![]() Never forget the Firehouse, or you’ll find yourself reenacting the Great Fire of London of 1666. Houses can survive without food, just make sure their Hygiene needs are met. You can plan ahead regarding Performance Venues (such as leaving an empty space when two roads intersect), just don’t build those yet since they require workmen (unless your unemployed workforce is incredibly high, but you know the meaning of “humble”, don’t you?). Start with a humble neighbourhood (Water Supply, Physician, Apothecary, Firehouse, Architect’s Post, Police Station, Temples), and start producing that valuable product that you can sell. Keep Population LowĮven if you have all the imaginable resources available to you, you don’t need to raise your houses as high as they can go (or at least, not right away). That can be a handy way to prioritising one monument over another while having both placed on the map already. Some monuments require access to a waterway, which can be quite a nightmare if you didn’t think it through (ask me how I know this).Īlso remember that monuments need to be connected to a road in order to start construction. This is mainly to prevent you from overextending your city so much that you don’t have space for that monument. ![]() Place the Monuments Right AwayĮven if you don’t have the money to import costly Plain Stones blocks for that bent pyramid (you know the one I am talking about), you should still put down the monument somewhere on your map. Very useful to keep that mischievous delivery man who works at the Dock by the Stone Quarry from fetching Linen at the other end of the map and slowing down your profit. About DocksĪ great innovation of Pharaoh: A New Era! Docks can be restricted to handling only a few resources. Build two Storage yards as near to their associate Production buildings as you can. Remember that mischievous delivery man from earlier? He can get stuck sometimes (at a Ferry Landing, let’s say) and he can’t be delivering that raw resource that your productive workers need, which slows down the whole system. I advocate for dedicating each Storage Yard to only 1 resource. You might think combining both raw and finished resource into one Storage Yard might be a good thing, but it isn’t. You should prioritise selling your own resources without importing the raw material when you can, but this method is still profitable. It costs a bit much to open two trade routes at once, but you’ll do fine. Buy Neighbour B’s Barley, transform it into Beer and sell it to Neighbour A. But another neighbour (let’s call them A and B, respectively) sells Barley (and Beer, but forget buying to sell, it’s not profitable). Your neighbour buys Beer, but you don’t have Barley. I can see the money rolling in right now. Even better, since 100 units of Pottery sell for 3 times as much as 100 units of Clay. Build 4 Clay Pits and sell their whole production until you are stable enough to move to more profitable resources. Then, I check the Worldmap and try to find a city that buys the resources I already have. When I start a new mission, I pause the game and look around for resources (stones, reeds, fertile lands, etc.) and I double-check with the available buildings under the Food & Farming and Production categories (this is when you find out you don’t have Clay Pits and weep. Study the Maps and Find a Profitable Resourceīoth your city map and the Worldmap are important. By default, the game doesn’t pause when you open any of the Overseer panels.Note: Straw is useful in some missions, but not in others, yet you can’t turn off the production of Straw like you could in the old game.Pausing is especially useful when building a Storage Yard, to keep any mischievous delivery man to put his load in and take valuable space with his unwanted straw merchandise.I typically play at 5x speed (and I wish there was a 10x speed), but as soon as a situation arises, I pause the game and address it.Simply hit the pause button in the upper left corner of the screen or tap the Spacebar on your keyboard. I suspect most players know this already, but you can pause Pharaoh: A New Era.Change the Difficulty Setting, If You Need to.Study the Maps and Find a Profitable Resource.
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