Watchtower (discarded concept)

(obsolete building)

The option to build a watchtower is unlocked after constructing a nursery.

After a watchtower is built, worker ants gain the ability to train scouts, which can be spent to complete various missions. Watchtower upgrades are related to improving scout stats and can reveal the map of surrounding areas.

Like all buildings, the watchtower is lost upon migration, but a skill tree upgrade can give new nests a pre-built watchtower.

Scout Missions
There are three scout mission types: Every mission costs scouts and takes a certain time to complete. Initially, you can have only one scout mission active at a time.
 * 1) Food location
 * 2) Artifact Hunt
 * 3) Migration

The migration mission can be completed a limited number of times per nest, but all other missions can be completed an indefinite number of times. However, every time you complete a mission, its cost and duration increase. Upon migrating to a new nest, mission cost and duration will be reset to their default values.

New missions and mission types can be unlocked through the skill tree or through migration.

Food Location
Whenever you complete a mission to locate food, your food income multiplier will increase. New missions of this type are revealed upon migrating to a new nest.

Artifact Hunt
Completing a scout mission of this type will either earn a low-rarity artifact or unlock a soldier mission to retrieve a higher-rarity artifact.

Artifact missions are unlocked through the skill tree and the pool of possible artifacts increases whenever you migrate to a new nest.

Migration
Completing a mission of this type will unlock the possibility to migrate to a new nest location. Migration missions are unlocked in the skill tree.

Upgrades
There are three watchtower upgrade types. Each upgrade can be purchased an indefinite amount of times, but their cost increases with each purchase and their effect has diminishing returns.

If the effect cap is reached, purchasing new upgrades will provide no additional benefit.