Designations

If you own a sector, you can redesignate it. That is, specify what function that sector has. It costs a certain amount of money (and possibly also metal, jewels, ...) to redesignate a sector.

Each type of sector can employ a different number of people. For example, a city can employ several thousand people, whereas a farm sector can only properly employ a few hundred people. The basic number of people that a sector can employ is listed in the table below. This value is then modified by how much your race tends to crowd. If you are an orc, for example, more people can be crammed into a single sector, so the formula is:
$\begin{ifinfo} max_employed = sector_max * sqrt(reproduction / 10). \end{ifinfo}$

$\begin{tex} \begin{displaymath}max\_employed = sector\_max \times \sqrt{\frac{reproduction}{10}}. \end{displaymath}\end{tex}$

The possible designations (together with the characters that are displayed on the map) are:

Farm (f) - these produce food. Without farmers producing food, your people will starve to death. Farms also generate revenue in the form of taxes.
Metal mine (m) - supplies your country with metal, proportional to how good the metal mine it is, how many people you have in it, and your mining ability. Also generates revenue in the form of taxes.
Jewel mine (j) - supplies your country with jewels, proportional to how good a jewel mine it is, how many people you have in it, and your mining ability. Also generates revenue in the form of taxes.
City (c) - generate a lot of revenue in the form of taxes. Cities are also the places in which you can draft armies and construct ships. Cities also contain universities and temples, so mages can be initiated in them.
Capital (C) - are like cities, but the administrative bureaucracy of your nation is based in your capital, so if your capital is sacked, many of your nation's riches will be taken.
University (u) - this is a school of higher education. Your country's intelligence can be increased if you put a lot of people in universities. Universities cost to maintain. Mages can be initiated in universities.
Temple (+) - a place of worship. Mages can be initiated in temples. Also, the fraction of your people in temples increases your magic skill.
Stadium (s) - your country holds sports events here. (for now, does nothing)
Trade post (T) - a caravan or ship can give goods and armies to another nation by dropping them off at a trade post belonging to that other nation.
Embassy (e) - necessary to establish relations with another country. (for now, does nothing)
Fort (!) - forts give bonus to armies camped there (3/turn).
Hospital (h) - hospitals affect birth and death rates in your nation. (not yet) Hospitals have maintainance costs each turn.
Refinery (r) - refines your metals. Increases the productivity of adjacent metal mines. A metal mine has 12each surrounding refinery, if that refinery has at least the minimum employment.

The Designation table describes the properties of various designations: what they cost, how much revenue they produce per capita, how much they cost to maintain, the minimum employment (not used in all cases), and how many people can be employed in that sector.
$\begin{same} % latex2html id marker 177\begin{table}[hbpt] \caption{Designatio... ...y & r & 8000 & 130 & 0 & 100 & 200 \\ \hline \end{tabular}\end{table}\end{same}$