Hi! Let me explain you how the bonuses of Phylarch work.

Let's say that construction takes 6 hours. After 1 hour you activate your Phylarch with let's say 50% Construction speed Bonus. The basic time left was 5 hours. But now, with this boost, your Artisans are working faster, and the remaining time is now reduced. Now it's approximately 3,3 hours. It's 1,7 hour less! 

But when 3 hours pass and your Phylarch bonus stops working, your Artisans start working slower, and the remaining time increases. It won't be 0,3 hour like it could be if your Phylarch was still active. 

So it is perfectly sound to activate the construction speed bonus every 3 hrs or whenever I can to reduce the total build time of my buildings compared to just activating it once or non at all, yes?

faytlyn said:

So it is perfectly sound to activate the construction speed bonus every 3 hrs or whenever I can to reduce the total build time of my buildings compared to just activating it once or non at all, yes?

That's right Faytlyn! Personally I prefer the bronze and the timber production boost..They are the most worthy i think! 
But it's up to the game style of each player!

mitko said:

i prefer agreement boost  + army training boosts

Nice Mitko!

Whatever works best for you!

So I don't get it. If it is true that the agreement signing boost works by increasing the speed which the agreement is being signed, then why is my agreement now on the same timer as the event? I had the boost activated then boosted down the sign time to an hour ahead of the finish time of the development race. Now they're on the same boat, and I've been constantly been activating the bonus whenever I can (almost every 3 hours). So either it is glitched and the bonus DOES NOT help you at all in any way shape and form and you're just BSing me with this crap. Or I am missing something? Because the time decreased by the boost decreases as well the shorter the total signing time is. So now I do not see the point in using it as it serves absolutely no purpose.

After this agreement I will start another and track it according by doing screenshots of  the total signing time before boost, after boost, then what it looks like after I activate it again 3 hours later. And if it proves it is useless, might as well quit the game cause obviously you're selling a lie.

So what's the point in using it then? I started the agreement update with the boost active, and have activated that boost as much as I could. In the end, it has not helped me at all, just gave me a false sense of hope that I'd be able to finish the agreement before the event expires.

It would've been better if the bonus applied a boost 1 time to an agreement, then activating the boost again would not work on the same agreement again, at least that way it would be a fixed reduction time or something...

See look! Now the agreement is an hour behind. All these screenshots have been taken with the boost activated btw.

Speed bonuses do help you a lot actually. Let's imagine that you're driving a car. Your final destination is in 200 km from your start point. Your speed is 50 kmph.

So it would take 4 hours to reach destination, right?

But after 1 hour driving you decide to drive 100% faster. Your speed is now 100 kmph for the next hour. If you continued driving with that speed till the end of your route, it would take 2,5 hour in total. Much less than the original 4 hours, right?

But let's imagine that after 1 hour your speed goes back to 50 kmph. And you still have 50 km to go. That's 1 hour more.

So the total time will be 3 hours. Not 4 hours like it would be without that speed bonus.