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There are multiple discord communitites. Can't speak about how active they are though, since I don't use Discord.

Anyway, to be honest city development is pretty simple. Basically for all cities, your priorities are:
>1) Build your faction's Construction+Draft building first.
>2) Get the boost for your basic Research building ASAP and build it.
>2) Build your City Hall equivalent and Mage Tower upgrades as soon as you get the boost for them.
>3) For regular buildings, always focus on Research and Draft.
>4) Gold/Mana should be built if and when you need it. You can usually delay building this stuff longer than you might think.
>5) Construction buildings tend to take too long to make back their investment, so only build them if you don't have anything better available.
>6) For guilds, you pretty much always want to pick Research or Draft, unless you're really hurting for a specific resource.
Boosts are very important for all of these, so keep that in mind when you're deciding which provinces to claim. It's also pretty vital to try and secure a research lab province early on, so looking for nearby mana nodes or magic materials is always a good thing. Or you can just grab a tome with a research-based special province improvement, which is one of the reasons why tomes like Cryomancy and Alchemy are popular options. Of course you'll always want to try and grab any wonders or magic materials.

Early on you don't have much upkeep to pay, so you can get by just hunting the map for pickups and killing guard stacks for resources. So instead of building stuff like Markets and Temples you can dedicate more turns and resources to building Research buildings which scale better, and Draft buildings which let you get more units faster and thus keep fighting stuff. Focusing on fighting as much as possible also has the added benefit of getting extra XP for your ruler, which is a big deal since leveled rulers/heroes are going to be your strongest units in any scenario.

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