you haven’t accidentally mothballed the trade depot.The same holds for basic and luxury goods: on small maps you most likely don’t need warehouses to store such goods.įirst, does the trade depot or port contain any of the goods you wish to sell? If not, it’s time to move some of those goods to the trade port! Make sure that: The granary workers will get food from the farms, and the food markets will pick it up.įor relatively small maps such as Narbo in the demo, you can leave out the granary: the food market will pick up the food directly from the farms. Place a granary between your farms and your food markets, and connect everything by road. The most likely cause of unhappiness is high unemployment. Check with the advisers to see why they are unhappy and improve on that. Why are there protesters or muggers in my city?īecause the people are unhappy. The Gladiators’ Guild needs a steady supply of weapons, before it will send gladiators to fight in the Arena. This can also be checked using the entertainment overlay.Ī third reason could be that the arena doesn’t receive gladiators from a Gladiators’ Guild. Secondly, check whether the Odeum/Arena is fully staffed: partially staffed buildings have a smaller service range. Why are my patricians complaining they need entertainment while there’s an Odeum/Arena close by?įirst, check whether the villa is within the service range of the Odeum/Arena you can check this using the entertainment overlay. Only build what you need and concentrate on getting exports and taxes up and running. Don’t overbuild in the first few years.Place a tax collector close to your markets and villas to get as much money in through taxes as possible. Taxes: markets pay sales taxes on every sale made, patrician houses pay property taxes based on the value of their home.Setting up an export business should be the first priority in the first years of your city. Export: find out what the other cities on the map need, then produce it and sell it.Reservoirs, pumphouses and fountains require equites, so make sure you have a few domus in your city. If the reservoir lacks a few employees, it only provides water to part of the reservoir’s range. The next thing to check is whether both your fountain and your reservoir have enough employees. You can use the water overlay to check whether your fountain is close enough to the reservoir. Any fountain in range of the reservoir will have pipe access to clean water. First thing to check is whether you’ve set up your water infrastructure correctly: you need to place a pump house close to the river and connect it to a reservoir with an aqueduct. a faster processor (your graphics card isn’t the limiting factor on this).to run the game at a slower speed (at normal speed, prefects will be 2.5 times as smart as they are on fast speed).skillful micromanagement of prefects and engineers (mothballing the offices you don’t need, or perhaps another clever technique).really efficient prefect/engineer placement (this can mean refraining from using too many).To keep the very largest cities standing, you’ll need either So, in humongous cities, if you have lots and lots of prefects and lots and lots of buildings that could catch fire, the prefects won’t be as smart about deciding what fires to put out, and they won’t notice new fires as quickly. The intelligence of prefects and other walkers scales with available CPU cycles. Will Jennings from Tilted Mill gave the following explanation: I have plenty of prefects but my buildings still catch fire, what’s up with that? Why do my buildings catch fire or collapse?īuildings need to be checked periodically by engineers and praefects, so make sure you build prefectures and engineer’s posts close by. Obvious exceptions are the city gate and trade ports. Another way is clicking to place the building, and then, while holding the mouse button, dragging in the direction in which you want the building to face.ĭoes it matter which way my buildings are facing? Press the “R” key when you have the building ghost selected for placement. Equites/patricians say they need walls, but I have built a wall!.Why won’t traders buy any goods from me?.Why are there protesters or muggers in my city?.Why are my patricians complaining they need entertainment while there’s an Odeum/Arena close by?.I have plenty of prefects but my buildings still catch fire, what’s up with that?.Why do my buildings catch fire or collapse?.Does it matter which way my buildings are facing?.