Capitol

Building

Capitol
Type	Building
Description	Founds and Manages a City
Placement Requirement	Can't build on aliens' claims. Can't built in existing jurisdiction.
Note	Police stations are needed create city limits and add buildings to the city.
Structural Requirements
Arena	Ok
Auditorium	1 Auditorium Required
Battery	Ok
Commodity Storage	Ok
Field Area	Ok
Generator	No
Guard Post	No
Home, Large	Ok
Home, Medium	Ok
Home, Small	Ok
Livestock	Ok
Lounge Space	Ok
Office Space	1 Office Required
Parking, Ground Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Space Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Water Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Spacecraft	No
Radar	Ok
Shield Generator	No
Shop Space	Ok
Space Vehicle Launchers	No
Space Vehicle Recovery Systems	No
Store Space	No
Surgery Units	No
Transporters	Ok
Turrets	No
Weapon Bays	No

A capitol building acts as the town hall for a city. It is the seat of government for the city.

City

A capitol is used to start a city. When placing the capitol, a popup window will appear asking you to name the city. If the sector and/or solar system isn't named yet, you will be able to choose a name for them too.
Note: All these names can be changed later if so desired.

Jurisdiction

A capitol has a small radius around it that establishes its jurisdiction. only buildings inside the jurisdiction will be part of the city.

The size of the city's jurisdiction can be extended with police stations.

For more information, see the City page.

City Status Report

The capitol is able to present a full city status report with information about population, industry, events, and more.

To request a status report from the capitol:

1. Stand at the capitol building plot
2. Open the Building (F10) window
3. Click the "Recent Report" button.

For more information, see the City Report page.

Declaring Capital

A city can be declared as the capital city of an empire.

To declare a city as a capital city:

1. Stand at the capitol building plot
2. Open the Building (F10) window
3. Click either:
   • "Declare Empire Capital"
   • "Declare Galaxy Capital"
   • "Declare Sector Capital"

A city can be multiple types of capitals at the same time.

See the Capital City page for more information.

City Management

When in the chain of command of a city, it is possible to control all building manufacturing processes from the capitol building. This is done using the Building (F10) window while standing at the capitol building's site.

Managing a machine shop remotely.

This window displays all of the buildings, with their location, and distance from you. By selecting a building, a traditional Building window appears in the lower half allowing you to remotely manage the manufacturing of that building, including construction.

The refresh button in the top-right corner of the window updates the list. The bulldozer button bulldozes the selected building.

While in the top-down view, the selected building will be highlighted.

Trivia

In the past, capitols were not used to found cities, but instead the game used town squares. These were placed flags that would act as the center "building" which the city would branch off.