Turbinator

unless you started on island with wine.

no other resource is more important as the wine when it comes to expansion, learned it the hard way .

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asch

Why is that?

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Kulmar

Wine=Tavern=Growth rate up.

No Wine=No tavern=Growth rate down.

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Scattershot

Wine helps your cities to grow faster by keeping people happy but I wouldn't say it's the most important to expansion. I didn't start using wine until my capital growth was under 1.0 per hour and I had a 2nd city already by that point.

Granted your city isn't going to get over 5 very easily without wine so it does make it easier to grow which will make it easier to expand but you need the other materials to make it a prosperous city too.

KillDaddy

yep. i colonized wine from a sulfur island. turned it into my capital. now colonized on marble.

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Turbinator

I have played on my alpha account less days then on my original alpha account, and I have a colony, and will be upgrading palace tomorrow to lvl2.
All because my capitol is on wine island .

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Tarenth

Wine is tied with marble for 'most important' resource at the initial level of the game to speed up city growth and produce more citizens to sell into worker, researchers, or conscript into the military.

Crystals overtakes wine as the 'most important' resource at the mid/end level of the game due to its ability to speed up those obnoxious research times (4 days!?!) when you research glass out of the science tree. By the time you have glass researched (its halfway down ) your cities will have grown to the size that you've already stuffed as many as possible into your academies, mines, and saw mill so you have have them milling about reproducing and paying taxes. The time at which you reach that point is different, however, since it depends on how large a military you maintain. Larger military means larger upkeep, means more citizens needed.

Oddly enough Wood and Marble both tie for second most important at the mid/end level because upgrades to your buildings start to get ridiculously high.

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RedTalon

I thought "glass" did not work.