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Yep. Even earlier VR3s are really good. In Halflings they're practically on par with Amuni residences directly (and they also give a ton of culture), and are only slightly worse than Constructs res. But by the time you're in Constructs you can spend your Royal Restoration spells relatively unconstrained, so even that can be easily corrected.I’m changing my answer. Venars 3 for pop is awesome! 410 per square. That’s almost 25% better than Phoenix Cult or Elven Float.
This makes me want to seriously consider a “no res” strategy. In my case, I’ve got 281k working pop. A level 33 residence is 289 pop per sq. So I need 972 squares of population. If that was all Venars, I’d need 685.
300 free squares is pretty nice. The downside is the need to upgrade event buildings. But given game pace (we are pretty clearly in 6 months per chapter, minimum), that gives you two events to upgrade everything. Hmmm. Very tempting.
I am going for a few, but I also want to get myself some Portal Profits, and both goals are not super compatible. I expect to lose about 6 dailies to go for ~200% portal profits. So far, I rolled exactly 0% PP