Bank Emperor

## Overview

Banks allow you to exchange ores for money at a much higher rate than '/resident exchange'. The level of the bank decides the rate of exchange. Banks can be upgraded to a max exchange rate of 200% actual ore value (Level 10). The starting Town Bank is level 1 and will exchange at a 40% rate. So if you were to exchange 1 gold ingot you would receive 80 Coins because 40% of the gold ingot's value (200 Coins) is 80 coins.

Banks are costly to build and upgrade. If you are not a member of the town that the bank is in, you will be required to pay a minimum of 5% non-membership fee. For example, if you were to exchange 1 gold ingot at a Level 1 bank that you were not a member of, you would only get 76 coins due to the 5% non-membership fee. All Bank fees collected go directly to that bank's town treasury. Because of this, being mayor of a town with a high-level bank can be very profitable.

Banks can be affected by certain Trade Good buffs - specifically Greed and Barter. Obtaining these resources can be a boon both early and late game.

## See Also

* Getting Started
	+ Resident Book
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* How to Make Coins
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	+ Custom Mobs
* Founding a City-State
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* Hammers
* Happiness
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* Outlaw
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* Trade Resources
	+ Trade Goods
* Strategic Resources
	+ Strategic Goods
* Permissions & Groups
* Upgrade Tree
* Beakers/Science
	+ Tech Tree
* Dynamic Map
* Diplomacy
* Golden Age
* Governments
* Policies
* Unity
	+ Civic Tree
* War
	+ Offense/Defense
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	+ Captured Civilizations
	+ Revolution
* Winning The Game
* Town Hall
* Arrow Boat
* Arrow Tower
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* Castle
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* Warehouse
	+ **Farming**
		- Bakery
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	+ **Trading**
		- Fishing Boat
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	+ **Mining**
		- Mine
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	+ **Science**
		- Lab
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* **Economic**
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* **Production**
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* **Religious**
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	+ **Units**
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	+ **Upgrades**
		- Leveling a Unit
		- Promoting
* Camp Commands
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* Plot Commands
* Build Commands
* Misc Commands