Era

A round runs through six eras.

• Each era brings new engines to research and new goods to carry.
• At the end of each era except the last, a coupling system lets engines carry the goods of the next era.
• You do not need the research of earlier eras to research the engines of a later era: a player who joins late can start straight away with the current era.
• Several values depend on the era: the starting level of some buildings (Bank, Laboratory, Track production), the maximum level of the Engine house, the prestige of titles (100 × the era at rank 1), and competition rewards.
• Save some research points at the end of an era to unlock the next era's engines as soon as it starts.

The game says « Époque » in French; this site says « Ère ».