Buildings

Buildings in PoD represent your influence over the mortal populace of a specific county. You are playing a supernatural ruler and, as such, must take care that you can pull as much ressources from the sleeping masses as you can in order to win over your competition.

Most buildings follow this path of upgrade :

Example of levels for a Monastery :

Bribed Acolyte (Level 1) : Level 1 of a branch, always cost gold. You will first have to get by using cold, hard cash to get things started.
Influenced Brother (Level 2) : Level 2, costs prestige. Now, you are using your personal band of merry men to take the next step, hence prestige.
Ghouled Father Superior (Level 2.G) : A sidegrade, here for Vampires. A more hands on approach on things that requires a loyal group of followers to keep things in line. Hence cost piety (loyalty in the mod).
Controlled Monastery (Level 3) : Level 3, cost prestige. Pretty much the same as Level 2, but on a larger scale.
Conditioned Monks (Level 3.C) : Power based sidegrade, some powers give the opportunity to use your influence in unexpected ways. Dominate, for the example here, always give you the opportunity to get some cheap light infantry out of your influence network.

List of buildings chains :

For Castle holdings :

Lonely brooding castles are fashionable for the undead, and a good place to fortify and raise troops. They are clearly not meant to be sustainable without cities under your grasp though.

Haven : Gives +Fort Level.
Castle Guard : Gives +Garrison Size and Heavy Infantry.
Knights : Gives you Heavy Cavalry.
Militia : Gives +Garrison Size and Light Infantry.
Inn : Gives +Monthly Prestige.
Bandits : Gives you Light Cavalry.
Elysium : Gives you +Diplomacy and +monthly prestige. Only 1 level.
Smugglers : Requires Port : Gives +Tax Income and Galleys.
Clan Court and Nightmare Stables : Gives you Vampire Cavalry of your clan.
Farms : Requires Plains/Hills/Farmlands terrain : Gives +Tax Income.
Woodsmen : Requires Forest terrain : Gives Light Infantry.
Mines : Requires Mountain terrain : Gives +Levy Size.
Caravan : Requires Desert/Steppe terrain : Gives +Tax Income.
Flesh Labs : Requires Vicissitude 2+ : Gives Szlachta Troops.
Hellhound Kennels : Require Animalism 1+ ; Gives +Light Cavalry. Only 1 level.
Nosferatu Warrens : Require Nosferatu : Gives +Fort Level, +Intrigue and +Retinue Size. Only 1 level.
Kinfolks : Requires Werewolf trait : Gives you Kinfolk troops.

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For City holdings :

Cities are the true centers of power of the vampire world. They find blood and influence aplenty there. As such, Cities are very valuable to the wannabe Prince as most of their resources will come from there.

Clan Court : Gives you Vampire Infantry of your clan.
Haven : Gives +Fort Level.
Brothel : Gives +Tax Income.
Night Watch : Gives you Pikemen.
Tavern : Gives you Archers.
Politicians : Gives Economy Techpoints.
University : Gives Cultural Techpoints.
Hospital : Gives +monthly Prestige. Is an exception as it costs only gold to upgrade, not prestige, making this chain a sound investment if short on prestige.
Orphanage : Gives Light Infantry.
Prison : Gives Military Techpoints and Garrison Size.
Guild Ward : Gives +monthly Piety.
Street Gang : Gives +Garrison Size and Heavy Infantry.
Slums : Gives Levy Size and Garrison Size.
Elysium : Gives you +Diplomacy and +monthly prestige. Only 1 level.
Smugglers : Requires Port : Gives +Tax Income and Galleys.
Nosferatu Warrens : Require Nosferatu : Gives +Fort Level, +Intrigue and +Retinue Size. Only 1 level.
Hellhound Kennels : Require Animalism 1+ ; Gives +Light Cavalry. Only 1 level.
Abattoir : Requires Animalism 2+ : Gives Levy Size.
Asylum : Requires Malkavian : Gives Economy Techpoints.
Kinfolks : Requires Werewolf trait : Gives you Kinfolk troops.
The Rack : Requires Brothel+Tavern chains completed : Gives a large +Piety. Only 1 level.

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For Temple holdings :

Vampires aren't very fond of holy places. As such, most vampires don't have access to truly great buildings in temples, making them lackluster for their use. But, some clans have learned to master the hallowed grounds to their advantage.

Haven : Gives Fort Level.
Temple Guards : Gives Garrison Size + small number of Light Infantry.
Monastery : Gives +Tech global growth.
Nunnery : Gives +Monthly Piety.
Smugglers : Requires Port : Gives small +Tax Income and Galleys.
Clan Court : Gives you a small number of Vampire Infantry of your clan.
Elysium : Gives you +Diplomacy and +monthly prestige. Only 1 level.
Necropolis : Requires Mortis/Necromancy 3+. Gives Heavy Infantry.
Rookery : Requires Tremere or Thaumaturgy 3+ : Gives Gargoyles troops.
Oubliette : Requires Obtenetration 2+ : Gives Heavy Infantry.
Leper Colony : Requires Nosferatu : Gives Light Infantry.
Nosferatu Warrens : Require Nosferatu : Gives +Fort Level, +Intrigue and +Retinue Size. Only 1 level.
Hellhound Kennels : Require Animalism 1+ ; Gives +Light Cavalry. Only 1 level.
Blood Cult : Requires Malkavian or Setite : Gives Light Infantry.
Flesh Chapel : Requires Vicissitude 3+ : Gives Vozhd troops.

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Others :

Some Bloodlines have access to unique, powerful buildings similar to the vanilla game.

Some populous medieval cities are especially important to vampires, giving them prestige, gold and troops by their mere existence. Expect any vampire holding such city to punch far above his weight. These cities are :

Baghdad 250K Levantine
Cairo 200-250K Egyptian
Fes 200K Maghreb
Mosul 200K Maghreb
Damascus 200K Levantine
Constantinople 150K-250K Greek
Thessaloniki 150K Greek
Marrakech 150K Maghreb
Milan 150K Italian
Palermo 150K Italian
Paris 80K-160K French
Antwerp 100K Dutch
Amalfi 100K Italian
Firenze 100K Italian
Samarkand 100K Turkish
Alexandria 100K Egyptian
Kiev 100K Russian
Genoa 80K Italian
Moskow 50K Russian
Magdeburg 50k German
Barcelona 50K Catalan
Marseille 50K Occitan
Lyon 50K French
Bologna 50K Italian
Padova 50K Italian
Cordoba 50K Andalusian
Lisboa 50K Portuguese
Ypres 50K Dutch
Gent 50K Dutch
Acre 50K Levantine
Brugge 50K Dutch
Granada 50K Andalusian
Narbonne 50K Occitan
Koln 50k German
Metz 50K German
Tyr 50K Levantine
Bordeaux 50K French
Adrianopolis 50K Greek
Venice 45K Italian
Acre 40K French
Naples 30K Italian
Rome 17K-20K Italian
Serdica 20K Bulgarian
Nurnberg 20K German
Kaffa 20K Greek
Mainz 20K German
Amsterdam 20K Dutch
Pest 20K Hungarian
Krakow 20K Polish
Bucarest 20K Romanian
Ragensbug 20K German
Lille 20K French
Phillippopolis 20K Greek
Hamburg 20K German
Augsburg 20K German
Lubeck 20k German
Nimes 20K French
Wien 20K German
Danzig 20K Polish
Messina 20K Italian
Ragusa 20K Serbian
Athens 20K Greek
London 10-20K English
Dublin 20K Irish
Pskov 20K Russian
Praha 20K Bohemian
Strassburg 10K German
Troyes 10K French
Berlin 10K German
York 10K English
Calais 10K French