Idle Ages / Ages / Zhou Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty is age 19 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 551 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 19 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 551 BCE |
| Legendary | Confucius |
| Automation | Needs Bao Si at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Confucius, Sun Tzu, Xi Shi, Bao Si |
Confucius raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Confucius was a minor official who wandered China for years, mostly ignored by the rulers he advised. His students wrote down his teachings on family, respect, and good government - and those notes shaped East Asian civilization for 2,500 years. "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself," he said, five centuries before the Golden Rule.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, thirteen short chapters on winning without fighting: "supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without battle." Twenty-five centuries later it is still required reading in military academies and boardrooms alike.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Xi Shi was one of the legendary Four Beauties of China - so lovely, the story goes, that fish forgot to swim and sank when she passed. The king of Yue sent her as a "gift" to a rival king, who grew so besotted he neglected his kingdom until it fell. Beauty as a weapon of state.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Common Manager, level 5
Bao Si, the queen who almost never smiled, delighted only when King You lit the war-beacons as a false alarm to summon his lords for nothing. When real invaders came and no lord answered, the Western Zhou fell.
Raises the output of their own age. Every level multiplies what they add by 1.6. Levelling Bao Si to 5 is what automates Zhou Dynasty.
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