Talk:Storage Vault/@comment-76.164.174.115-20130701165317

You will reach a point in your late teens or early twenties where you will feel the pinch to buy this. Sure, it can be done without it; lots of people punch through just fine. But there will come a point where you're miserable, can't buy what you want, can't store enough resources, can't keep very many buildings running at once....then you will buy this, and watch as literally all that population and resource pressure just drains away for quite awhile.

So they don't *make* you buy one of these, but I think they definitely engineered the game in such a way where you will be miserable for quite a while without at least one of these to help you through.