bottom).

3. Select Iron Price. The distribution map apperas. Greener areas means bigger values.

4. Mouseover Portugal to check the iron price.

Simple as that. You can repeat the steps for game shares prices, game fund sold, average gold sold and other 30 indicators. World map is activated in Europe and the map is in preview mode.