Cumulative Costs/Home Village

Summary
The goal of this page will be to enumerate the total costs in time, resources, gems, and real world money to update everything in the game at each town hall level. In order to do this, some assumptions will have to be made:
 * 1) The cost of gems will be calculated in U.S. dollars using the normal pricing in the most economical way possible without buying during a sale.
 * 2) The cost of resources will be calculated using the most economical means possible. That means 8,001,000 gold or elixir for 2467 gems and 200,000 dark elixir for 5667 gems.
 * 3) Consumables will not be counted. The cost and time of building troops and spells is considerable, but also completely impossible to estimate. Same goes for traps.
 * 4) The time listed will be total time and not "builder" time. For example, 5 upgrades that each take 1 day to complete would take 1 day with 5 builders. For the purposes of this exercise it will be listed as 5 days.
 * 5) The cost of removing obstacles will be ignored.
 * 6) The cost of decorations will be ignored.

Gold Costs
This information is based on the number available to build and maximum level of each structure at each town hall level. See the individual pages for a cost break down.

Last Updated: 05/28/2013

Elixir Costs
This information is based on the number available to build and max level of each troop/spell/structure at each town hall level. See the individual pages for a cost break down.

Last Updated:  05/28/2013

Dark Elixir Costs
This information is based on the max level of each dark troop at each town hall level. See the individual pages for a cost break down.

Time Costs
The calculations for time costs are somewhat different. You can't simply add up all the times and calculate the gem cost. Since you can't buy extra time, that means the gem cost for each individual upgrade must be calculated and then summed together. This will cause the gem cost to be more expensive then simply putting the times into the gem calculator would indicate.

Research times are being separated from build times because there is only one lab. That means you can't speed up overall research times by buying more builders.

Gem Costs
Builder Huts can only be purchased with gems. There are also some decorations that can be purchased with gems.

You're also given some gems at the start of the game and you get some from achievements.

Time Totals
Build Time/# of Huts or Research Time, whichever is longer. Any times with an (R) mean that the research time was longer than the build time. This means builders will be idle while waiting for research to complete.