Skyline Tower

Reach for the skies.

Skyline Tower is a Monument and a type of Residence which can house a lot of Investors. It also increases island's attractiveness by +275 . It requires The High Life DLC, it can be built only in the Old World (and Cape Trelawney), only one tower can be built per island. Like other monuments it is built over several stages, with each stage taking time to complete and requiring specific resources and workforce during every construction phase.

Construction[]

The construction of the Skyline Tower is divided into four stages. The first stage requires placing the foundation, which is unlocked after building 25 investor skyscrapers of level 5. The next three stages are built over time and require large amounts of construction materials and workforce, they also require more level 5 skyscrapers to be unlocked. Materials need to be delivered to the construction site so the tower has to be connected to a warehouse or trading post.

When there is not enough free workforce available, the construction can still be continued but at a slower pace, requiring more time to complete the current phase. Workforce can be mobilised to focus on the monument construction, thus shifting the lack of workforce to other buildings that utilise the same workforce type, resulting in lower productivity of those buildings.

Phase 1/4: Foundations (preparation)[]

Unlock condition: Level 5 Investor Skyscrapers: 25
1500000 coins
120 timber
300 bricks
100 steel beams
20 windows
200 reinforced concrete
10 elevators

Phase 2/4: Foundations (construction)[]

Unlock condition: Level 5 Investor Skyscrapers: 40
60 timber
120 bricks
120 steel beams
60 windows
300 reinforced concrete
60 elevators
750 worker workforce
30:00 Minutes
Electricity

Phase 3/4: Superstructure[]

Unlock condition: Level 5 Investor Skyscrapers: 55
30 timber
120 bricks
240 steel beams
60 windows
270 reinforced concrete
60 elevators
1000 worker workforce
30:00 Minutes
Electricity

Phase 4/4: Glazing[]

Unlock condition: Level 5 Investor Skyscrapers: 75
30 timber
90 bricks
150 steel beams
180 windows
120 reinforced concrete
60 elevators
1250 worker workforce
30:00 Minutes
Electricity

Residence[]

After construction, the Skyline Tower is a residence for up to 4000 Investors. It has the same basic and luxury needs as regular investor residences, fulfilling them will fill the Skyline Tower with up to 2500 investors and provide up to 20 happiness. The tower does not have any of the skyscraper or lifestyle needs that regular residences or skyscrapers have. Instead, it has its own special lifestyle needs - additional 1500 investors can live in the tower if there are 15 shopping arcades located on the same island with a different patent used in every one of them. Each shopping arcade with a different patent increases the population of the Skyline Tower by 100 investors. The arcades do not need to have the tower in their range, they only have to be on the same island. Investors granted from shopping arcades do not consume any goods, therefore the Skyline Tower's consumption rates (and income) correspond to only 2500 investors.

Without additional DLCs only 9 different shopping arcades patents are available so the maximum population gained from them is 900 investors, resulting in up to 3400 investors per tower. The Passage DLC and Land of Lions DLC add 3 additional patents each, further increasing the tower's maximum population by 300. Therefore with one of these DLCs the maximum is 3700 investors, both DLCs are required to reach the capacity of 4000 investors.

Investors
Need	Influx	Happiness	Income
Basic needs
Glasses	800	-	+3125/+2812.5/+2500
Coffee	400	-	+2500/+2250/+2000
Electricity	400	-	-
Light Bulbs	400	-	+4375/+3937.5/+3500
Champagne	100	-	+1562.5/+1406.25/+1250
Cigars	100	-	+1562.5/+1406.25/+1250
Chocolate	100	-	+1562.5/+1406.25/+1250
Steam Carriages	200	-	+9375/+8437.5/+7500
Luxury needs
Penny Farthings	-	4	+4375/+3937.5/+3500
Pocket Watches	-	3	+5625/+5062.5/+4500
Bank	-	2	+6250/+5625/+5000
Members Club	-	5	+1562.5/+1406.25/+1250
Jewellery	-	2	+7812.5/+7031.25/+6250
Gramophones	-	4	+4687.5/+4218.75/+3750
Lifestyle needs
Toothpaste Supply	100	-	-
Detergent Supply	100	-	-
Lipstick Supply	100	-	-
Face Cream Supply	100	-	-
Pomade Supply	100	-	-
Banker's Lamp Supply	100	-	-
Vanity Screen Supply	100	-	-
Writing Desk Supply	100	-	-
Four-Poster Bed Supply	100	-	-
Lounge Seating Supply	100	-	-
Toaster Supply	100	-	-
Vacuum Cleaner Supply	100	-	-
Crockery Supply	100	-	-
Refrigerator Supply	100	-	-
Briefcase Supply	100	-	-

Tourists' hot spot need[]

When The High Life DLC is active, Tourists have an additional optional hot spot need for the Skyline Tower. Like other hot spot needs it can be satisfied only via the bus network. Both the tower and a hotel have to be in the circular range of bus stops. The fulfilment level of the need is not determined by the distance between the bus stops, the tower and hotels can be located anywhere on the island as long as they are connected to the bus network.

When Hotels are connected to the Skyline Tower, each hotel gains 3 happiness and generates more income depending on game settings:

high income: +843.75 coins per minute per hotel
medium income: +759.375 coins per minute per hotel
low income: +675 coins per minute per hotel