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QA Manager
Jon Payne
Lead Tester
Greg Sheppard
Quality assurance (UK)
Neal Sumsion
Niall Callaghan
Austin Parsons
Quality assurance (US)
Brian Coons
Frank Lavoie
Tony Leier
Wayne McCaul
Tom Rogers
Map & assignment
Doug Gonya
Designers
Eric Ouellette
Ken Parker
Greg Sheppard
Special Thanks to Chris Beatrice and Doug
Gonya.
Designer
David Lester
Programming
Simon Bradbury
Producer
Eric Ouellette
Art Director (US)
Darrin Horbal
Artists (US)
Ron Alpert
Adam Carriuolo
Bob Curtis
Mike Malone
Heidi Mann
Andrea Muzeroll
Dennis Rose
Artists (UK)
Gary Bendilow
Michael Best
Martin Povey
Daniel Shutt
Manual & Research
David Lester
Ken Parker
Wayne McCaul
Sound Effects
Edward Saltzman
Music
Rob Euvino
Credits
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Riots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Prefectures & fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Engineering and Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Paths & Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Bridges & Water Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Shipyard & Wharf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
School, Academy & Library . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
The Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Temples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
The Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Venues & Performer Schools . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Amphitheater and Colosseum . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Hippodrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Health and Sanitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Sanitation: Bath-house & Barber . . . . . . . . .95
Doctor's Clinic & Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Government, Administration and Money . . . .99
The Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Triumphal arch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Costs and Controlling Them . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
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Welcome to the Roman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . .9
In-Game Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Installing Caesar III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Starting the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Your Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
City Construction Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Losing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
For Players of Caesar II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Roman Cities, and How to Build Them . . . . .23
How to Build a Roman City . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Recommended Order of Priorities . . . . . . . . .28
Game Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Prosperity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Favor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Housing and Desirability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Desirability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Gardens and Plazas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Statues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
People, Employment and Migration . . . . . . . .49
Migration: Attracting People to Your City . .49
Population Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Plebeians, Patricians, & the Workforce . . . . .53
Employment & Labor Allocation . . . . . . . . .54
People Walking Along Roads . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Mood and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
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Other Enemies of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Information, Tools and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Game Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Other Game Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Answers to Common Question . . . . . . . . . . .186
Hints and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Designer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Building Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
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Your Rank & Salary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Governor's Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Food, Farming and Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Storage & Distribution: Granary,
Warehouse & Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Special Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Clay Pit, Iron Mine & Timber Yard . . . . . . .124
Marble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Oil, Pottery & Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Reservoir & Aqueduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Military Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Walls & Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Gatehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Fort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Barracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Military Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Commanding Roman legions . . . . . . . . . . . .148
What to Expect in Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Battles in Your Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Fighting for the Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Enemies of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Native Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Mission Posts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
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ongratulations, citizen! Caesar has
approved your application to enter
the Empire's government. The
Emperor is eager to expand his settlements
and reward citizens who can implement his
will. The Roman Empire is so vast, and growing so rapidly, that even our divine Caesar
cannot hope to rule it alone. He needs capable provincial governors, and that is where
you come in.
Caesar appointed me, Pius Perplexus, to
teach you the skills of governing. Your scribe,
Clarus Lucidus, will add notes as we go
along. My main interest is in teaching you
what you should do, and why you should do
it. When Clarus thinks you need information
about how to do whatever I am discussing at
the time, he adds his comments in obvious
sections called Scribe's Notes.
Your goal is to build a thriving Roman city.
Caesar III has two styles of play: The Career
Game and the City Construction Kit. In a
Career, Caesar rewards success with promotions and more challenging assignments. All
new governors begin their careers with the
same sequence of two assignments. After
you complete them, Caesar lets you choose
between accepting a peaceful or a dangerous new assignment each time you earn a
promotion. As long as you continue to meet
Caesar's ever escalating expectations, you
win by becoming Rome's next Emperor.
If the second style of play, the City
Construction Kit, is more to your liking, you
can ignore the Emperor and set your own
goals. There is no winning in the
Construction Kit, beyond satisfying whatever
objectives you set for yourself.
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panels often include a few words in red type.
Click on red words to read related help
entries. You can also choose Help from the
menu bar at the top of your game screen to
view the Table of Contents for in-game Help.
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You can lose either type of game if you fall
very much out of Caesar's favor. The Favor
rating, which measures Caesar's current
opinion of you, is affected by your performance especially your handling of your
province's funds. Don't worry, though
Caesar may be a tough master, but he is fair,
and will give you the chance to recover if
you do fall far out of favor. Use the considerable information within the game to avoid
this unfortunate outcome.
Caesar III is not a war game, although you
might sometimes have to defend your city
against Rome's enemies. It's not a historical
reference or educational program, either. It
is about building cities where people can live
productive, happy lives, and having fun in
the process. Caesar III gives you a strong
feeling of what life might have been like in
ancient Rome, but the game does sometimes
depart from history. In some places, strict
historical accuracy would have made the
game complicated or restrictive. Wherever
they faced such choices, Caesar III's designers emphasized simplicity and fun.
In-game information
aesar III has lots of information built
right into the game. When you are in
doubt about anything, click on it with
your mouse's right button (right-click).
Almost everything displays a small panel
showing important information when you
right-click on it.
For more detailed help, click on the button in
the panel's lower left corner. These detail
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Installing Caesar III
ith Windows running on your
computer, put the Caesar III CD
into the CD-ROM drive. After a
moment, Windows' AutoPlay feature displays a screen with four buttons marked
Play, Install, Uninstall and Quit. Click Install
to begin.
If AutoPlay doesn't work on your computer,
put the Caesar III CD into the CD-ROM drive.
Click twice quickly (double-click) on the
My Computer icon on your Windows desktop. In the window that opens, find the icon
representing your CD-ROM drive. Click that
icon with your right mouse button (rightclick). Now click the word Open at the top
of the menu that appeared when you rightclicked. Double-click the item called
Setup.exe.
The Install program performs a brief system
test. Click the Yes button if you hear sound.
Read the Welcome screen that appears next,
then click the Next button. You are now
prompted to choose an Install path for
Caesar III. To change the game's location on
your hard drive, click the Browse button and
find the folder to which you'd like the game
installed. Click Next when your choice is displayed, or to accept the path Install chose. If
you're unsure where you should install the
game, just use the location chosen by the
Install program.
Caesar III's installation can take up to 10
minutes. When it finishes, you see a box
describing the additions Caesar III made to
your Start menu. Click OK, then tell Install
whether or not to add bookmarks to your
Internet browser.
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Your Career
he first two assignments are the same
for all new governors. Each assign-
ment in the Career Game has clear
goals that you must achieve to earn a promotion and move on to the next province.
At first, the Roman Empire is small, and your
choices of cities to govern are slim. As the
game goes on and the Empire grows (thanks,
in part, to your own success), Caesar lets you
choose among provinces to rule next. He
usually lets you choose between a peaceful
or a dangerous province.
When you have such a choice, you'll see a
map of the Empire showing the cities available. Click on each city for a brief description
of its characteristics. When you've made
your decision, click the OK button.
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Install now asks whether you would like to
view the game's Readme file. Click Yes if
you'd like to read it now. This manual went
to print several weeks before the game was
finished, and late changes or additions are
documented in Readme. Wherever Readme
and this manual conflict, Readme is correct.
(Readme doesn't display until the Install is
complete).
Click the Finish button. Install checks some
system components, and updates them if
necessary. It might then restart your computer.
Use the Sierra AutoUpdate feature accessible
from your Start button to check for any free
enhancements or upgrades to the game.
Starting the game
he Install program placed a shortcut
on your Windows desktop. Double-
click on that icon to start the game.
Or, insert the game CD and, when AutoPlay
begins, click the Play button. Or, click the
Start button on your Windows task bar and
launch the game from the location to which
you installed it.
You must have the Caesar III CD in your
CD-ROM drive while playing.
After the game loads, a short movie depicting the rise of Rome plays, followed by credits and the Caesar III title screen. Click on it
to proceed to the game set-up panel. Here,
you choose whether to begin a new Career
Game, load a previously saved game, play a
City Construction Kit game or exit the program.
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will give you every opportunity to succeed,
but his patience has limits. When he has to
find more money for your city, Caesar lowers
your Favor rating (see page 36).
After choosing the Construction Kit, you see
a map of the Roman Empire showing all its
major cities. Click on any city for a description of its unique challenges and resources.
When you decide which province to govern,
click the OK button.
Losing the Game
aesar III is simple to learn and play,
but difficult to master. It is neverthe-
less possible to lose the game. Should
you fall far out of favor with the Emperor, he
will send an army to come and reclaim your
city from you. Continual poor management
of city funds could lead to just such a problem, so be careful! This applies to both individual assignments within your Career, and
to the City Construction Kit.
For players of Caesar II
f you have played Caesar II, enough has
changed in Caesar III that your old play-
ing styles will need to change. While you
will find much that is familiar, you should
know about some of the more significant
areas that have changed before you plunge
right into the game:
The province level and the city level
have been combined into one larger map
(though early assignments within the career
are on fairly small maps). Should you
encounter any barbarians or invaders, you
will find that all combat now takes place on
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Some cities might need you to focus on
trade, others on industry; most blend the
two. Some assignments might require you to
rescue an existing city from a crisis. Some
provinces are in dangerous areas. Every
assignment is different. Remember, though,
that Caesar wants you to succeed. He
always makes his expectations clear, and
gives you the resources you need to accomplish the task at hand.
You begin your career as a Citizen. As you
successfully complete assignments, Caesar
will promote you through the following
ranks:
Clerk
Engineer
Architect
Decurion
Apparitor
Magistrate
Quaestor
Procurator
Aedile
Praetor
Proconsul
Consul
Senator
Caesar
City construction kit
lick this button if you'd rather forget
about the Emperor and his assign-
ments, and just build a city. All
options from the Career Game are open to
you, except for the career itself. There is no
winning a Construction Kit game, apart
from satisfying whatever goals you set yourself, but you can lose if you keep running out
of money. Caesar is a reasonable ruler who
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liable to collapse if they don't receive regular
maintenance.
You will quickly see a large variety of
people walking through your city. These all
perform valuable tasks for your city, and you
should think carefully about how and where
you build roads. Whenever a road junction is
reached, these little people must make a
choice about which way to take; the fewer
intersections you create, therefore, the more
control you have over the routes your people
will take.
Most services needed by houses are not
provided simply if a building is nearby, as
was the case with Caesar II. Instead, most
buildings generate people, who need to walk
past a house in order to offer that service to
the house.
Most buildings which employ people
must have road access to reasonably close
housing. If housing is too far away from a
structure which seeks employees, even
though there is road access and unemployment in the city, the building will not find any
workers.
The old Empire rating is gone, replaced
by a Favor rating, which indicates Caesar's
current opinion of you. Favor is important,
since you will lose the game if it falls too low.
Terrain has become an important consideration in city design, with higher land and
waterside plots being more desirable. You
will come across islands, and need to bridge
water at times to achieve your objectives.
And different types of land hold different
resources, from fertile land to areas rich in
clay or iron ore.
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this same map, placing your city in considerable danger should your defenses fail.
Unlike Caesar II, in Caesar III you desig-
nate areas for housing, rather than build
housing directly. You must make your city
attractive to immigrants if you expect people
to move in, and every growing city needs
plenty of new immigrants. Once people
move in, they upgrade their housing of their
own accord, should you provide a suitable
environment.
In most assignments (and almost always
in the City Construction Kit) you need to provide food for your citizens. This should
always be your top priority, since it is very
hard to attract new immigrants into a city
without food, and hunger can quickly turn
your population to crime.
Engineers are now needed to maintain
your city's buildings. Build engineering posts
to send out engineers on patrol. Buildings are
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Religion plays a larger role in citizens'
lives. There are five gods to keep happy;
ignore them at your peril.
Entertainment, too, has changed: building
a theater or amphitheater is not enough to
please your people, as it did before. Build
actor colonies, gladiator schools and more to
provide performers for these otherwise
pretty (but dull) venues.
Caesar is a more hands-on Emperor than
he was in the old game, and will interact with
you more often. He is worth looking after
whenever you can.
Finally, you won't hear the phrase Plebs
are needed! any more. The computer automatically allocates your workforce to jobs.
This is all that you need most of the time.
When there is a shortage of employees, you
can assign priorities to categories of workers,
ensuring that whichever tasks matter most
to your city get first claim on the available
plebes.
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oman cities differed from modern
cities in obvious ways: No skyscrap-
ers, no motor vehicles, no subways,
no electric lighting, and so on. But they were
remarkably similar in some ways, too: Many
Roman cities were large, busy places where
hundreds of thousands of people lived (historians estimate that Rome itself housed one
million residents). Cities used road networks,
and had buildings several stories high.
People in ancient times had the same basic
needs that we have today: food, water, clothing and other goods; a job to provide income
to pay the bills; entertainment, education,
religion and other services and diversions.
For a Roman city, just as for a modern one,
the wide variety in kinds of people and buildings, the hustle and bustle, the noise and dust
all gave a city its character.
The center of a Roman city should be full of
fine buildings. The Senate, the center of government for a Roman city, should be the center point around which other buildings are
located. It will probably be surrounded by
lavish plazas, a governor's palace, and some
of the wealthiest villas imaginable. There will
be numerous large, grand temples, and perhaps an oracle, providing religious service for
the rich and powerful who live in and around
the city center.
The bath house, of course, will be close by.
This is where the wealthy come to wash
away the dirt, and also to see and be seen, to
talk and to plot. And after a bath, rich
Romans enjoy a stroll in one of the many gardens that are usually to be found in this part
of the city, perhaps bordered by statues
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tents, hovels and shacks, these slums can
house an amazing number of citizens. You
would be well advised not to venture there
alone. As you create your own city, keep a
watchful eye on any such districts. They are
often the source of crime, occasionally even
riots! It's often not even worthwhile sending
tax collectors round, since the people there
are so poor there's precious little tax to collect.
No portrayal of Roman cities is complete
without mentioning their lifeblood: The people. How can I describe the feeling of abundant, thriving life that I get just from watching the city center as all manner of people go
about their busy lives? Of course, you expect
to see the many plebes, priests, prefects and
market traders, and maybe the cart pushers
as well. But would you imagine gladiators,
lion tamers, merchants from distant lands,
engineers, barbers and doctors, too? It is
quite a sight to behold.
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marking various triumphs of Rome's glorious
expansion.
Other grand structures, too, will be close by:
academies, schools, and libraries, where the
young are educated in the ways of Rome.
Theaters are there, and actor colonies to train
the actors who perform the drama so popular with the wealthy of Rome.
Not far away from that, though hidden away
so as not to upset the desirability of the very
center, will be the bases for the essential services needed: barbers and doctors, police
stations, markets and engineering stations; a
reservoir and fountains to provide the enormous volumes of water needed by such a
thriving metropolis; a granary to allow the
market traders easy access to food stores.
Beyond the tidy central core of the city are
the productive areas, where most of the
work gets done, and where those who perform that work live. Here you'll find farming
districts, mines and workshops, a thriving
port, and warehouses close to the main road
out of the province. These outer areas of a
Roman city also house more popular, if noisier and dirtier, entertainment venues like
amphitheaters, where gladiators fight to the
death to the delight of cheering crowds, and
the colosseum, where lions are brought to
battle each other and the better gladiators.
The finest cities of all have a hippodrome,
like Rome's Circus Maximus one of the
largest buildings I've ever seen; the fiercely
competitive chariot races held there are
surely the finest entertainment anywhere in
the Empire.
Some cities, it is true, also have areas they
are less proud of. Dirty and dangerous, full of
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crime. Beware very high unemployment.
There's more information about employment
on page 49.
Desirability: In addition to needing goods
and services, housing often requires its surrounding area to be made more pleasant
before it evolves to higher values. This
means prettying it up with gardens, plazas,
statues and temples, or removing some of
the more antisocial buildings nearby, such as
workshops or military buildings. You can
read up on desirability on page 43.
Water access: Water is critical to all life,
even that found in the slums of Rome's cities.
Poorer areas expect to either get their own
water directly from a river or lake, or to draw
it up from deep wells. But better citizens
want a nearby source of clean water, and
they'll soon demand a fountain before they
upgrade their housing. Of course, fountains
won't please anyone unless they actually
distribute water, for which they need access
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How to Build a Roman
City
here are a few basic concepts you
would be well advised to get straight
before embarking too far on your journey to become the finest Governor in the
Empire.
Housing: Designate an area for housing,
after which people will move in and set up
their own homes, which they will upgrade if
you provide them with the facilities they
seek. If there's not enough empty housing, no
one can move into your city, however much
they may wish to. You can find out more
about housing on page 41.
Roads: Citizens can walk only on roads.
Most buildings employ people, and need to
be both adjacent to road and reasonably
close to housing so that citizens can reach
the building to start work. For more on
roads, please turn to page 56.
Food: Not unreasonably, your citizens
need to eat food. People who live in tents,
the simplest housing, expect to forage for
their own food, but everyone else expects
you, as their governor, to provide it for them.
Failure to do so could lead to unhappiness
and possibly severe crime, as well as preventing immigration. You can read about
food on page 111.
Unemployment: Providing jobs is nearly
as important for luring immigrants as providing food. Unemployment quickly makes
people unhappy, and unhappy people are
likely to leave your city, talk other people
into not moving in, or, worse still, turn to
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Always make sure there is plenty of food
around. Check how full your granaries are
regularly; if they look empty, you are probably eating more than you are growing, which
suggests that you should build more farms or
import some more food. It is easy to forget
about food once your city starts to take
shape and grow rapidly, but your people
won't let you forget it for long.
Security: Build plenty of prefectures as
you expand; cities face all sorts of pressures
with rapid growth, and most governors I
know sleep much better knowing that there
are plenty of prefects around to put out fires
and take care of any signs of crime before
they get out of hand.
Unemployment: Try not to let the unemployment rate rise much above 15 percent,
and then only for a short time. In the early
months of a new city, just a few workers can
represent a large percentage of the workforce; if unemployment is high, add a new
farm, and kill two birds with one stone.
Water: Since reservoirs and fountains do
not need road access to their labor, it is easy
to forget that they need workers to function.
Think ahead about the routes your aqueducts
will need to follow to carry water from its
natural source (a river, or lake, say) to the
expensive residential areas that will need it.
Religion: Try to keep the gods happy.
Happy gods can be of help to you, while
angry gods can do you more damage than
you care to know about. Beware their wrath!
Money: Don't worry about how much
money you're spending until your population
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to a reservoir. Learn more about the city's
water supply on page 135.
Security: Prefectures help to suppress
crime, and they guard against fires in the
city. Engineers inspect your buildings for
structural flaws and keep them in top repair.
If you skimp on prefectures and engineer's
posts, your city will not last for very long.
Read more on page 66.
Recommended order of
priorities
any governors feel slightly overwhelmed when facing the stark
emptiness of a new province, and
don't know quite how to begin. It is tempting
to rush in to a new city and build some of the
finer structures first. Sadly, this can make citizens unhappy. They much prefer their governors to build carefully, starting with basic
needs. In addition to some areas of housing,
I recommend the following order of priorities
as the key to solid, long-lasting cities:
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nears 1,000. By then, your city should be stable enough for you to consider raising taxes,
making sure everyone is paying their taxes
(use the tax Overlay to help you do this). And
then you should start to consider setting up
some trade to provide more income.
Defense: In some of the more dangerous
provinces, defense is an important consideration. You don't need to think about it much
before you get the basics up and running,
and in many provinces you won't need to
worry about it at all. But in those dangerous
provinces, scan the map first of all to see
where you may want to build some defensive walls, or place some forts, taking into
account where your farmland, water sources
and other important locations are.
The Rest: there are many other structures
to build and issues to consider, but it is hard
to go far wrong if you get the basics right
first.
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Scribe's NOTE:
Remember, if in doubt, right-click. If you right-click on the people
wandering around, they'll usually give you valuable information
about what they think the city needs, or what they're up to. If there
are problems, you can be sure they'll let you know! Right-clicking on
housing always tells you what that house needs if it is to evolve,
while right-clicking on other buildings tells you if, and how well,
they are operating.
Your Chief Advisor is a good fellow, too; he'll always tell you the
truth about the state of your city. Check in with him regularly, too.
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here are several measures of your
city's progress in Caesar III, which I
call ratings. These are Peace,
Prosperity, Culture and Favor. Caesar is not
an arbitrary ruler. With every new assignment that you take, Caesar sets specific targets for you to reach for each of these ratings. You win a promotion to a new assignment when you achieve these goals (this
does not apply to the City Construction Kit).
You can see your current ratings on the city
map by looking at the Senate building; its
flags represent the four ratings, and they
move over time as your ratings change.
Mouse help for the building gives you the
precise rating numbers. Alternatively, you
can consult your Ratings Advisor, who will
show you the ratings and offer some advice
on how to boost them.
Culture
our Culture rating is a measure of the
culture in your city. Culture comes
from education, religion, and some
entertainment. Culture was very important
to ancient Rome; it sought to impose its culture throughout the Empire, which is why so
many languages today are based on Latin,
the ancient Romans' language.
The Culture rating is calculated by comparing the number of buildings your city has in
these categories with the size of your population. As the city grows, it needs more and
more buildings to offer the same level of culture to its larger population.
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Wage rate (paying more than Rome
boosts Prosperity, while paying less reduces
it);
Housing levels (having quite a few villas
in your city boosts Prosperity, while a large
proportion of your citizens living in tents and
shacks reduces it);
If lots of people eat more than one type
of food, Prosperity rises;
The presence of an active hippodrome in
a city boosts Prosperity.
The easiest way to boost Prosperity is simply
for your treasury to take in more money than
it spends, not counting construction costs
(which are, after all, enhancing the city).
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Prosperity
The Prosperity rating is a measure of
the overall wealth of your city and its
people.
Factors which affect Prosperity include:
Unemployment (very low levels boost the
rating, high levels reduce it);
City profitability (excluding construction
costs, if your city takes in more denarii than
it spends, the Prosperity rating will rise, and if
it takes in less than it spends, the rating will
fall);
If the city needs additional funds from
Rome, its Prosperity rating falls;
Should the city ever fail to pay tribute to
Rome, its Prosperity falls;
To raise your Culture rating, build additional
temples, oracles, schools, libraries, academies or theaters (the only cultured entertainment form back then).
Note that all these buildings must be active
to count towards the Culture rating which
means that they must all have the employees that they need, and the theater needs
actors to perform plays.
Scribe's Note:
Click on your Culture rating, or any other rating for that matter, on
the City Progression Panel in the Senate to see brief advice for
improving it.
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Pander to Caesar's every desire. From
time to time, you may receive a request from
him. This may be for goods, or for cash, or
even an army. He will always tell you when
he wants this stuff, and getting it to him by
then makes him much more pleased with
you.
Send him gifts from your own personal
savings. You can send a small, medium or
large gift from your Emperor's Advisor.
Beware excessive use of gifts, since Caesar
has a tendency to take them for granted
after a while. The first should be in proportion
to your own personal wealth at the time.
Sadly, it is all too easy to displease Caesar.
Try to avoid the following, which will cause
him to think worse of you:
Poor progress towards the assignment
objectives; Caesar does not like time to be
wasted.
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Peace
he Peace rating is a measure of how
secure your people feel. As time pass-
es without any disturbance of the
peace, the initial concern people naturally
have about a brand new area begins to fall,
and they feel much safer.
Disturbances of the peace reduce the rating,
though. Theft and riots both reduce the Peace
rating, as does any destruction of property by
barbarians or invaders. The people understand that they live in a dangerous time,
where such evils as barbarians and invaders
exist, but they expect their governor to protect them from it. Any lapse will have a
severe effect on a city's citizens, reducing
the Peace rating significantly. Only prolonged periods of security can bring it back
up.
Favor
our Favor rating shows you what
Caesar thinks of you.
With every new assignment you
begin, your Favor rating starts at 50, which
means that Caesar is neither pleased nor displeased with you. If you please him, the rating rises; if you displease him, the rating falls.
It is important for you to understand that if
you do not come to Caesar's attention at all
in any year, the Favor rating falls slightly; out
of sight, out of mind, out of Favor.
You can please Caesar in several ways:
Make strong progress towards achieving
the overall objectives of the assignment.
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Ignoring a request from him. If you can't
meet his deadline, it's still worthwhile to fulfill the request, although less beneficial than
fulfilling it on time. However, failure to ever
fulfill it is likely to make him very angry
toward you.
Poor cash management. This is the single
easiest way to anger Caesar. He respects
sound use of the funds he has entrusted you
with, but also expects you to make your
cities contribute as soon as possible. Should
he send you any specific instructions regarding your use of Rome's funds, try hard to follow that advice.
If you fall very far (a Favor rating of a meager
10 percent would be far enough, I fear) in
Caesar's favor, he will remove you from
office. He will send an army to enforce that,
ordering the army to stay beside your city for
up to one year. If you manage to please him
enough in that time to raise Favor to 40, the
army will return to Rome. Otherwise, the
army will enter your city to claim back for
Rome what belongs to her, and to place you
under arrest. I would not recommend trying
to fight the army, either; Caesar would not be
amused.
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ousing is probably the single most
important type of building in your
city. It is the source of labor, and
also of crime. It is also one of the best visual
indicators of the progress of your city: as you
provide more of the goods and services that
your citizens want, they upgrade their homes
and enhance the area around them. This is
clear right from the start: instead of building
houses directly, you select an area and designate it for sale, following which immigrants will move in and set up tents. These
tents will hopefully develop into better housing over time.
The house that a citizen lives in determines
his or her income: the better the house, the
higher the income. Fires spread more rapidly
among tents than among more permanent
structures, and crime is more likely to occur
within poorer areas than in wealthier ones. It
is always a good idea, then, to help housing
evolve from its initial tents into good quality.
As housing evolves into better structures, the
number of people who live in the dwelling
changes. Initially, most of the changes are
upwards: more and more people can live in
dwellings as they grow in size. This means
that when you need more workers in your
city, you will usually have two choices: designate some additional land to be used for
housing, or provide the services or goods
that some existing houses need in order to
grow.
This creates space in the newly evolved
houses. People living in cheaper housing
elsewhere in the city automatically move to
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citizens need access is provided by a building. That building generates a worker, who
wanders the streets near his or her place of
work, providing services to all the houses he
or she passes.
If you right-click on a house and are told that
it needs access to a bath-house, for example,
place a bath-house nearby on a road that's
likely to lead the bather to walk by the house
in question. The overlay reports (for more
information see page 160) are often an easy
way to see precisely which route different
workers follow, and hence where you may
need to place another building.
Desirability
esirability is a measure of how nice,
aesthetically, the area immediately
around a house is.
A neighborhood can provide food, water and
manufactured goods, and have good access
to a variety of services, yet still suffer a lack
of desirability. People simply don't like to live
too close to structures that cause noise, dirt,
danger or traffic. Let common sense be your
guide. Would you rather live next to a garden or a pig farm?
Different buildings have substantially different effects on the desirability of the area surrounding them. As you might expect, the
larger the building is, the stronger and farther
reaching its effect is likely to be. Industries,
military buildings and noisier entertainment
structures are all highly undesirable neighbors, as you might expect.
Markets are more unusual: they are bad to
be right next to, yet they have a positive
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a better home when room becomes available, freeing up space in their former homes.
Immigrants usually move into the nowvacant cheaper dwellings, as long as they
find your city attractive (for more details on
Immigration, see page 49).
Eventually, some houses evolve into villas.
This is a significant step. Villa dwellers are
much wealthier people, and can have all
sorts of positive effects on your city, from a
higher Prosperity rating to higher tax income.
But note that far fewer people live in a villa,
so whenever a house evolves into a villa,
quite a few citizens are made homeless; you
will see them dragging their meager belongings behind them as they search for somewhere else in the city to live.
So, how do you foster the growth of a tent
village into a neighborhood of expensive villas? The short answer is to right-click on a
house, and it will tell you what it needs next
in order to evolve.
The things that a house needs fall into two
categories: goods and services, and the quality of the surrounding area. Goods and services are largely what you would expect:
food, water, access to entertainment, education, religion, and so on. The needs change as
citizens become wealthier: rich citizens want
nicer water, a bath, different types of food,
manufactured goods and possibly wine.
They also want access to better education,
more entertainment, more religion, and to
have doctors and barbers close by.
When I say access to I mean that the citizens want these services within easy walking distance. Each of the services to which
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Oh, I nearly forgot: housing that is high up,
and waterfront property are both somewhat
more desirable in and of themselves. People
like living near lakes, rivers and beaches, and
they love the views to be had from higher
ground. Bear this in mind as you think about
your city's master plan.
Give people good jobs, a varied diet, manufactured goods, access to services and pleasant homes. They will do the rest.
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Scribe's Note:
To reach its highest level, housing needs access to a nearby market
supplied with four different foods, pottery, oil, furniture and two
varieties of wine. Regular visits by workers from a bath-house, a doctor's clinic, a barber's shop, a priest of each god's temple, and representatives of a school, academy, library, theater, amphitheater, colosseum and hippodrome are also required. If you can supply all of
these goods, and access to all of these buildings, then reaching the
highest values is simply a matter of enhancing desirability. Rightclick on housing to discover why its growth is stagnant. The panel
that appears shows what the house lacks, or the nearest negative
influence on its desirability.
Plebes will only commute a certain distance to work. They travel
farther on straight roads than on winding ones, but will not walk
great distances. If you create a farm colony or industrial park far
from your urban center, provide cheap, nearby housing for workers.
effect on houses a little further away.
Nobody wants to live right next to a noisy,
smelly place which gets going at the crack of
dawn every day, yet they do want to live
close enough that they can just nip round a
corner to pick up some more wheat when
they run out. Wells also have a mild negative
effect on desirability.
Gardens, temples, oracles, educational institutions, government buildings, governor's
residences, baths, statues and similar buildings all improve a neighborhood's character.
To some extent, you can offset negative
influences on desirability by providing positive ones, but blocks near commercial buildings are unlikely to get much beyond medium values. If a neighborhood stops improving, and its residents complain about its
desirability, give them a new garden, plaza
or statue. If they still aren't happy, look for
unpleasant structures nearby and consider
relocating them elsewhere.
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Gardens and plazas
ardens and plazas share a simple
purpose: They make their surround-
ing neighborhood nicer. Of all the
many things you could live next too, wouldn't gardens be a top choice? Gardens don't
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need road access, a water supply, laborers or
maintenance. They cannot catch fire or collapse.
You can build gardens by placing them one
at a time, or by clicking and dragging a larger area.
Plazas work the same way, except that they
can only be built over paved roads. Even
paved roads are utilitarian, meant purely for
moving traffic as efficiently as possible.
When you replace a road with a plaza, you
cover the plain flat paving stones with mosaic tiles, adding beauty and instilling civic
pride in what was, before, nothing but a busy
thoroughfare. Plazas will not actually reduce
traffic or make the former road any less functional. They merely make a statement about
the value of the properties by which they
pass.
Both gardens and plaza are extremely valuable tools for governors to make their cities
nicer. Both have valuable desirability effects,
and are all the more useful since they can be
placed as a single small plot, or used to fill a
larger area.
Statues
tatues enhance a neighborhood's desirability. Monuments to prominent citi-
zens or noteworthy events show residents that their government cares about their
property values, and provide a pleasing
focus or reference point to a neighborhood.
Statues' effect on desirability increases with
their size.
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hile buildings cover most of the
physical space of any city, the
people who live and work within
these buildings, and who you can see scurrying about the streets, are the life and soul of
a city. In a thriving city, you'll see all kinds of
different types of people wandering around,
from school children to leisurely patricians
and busy workers.
When there are no people in a city, it looks
dead and it really is dead. People give life
to a city. When you first start to build a new
city somewhere, you start by placing some
buildings or housing area; it is only when you
see people moving in and setting about their
lives that you know the city is beginning to
work. For this reason, as you construct more
buildings, be sure to keep a fresh supply of
people coming into your city, to provide
workers to operate those new buildings.
Clearly, these people are absolutely crucial to
the success of your city. You would do well
to look after them. And they love to talk. I
humbly suggest that you talk to them regularly (by right-clicking on them); they often
have important messages about the state of
a city.
Migration: Attracting
people to your city
hen you first start a new city, it has
no population at all. As soon as
you designate an area of land to
be used for housing, some carts should start
to move into your province and set up their
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Scribe's note:
When you see people moving out of your city, right-click on them to
find out why. They will not hesitate to voice their grievances.
you talk to any of your people, they will be
only too happy to tell you what they think of
life; be careful, though, since they love to
moan, and will usually tell you of any problem at all, even if it is minor, given half a
chance. Your Chief Advisor can tell you very
reliably what the overall mood of the people
is at any time.
When immigrants arrive, they bring carts of
their belongings with them, looking for available housing. They will move in to any housing which has space for them. Once they are
settled, if space becomes vacant in a better
house in the city, they automatically move
into it, vacating their old home.
Sometimes houses devolve back to a more
primitive level than they were before. This
can happen if some of their goods or services
are cut off for some reason. This often means
that fewer citizens can fit into the building,
and so some of those who used to live there
become homeless. You will see homeless
people dragging a sack of their belongings
forlornly behind them, trying to find somewhere else to live. If they cannot, they will be
forced to leave your city.
Some of the citzens of your city
homes in this area. They know very little
about you and your style of governing, but
are willing to give you a chance. But after a
small initial group of people (probably up to
100 or so) have moved in, you need to
attract others by the way you govern.
Word about the mood of people in your city
spreads rapidly throughout the region. If your
citizens are pleased with you, then more
people will be keen to come in; if the existing population is upset, new citizens are likely to stay away, and (if they are really angry)
you might even find some of your existing
population moving out. See Page 59 for
more information about the mood of your
population.
Knowing what will make these people happy
in your city is fairly easy: they need food,
jobs, and a place to live. Note that people living in tents expect to find their own food
from the land; if you need more people in
your city but don't have enough food for
them, create an area of cheap housing, with
no facilities, and some immigrants should
move in. If a city has unfilled jobs, food to eat
and space in housing areas, immigrants will
move in unless something else is wrong.
What could be wrong? Understandably, citizens dislike very high tax rates and low
wages. If there has been a lot of sickness in
the city, that, too, could make people think
twice about moving in. Occasionally, you
might find that an angry god has frightened
others away.
Just remember to try to keep your people
happy, with job vacancies and plenty of food
being the two crucial ways of doing this. If
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The health of your people can also affect the
natural changes in population; see Page 52
for more information.
Plebeians, patricians, and
the workforce
here are two classes of Roman citizens. Plebeians (plebes) are the com-
mon people whose daily efforts keep
your city functioning. Patricians are wealthy
aristocrats who don't work; instead, they
spend their days visiting one another, lounging in the baths, attending the theaters and
debating politics, philosophy and art.
In Caesar III, all the people who live in any
house which is not a villa (which will often
mean everyone in your city) are plebes; only
those people living in villas are patricians.
Patricians are very rich, and so pay high
taxes. Having a reasonable number of them
in a city also raises its prosperity. As your
city grows wealthier and more cultured, plebeian apartments eventually begin to evolve
into villas. Note that this will decrease your
workforce, without any reduction in the
number of people you need to feed.
You will soon learn to recognize the various
different people. All of them have a function,
and you can learn about problems the city
may have just by watching some of the people. If you see somebody standing still, for
example, when usually he is active, right
click on him to find out why he's not moving.
Or if you see someone who seems a long
Population growth
mmigration and emigration make the
most dramatic changes in the size of
your population, especially early in the
life of a city. I should mention, though, that
there will be some natural fluctuation in population size due to births and deaths. The
number of births is determined by the number of people of child-bearing age in your
city. People are more likely to die as they get
older, and not many live past the age of 50.
Newborn babies must be housed, of course,
and sometimes this will make someone else
homeless, to make way in his old building for
the new baby.
Your Population Advisor can show you a
useful graph with details of how many people of each age there are in your city. Note
that immigrants of all ages will move into
your city, not simply all young people.
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homes to reach his building. There is a limit
as to how far people are prepared to commute to work, though. Sometimes a building
won't achieve access to labor, even though it
is on a road connected to some housing, if it
is a long way away.
Once a building has access to labor, it asks
the Labor Advisor for some workers. If there
are enough unemployed workers in the city,
they are immediately allocated to that building, and the building will commence operations. If there is a shortage of workers in the
city, though, the Labor Advisor decides
which buildings should receive labor, and
which should not.
You might want to make different decisions
about which structures should have the first
claim to labor, based upon the particular sit-
The Labour Advisor Panel
way out of his or her normal area, try following that person, which may show you what is
wrong.
Your workforce consists of approximately
two thirds of the number of plebeian citizens
between the ages of 22 and 50. Younger
people are studying, (in schools if you have
provided them, otherwise on their own)
while people over the age of 50 are retired.
Employment & Labor
Allocation
lmost every building in your city
needs to employ workers in order to
operate. Even if there are lots of
unemployed workers in your city, a building
cannot employ anyone unless it has access
to labor.
When you build a new structure that
employs people, it sends a recruiter in plain
brown clothing to look for a nearby source of
labor. As soon as that recruiter walks past
housing (which needs to be within two
spaces of the road), he knows that his building has access to labor in other words, that
workers can walk along roads from their
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SCRIBE'S NOTE:
You can see how much unemployment you have right on your city
map. Any citizens sitting idly on the steps around your Senate building are unemployed. One or two people means that there is some,
but not too much, unemployment. Three or more people sitting
around is a sign of high unemployment, which you should try to
avoid.
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There are two types of journey. The first is a
specific journey from point A to point B. For
example, when a wheat farm harvests its
crop, it sends a farm hand with a cart full of
produce to a granary. The farmer tries to take
the most direct route there, and also on his
return journey with the empty cart.
The second type of journey is more like a
patrol. An engineer's post, for example,
sends out an engineer to walk for a certain
distance, repairing any damage in the buildings he passes. Eventually, the engineer
returns to his post. The next engineer sent
out to repair buildings in the area tries to go
in a different direction overall than the last
patrol. This happens four times, with the first
patrol trying to head North, the next East, the
next South, and finally the last one West.
This way, they try to visit all the buildings in
their area.
But note that the more intersections there
are along any one of those patrols, the less
likely it is that the engineer will cover every
building in his area. This means that you may
need to provide more buildings to send out
patrols in areas with complex road networks,
to ensure that all buildings are covered.
People walking along
roads
our city will soon have lots of different people wandering along its roads
and paths. Citizens deliver their
goods or services while walking the city's
streets; understanding how that works is
very important.
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Scribe's note:
Right-click on any building to find out how many people currently
work there, and whether the building has any other needs. Watch the
activity at your industries and trade facilities. When you see workers
moving at half speed or stopping work altogether . . . full or empty
carts standing idle . . . ships moored at your docks with no one loading or unloading them - then you need to define some civic priorities.
There will be many occasions when you have too few workers, especially in the early days of a city. You can either attract new immigrants into your city (see above, Page 49) or set priorities so that
only the work you would like to be done is done. You can also
instruct your Trade Advisor to temporarily cease activity in any of
the industrial or farming operations in your city, which would free up
labor.
uation in the city at that time. You can do this
by visiting your Labor Advisor and setting
some priorities for him, which he will always
follow. If you set fire prevention as your first
priority, for example, and food production as
your second, he will always allocate all the
workers he has initially to fire prevention,
and then to food production. Should there be
any workers remaining after that, he will
allocate them as he thinks best to the other
categories.
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Mood
very governor should be concerned
with the mood of his citizens. If they
are happy, you can take actions that
will benefit the city in the long run, but that
might upset a few citizens in the immediate
future. But taking the same actions when the
population is already in a foul mood could
lead to disaster.
Put simply, the mood of a city is a sense of
how the average citizen is feeling. The mood
of a city is calculated directly from the mood
of each individual dwelling in a city. Your
Chief Advisor will keep you informed about
the overall mood of your citizens. Be warned:
it is quite possible to have a few houses with
unhappy citizens even when the overall
mood is very good.
Mood affects two important mechanisms
within Roman cities: migration and crime.
The overall mood of the city is known to
people for miles around, and affects immigration. New immigrants will want to move
to a city which is pleased with its governor,
but they won't move into an unhappy city at
all. See Immigration on Page 49 for more
details on migration.
Both the overall mood of the city and the
mood of each individual dwelling determine
crime. As mood gets worse, the likelihood of
committing a crime rises.
Crime and migration are very important to a
city's success. For a city to thrive, you need to
know how to improve the mood of your city
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expect anger as a result. You have been
warned!
Governors can improve their citizens' mood
by holding festivals. The larger the festival,
the greater the benefit. For more information
about festivals, see Page 93.
Crime
rime is a direct result of a really ugly
mood in some parts of your city.
When you are warned about crime, or
about the worsening mood in your city, take
it seriously, and try to cure the causes before
crime breaks out.
Remember the distinction between the city's
overall mood, and that of each individual
house. People are influenced by their neighbors, so that the overall mood of a city limits
the effects of even very extreme anger within individual houses. The crime overlay
shows how likely any one house is to commit a crime; the angrier they are, the worse
crime they want to commit.
When a house's inhabitants do grow angry
enough to turn to crime, they plan their crime
based on how angry they are but they will
adjust their crime based on their neighbors'
mood. Specifically, if the city's overall mood
is very good, the worst crime you will suffer
in your city is a mugging, even if the individual house was angry enough to riot. If the
overall city mood is merely average to good,
you might also suffer some thefts. The overall mood of the city needs to be quite poor
before riots actually break out.
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and its citizens. Let common sense guide
you: People with jobs, with enough food,
earning a reasonable wage and paying reasonable taxes are likely to be fairly happy.
High unemployment, a lack of food, high
taxes or low wages all upset people. The
longer any of these conditions lasts, and the
more extreme it is, the greater will be the
effect. So, high taxes for one month worsen
people's moods to a small degree, but the
same tax rate for three or four months has a
much worse effect.
Individual dwellings are easily angered if
they frequently miss rations. This can easily
happen to homes near the end of a market
trader's delivery route. Solve this by placing
a market closer to the troubled homes.
Throughout history, the poorer people of the
world have suffered more than their wealthier neighbors. Roman cities are no exception
to this sad rule, and the people know it.
When a city first gets going, many of its citizens probably live in tents. Conditions there
are not very good, but nobody complains
because they all share the same conditions,
hopes and goals.
As the city develops, though, some housing
evolves into better dwellings, with better living conditions. Any people still living in tents
expect their governor to provide for them,
too, allowing them to upgrade their tents into
nicer property. If that does not happen,
despite lots of services being made available
to a few now very wealthy houses, the tent
dwellers become justifiably angry. Be fair,
and your city will thrive. But if you leave
some people in extremely poor conditions
while looking after the rest, you should
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Riots
riot occurs when a group of very
angry citizens decides to demonstrate their anger through violence.
You will start to see groups of angry, torchcarrying citizens collecting on the streets in
parts of the city where the mood is ugliest.
When they work themselves into a frenzy,
the mob moves from their own area toward
a nicer part of your city, where they set fire
to your buildings. Remember, too, that fire
can spread, which can worsen the problems
further.
If the mob is not dealt with, it continues to
roam your city, setting fire to buildings. One
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Scribe's note:
Use the Risks Overlay to identify areas that are experiencing high
crime rates. You'll notice that poor neighborhoods have the most
crime. For more information about Overlays, please turn to page
160.
Muggings don't affect your Peace rating. Each theft, though, reduces
Peace slightly. Riots, being almost complete breakdowns in law and
order, lower your Peace rating by quite a lot.
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The most minor crimes are personal assaults,
or what the people call muggings.
Muggings are unfortunate, but they don't
affect the city itself. If the occasional mugging is the worst that your people have to
contend with, your city has no serious crime
problem. Your advisors will not even notify
you of these crimes, deeming them too petty
and a waste of your precious time. You might
notice a citizen standing on the street, waving a torch, angry and about to commit a
mugging. Take this as a warning that the
people's mood could be better, though there
is no real damage caused directly to your
city by these assaults. If a prefect is near one
of these angry torch wavers, he will immediately approach the criminal, and persuade
him with force if need be not to commit
the crime.
If conditions don't improve, though, the
mood of your people may worsen. Theft is
the next step in a criminal career, and is a
clear sign of greater anger at the poor quality of city life. Theft strikes right at your treasury, as thieves rob your tax collectors or
break into the treasure vaults beneath your
Senate and forums, stealing some or all of
the money stored there. You will be told of
any thefts that occur, and you should react
swiftly to improve people's mood before
things worsen.
Should you ignore the warnings, or your
actions take too long to improve things, you
may encounter riots. Riots are the worst kind
of crime, and can be ugly. This is one of the
worst threats a governor can face, and I will
tell you momentarily how to deal with riots.
The best way to deal with crime, as I have
said, is to improve the city's mood. A happy
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city is a crime-free city, as my Greek tutor
used to say. But, even with the best intentions, governors sometimes must make difficult decisions which on occasion may allow
a certain level of crime to arise. In these situations, the city's own watchmen, the prefects, are needed.
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on page 93). Grand festivals take too long to
prepare, and small ones might not raise happiness enough to head off the riot.
Reduce unemployment quickly. The preferred way to do this is to build some new
industries, farms or other large employers. If
you lack the money for that, use a more drastic approach. Destroy some low-quality
housing, to encourage emigration. It is a
heartless thing to say, but it is better to eliminate poor housing than to let rioters burn
other structures.
Make more food available, importing it
from abroad if you have to. Read about food
distribution starting on page 116 and Trade
on page 129.
Raise the wages you pay.
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of the most unfortunate aspects of riots is
their natural tendency to increase: as some
buildings are destroyed, vital services to the
rest of your city can be cut off, which can
anger more of your citizens, perhaps adding
further to the mobs roaming the streets.
Prefects will fearlessly approach rioters, and
their training is such that they will defeat any
rioter in a one-to-one fight. However, if a
lone prefect faces more than one rioter, he
will struggle, and might himself be killed. In
riot situations, try to gather groups of prefects together as a kind of Riot Police.
Remember that while some prefects deal
with the rioters, fires are burning; ideally,
therefore, you would have enough prefects
to allow some to put out the flames while
others apprehend the mob.
If riots do break out, it is a good idea to build
six or eight prefectures close to the riot area,
to provide the extra prefects you need to
bring the situation under rapid control. Do
not build the extra prefectures so close to the
rioters that they are likely to burn the new
structures down. You might also wish to
instruct your Labor Advisor to set Security &
Fire Prevention as the top priority for labor
allocation.
Riots are very bad news. Here are some
measures you can take to prevent them taking place at all. Use them as soon as you start
to get warnings about worsening mood:
Reduce your tax rate to the lowest level
you can get away with even zero, if you
can afford it, and certainly below 5 percent.
Plan a large festival. (Read about festivals
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Prefectures need road access and labor, but
have a negative effect on the desirability of a
small area around them.
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Prefectures and Fire
refectures are small buildings which
train employees to be prefects, or
watchmen. These prefects are sent out
to patrol the streets near the prefecture. As
they pass a building, they put out any loose
sparks or dangerous cooking fires they find,
reducing the risk of that building catching
fire. The longer a building goes without being
passed by a prefect, the more likely it is to
catch fire. The Risk of Fire overlay report
shows this very clearly (see Page 160 for
more information about Overlays.)
When buildings do catch fire, whether naturally or from a criminal's torch, nearby prefects spring into action. They grab the nearest buckets of water that they can find, then
carry them to the burning structure and
throw the water over the fire to put out the
flames. A larger burning building needs more
water, and takes longer to put out, than a
smaller one.
Fires spread very easily, so it is important to
put them out as soon as possible. The best
way to do this is to have a good number of
prefectures scattered throughout your city,
which should ensure that whenever a fire
does break out, a prefect will be close
enough to put it out quickly.
Prefects can't prevent crime, but they do play
a critical role in resolving crime when it does
break out. If a prefect sees angry citizens
protesting on the street, he approaches them
and persuades them to cease their protests.
If the prefect encounters rioters, he will
attack and kill them.
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Engineering
oman engineers are crucial to the
success of our cities and Empire. Our
roads are the finest anywhere in the
world. Without the efforts of hard-working
engineers, our civilization would be impossible.
As city governor, engineers are key for you,
in that they will carry out repairs and maintenance work on your city's buildings.
Without this work, your buildings will quite
simply collapse.
Engineering posts are small structures that
train people as engineers, then send them
out to patrol the area nearby. As the engineers pass each building (actually, any building within two spaces of the road), they
repair any faults they find there, preventing
the building from collapsing.
You should build engineer's posts throughout
your city, scattered around to ensure that
they cover all your buildings.
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SCRIBE'S NOTE:
Use the Risks overlay to spot buildings in danger of collapse. Order
your Labor Advisor to assign a high priority to Engineering, so that
your engineer's posts work at their full potential. A functioning
engineer's post flies a blue flag.
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Roads and paths are essential to the smooth
running of your city. Your citizens refuse to
walk on anything else (although immigrants
are less fussy).
New roads begin as dirt paths, just like the
one crossing your province at the beginning
of the assignment. As the desirability of the
area around the path grows, your citizens
will automatically widen and pave these
paths into true roads.
You can further enhance a road by building
plaza on top of it. Although this can be quite
expensive, it is extremely sought after by
your citizens; the desirability of an area rises
significantly where you build plazas on top of
roads.
Almost every structure you can build must
connect to a road, which means having at
least one piece of road adjacent to at least
one piece of the building. Buildings without
road access can neither recruit nor send out
employees (wells, fountains, aqueducts,
reservoirs and forts are the only exception to
this rule, and do not need road access to
receive their allocation of labor).
All people who deliver their services as they
walk along roads can only deliver these services to buildings very close to the road. This
applies to a wide variety of people, including
prefects, engineers, market traders, bathers
and entertainers. Structures placed too far
from a road will not receive the benefits of
other buildings' workers as they walk by.
Long, straight roads are better for traffic flow
than are short ones with many intersections.
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Some structures don't need maintenance by
engineers. These are:
Reservoirs, aqueducts, fountains and
wells;
Walls, towers and forts;
Gardens and statues.
Engineering posts don't affect the desirability
of nearby housing.
Paths & Roads
ong ago, Rome settled on straight
streets and rectangular blocks as the
most efficient urban layout, and you
are encouraged to plan your city accordingly.
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through your province by the river's current.
Your engineers have designed two clever
bridges, which are adaptable to different
sizes of river. One is cheap and can be built
in many places, but does not permit ships to
pass underneath it, while the other is sturdier
and taller, does allow ships to pass underneath, and is understandably more expensive. Pedestrians will walk happily over both
types of bridge, even with carts.
Note that rivers may only be bridged at certain points, usually where there are two fairly straight, even river banks opposite one
another, enabling your engineers' construction methods to hold.
Dock
ocks allow trading by water, by providing a place for ships to offload
their goods and stock up with new
goods.
There are limits as to where docks can be
built: they need waterfront along one side,
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Bridges & Water
Transport
ll provinces have natural water
sources, whether they be lakes or
rivers. Many provinces feature a
river which can be used for trade: you can
spot this river from the flotsam which floats
on the surface of the river, and is carried
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Scribe's Note:
Bridges don't affect the desirability of nearby housing.
You can see from the Empire Map whether there are any cities with
which you might want to trade by sea. If there are, don't build a low
bridge over the river, or you'll block the passage of sea merchants. If
your province has no sea-route trade partners, then it doesn't need
docks, and this doesn't matter. Build either type of bridge wherever it
suits you. Pius gets to trade on page 129.
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Every time citizens reach an intersection,
they must choose which direction to go in.
This means that you have far more control
over where people will walk when there are
fewer intersections on your roads. If a citizen
finds his path blocked, he turns around and
goes back the way he came.
Scribe's note:
Houses need to be within two squares of a road. All other buildings
that require road access must actually touch a road.
You can build roads one segment at a time by clicking individually on
each square the road will run through, or you can drag a road as far
as you want.
To drag a road, choose the road tool and click where you want the
road to begin with your left mouse button. Holding the mouse button down, move your cursor across the screen over the route your
new road will take. The total cost of building that length of road follows the cursor. When you release the mouse button, the whole road
is built and your treasury pays the cost.
If the whole road disappears while you're dragging it across the map,
some obstacle is blocking the road's route. Build the road up to that
point, switch to the dig tool, remove the obstruction, then resume
laying your road.
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Ship Bridge
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Shipyard and Wharf
shipyard builds fishing boats. The
fishing boats operate from a wharf.
If you see seagulls circling over a patch of
water, then your province is blessed with
fish. Fish take the place of animal meat in
your people's diet. For more detail about
food, see Page 111.
If your province contains fish, build a shipyard located on the same body of water that
has the fishing grounds (the circling seagulls). The shipyard needs road access and
employees to work, and each fishing boat
requires three cart-loads of timber to build.
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Scribe's Note:
Once a ship moors at the dock, it remains tied up there until it has
off-loaded all the goods it is selling to your city, and has received all
the goods sitting in warehouses ready to be exported by sea. That
can take a rather long time, especially if the warehouse with the
goods for export is a long way from the dock. Building extra warehouses near the dock can speed this process up, and thereby allow
you to do a lot more trade.
Only one ship at a time may moor at a dock. If you are planning to
do a large volume of trade by sea, you may need to build several
docks. Docks make highly undesirable residential neighbors.
which means you have to find a straight
stretch of river wide enough to fit a dock. The
building is placed half on land and half over
the riverbank.
Docks employ workers. Some of these operate cranes to haul goods on and off each
ship; others take those goods in a cart to a
nearby warehouse, or collect goods for
export from the warehouses where they are
stored. These cart pushers will walk all over
your province, if they must. As you can
imagine, that would take a long time, and all
the while the ship is sitting in your dock, idle.
A dock really should have a warehouse nearby, therefore, to accept imports and to provide it with exports. (For more on warehouses, see page 116.)
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To run a fishing industry, you also need at
least one wharf. Your fishermen work out of
the wharf, not the shipyard. As soon as a
boat is finished at the shipyard, it will sail
over to a vacant wharf.
Each wharf can service one fishing boat. As
long as the wharf has labor access and
enough laborers, a fishing boat puts into the
wharf to take on a crew, then sails to the
fishing grounds. When its hold is full, the boat
returns to the nearest wharf to unload its
catch. As soon as it's unloaded, the boat
returns to the fishing grounds. Wharf workers
take the unloaded catch to the nearest granary, if there is one with space, or warehouse.
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Scribe's Note:
The shipyard and the wharf both need good road access, a labor supply, and regular maintenance by engineers and prefects. They are, as
you would expect, highly undesirable neighbors.
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ducation is a large part of what separates Romans from barbarians, and
passes our culture along to new gener-
ations.
School, Academy and
Library
hree educational establishments may
be built in your cities: schools, academies, and libraries.
In order to evolve, even fairly basic houses
need the services of a nearby educational
establishment. The more evolved the house
becomes, the greater its need for access to
more education; very advanced housing
requires access to all three educational buildings. For more on house evolution, see Page
41.
Besides giving individual houses access to
education buildings, the city has a more general duty to educate young people. The total
number of people of school age (up to 13
years' old) and academy age (14 to 21 years'
old) in your population determines your
overall demand for schools and academies.
For fast-growing, newer cities, the number of
educational establishments needed to allow
housing to evolve is probably more than
enough to educate all the children. Once the
city grows substantially, though, your city
probably has many more youths to educate
than are served by the schools and academies you built just to provide access for
housing. You might need to build additional
educational establishments.
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The overall supply of education in your city
affects your Culture rating. Classroom size is
the key to raising the education component
of your Culture rating: smaller classrooms (as
calculated from the number of school- or
academy-aged children and the number of
working schools or academies in your city)
yield a much higher Culture rating. Failure to
educate all the people of relevant age hurts
your city's Culture rating. One school can
educate 50 pupils, while one academy can
educate 100.
Adults want access to libraries throughout
their lives; one library can serve 800 people.
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Scribe's Note:
Consult your Education Advisor at any time to see how many citizens fall into each school-age category, and how many students your
educational facilities can handle. Use the Population Advisor's
Census graph to view your city's age composition.
Due to the noise and antics of young children, schools slightly
reduce the desirability of property next door to them. Academies and
libraries exert a somewhat larger positive influence on desirability. All
three buildings need labor and road access.
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owever wealthy we become, however ambitious our plans, however
well-fed and happy our citizenry,
we are but mortals. We ignore the gods at
our peril. If anyone ever had the arrogance to
found a city without religious structures, history has forgotten the attempt.
The gods
ive gods should concern you. Each has
his or her own area of interest, and
they all crave adoration from you and
your people. Build temples to make them
pleased with you. When you build a temple,
you are asked to select a god to dedicate it
to.
Roman gods are jealous, however, and grow
angry if you build too few temples for the
size of your city, or if you dedicate fewer
temples to them than to the other gods. If
you anger the gods, they will make you and
your city suffer.
The gods will each send you a mild disaster
if you upset them. Take this as a warning. If
you continue to treat them without respect,
they become truly wrathful, and send you a
serious disaster. Each god can make you suffer in a unique way.
The gods are by no means all bad, though.
Should you particularly please any of them,
they might bestow signs of gratitude on you,
again each in their own special way.
You can also dedicate a festival to one of the
gods, which causes it to think better of you.
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How well you give your citizens access to
places of worship affects your city's Culture
rating. Each religious structure has a capacity. Your Culture rating suffers if more people
want to use each temple or oracle than its
capacity allows. You have been warned!
Consult your Religion Advisor to find out
what each god thinks of you. If you see lightning bolt symbols beside the word expressing a god's feeling towards you, it's time to
act. The more lightning bolts there are, the
more likely the god is to act out his or her
anger. One or two bolts mean that you
should have time to appease them. If four or
five bolts are displayed, you might not be
able to appease them in time to avert disaster. Of course, any action that you take to
please them will serve you well in the future
anyway.
Temples
ach temple is dedicated to one specific god, who derives pleasure from see-
ing the temple devoted to him or her.
Temples also improve a neighborhood's
desirability and enhance your city's Culture
rating. Temples employ priests, who bestow
access to their patron god as they walk
around their local area. The very best neighborhoods need visits from priests of at least
four different gods.
You can build both large and small temples.
Larger temples are more expensive, but satisfy their god to a greater extent than a small
temple; they also have a much greater effect
on desirability than do small temples.
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See Page 93 for more information about festivals.
Ceres is the goddess of agriculture. Since everybody needs to
eat, keeping her favor is a very
good idea. Her moods can
affect whether people eat
abundantly, or starve.
Neptune, the god of the sea,
watches over the province's
sailors, both on trade ships
and fishing boats. People say
that Neptune's temper causes mighty storms.
Mercury is the god of commerce. All citizens who
engage in commerce or industry expect you to honor
Mercury, especially if their produce is precious to you.
Mars, the god of war, watches over your soldiers. If they
feel that Mars is withholding
protection, your legions
might be less reliable when
you most need them.
Venus is the goddess of love.
When Venus is unhappy, she is
apt to share the feeling with
your citizens, noticeably
depressing the mood of your
city. She has also been known
to play with citizens' health.
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Large Temple
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The Oracle
racles are a special type of temple,
dedicated to all the gods. They pro-
vide the same benefits as temples
enhanced desirability and a higher Culture
rating while pleasing all gods equally. It can
get quite expensive, and take up a lot of
land, to build all the temples you need in an
area to keep the gods happy. Oracles solve
that, by pleasing all the gods with far less
physical space and less cash investment
than an equivalent number of temples would
take. This makes oracles especially powerful
and useful.
As is usually the case when something
sounds too good to be true, oracles do have
a down side. To build an oracle, you need
supplies of marble. Not every assignment
will have marble available, and those that do
might require you to import it at a fair price.
Furthermore, oracles do not send out priests
to minister to the population. The oracle's
role is simply to honor the gods, and provide
a place for citizens to come and worship
their gods.
Religion
Scribe's note
Consult your Religion Advisor to check your city's standing with the
gods. If any are angry with you, build them more temples. If that's
impractical, or you need to pacify a particular god quickly, hold a festival in that god's honor. Pius speaks more of festivals on page 93.
Each oracle or large temple that you build needs two tons of marble.
Read about marble on page 124.
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ife should never be all work, even for
plebes. Again and again, Roman history has shown rulers the wisdom of pro-
viding diversions for their people.
Venues and Performer
Schools
ou can provide various forms of
entertainment in your cities. You
must build both the venue where a
show takes place, and a base for the entertainers who will perform there. Larger
venues allow more spectators to watch.
Venues, in order of increasing size, are the
theater, the amphitheater, the colosseum
and the hippodrome. Actors are trained at an
actors' colony; gladiators learn their skills at
a gladiator school; lions are tamed at a lion
house; and charioteers are trained, and their
chariots built, at a charioteer school.
Just building the venue alone has a very
small benefit, as long as it has road access
and employees. Without performers, the
venue's staff becomes a little desperate, and
tries to entertain people there themselves
though the results are barely better than
nothing at all.
Each performer school trains specialists to
entertain the crowds. Once trained, the performers walk to suitable venues, where they
put on a show for a set period of time. After
that time runs out, the show is over. Unless
another performer has started a new show,
the entertainment value given by that venue
falls.
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Theater
omans find life unlivable without reg-
ular access to plays, concerts and
recitations set in well-designed theaters and amphitheaters. Theaters tend to
attract literate, cultured audiences, and are
desirable neighbors. Theaters host only plays
staged by actors.
Amphitheater and
Colosseum
mphitheaters also host plays staged
by actors. While some plebeians
appreciate fine arts and the classics,
they are more likely to prefer the arenas.
Amphitheaters can also be used for gladiatorial fights, which help satisfy the people's
love of dangerous entertainment. A fullyemployed amphitheater should have both
actors and gladiators.
The colosseum holds gladiatorial combats,
just as the amphitheater does. Colosseums
are also large enough to add animal shows to
their repertoire. The Roman Empire's foreign
expeditions often bring back fierce, exotic
animals lions being a prominent example.
People have a lusty appreciation for fights
between animals and gladiators. Fights
between different animals are always a big
draw; what better way to spend a relaxing
afternoon than the exhilaration of watching
lions and gladiators fight to the death?
Hippodrome
hariot racing is the only form of entertainment more popular than colosseum shows. A hippodrome, like
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Colosseum
Entertainers walking through the streets let
houses know that they have access to entertainment. If a house is quite close to an
active venue with lots of current shows, but
no performer walks past it, the house gains
no benefit.
Performers are often strange people who
make undesirable neighbors. Actors are the
only exception to this: their drama is considered to be of such a high level that their presence adds a mild boost to an area's desirability. Noise and danger, coupled with the
stench of blood, make gladiator schools, lion
houses and charioteer schools bad for an
area's desirability.
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Scribe's Note:
A performer school frequently supplies entertainers to more than
one venue. Pay some attention to this, for it is easy to keep building
new venues, thinking that the existing performers will be enough.
Right click on venues for up-to-date information on what shows
they are putting on, and check the entertainment overlays for each
type of entertainment to see whether you need to build any more
performer schools.
Try building performer schools some distance away from the venues,
forcing performers to walk through some housing areas to get to the
venues, to obtain maximum entertainment coverage.
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Working theaters with active shows boost your Culture rating. No
other form of entertainment affects the Culture rating.
The city has an "overall" need for entertainment, beyond that needed
to provide access for individual houses. It is perfectly possible for
more citizens to have access to a venue than could ever possibly fit
inside it! Good overall coverage enhances the entertainment available
to each individual neighborhood.
The Entertainment Advisor can show you how many of each type of
amusement are working, how many total shows are available, how
many citizens are served and the overall adequacy of entertainment.
If any type of venue is rated "below average" or "poor," use the
Entertainment overlay to decide where to erect new buildings.
Rome's Circus Maximus, is an enormous
structure, and no city can support more than
one. The structure requires more engineering
talent than is available in early assignments.
Chariot races have a long, distinguished history. The very fact that we use the old Greek
word hippodrome, which means horse
racetrack, reflects the ancient origins of this
spectacle.
The hippodrome is highly prized by your citizens, since it is such a grand and expensive
structure that very few cities have one. Your
people will feel more prosperous if you build
one for them.
Colosseums and the hippodrome are undesirable neighbors. Citizens enjoy the performances but dislike having all of that traffic
through their neighborhoods, not to mention
the noise and trash. Amphitheaters often get
the newest and most popular plays, and
make desirable neighbors despite their size.
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Festivals
omans have always loved festivals.
Even when a city has plenty of enter-
tainment, there's usually precious little time to enjoy it. A festival provides more
time for a city's hard-working citizens to
enjoy the facilities offered, or simply to eat,
drink and be merry. Festivals always improve
citizens' mood, and more so for larger festivals. This means that people work harder,
making up for any time lost during the festival itself.
You may plan a small, large, or grand festival; the larger ones cost more, and take
longer to plan, but yield greater benefits. The
grand festival also requires you to provide
enough wine for all your people; if you do
not have enough wine for this, you will not
be able to hold a grand festival.
Festivals make citizens and gods alike
happy. When you plan your celebration, you
choose a god to honor, and that god is
pleased when the festival occurs.
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Festivals take some time to prepare. Try to remember to hold one
regularly, and don't wait for a crisis to remind you. A festival can
avert divine anger and take people's minds off their grievances, it's
true. But if you wait until one is desperately needed, the gods might
strike, or the people take up torches, while you are still preparing the
party.
You will not benefit as much from the second (or any subsequent)
festival you hold within the same year.
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oman citizens usually enjoy good
health, assuming that they have a
varied diet and see a doctor regularly.
They are also very particular about keeping
themselves clean. Your city can build some
structures to help the public ward off disease.
If your people become unhealthy, they
become more susceptible to disease. When
they become diseased, they need treatment
by a hospital. If there is no room in a hospital
at that time, they will die.
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and Barber
ccess to public baths and regular
barbering matter greatly to Roman
people, though they contribute more
to their social well being than their health.
Baths and barbers contribute to the desirability of any area, and their services are needed
by better housing. Citizens like to spend as
much time at the baths as they can, after all,
and who wants a long walk home after being
pleasantly cleansed and relaxed?
Both structures require road access and
employees; the bath-house also needs supplies of water, via the underground pipes
connected to a reservoir.
Doctor's Clinic and
Hospital
octor's clinics are small and employ
few staff. They train doctors, and
send them out to check up on the
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not be taken in by the hospital, unfortunately, will die.
Disease understandably sours the mood of
your citizens somewhat.
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health of the people living nearby. Their role
is completely preventative, and they are
quite successful most of the time at keeping
disease from breaking out.
Hospitals are larger than clinics, and employ
more staff. They are needed if, despite your
best health policies, disease does break out.
One hospital cures a small number of people
at a time, which should be ample for small
city populations. Larger cities need more
hospitals. Your Health Advisor will tell you if
you need more hospitals.
If hospitals do not have their full allocation of
staff, they can only cure a reduced number of
patients. For every member of staff they are
missing, they are able to cure one less
patient.
Clinics do not affect the desirability of an
area. Hospitals have a minor negative effect
on the desirability of the immediate area,
probably due to the smell and presence of
diseased people.
Disease
f people cannot eat full rations, their
strength wanes, and they are more like-
ly to fall ill. If they are not seen regularly
by a doctor, their chance of getting sick rises
further. Occasionally, travelers bring disease
to your city despite your best preventative
efforts. Venus has also been known to send
plagues upon a city which has incurred her
wrath.
When disease strikes, a certain number of
people fall sick. If there is space for them in
hospitals, they will be cured. Those who can-
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n your city, you are the government.
Your role is to direct the construction of
a city within your province, according to
any guidelines and objectives given you by
Caesar. Government is also expected to
ensure a steady food supply, to provide
watchmen (prefects) to protect against fire
and crime, and to provide defense against
any hostile barbarians. (A barbarian is anyone who is not Roman). You carry out these
roles yourself with the help, when you want
it, of your various advisors.
All this government activity costs money,
which must come from somewhere. Tax revenue is one of the two main sources of funds
for any city (the other being trade). Tax collection is the ugly side of government;
unpopular but necessary. No one enjoys paying taxes, although everyone appreciates the
services that their taxes buy.
The Senate
The Senate building is the city's main
administrative structure. It houses
your advisors, who maintain banners
outside indicating the city's main four ratings: Culture, Prosperity, Peace and Favor, in
that order. As the city progresses, these flags
rise or fall to reflect your performance, so
you won't need to visit your Ratings Advisor
to see how well you are faring.
Unemployed people like to sit around on the
Senate's steps, where they know that they're
more visible to their governor. When you see
people lounging on the steps of the Senate,
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Triumphal arch
ome knows no greater splendor than
the Triumph of a general returning
from campaign, with his victorious
troops escorting thousands of prisoners in
chains and wagon after wagon of booty
through the city. For generations, Romans
have commemorated these Triumphs by
building arches on the Via Sacra, Rome's
greatest road.
The triumphal arch is the most impressive
monument that your city can build. These
structures are dedicated to successful military campaigns, and so as governor you may
order one built in your city only when one of
your armies has returned victorious from a
battle in some distant province. An arch dramatically boosts the desirability of the surrounding neighborhood.
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Scribe's note:
Because the Senate and forums usually have money in their vaults,
invaders, rioters and criminals often target these structures.
Each figure on the Senate steps represents 5 percent unemployment.
When you hold your mouse cursor over the Senate building, a white
text box shows some of your city's vital statistics.
To gauge the need for forums in the city, visit your Finances Advisor.
If the proportion of citizens registered for taxes falls much below
100 percent, use the Commerce: Taxes overlay to find houses that
aren't paying their fair share, and consider building a new forum
somewhere nearby. Some very poor neighborhoods won't owe much
in taxes anyway, and you will have to weigh whether or not they are
worth building a forum. You might decide that 90 percent tax registration is high enough, if the 10 percent who aren't registered are
mostly tent-dwellers.
your city has at least some unemployment.
The more people there are, the more unemployment you have.
The Senate also employs tax collectors to
walk through nearby neighborhoods collecting taxes due. (see Tax, below). The Senate's
coffers store the money until it is transferred
to your treasury at year's end. The Senate is
a nicely maintained building and a center of
wealth and power, and therefore a very
desirable neighbor indeed.
Being such a grand building, the Senate is
costly to build and requires many employees
to function at capacity. It is nevertheless
wise to build it fairly early in your city's life.
Besides generating some tax revenue, it is
often at the heart of the nicer district at the
center of your city, and it gives you an easy
view of information that's valuable to your
city's progress right from its early days.
No city can ever have more than one Senate
building.
Forum
he forum is a satellite office of the
government, usually found in outlying
neighborhoods. Its particular task is to
send out tax collectors, raising revenues
from areas too far from the Senate's own collection routes.
There is no limit on the number of forums
your city may build. Because forums make
desirable neighbors, many governors include
a new one whenever they expand the city's
residential areas.
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Costs, and Controlling
Them
ities have all too many uses for
money. Constructing new buildings is
usually the biggest expense, especially in periods of growth for a city. It is very
easy to simply build whatever you wish to
build without considering its cost. Remember
that some buildings cost significantly more
to build than others. Wages are usually the
next largest expense. Other costs include
interest on any debt owed to Rome, your
own salary, the cost of any goods your city
imports, the tribute due to Rome, and sundry
expenses like festivals or thefts..
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Scribe's note:
If your city finds itself in a poor financial state, you would be well
advised to pay urgent attention to improving things. There are several ways to do this:
· Stop constructing new buildings, or build only structures that will
boost your city's cash flow. One or two buildings (like forums, or a
dock to allow exports, or something that will allow some housing to
evolve to a higher level and hence pay more taxes) might actually
bring in more money very quickly.
· Raise taxes. This has obvious negative effects on the mood of the
city, but, especially for a short while, can bring in substantial additional funds.
· Reduce wages. Although it won't make you popular, this action can
save money in one of your city's biggest expense categories and, for a
short while, can prove extremely useful.
Money
oney is strange stuff. With
absolutely no intrinsic value, its
sole purpose is to acquire other
things. It is a means, not an end. And so it
will be with your cities. Money is never a
specific goal for city governors, and yet all
must manage it wisely if they are to succeed
at the goals they have been set.
The Emperor grants you a generous sum to
found your colony, but that will run out all
too soon. When it does, your city had better
be generating a profit, or be very near to
doing so. Caesar might sometimes come to
your aid with supplemental funds, if your
assignment is particularly important to the
Empire. And he will often secure permission
from Rome's senate for you to run a temporary deficit.
This is a lifeline, but one which can be dangerous to your future. The city pays interest
of 10 percent on any negative balance, making it that much harder to earn a profit. And,
if worse comes to worst and you still owe
money when your credit line expires well,
hope that you do not. Your Favor rating falls
whenever Caesar has to rescue you from
financial trouble.
Apart from the initial sum you are given to
invest in a new city, and possible additional
investments if Rome thinks it appropriate,
your city can raise money from two sources:
taxing its people, and exporting its products.
Provinces vary in their industrial resources,
but export income is frequently extremely
significant. Always make a point of seeing
how to make some profits from exports (see
Trade, page 129).
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people happy and can thereby help lure
immigrants, although they can make it hard
for your city to pay its bills each month.
In each assignment, you'll figure out the best
tax rate for your governing style. Remember
this, though: You will rarely raise enough
funds for a truly great city just by taxing your
citizens. You are going to have to master
industrial production and trade before your
city can generate real wealth.
Tribute
he tribute is a payment to Rome.
Think of it as Rome's return on their
investment in your new city.
It will be a happy day for your province when
Caesar begins to take tribute from you, for
then you will know that you are contributing
to the advancement of the Empire! All of
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· Sell goods. While this is something you should normally do anyway,
there may be times when you need to sell more than you perhaps
would like to. Maybe your housing can wait a little longer for that
pottery or furniture.
· Stop buying imported goods. Frequently, imports are used for luxuries, such as a more varied diet, or olive oil. Interrupting the flow of
imported luxuries for brief periods can save you a good deal of
money without unduly inconveniencing your citizens.
Taxes
axes are levied on citizens' income,
which is measured by how nice their
housing is. As a house evolves, its
inhabitants pay more tax. Villa inhabitants
(patricians) pay very large amounts of tax.
But nobody pays any tax at all unless a tax
collector walks past the house to register it
and collect the tax. Tax collectors are trained
and employed by your city's Senate, and by
its forums. Your Financial Advisor can
change the income tax rate upon your
instructions.
Tax collectors take the money they gather
back to the Senate or the forum that employs
them. The money is stored in that building's
vaults until the end of the year, when it is
transferred to your main treasury. The money
in these temporary vaults is included in your
treasury's total and can be spent as if it were
already in the treasury, but it is vulnerable to
theft (see Crime, page 59).
People are quite sensitive to the city's tax
rate. High taxes might bring you more cash
quickly, but they also put people in a bad
mood and hence encourage them to emigrate. Low taxes, on the other hand, make
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Scribe's note:
Gifts to the Emperor set a dangerous precedent. The more money
you send Caesar, the more he grows to expect - and he might be
insulted if your gifts don't grow in size. You can boost your Favor
rating with gifts, sure. But unless you can sustain a pattern of giving,
you might ultimately lose more Favor than you gain . . . not to mention the money!
Governor's residence
t is fitting that the governor of a great
city should live in an appropriate style.
You are free to spend your own savings
on a home, and there are several to choose
from, depending on how much money you
want to spend and how much space you
want to take up.
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Rome's provinces pay tribute, to contribute
their share toward expanding and protecting
the Empire, and to repay Rome's initial
investment in opening up the new province.
Caesar understands that some provinces can
afford to pay more tribute than others, and
he takes many factors into account when
calculating how much tribute is due. The
more profitable and advanced your city is,
the more tribute your Emperor expects it to
pay.
You can't affect the amount of tribute that
Caesar charges your treasury, nor can you
refuse to pay it. Tribute is collected once a
year, and the Emperor expects your treasury
to have the denarii on hand when the bill
comes due. Inability to pay tribute lowers
your Favor rating.
Your Rank and Salary
aesar permits governors to pay themselves a monthly salary from their
province's revenues. Rome gives your
province a sum of money to begin a new
city, and sometimes offers cash bailouts or
credits. It also automatically pays you a
modest wage. This allows you to accumulate
wealth outside of your city's treasury. Your
personal savings travel with you from one
assignment to the next.
You always hold a rank in the Empire. When
you successfully complete an assignment,
Caesar usually promotes you to a higher
rank. Higher ranks merit higher salaries. You
can pay yourself any salary that you think
your city can afford, but you will automatically be paid the salary appropriate to your
rank. Paying yourself a salary above your
rank might anger important people in Rome.
Personal wealth can come in extremely
handy.
Sometimes, you might want to donate
money from your personal savings to your
city's treasury. A couple of hundred denarii
from your own pocket can be a wise investment in your city's future, if it prevents you
from incurring Rome's wrath by needing
more funds from them.
Additionally, Caesar always welcomes gifts
from his governors. Any time you decide to
send Caesar money from your private
account, you will rise in his Favor.
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The governor's residence differs from all
other buildings in one way: Its cost comes
directly out of your personal savings. (See
Money, page 99).
The governor's home is always one of the
smartest areas of a city, popular with all
manner of social climbers and other snobs.
The larger and more expensive your governor's residence is, the more desirability it
imparts to its surroundings.
Note, too, that the quality of the governor's
residence affects the overall prosperity of a
city. Your residence is in some sense a mark
of how prosperous the city is; a very prosperous city is unlikely to have a governor living in some small shack, and a city with no
governor's residence at all will never achieve
much in the way of Prosperity. (See Ratings,
page 33).
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Food
ood: Your people quite literally can't
live without it. If you provide them
with enough to live on, your citizens'
mood will improve steadily. Should their
rations fall short, though, and their mood will
rapidly deteriorate. This can lead to emigration and crime.
Tent dwellers are the only people who do not
rely on city granaries to survive. These poor
people like to scrounge a living from the
land. Everyone else, though, depends on you
to feed them.
You will usually have several ways of providing food: growing food on farms, importing it from other provinces, or fishing. Each
province has its own natural resources,
which determine what you can produce
there.
You need to obtain food (usually by farming
or importing), store it, and then distribute it.
For details of how to import any good, including food, please see the chapter on Trade,
which starts on Page 129.
People will eat wheat, fruit, vegetables, meat
and fish. Meat and fish are both cut up and
stored as steaks. Wheat is by far the most
common food type, and is the most efficient
to grow: a wheat farm can feed twice as
many people as any other food farm. (In
practice, this means that a wheat farm will
grow and harvest its crop twice as fast as
other farms).
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Farming
ince you are unlikely to attract many
people to your city without food, farm-
ing should be your top priority at the
start of a new assignment (unless Rome is
providing food for the province, which you
will be told in the Assignment Briefing).
Not all land is fertile enough for farming. You
can spot farmland by its yellow tufts in
amongst more normal terrain; on the
overview map (on your Control Panel) the
fertile land is also yellow. You can build a
farm anywhere there is space for it, so long
as at least one square of it covers fertile land.
This applies to all farms, including pig farms.
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Scribe's note:
In case Pius hasn't made the point clearly enough, let me remind you:
food distribution is fundamental to a successful city. Full bellies will
go a very long way to keeping your citizens on your side.
It is very possible for your city to have enough food overall, but for
it not to reach all your houses.
· Use the food overlay to see if any houses are being missed by your
market traders.
· If you have a residential area some way from your farming district,
you may well need a new granary to store food closer by your housing. Use the granary's special instructions to ensure that it maintains
its own supply of food.
· Remember that all food is distributed by markets; if some houses
are requesting additional food types, make sure that a granary nearby
has supplies of a second or third type of food. Again, use the granary's special instructions if you need to.
Most people are quite content with a simple
diet of one food type. In order for housing to
evolve to some of its higher levels, though,
inhabitants want more variety in their diet:
initially a second food type, and then, for
even higher levels of housing, a third type.
One standard cart full of food contains 100
units, each of which feeds one person for
one month. A cartload of food, then, feeds
100 people for a month. If your city has
1,000 residents, it consumes ten cartloads of
food each month.
All food to be eaten is stored in granaries. As
the granary fills up, its windows will fill up
visually, so you can see at a glance how full
each granary is. Your city can also store food
in warehouses, but this will never be eaten
directly. Any food at warehouses is deemed
to be for export; farms only deliver their food
to a warehouse if there is no working granary
with space for the food.
Market traders make frequent trips to granaries to collect food. The market trader usually collects more food at the granary than
she can carry herself, so a trail of granary
boys helps her carry baskets of food back to
the market.
Once a market has food, its traders go out
delivering it to houses nearby. The market
traders drop enough food to last each house
several months, so long as their market has
enough.
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A farm cannot harvest its crops until the
empty cart has returned from its last trip,
since it has nowhere to store the harvested
crops. This means that your farm production
will fall if carts frequently have to make long
journeys, and this could mean that you end
up having to build more farms than you really need. Planning where to build warehouses
and granaries becomes very important.
Food farms always send their produce to a
granary, if they can. If there is no working
granary with any space, though, the farm's
cart takes the goods to a warehouse instead.
If there is no working warehouse with space
either, the full cart of fresh food waits outside
the farm until destination for its produce
opens up.
No province enjoys the ideal climate for raising all four food types, so you probably will
not be able to grow all of your population's
food needs. Citizens don't consider that to be
a good excuse for restricting their diets.
Therefore, you will very probably have to
import one or more types of food if you are
to enable your citizens to reach higher levels
of housing.
Scribe's note:
Farms need roads connecting them to their workforce and to their
customers, and of course farms need maintenance by prefects and
engineers.
Olive and vine farms deliver their crops to oil and wine workshops,
respectively, if there are any, or to a warehouse if not.
Wheat, vegetable and pig farms are undesirable neighbors. Fruit,
olive and vine farms, though, slightly increase the desirability of
nearby housing.
Some provinces have more farmland than
others, but few have so much that you don't
need to use it carefully. Treat farmland with
respect, and don't build non-farm structures
on it unless you really need to.
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Wheat farms are twice as productive as the
other food types. That is, a wheat farm will
usually produce a cartload of food twice as
quickly as any other farm. I say usually, since
the cooler climate of some Northern
provinces does not allow such generous
yields.
Farms need employees to work, and road
access. They will operate less efficiently if
they have less staff than they need, and they
won't operate at all with no staff. Once a
farm starts operating, you will see its fields
growing crops or raising animals. Once the
crop is fully grown and ripe, the farm harvests it and puts the produce into a cart,
which carries it off to a granary or warehouse.
Scribe's note:
Identify farmland by yellow tufts of vegetation on the map. If you're
not sure whether a particular patch of land is fertile or not, choose a
farm from the building buttons and move your cursor over the map.
The cursor displays a red diamond when it moves over land that you
cannot build upon, and changes to a ghostly green image of the farm
when it passes over fertile land.
Four types of farm produce food: wheat, vegetable, fruit and pig.
Some provinces can also support olive or vine farms; these crops are
not suitable for eating, but instead are used for making olive oil and
wine (see Industry, on page 122, for more information).
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Farms and fishing wharves always try to take
their food to a granary, even if this means a
longer journey than to a warehouse.
Merchants from foreign provinces visit your
city's warehouses to see if there are any
goods there which they can buy. They normally assume that anything stored at a warehouse is for sale. This lets you select a level
of food storage with which you are comfortable, just by building as many granaries as
you feel your city needs. If a granary
becomes less than half full, a warehouse
holding food automatically sends a cart of
food back to the granary.
One granary holds enough food to feed
2,400 people for one month. So a city with a
population of 3,000 people would need four
granaries to store enough food to last everyone for three months, with a little left over.
Scribe's note:
Granaries and warehouses are undesirable neighbors. They need good
road access to the farms, industries or merchants that supply them,
and to the markets that distribute their goods. Like most buildings,
they also need laborers and regular visits from prefects and engineers.
If a granary or warehouse can hire only half or fewer of the workers
it needs, it only distributes the goods already stored in it - it won't
accept new deliveries. You can tell how full a granary or warehouse is
at a glance, or right-click on it to discover exactly what it holds.
Both buildings are animated when they are operating, so if you don't
see any activity, you know that there must be a problem; right-click
on them to find out what the problem is.
Storage and
Distribution: Granaries,
Warehouses & Markets
granary is merely a large structure
that centrally stores the output of all
of your food farms and fishing boats
for later distribution. Did I really say merely? I certainly don't mean to belittle the
importance of granaries! Without at least
one, no one can eat. Your enemies know this
as well as you do. Invaders often try to
destroy granaries if they get past your city
defenses. Rioters might do the same, especially if they're rioting because of lack of
food.
A warehouse is a large structure that stores
any goods at all: food, raw materials or manufactured goods. All imports are delivered to
a warehouse (see trade on page 129 for
more information), and all goods produced
by workshops are automatically taken to a
warehouse. The citizens working at warehouses are usually quite intelligent, and will
realize when a workshop needs materials
which are being stored at the warehouse;
they will automatically send their cart with
the materials to the workshop.
Warehouses and granaries are quite similar,
in that they are both used to store produce.
Granaries only store food, though they will
store any type of food, not just wheat.
Market traders seeking food for their customers can only get it from granaries, never
from warehouses. If you have no food in a
granary, markets cannot distribute food to
your city's people.
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ing to refuse something, the words Not
accepting appear in front of the balance button, along with a big X. A structure with
orders to refuse something still ships its
inventory out normally. This lets you keep
goods only in the places where you want
them to be.
Request food (available only in granaries) tells farms, other warehouses or granaries to send the food type you have chosen to this granary. Use this to supply granaries far from farms with food. The building
which sends the goods uses its own cart,
which is often piled high with more than a
normal cartload of goods. The words
Requesting Food appear beside the balance
button, along with a picture of a cart.
Maintain Level applies only to warehouses. The warehouse tries to maintain four
cartloads of the good in stock. If its stocks fall
below four, it requests more from all other
warehouses, and from the supplier of that
good (a workshop, usually). Suppliers send
their goods to the Maintaining warehouse
before they take it anywhere else.
If more than one building has Request Food
or Maintain Level orders for the same commodity, sources will take their goods to the
nearest one of the requesting buildings that
is working and has space available.
The panel that appears when you right-click
on a granary or warehouse also has a button
marked Empty. This orders the structure
not to accept any more goods, and to try to
send whatever is stored there elsewhere. Of
course, your city will need empty space in
other granaries or warehouses to accept the
Special orders
ranaries and warehouses are set up
to work with very little intervention
from you, so that you can spend your
time on more pressing matters.
However, there may be times when you wish
to take more control of your goods. You
might want to store a large quantity of one
good in order to send it to the Emperor, for
example, or you may wish to ensure that a
granary near an important housing area
receives a regular supply of food even
though it is a long way from your farms.
You can issue special instructions to any
warehouse or granary to give you this sort of
control. Right-click on a granary or warehouse to access the Special Orders button,
which lets you manage the flow of food and
goods. Most of these special orders relate
only to goods that you specify.
When you click this button, you see a list of
the commodities that the structure trades in.
After each item, there's a button that looks
like a balance scale. Click the balance button
to choose one of these three options:
Accept goods is the building's natural
condition. When the word in front of the balance button says Accepting, it means that
the granary or warehouse is taking deliveries
of that particular good normally. It also ships
that commodity out normally. This effectively means that no special orders affect that
good.
Refuse goods tells the warehouse or
granary not to accept any future deliveries of
that commodity. When you order the build-
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ranaries bursting with food, and
warehouses bulging with commodi-
ties, are useless without markets to
distribute them throughout the neighborhoods. Only tent-dwellers can live without
market access, because they forage for their
food.
Housing never evolves very far without market access. Incorporate a market into any
neighborhood that you expect to contain
nicer homes. Beware of placing markets too
near your best areas, because people have
funny attitudes toward them. Everyone
wants the services that a market renders, but
no one wants to live next door to one. Traffic
and noise make markets undesirable neighbors when they're too close by. Citizens want
the convenience of nearby shopping without
the annoyance of living in a commercial
area.
Markets employ two types of worker:
Buyers, who walk from the market to nearby
warehouses and granaries to obtain goods
for resale, and sellers, who peddle these
same goods throughout the city. A market
should be near the neighborhoods that will
form its customers. Sellers can only carry so
much with them before they run out of goods
and need return to the market for more.
As your city's houses evolve, some will begin
to request more products than just food.
Initially, they will want pottery, then furniture, olive oil, a more varied diet, and wine.
When a house is held back just by the lack of
one of these items, it tells its market trader
that it wants the good. The market then
contents of the structure you ordered to
empty.
Warehouses have another button marked
Make Trade Center. A warehouse designated as a trade center is the preferred destination for merchants to unload their imports. If
your trade center is full or isn't working, merchants take their goods to the working warehouse with empty space that's closest to
your trade center. The city can only have one
trade center at a time, so telling a new warehouse to become the trade center automatically cancels the status of the warehouse
that previously held that distinction. The first
warehouse you build in a new city automatically becomes the trade center.
One last special instruction is at your disposal. You can tell your whole city to Stockpile
a good, meaning that you will neither distribute it through your markets nor export it.
This is especially useful when Caesar
requests a shipment of some good. To issue
this order, visit your Trade Advisor, click on
the relevant good, then click the Stockpile
button.
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It can take quite a long time for a worker to haul everything away
from a structure with "Empty" orders, especially if the nearest storage facility with vacant space is on the other side of town. If the
worker can't find any empty warehouse space to receive the goods,
he will stand there with a full cart until some space opens up somewhere. A structure with orders to empty will sell or distribute its
contents normally.
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not worth as much as the product that can be
made from it.
Every industry has two steps: obtaining the
raw materials, and processing them. Workers
in raw materials plants produce large quantities of their resource. Turning raw materials
into finished products is done at workshops,
and is more labor-intensive. Each raw material facility produces enough to keep two
workshops busy.
Each raw material can be processed into a
product as follows:
Olives Olive oil
Grapes Wine
Clay Pottery
Timber Furniture
Iron ore Weapons
No province can mine or generate all these
raw materials, but all have some. Sometimes
you will be able to import a raw material
even if you cannot generate it within the
province. Wherever you have access to a
raw material, you will also be able to build
the appropriate workshop to convert it into a
product.
When a raw material facility has generated
one cart load of material, it sends a worker
with the cart to an appropriate workshop, if
one exists, and if not, to the nearest operating warehouse with space.
sends its buyer out to get it from a city warehouse, if possible. Once the buyer brings supplies of the item back to her market, the seller can supply it to only those houses that
need it.
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Market buyers and sellers look identical, and you need not distinguish between them. When you first build a new market, the buyer
and the seller appear to walk randomly until they have something to
do, but they soon sort out their roles and perform them without
intervention from you.
The buyer looks for a nearby granary with food. Once she finds it,
she will travel between the granary and her market to keep the market supplied. The seller walks through all the residential areas that
she can reach, asking the customers on her route what they desire.
She returns to the market and loads up on those goods that the
buyer was able to obtain, and then walks a route to distribute them.
When the seller's customers start requesting goods other than food,
the buyer looks for a nearby warehouse that supplies them.
All of this buying and selling takes place as private transactions, with
no effect on your treasury.
Markets distribute wheat, meat, fruit, vegetables, wine, oil and furniture, assuming that those are all available from a granary or warehouse. Busy markets evolve as time goes on.
Industry
aw materials are resources which can
be processed into something more
valuable. You can export the raw
material itself if you have an appropriate
trade route open for it, but the raw material is
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Workshops
he work done in workshops is more
skilled than that in raw material facil-
ities, and requires a lot more time.
Thus, a raw material generator working at
full capacity will produce two carts full of
materials in the time that a workshop produces just one cartload of finished goods.
You will always see some visual signs of
activity at workshops that have both
employees and raw materials. If workshops
look idle, they lack one or the other.
Production of finished goods always works
the same way. Raw materials are extracted
or harvested, then taken to a waiting workshop. When the workshop finishes producing
a load, a worker emerges and wheels the
completed goods to the nearest warehouse
that has space available.
Scribe's note:
Workshops can store some extra raw materials on their grounds,
which helps to even out their production. Like most industries,
workshops make undesirable neighbors. They need good road access
to their workforce, to the raw material producer that supplies them,
and to the warehouse that takes their output.
Oil, Pottery and
Furniture
hen oil workshops receive olives
from an olive farm, they make oil.
Clay pits take clay to pottery
Clay Pit, Iron Mine and
Timber Yard
lay pits must be established close to a
body of water. Their work force digs
clay for conversion to pottery. Iron mines can
only be sunk near rock outcroppings; their
workers mine iron to make into weapons.
Timber yards need to be near a stand of
trees, and their output is used to make furniture.
All of these raw material facilities need a
nearby source of workers, and easy road
access to the appropriate workshop. They
are all undesirable neighbors for housing.
Marble
arble is slightly different. Like iron
mines, marble quarries must be
adjacent to a rock outcropping.
Unlike all other raw materials, though, marble
does not go to a workshop. Its main use is in
the construction of oracles and large temples: you cannot build these structures
unless you have marble in your warehouses.
That doesn't mean that marble is useless
apart from these buildings. Although it cannot be processed into anything else, architectural-grade marble is a valuable commodity. Few provinces can quarry marble, and it
is widely demanded throughout the Empire.
If your city is lucky enough to be able to
extract marble from the rocks, you probably
have an easy source of high export income.
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Weapons
roduce weapons the same way you
make any other commodity. Open iron
mines to get raw material for weapon
workshops, which take their finished goods
to warehouses.
Ordinary citizens don't demand weapons,
nor would you want to supply them if they
did! Weapons are often most valuable as
exports.
If you wish to build a fort and train legionaries, you will need weapons: each soldier
requires one cartload of weapons. The
weapons are taken to barracks, where the
recruits are trained how to use them.
Auxiliary troops, though, do not require
weapons; they make do with whatever they
can find themselves.
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Scribe's note:
You don't have to keep track of types of wine. As long as you're getting wine from at least two different sources - only one of which can
be local - your markets automatically balance the varieties. As long as
a particular market has wine to sell, and your city has two different
wine or grape sources, then that market sells both varieties.
Patricians can go for short periods without wine, but if your supplies
run dry for more than three months they will leave, and their homes
will revert to plebeian housing.
If wine were always forbidden to plebes, none would want to live in
the provinces. They drink as much of it as they are allowed to have.
When you hold a Grand Festival you must make wine available to
everyone in the city; the wine is then removed automatically from
your warehouses.
workshops, which produce pottery. Timber
yards send their output to furniture workshops, which of course make furniture.
Oil, pottery and furniture all have two uses.
You can export them for a profit, or hold onto
them for local distribution through a market.
Your own citizens need pottery, oil and furniture before they will build really nice housing. Neighborhoods just stop improving until
their residents can obtain these commodities
from a nearby market. If your province can't
produce pottery, oil and furniture, you will
have to import them before housing can
evolve to its full potential.
Wine
ake wine like any other processed
good. Farmers bring grapes from a
vines farm to a wine workshop.
Wine is a valuable export commodity and a
good thing to have in one's warehouses. It
has a special role for your own people, too.
Plebes are not allowed to drink wine as part
of their normal diet. Wine is restricted to
patricians, who consider it such a necessity
that they will not establish villas in your city
unless it is available.
To see the most expensive villas, you will
need (amongst other things) to make at least
two types of wine available. This simply
means that there need to be two sources of
grapes, perhaps one grown locally and the
other imported, or both imported from different places. It is equally acceptable to import
the wine itself from two sources if you prefer,
rather than importing grapes and then making the wine locally.
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rade is the main activity of the Roman
Empire, and its profits are arguably the
biggest reason for our many con-
quests.
Your province doesn't exist in isolation.
Residents of other cities throughout the
Empire have the same desires as do your
own citizens. You can make a lot of money
by selling them the goods that your farms
and industries produce, and keep your own
citizens happy by buying goods which they
desire but which your own province does not
produce itself.
To start trading, you first need to open a
trade route. Go to your Empire Map, and
click on one of the cities near your own.
Those which are happy to trade with you will
tell you what goods they would like to buy or
sell. It costs some money to open any trade
route. Some trade routes are over land, while
others use the sea. The route appears on the
Empire Map after you open it, and you will
be able to see whether it crosses land or sea.
When you click a city on the Empire Map to
see which goods a foreign city will trade with
you, you also see a number of baskets next
to each commodity. These indicate how
much trade the city is willing to do in each
good during any given year. One basket displayed above a good indicates a small supply (about 15 cartloads per year), two baskets mean medium (about 25 carts per year),
and three signify a strong supply (40 carts
annually). If a city has a large surplus of wine,
but only a small surplus of pottery, for example, it will sell you more wine than pottery.
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you may tell him only to sell any cartloads of
the good over a level you are comfortable
with. This protects your own city's needs.
If you instruct your Trade Advisor to allow
imports of a good, he looks after how much
should be imported, without you needing to
get involved.
All imported goods are dropped off at your
trade center, if possible. A trade center is
simply a warehouse which you designate as
such (the first warehouse you build is automatically your trade center. To make a different warehouse the trade center, select the
Trade Center special instruction from its
right-click information panel). A city can only
have one trade center, so appointing a new
warehouse as trade center automatically
changes the status of the previous one.
If your trade center is full, or if a merchant
wants to deliver a good that your trade cen-
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These amounts represent annual quantities.
After you sell a city its limit of a good, it will
not buy any more from you until the next
calendar year. These levels of supply and
demand remain fairly constant. A message
will notify you if they change, which they do
from time to time.
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Click the Empire Map button. Your city flies a golden eagle on a
black background. Trading cities have red flags. Other cities are not
interested in trading with you; ignore them.
Click on any city with a red trade flag. Under the city's name, you'll
see what it will buy, and what you can import from it. Click on all
available trading cities and study your options. You'd like to find a
trading partner that will buy everything that you can produce,
although you're not likely to be so lucky. Look for a city that will
buy commodities that you're already producing.
When you've decided which city to trade with, click the button that
shows the trade route's price. The cost of opening the route is
deducted from your treasury.
Trade by sea is impossible without docks, which you should build on
the coast of your active river (the one with the flotsam floating
downstream). You don't have to build trade ships. Private merchants
provide the transportation. All you need do is provide a dock, without any low bridges blocking ship passage downstream of it.
No trade actually takes place until you
instruct your Trade Advisor which goods you
are willing to buy or sell. If you don't do this,
some merchants might leave your city without supplies of some basic essentials! You
can instruct your Trade Advisor to simply
allow any exports of a good, or if you prefer
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ter has been given special instructions not to
accept, imports are taken to the warehouse
with space closest to the trade center.
Once a trade route is open, merchant boats
or caravans pass through your province. If
you have goods for export stored in a warehouse, a land merchant stops at the warehouse to buy the goods. As the goods disappear from the warehouse, you can see your
city's cash balance rise; very rewarding! Sea
merchants work quite similarly, except that
they land at your dock, then send the dock's
cart pushers over to collect the goods from
the relevant warehouse.
A boat can store twice as much as a land caravan. Each carries many cartloads of produce.
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Trade can move in two directions. The same
caravans or trading ships that come to collect your city's exports can also deliver
imports. You might need to buy marble, for
example, so that you can build oracles. If
your city can't grow all four food types, you
may want to import the ones that you lack.
Trade
Scribe's note:
Go to your Trade Advisor (you can visit him automatically when you
open a new route). Click on the commodity you want to export. Its
panel has a button that says "not trading." Click that button, and it
says "Export goods over 0." That means your warehouses will sell
their entire inventory. To keep some of that commodity for your
own markets, use the arrow button to choose a quantity. If you
change "0" to "2," then your warehouses try to keep two cart loads in
stock for your market buyers.
Scribe's note:
To import goods, click the same button you used to set exports. If
the commodity is available for import, the button text now reads
"Importing." You can't simultaneously import and export the same
commodity.
Your treasury pays for imports when they arrive at a warehouse, and
receives payment for exports when they leave the warehouse. For
seaborne routes, payments are made when goods arrive at or depart
from the docks.
Caesar might ask you to supply something
you normally wouldn't produce; if he
requests weapons, for instance, and your
province has no iron mines, you'll want to
import iron so that you can make weapons
to satisfy the Emperor.
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ome's innovative distribution system
for fresh drinking water is admired
and copied throughout the civilized
world. The only building in your city that
actually needs water to function is the bathhouse. People can survive by drawing water
directly from nearby lakes and rivers. They
will never build very nice homes, though,
unless you supply clean drinking water to
the city's nicer neighborhoods.
All water-related buildings and structures are
unique in that, even where they require
labor, they do not need road access. The
water protects them from fire, and they are
built well enough that they will not collapse
due to a lack of engineering maintenance.
Note that the bath-house, although it uses
water, is not a water dispenser, and absolutely needs road access, and prefect and engineer maintenance.
Well
well provides access to the fresh
water deep underground, which
allows people to collect water much
closer to their homes, thus avoiding the long
journey to the river or lake. Wells thus please
citizens enough to allow some small
improvement to housing very nearby.
Unfortunately, wells still involve quite a bit of
hard work, hauling pails of water up from the
bottom, so inhabitants of modest housing or
better will not put up with just a well.
The advantages to wells are that they may
be built anywhere, and they are quite cheap.
If you are creating a housing area purely to
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When you build a reservoir, you will see its
ghostly image attached to your mouse pointer. The image appears full if the site has
access to water, or empty if not.
Especially in larger cities, you will often want
to provide fountains and bath-houses far
from the province's lake or river. To move
water far inland, you can build an aqueduct,
one of Rome's finest engineering achievements. Aqueducts are tall, open pipes which
use gravity to carry water from a reservoir
with a water supply to a second reservoir,
which has no other source. You can link several reservoirs together with a chain of aqueducts if you need to. Aqueducts can twist
and turn as much as necessary to follow the
land's contours and fit your city plan, but
they can't cross or intersect with each other.
Roads can pass under them. There is no limit
to an aqueduct's length.
Reservoirs require labor to operate, though
aqueducts do not.
Reservoirs are huge, hulking structures that
lower the desirability of surrounding homes.
Aqueducts are comparatively graceful, and
don't reduce housing's desirability as much.
Neither structure needs road access.
Scribe's note:
Use the Water Overlay to see a reservoir's pipe access, which looks
like a concrete grid. You can build fountains and bath-houses anywhere within this grid. A blue shaded area surrounds functioning
wells and fountains. Housing built within the shaded area has access
to that water type. Expect a slight delay between building a new
water structure and seeing it on the Water Overlay. Your Labor
provide nearby labor for a farming or industrial outpost, well water is a generous gesture. It can also be a useful temporary measure where labor is short.
Wells have a small negative effect on the
desirability of the area around them.
Fountain
here you want citizens to upgrade
their homes into rather nice
dwellings, provide them with
access to fresh water from a fountain.
Fountains receive their sweet water from
reservoirs. Reservoirs automatically come
with underground pipes surrounding them,
and fountains have to be built within a reservoir's pipe area to be supplied with water.
Fountains supply a reasonably large area
around them with their water. They don't
affect the desirability of their surrounding
area.
Reservoir and Aqueduct
eservoirs are large structures, which
store water for use by cities.
A reservoir next to a water source, like a lake
or a river, visibly fills with water so long as it
has enough labor. New reservoirs come with
a network of underground pipes that bathhouses and fountains both need. By themselves, reservoirs don't slake anyone's thirst;
they merely feed water into the pipes that
surround them.
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Advisor has to recruit new water workers before the structures can
supply water.
Use either of these two methods to link a second reservoir to your
first one:
· Choose "Aqueduct" from the water buildings button and actually
build it one segment at a time, or click and drag as you would a road.
Then build a reservoir at the end of your new aqueduct. The aqueduct has to attach to the points in the middle of one of the reservoir's sides.
· Or, choose reservoir from the water buildings button, then click on
the original reservoir and drag your cursor to the spot where you'd
like to build a second one. An aqueduct stretches between the first
reservoir and the ghosted one attached to your cursor. This aqueduct
tries to follow a straight line between the original and new reservoirs,
curving around any obstacles. Release the mouse button to build the
new reservoir and its connecting aqueduct.
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noticed your look of disappointment
when I told you that one of Caesar's
measures of success is a Peace rating.
Your family's long history of military genius
is well known in Rome. Your father and
grandfather both have triumphal arches on
the Via Sacra, but you won't find any lavish
monuments to capable governors there. How
can you attain comparable glory, when your
concerns revolve around such everyday
things as roads and granaries?
You have chosen a career as a governor, not
a general, so you will not embark on campaigns of conquest. Only the Emperor can
make foreign policy. If you tried to order your
legions into action outside your province,
Caesar would consider that an act of civil
war if your centurions would even obey
such an order. You have no authority to start
wars.
However, Caesar knows only too well that
you cannot avoid conflict entirely.
Sometimes, your duty to protect your citizens from violence might require you to
command legions of soldiers to defend your
province. Your authority to defend yourself is
quite broad.
You have some control over your level of
military involvement when Caesar lets you
choose assignments. Usually, you are offered
a more dangerous or a more peaceful
province. If you want to follow in your forebears' martial footsteps, choose the more
dangerous option.
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Although walls need neither road access nor
maintenance, towers do need road access so
the guards can find their way there swiftly.
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Scribe's note:
You can build walls one segment at a time, or create large sections of
wall all at once. Click on the map where you want the wall to begin,
then, holding down the left mouse button, "drag" the wall to its end,
just as you would do with a road or aqueduct. Watch the cost: it can
mount quite rapidly.
If an assignment is in a somewhat dangerous province, reserve space
around the city's edge for walls, even if you don't actually build them
right away. Land is seldom so scarce that you need to build right up
to the border of your province.
Towers can never be free-standing; they must be built on top of
walls.
You do not need to issue orders to tower guards, who are trained to
fight automatically when needed.
Gatehouse
ou can build a pretty impressive
defense with walls and towers.
Unfortunately, from the military viewpoint anyway, Roman citizens and traders
expect freedom in their comings and goings.
That means that you have to provide openings in your defenses.
Now, these doors can be as simple as leaving a gap in the wall. Of course, when
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he easiest way to keep enemies away
is to enclose your city in walls. Not
even fine Roman walls, built of earth
and stone, are immune to attack. A determined enemy will eventually break through
even the best wall. But walls can be built as
thick as you have the money and space for,
and thick walls can take a very long time to
penetrate.
Even a thin wall, easily battered down by a
determined enemy, delays invaders from
swarming into your town, or persuades them
to attack a different location, which might
lead them to a less important part of your
city.
But walls are rarely built alone. Most cities
place towers at regular intervals along their
walls. Each tower can employ guards to
patrol the walls, launching a volley of
javelins towards any enemy who dares come
within range. The guards also man a ballista, a powerful catapult-like machine that
fires heavy arrows situated on top of each
tower. A ballista is powerful, and extremely
useful for taking out attacking elephants or
chariots.
The guards must be trained at a barracks
before they report for duty. Once they arrive
at a tower, they man its ballista and patrol
the walls, assuming that the walls are two (or
more) segments thick. A single-thickness
wall gives guards no space to walk along.
Tower guards won't abandon the city's
defensive works even if invaders break
through the walls.
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itself. Remember that people grow extremely uneasy if barbarians penetrate the city and
destroy even a single building.
Since the earliest days of Empire, Roman
Emperors have been wary of their generals,
and have frowned heavily on basing soldiers
in Rome. In the outer provinces, this is natural anyway: Forts house legions to move
around the map and fight where they are
needed, and this is much better done outside
a city than within. Additionally, citizens are
frightened by the danger of forts, and strongly dislike living near soldiers, with their
coarse behavior. Forts are best sited far outside the city walls.
A province may have up to six forts. Each
fort houses one legion, consisting of a single
unit type: Legionaries, the classic Roman
heavy infantry; Auxiliaries, lightly armored
troops armed with throwing pila (a deadly
form of javelin); or Cavalry, lightly armored,
mounted auxiliary troops armed with
swords. You choose which unit type to base
there when you build the fort.
When the legion is at its fort, it can receive
new recruits to replace any losses or bring it
up to full strength. All its troops gradually
recuperate health and gain morale while at
the fort. New soldiers are recruited from the
non-working portion of a city's population,
since the rigors of military life do not allow
for the fluid allocation required by the Labor
Advisor. This means that soldiers continue to
maintain their homes in the city, and eat
rations, even while away at their forts.
Soldiers draw their pay from your treasury,
but recruiting them doesn't reduce your labor
force.
invaders see these openings, they will probably concentrate their attacks there. More
commonly, governors build gatehouses at all
of the city's entry and exit points.
Gatehouses are strong, protected by several
sets of thick doors and walls, and are unlikely to be the subject of direct attacks themselves. Gatehouses confer one very useful
benefit unrelated to their defensive role:
Citizens don't like to venture outside the city
itself unless they have to, so most stop and
turn around when they reach a gatehouse.
The only people who will venture into the
wilds of your outer province are merchants,
migrants, and friendly soldiers following
orders.
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Your city must have at least one entrance, and one exit. Leave openings, ideally where the path through your province that was there
when you first arrived runs through your city. This is the route merchants and immigrants like to use.
Gatehouses require road access; how else could people use them to
enter and depart your province?
Fort
hen an enemy force is small or
primitive, walls and towers might
be enough to repel the invasion.
But it would be foolish to rely solely on walls
and towers if you face a real threat of invasion. Build forts to station legions around the
province, far outside the city; these legions
can patrol the area, and fight battles to prevent the invaders ever coming near the city
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It takes time to train new soldiers. When the
barracks trains a new soldier, you will see
him make his way through your city to his
post. Soldiers are trained, and graduate, individually, rather than waiting for the rest of
their unit.
Military Academy
military academy puts ordinary soldiers through a grueling program of
advanced training. All soldiers (but
not wall guards) who graduate from the barracks attend the military academy, if one is
operating in your city. This prolongs their
training somewhat, but improves the quality
of the soldiers who graduate. The training is
so good that it has a 100 percent pass
record.
One advanced troop formation is only available to legions who were trained in the military academy. (See below for more information).
If your city's enemies are just primitive barbarians or weaker formal armies, normal barracks-trained troops are probably all you'll
need for victory. If there's a chance that you
will face better equipped and organized enemies, give your soldiers the advantages of
military academy training.
Scribe's note:
Both the barracks and the military academy are normal city buildings, needing road access, labor and regular maintenance. Forts, on
the other hand, are so undesirable as neighbors that you need to keep
them well away from the rest of your city. They need neither road
access nor labor.
The legion remains in its fort until you order
it to move elsewhere (see below,
Commanding Legions, for more information).
Barracks
he barracks is where new employees
of both towers and military legions
are trained to be soldiers. Each city
can have just one barracks.
The barracks needs employees to work as
trainers. Your Labor Advisor must assign
labor to Military duty if guards are to man
towers and walls, but soldiers will report to
your forts regardless of his work orders.
Barracks need road access and the usual
maintenance services.
As soon as the barracks has labor, it can train
recruits. When a new tower has labor access,
it requests guards from the barracks, which
give priority to training wall guards over
troops for your legions. Forts also request
recruits as soon as they are built. Legionaries
are the top-priority troop type to be delivered, followed by auxiliary infantry and then
auxiliary cavalry.
Legionaries, but not either type of auxiliary,
require one cart full of weapons per soldier
to provide the heavy armor and weapons so
critical to their power. When you build a
legionary fort, the barracks orders weapons
from your warehouses. A legion contains 16
soldiers, so the barracks tries to keep 16
carts of weapons on hand to rapidly equip
new legionaries. Few soldiers anywhere in
the world can match a trained Roman
legionary. Experience has shown the value of
being prepared!
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All Roman soldiers are trained in line and
column formations, and you may also order
your men to mop up any enemy, which can
be useful towards the end of a battle when
there are just a few enemy stragglers left,
scattered around.
Lines and columns can be either close or
open, which describes how compact the
formation is. A close formation is much
stronger, but covers less ground. An open
formation disperses the same number of
men over a larger area, reducing their
strength somewhat.
Attacks on the flanks (sides), or especially
the rear of a unit are much more deadly than
head-on attacks, as you would expect. Wide
lines of troops have considerable value, as it
is harder for an enemy to move around their
flanks.
Commanding Roman
legions
ou can raise an army of legions consisting of three types of soldier:
Legionaries: Slow because of their strong
armor and heavy weapons, these men make
the best hand-to-hand fighters.
Auxiliary cavalry: With little armor, light
swords, and no stirrups (which have not been
invented yet), these soldiers are highly
mobile, if somewhat more vulnerable and
less deadly. Use them to shock and weaken
enemy formations, and perhaps take on hostile missile troops. Avoid enemy heavy
infantry!
Auxiliary Infantry: With light armor and
poor hand-to-hand combat skills, these
troops rely on their speed and ability to strike
from a distance. Their main use is throwing
pila (deadly Roman javelins) at enemy lines,
inflicting casualties and reducing morale
before they meet Roman lines.
There are only two orders you need to command your legions: Move to somewhere, or
change formation.
To order any legion to move, click on its
standard. Your mouse pointer becomes a
dagger. Click again on the destination you
would like the legion to move to. Their standard jumps to that location, and the troops
start marching there. Right-click directly on
the legion to issue formation orders. You can
also issue more strategic-level orders to your
troops through your Military Advisor (see
page 160).
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What to expect in battle
lmost all the battles you face will
take place within your province.
Occasionally, Caesar might request
the help of your legions in defeating some
far-off enemy of Rome; without such instructions from the Emperor, your legions stay
within the borders of your province.
Battles in your province
hen invaders attack your
province, they rapidly assess your
military strength and devise a
plan of attack. If you have legions, organized
enemy armies draw their troops up into formations, then advance against your men.
Rabble like Gauls, Celts or Goths just mass
into a crowd and charge your legions. Form
your defensive lines in the enemy's path
quickly, preferably far from the city walls:
Your legions exist to prevent enemies from
reaching the city.
If you've garrisoned your forts with enough
quality soldiers, and you use sensible tactics,
you should win the day. Your legions will kill
or drive away all the invaders, then return to
their forts to replace their losses and restore
their strength. Victory in battle improves
their morale, making them that much
stronger for the next fight.
Should you lose the battle, or some enemy
invaders manage to sneak past your lines,
your city's walls and towers are the next line
of defense. The enemy has to break through
while tower guards try to defeat them with
javelins and ballista missiles. You are help-
Legionaries the Roman heavy infantry
who graduate from the military academy
learn to use a narrower, deeper square formation, four men deep by four wide. This is
stronger than the shallower formations,
although it obviously spans less width. Its
real advantage comes when the legion is
under missile attack. The legion automatically assumes the Roman tortoise formation.
The men face all sides and hold their shields
out, edge to edge, making them almost
invulnerable to missiles.
Roman soldiers are highly disciplined. They
maintain their formation and stand their
ground as long as their morale remains high.
If morale falls too low, a unit will scatter
away from the front line. If its morale falls
even further, the soldiers try to return to their
fort, and will refuse to leave it until their
morale recovers. Better-trained soldiers can
keep their morale up longer, and nothing
raises it quite like victory on the battlefield.
Strong discipline and formations are the historical key to the success of Rome's legions.
Units in formation keep their standards
taught and unmoving. As their morale falls
and their formations weaken, their standard
begins to flutter.
Our stronger enemies will try to break holes
in our legions' lines, often using mounted
charges to expose new flanks and our weaker rear. Beware larger animals and chariots:
the sight of one bearing down at high speed
is quite a shock to a soldier's morale, let me
tell you! Only the strongest-willed stand their
ground to resist such a charge.
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Fighting for the Empire
lthough your province occupies you
fully during your time as governor,
the Empire does not stand still.
Others are fighting off invaders, or expanding the Empire's frontiers into new parts of
the barbarian world. Messengers will keep
you informed of any major changes.
Occasionally, Caesar might ask your help
with military affairs outside your province.
Typically, he will request that you dispatch
some of your legions to destroy an enemy
less to affect the outcome of this conflict,
aside from cheering on your guards.
Once the enemy enters your city, you can
order your soldiers to pursue them there, but
they will have trouble maneuvering in formation and will fight less effectively. If you
have to order your legions into the city,
they've failed in their primary role of keeping
the invaders at bay. Remember that wallguards are highly specialized soldiers, and
have strict instructions not to leave their
posts under any circumstances.
Even if the invaders defeat your legions and
get past your walls, all is not quite lost.
Prefects aren't soldiers, and won't meet the
enemy in any organized fashion, but neither
will they go down without a fight. If your
legions and tower guards weakened the
enemy enough, city prefects might be able to
finish the job.
Some of your other citizens might surprise
you, too. Although they have no official
responsibility to defend the city, gladiators
and lion tamers aren't likely to stand by helplessly while barbarians destroy their homes
and businesses.
Everyone else is unarmed and defenseless.
Most citizens try to get away from invaders.
Those who can't well, their best hope is to
die quickly.
All invaders have their own objectives; it
might be food, money, the death of your people, or simply wanton destruction. Granaries,
warehouses and the senate building are frequently prime targets. The destruction these
enemies can inflict is horrible, possibly
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enough to level your city and maybe even
spell the end of your career. Prevent street
fighting at all costs!
Your builders are not keen to work during or
close to a battle. When enemy soldiers are in
your province, immigrants wisely avoid your
city.
Scribe's note:
If there's money in your city's treasury, you are not entirely helpless
against invaders. If the treasury is empty, transfer your personal savings to the city. These are desperate times - don't be cheap now!
You cannot build new structures very near the fighting, but your
hands are not entirely tied. Make sure towers have road access to
labor. There is probably not time to build a new fort and recruit and
train more soldiers. Instead, beef up the city's internal defenses.
Build lots of new prefectures near where the enemy will gain access
to the city. Make sure that they have road access to labor. Tell your
Labor Advisor to make Military and Fire Prevention the top priorities.
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think quite badly of you. Withholding legions
from the aid of another province simply isn't
the Roman way. Should your legions lose the
battle (and their lives!) Caesar will be a little
grateful, but will also think you a fool.
Enemies of Rome
he barbarian mind is hard to understand. Why do they resist our civiliz-
ing influence? Even worse, why are
they bent on destroying our glorious cities?
Barbarians seem to have an innate need
whether because of their gods or their lack of
education or their crude existences, we will
never know to destroy, to oppose that
which is noble and good that which is
Roman.
Native tribes
ot all barbarians are equally hostile
to us. Some tribes can even be civilized.
Sometimes, you will be sent to a province
where one such tribe already lives. No one
can predict how a particular group of barbarians will react to finding a new Roman settlement in their vicinity, but Rome's long
experience with native peoples has established some general principles that will help
you.
Mission Post
hese natives usually get protective
about the land around them. If you
build on it, they might attack you.
Your legions are best not bothered with such
minor actions, and their commanders will not
obey instructions to slaughter the innocent.
threatening some defenseless part of our
Empire.
You are expected to meet with your Military
Advisor and order a group of legions to go
win this victory for Rome. Caesar will give
you any known intelligence regarding the
size of the enemy, and you are well advised
to consider that when deciding how strong a
force to send.
Your governance is much too important for
you to leave your province, so you cannot
accompany these troops on their travels.
Once they leave your province, they are no
longer under your direct control. You must
trust the legions' own commanders.
Messengers will, however, keep track of
your army's progress. You can also follow
their progress on the Empire Map.
Should your men achieve their task for the
glory of Rome, they will return, and you can
expect to benefit handsomely from Caesar's
gratitude. Should they fail, you are unlikely to
see them again.
More rarely, Caesar might ask you to contribute soldiers to an Imperial army in Rome.
In that case, your cohorts march to Rome and
report to the Emperor himself. You can watch
their progress on the Empire Map, but
because they no longer have any connection
with your province after they arrive in Rome,
they disappear from your consideration.
They become part of Caesar's army.
I should warn you that Caesar does not look
kindly upon failure. Should you fail to dispatch any legions, he will be forced to look
elsewhere among his governors, and he will
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f isolated tribes of primitive natives were
the only barbarians in the world, Rome
would soon rule all. Unfortunately, native
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Should you be attacked, though, your soldiers can be persuaded to fight these people.
To avoid provoking hostilities, sometimes all
you need do is respect the boundaries of
what the natives consider to be their land.
One approach taken by some governors is to
try to persuade them of our good intentions,
and show them that working with us is better than fighting against us. These governors
establish mission posts near the native villages. Such posts need labor and road access,
as with other buildings, but once staffed, they
send out missionaries to teach these barbarians of our ways.
Reports suggest that this can work wonders.
Some even say that a thriving and profitable
trade can be had with these people. But their
trust is gained slowly, and is placed heavily
in the missionaries they come to know.
Should they leave their posts, and not be
replaced, trouble could flare up.
Scribe's note:
Use the Risks: Native Overlay to find the boundaries of a barbarian
village.
although obviously inferior to the Roman
Empire, nonetheless pose serious challenges
to our supremacy.
You will face organized armies at times
some weak, to be sure, but some not.
Hannibal's reputation goes before him, and
his Carthaginians are to be feared, for they
are fine soldiers. The more Northerly
provinces usually present less organized
forces, but don't let that deceive you: they
have pride you would not believe, and some
are excellent fighters.
It is a dangerous world, my friend, and Rome
has plenty of enemies. Prepare well.
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Messages
he middle button on the bottom of the
control panel (the one with a scroll on
it) lets you read messages sent to you.
When the button is black, you have no messages.
A brief fanfare sound while playing indicates
that a message has arrived. Important messages are signalled by a more urgent fanfare,
indicating that you should try to read them
whenever you next have the chance to do
so. Normal messages are announced by a
very simple fanfare.
When a message arrives, your message button lights up, and a small number appears
beside the button's scroll showing how many
messages you have. If you are busy with
other duties, don't worry about pouncing on
these messages the instant they arrive: they
will wait until you can spare the attention.
Click on the button whenever you wish to
read a message, and you'll see a panel listing
all of your messages. Those you haven't read
yet have a rolled-up scroll before the message title. After you read them, the symbol
changes to an open scroll. Important messages are listed in red
Some very urgent messages are displayed to
you as soon as they arrive, without your
clicking the message button. These messages also go into your message box,
marked as having been read, in case you
want to refer back to them later.
When a message alerts you to some crisis,
like a fire or a riot, you can click on the alarm
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mouse help off, it will also be off for the overlay reports; use the partial setting to let you
see mouse help on overlays, but almost
nowhere else.).
Access the overlays with the button at the
top of your Control Panel. Whenever you are
looking at an overlay, press the right mouse
button to temporarily return to the Normal
view. Use the Overlay button and select
Normal to return permanently to the normal view.
Note that time in the game continues to pass
while you have an overlay on.
Water Overlay
he Water overlay shows you which
areas have access to water from fountains (shown in navy blue) and the
area that pipes from reservoirs covers, which
bell button (directly to the right of the message button) to jump directly to the scene of
the problem. If there are several problem
areas, clicking on the button multiple times
will cycle you through each trouble spot in
turn. Many messages include a button right
in the message itself that gives you that
same option.
You can keep messages for as long as you'd
like. To delete a message, click on it to select
it, then click on the delete message button.
Deleted messages are gone forever, so only
delete one if you're sure you won't need to
read it again.
Overlays
n overlay is a special view of your
city. Caesar III's overlays let you
watch a particular part of your city in
action, and see how it interacts with its surroundings. Frequently they will flatten all
buildings except for the ones you have chosen to look at, and will only show those
buildings' people, to let you really see how
the building or system is working.
Many overlays use color-coded pillars to
indicate information: how likely is a building
to catch fire or riot, for example. Dangerous
or bad information will be colored in shades
of red; the brighter the red, and the taller the
pillar, the more serious the problem. Stone
color is used for good or neutral information,
such as how much tax a building pays.
All the information has mouse help to
explain its meaning, so if in doubt hold your
mouse pointer over the item in question until
the mouse help appears. (If you have turned
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progress of your prefects for a minute, and
see if they eventually pass by the buildings
with the highest risk. If not, either redesign
your road network to allow better patrolling,
or build a new prefecture near the danger
zone. The Risks: Crime Overlay works similarly, except that prefects cannot lower the
risk of crime - they are shown because of
their important role in dealing with criminals
and their handiwork.
The Damage Overlay works the same way,
except that it shows engineers and engineer's posts instead of prefects and prefectures. Buildings with tall columns are unstable, and in imminent danger of collapse.
The Problem Overlay is one of the most useful of all. It shows only buildings that aren't
presently working properly. Reasons for the
problem can include lack of road access, lack
of labor, lack of water, lack of raw materials
or lack of space to send their cart full of produce. Scan this overlay once every few
game-months, just to see if your street-level
reviews have missed any problems.
If your province is home to any native peoples, the Risks overlay includes a report
called Natives. With this overlay selected,
you can see the land the barbarians consider
to be theirs.
Entertainment overlays
ith the Entertainment overlays
selected, tall columns indicate
good access. The Overall display
shows housing's combined access to theaters, amphitheaters, colosseums and the
hippodrome. It also displays all of those
is extremely useful for siting new fountains
and additional reservoirs.
Empty land that has pipe access is covered
by a grid of grey stone channels. Buildings
that have water appear as furrowed, pale
blue squares; buildings that don't need water
are plain tan squares. Fountain access
appears as a blue tint radiating from the
fountain.
Risks overlays
se the Risks overlays often to spot
problems before they become crises.
Red is bad; the more red you see on
a pillar, the worse the risk is.
Select Fire to see the city's prefectures and all
of the prefects walking their routes. Buildings
with tall columns on them have a high risk of
fire. As prefects walk by buildings, you can
see the risk of fire column fall. Watch the
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Health overlays
he Health overlays work the same
way as those for Education and
Entertainment. Overall shows the
combined access to all four components of
Health. Barber, Baths, Clinics and Hospitals
each show the relevant buildings and their
workers. The individual overlays can show
you why a neighborhood's Overall overlay is
depressed. Areas with poor access to health
facilities are more likely to suffer outbreaks
of disease.
Commerce overlays
ome of the Commerce overlays are
slightly different than those described
above.
Tax Income is similar to the overlays for
other building types. Selecting this display
shows your Senate building and forums, plus
all of the tax collectors walking their routes.
The column heights show how much money
each housing lot has paid in taxes so far this
year.
The Market overlay is also similar to those
for other building types; it shows the locations of your markets, market workers walking their routes, and columns indicating level
of market access for every housing unit.
The Desirability overlay looks quite different
from other overlays. It rates each map
square's overall attractiveness to anyone
considering living there. Cooler colors, like
blue and green, are raised slightly above
ground level, and indicate highly desirable
areas; warm colors like orange and red are
buildings and their performer suppliers: actor
colonies, gladiator schools and lion tamers,
plus all citizens associated with those buildings.
If a particular neighborhood has a low overall entertainment rating, select overlays for
individual types of entertainment to see
which is holding it back. The theater overlay
shows theaters and actor colonies, plus the
proper workers, with columns showing
access levels to theaters. The amphitheater
overlay shows amphitheaters, actor colonies
and gladiator schools and their workers, with
columns showing access to amphitheaters.
The colosseum overlay shows colosseums,
plus gladiator schools and lion tamers, and
the proper workers and columns. The hippodrome overlay shows your hippodrome (a
city can have only one) and charioteer
school. Check each of these overlays in turn
and watch their walkers circulate to see
which entertainment type is depressing the
overall rating for a neighborhood.
Education overlays
he Education overlays work the same
way as those for Entertainment.
Overall shows the combined access
level to all three forms of education. Schools
displays schools and their schoolchildren;
Library shows all of your libraries and their
workers; Academy shows all academies and
their workers. Use the individual overlays to
determine why a neighborhood's Overall
overlay is lower than it could be.
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Advisors
overning can be a lonely profession;
it seems that everyone wants some-
thing from you and no one appreciates the many conflicting priorities that you
have to juggle. But you are not entirely on
your own. Ultimate power and responsibility
in your city are yours alone, but you do have
advisors to help. Often, you implement your
will by issuing orders to your advisors. Visit
them by clicking the Advisors button on the
Control Panel or by selecting them from the
menu bar.
Chief Advisor
our Chief Advisor looks at all the
information gathered by the other
advisors, and summarizes key information for you, highlighting any critical
issues in red. When you see a report in red, it
may be helpful to visit that specific advisor
for more details.
It is usually a good idea to consult your Chief
Advisor frequently (probably every month or
two) to see if you have missed anything
important.
Labor Advisor
Your Labor Advisor assigns plebes to
various sectors of your city's econo-
my. As long as you have enough
workers to fill all of the city's open jobs, the
Labor Advisor doesn't need any instructions
from you. In times of labor shortage, though,
you can use this panel to tell your Labor
Advisor which jobs he should fill first.
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sunken below ground level, and indicate
undesirable property. You want to build your
most valuable housing in the most desirable
areas, but be careful: If you start razing other
buildings to make way for housing, you will
change the desirability calculations.
The Labor overlay looks just like a normal
overlay, but it's different in one important
way: Most overlays show housing's access
to other types of buildings, but the Labor
overlay shows other buildings' access to
housing. The columns in this display show
how successful a building is at finding the
laborers it needs to function at its fullest
capacity. Buildings with short columns need
either some housing built nearer to them, or
a more direct road to some existing housing.
If your city experiences a time of labor shortage, buildings with the worst access to labor
are the first to lose their workforce.
Religion overlay
here is only one overlay for Religion,
and it works the same way as those
for Entertainment, Education and
Health. It shows all of your temples and oracles, plus all of their priests walking around
your city. On the Religion Overlay, taller
columns show access to more gods. High
levels of housing need visits from the priests
of several different gods.
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unless you have already chosen a first and
second choice. If you chose Engineering as
your top priority, for example, you would see
that Engineering now has a padlock symbol
and the number 1 in front of it, showing that
it is locked in as your first priority.
Your Labor Advisor will always assign workers to your priorities in order, before assigning anyone left to the categories you have
not given priorities as he thinks best.
To remove a category from the priority list,
click on it and choose No priority from the
priority panel.
Your Labor Advisor's other main responsibility is paying all of the city's workers. You will
always start out paying the same wage as is
offered in Rome, but you can instruct your
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Your city's labor force is split up into several
categories. These are shown, along with the
number of workers currently assigned, and
the number needed to operate at full capacity. At the bottom you can also see how
many total workers are available.
Unless you tell him otherwise, the Labor
Advisor assigns workers as he deems best.
That won't always suit your priorities, especially if you have just received some
requests from the Emperor or news of
impending attack. You might find that your
city is better off when some areas are working at full capacity, even if it means that
other areas might barely function at all.
To change the priority of a category, click on
the category name, and a small panel
appears showing priority levels ranked from
1 to 9. Click on the number 1 to make it top
priority, 2 to make it second priority, and so
on. You cannot select third choice, say,
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Labor Advisor to change this by clicking on
the arrow buttons next to the display of the
current wage. .
As you would expect, the Labor Advisor
keeps track of how many plebes are
employed and unemployed, what your city's
unemployment rate is, and how much your
annual cost for labor will be.
Legion Status
our Military Advisor has up-to-date
information on all the legions in your
army. Consult him to see which
legions are strong and have high morale, and
which are suffering. Your Military Advisor
also implements your orders to dispatch
legions in response to Caesar's requests.
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Imperial Advisor
onsult your Imperial Advisor to check
your standing with Caesar, as
expressed by your Favor rating.
Anything that the Emperor has requested of
you is listed here, along with how much time
remains for you to fulfil the request. When
your warehouses hold enough of the desired
commodity, a dispatch button appears to
let you send the shipment to Rome.
Beneath that message window you see your
rank in the Empire, along with the balance in
your personal savings account. Caesar
grudgingly allows you to pay yourself a
salary equal to your rank, although no one
will stop you from taking more or less than
that. Click on the large button at the bottom
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the higher your rating. When a pillar has
reached the level you have been set for that
assignment, it will be capped.
You can also see the level you need for each
rating, to complete your assignment. Click on
any rating for brief advice on how you can
improve it.
Trade advisor
our Trade Advisor is one of your most
important aides; he doesn't have a lot
to tell you, but he carries out all of
your trade orders. Visit him to decide how
much, if any, of each commodity in your
warehouses to export, whether or not to
import goods, and to turn industries on and
off.
Click on any commodity listed for more
information about your city's activity relating
to that good, or to change its trading status.
If you have an open trade route for a particular commodity, you'll see a button marked
Not trading when you click on the good.
Click that button repeatedly to cycle through
all possible trading options. Sometimes, you
can only export that commodity or import it,
depending on your trading routes. Other
times, again depending on your trading partners, you can choose to either import or
export the commodity. You can never both
import and export the same commodity.
If you have a trade route open which is keen
to sell you a commodity, clicking on the button will show the word Importing.
If you have a trade route open which is willing to buy a commodity from you, you will
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of this window to set your salary level. Just
be warned that salaries higher than your rank
warrants will not be popular in Rome.
The Send a Gift button lets you send Caesar
a token of your esteem. You will pay for any
gift that you decide to send the Emperor
from your personal savings.
The Give to City button lets you transfer
money from your personal savings to the
city's treasury.
Ratings Advisor
isit this advisor to see how well you
are meeting the goals of your present
assignment. Rankings for Culture,
Prosperity, Peace and Favor appear on this
panel, shown as a pillar. The higher the pillar,
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your Trade Advisor to turn the idled industries back on.
Click on the button marked Show Prices to
list how much you receive for each cart load
of something that you export, or how much
you pay for each cart that you import. Notice
that it usually costs you more to import
something than you make for exporting it.
There is no profit in playing the market by
importing goods from one province and
exporting them to another.
Prices are set by Rome, and influenced partly by supply and demand throughout the
Empire. You cannot change prices, although
market forces in the rest of the Empire will
cause them to vary from time to time. You
will be notified of any change via a message.
Population Advisor
our Population Advisor keeps track of
your city's population over time, and
presents his information on three
graphs.
The first graph that you see, labelled
Population History, simply shows the total
number of people in your city over time.
Each bar represents the population at the end
of a month. If your city is growing, the bars
should rise pretty steadily from left to right.
Click the small window labelled Society.
The large graph changes to show your population's current composition by income. Lowincome citizens are on the left, and rich citizens are on the right. When your city is new,
most of your people are tent dwellers, and
the highest bar will be well to the left side of
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see a button marked Export over, with
arrows that let you set a quantity. Leave it at
0 to export your entire inventory of the good,
or set an amount to keep in your warehouses, with anything above that then available
for export.
Click this button repeatedly to cycle through
all of your trade options for the particular
commodity. You have to choose between
importing and exporting any given good
you can never do both.
During times of labor shortage, you might
want to temporarily shut down industries
that have built up surpluses, or that produce
items you can do without for a short while.
The workers who were employed at the
industries you turned off become available
for your Labor Advisor to reassign elsewhere.
Later, when more workers are available, you
can quickly absorb surplus workers by telling
The Trade Advisor Panel
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If you need to build more buildings, your
Overlays can help show you which areas
might benefit the most.
Your Health Advisor also offers you his summary of the city's health. He will warn you of
any trouble spots with a message here.
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Under the main graph you can see how
much food is in the city granaries, how many
food types your people are eating, whether
people want to enter or leave your city and
how many immigrated or emigrated last
month.
City Health Advisor
or each type of health building bath-
house, barber, doctor's clinic and hospi-
tal you can see how many exist, how
many are working, how many residents they
serve, and the adequacy (poor, average or
good) of that service.
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the graph. As time goes on and people's fortunes improve, the highest bar should shift
gradually to the right. This is useful to try to
ensure you are not creating an unequal society with a few very wealthy people and a
mass of poor; such a social mix is bad for the
city mood and could lead to crime. Try to
have a more balanced social mix.
Click the window labelled Census to call up
a graph showing your population's composition by age. This graph is useful for planning
how many schools and academies you'll
need, and seeing how many of your citizens
are of working age. Also use it to predict how
many citizens are about to retire, which can
alter the economy of a city dramatically,
since retired people no longer work, yet they
continue to consume food and other goods
and services.
The Population Advisor Panel
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Entertainment Advisor
se the top portion of this advisor's
panel to learn your city's entertain-
ment needs. If the Entertainment
Advisor's report convinces you that more
amusements are needed in the city, the
Entertainment Overlays can help you decide
where to build new structures.
Remember that amphitheaters and colosseums can each stage two shows at the same
time. If they aren't being used to capacity,
you probably need to build more actor
colonies or gladiator schools.
The lower part of the panel shows how long
it's been since your city's last festival, and
tells you how your people feel about it. When
you decide it's time to treat them to a break
in the routine, click the Hold New Festival
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Education Advisor
se the Education Advisor's panel to
learn your city's overall educational
needs. If the advisor convinces you
to build more educational facilities, you can
use the Education Overlays to decide where
they would best be built.
The Education Advisor Panel
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The top line shows your total population,
how many people are school-aged, and how
many are of age to enter academies.
Subsequent lines show, for each type of educational building, how many exist, how
many are working, how many people they
can serve, and how adequate that coverage
is.
The bottom segment displays your advisor's
summary of the city's education system, with
comments about what future needs might
be.
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es so far this year, and, for comparison,
shows the totals from last year. This report is
especially valuable if you're having trouble
raising your Prosperity rating or simply want
to see how best to raise more money.
This is also the place to come if you want to
change the tax rate. Change the rate using
the arrow buttons. The line showing the percentage of your populace registered for
taxes is important, too; you'll usually want to
keep this number as close to 100 percent as
you can. Use the Tax Overlay to see which
houses are not paying their taxes, and thus to
decide where to build a new forum to start
collecting what is due.
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button. From the new panel that appears,
choose the size of the festival and which god
it will honor.
Reli gion Advisor
our Religion Advisor shows you, at a
glance, how many temples you have
erected to Ceres, Neptune, Mercury,
Mars and Venus, both in total and by size.
The last column shows each god's attitude
toward you, ranging from exalted to furious. Use this information to decide when to
build new temples or oracles.
Oracles aren't listed on this report because
their effects are spread evenly among all the
gods.
Your Religion Advisor points out, in a sentence at the bottom of the panel, which god
is most in need of your attention.
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Finances Advisor
our Finances Advisor is one of your
most informative aides. He analyzes
all of your city's income and expens-Y
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Game Options
n addition to all of the game reports and
controls that Caesar III puts at your com-
mand, the program includes some features that let you customize the game to
your liking. These are all found on either the
Menu Bar or the Control Panel.
Saving the game
To store the game you are currently
playing, click on the Save option
under the File menu, then follow the
on-screen instructions. Name the file whatever you like so that you will remember it
easily. The Load Game option restarts a
previously saved game. All saved games are
stored on your hard drive in the same folder
to which you installed the game.
It is a good idea to always save your game
before exiting the program.
Options
Display Settings offers you four different
views of Caesar III.
Caesar III starts as a Full Screen program,
meaning that it takes up all of the display
space on your monitor. If you click
Windowed, the game runs in a standard
Windows display box. Use this option if you
want access to Windows while the game is
running. You can resize the game window,
just like any other window, but Caesar III's
graphics will not look their best if you do
that.
Caesar III uses a lot of computing power, and
we don't recommend that you run other programs while you're playing the game. Doing
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Income:
When your city is young, most of your
income will probably be from taxes.
As you establish industries and open
trade routes, the line showing trade
receipts will probably grow steadily larger.
Eventually, it should surpass tax income.
Donations are either from your personal
savings, or from Caesar if your treasury ran
out of money and Rome provided rescue
funds.
Expenses:
Imports (from trade, including any wheat
provided by Rome to feed your people);
Wages, usually the city's biggest expense;
Construction. Remember, money spent
on construction doesn't count against your
Prosperity rating;
Interest (if you've run your treasury into
debt);
Your personal salary; and
Sundries, a catch-all for expenses that
don't fit any other category, like the cost of
festivals or losses from theft.
The entry of greatest interest is probably the
Net in/out flow line. This shows you, at a
glance, how much your treasury is shrinking
or growing.
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mation button. Alternatively, choose Help
from the menu bar to see the Table of
Contents for all of Caesar III's in-game information.
Mouse help is the text that appears in a
white box when your mouse pointer hovers
over some part of the game. It is ON when
you first play Caesar III. Turning it OFF
makes it go away entirely. Choose Partial to
enable mouse help for the Senate building
and the Overlay maps, but nothing else.
Adjust this setting from the Help menu.
Warnings appear at the top of your map,
reminding you that a building needs road
access, for example, or that the city needs
more workers. You can turn them off from
the Help menu
Other Game controls
he Control Panel on the right side of
your screen has a few buttons that we
haven't mentioned yet. The reference
card that came with your game shows a diagram of the whole Control Panel and labels
all of these buttons.
The right-pointing arrow to the right of
the Overlay button lets you hide the Control
Panel to see more of the map. When the
Control Panel is hidden, this button changes
to a left-pointing arrow; click it again to bring
back the Control Panel.
The four small buttons beneath the large
Advisors and Empire Map buttons let you
review your present assignment, or change
the orientation of the province map. The
curved arrows pointing left and right rotate
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so can cause conflicts that will make the
game run improperly.
The other choices under Display Settings
enable you to define the resolution in which
Caesar III runs. At 640 by 480, everything
will look bigger, but your screen will show a
smaller section of the map; the game will
probably run somewhat faster. At 1024 by
768, just the opposite is true: Everything
looks smaller, your screen shows more of the
map, and the game runs more slowly. The
800 by 600 option is midway between these
extremes. Caesar III's performance will
change at different resolutions according to
your computer's capabilities.
Sound Settings lets you control the relative volume of Music, Speech, Sound Effects
and City Sounds. Adjust the mix of sound
elements to your liking, or turn them off
completely.
Speed Settings lets you control the rate
at which time passes in Caesar III. Set any
speed that you are comfortable playing.
Pressing the space bar on your keyboard
pauses the game. You can still carry out
many actions while time is paused, although
nothing moves or evolves.
Scroll speed affects the pace at which
the map moves when you sweep the cursor
to the edge of the screen. You might prefer
a slower scroll speed if you have an especially powerful computer.
Caesar III offers a lot of information about
various aspects of the game on-line, for easy
reference. Access some of it by right-clicking
on most buildings, then clicking on the infor-
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A: Approach this question from two directions: How can you make land more desirable, and how can you make it less undesirable? To make an area more desirable, build
pleasant things like gardens, plazas, temples,
statues, baths and theaters nearby. To make
it less undesirable, locate unpleasant structures like industrial and military buildings
elsewhere.
Q: What do I need to make my city's housing evolve higher?
A: Housing needs three things to evolve: (1)
Access to many different types of services;
(2) Various commodities, provided by markets; and (3) Desirable location. Right-click
on a house to find out what's holding it back
at any given time.
Q: Why don't immigrants move into my
vacant housing lots?
A: One or more conditions are probably
depressing the mood in your city. High
unemployment, high taxes, low wages and
low food supplies all make people unhappy
and discourage immigration.
Q: I can't attract immigrants because I don't
have enough food, but I can't get enough
food because I can't attract immigrants! How
can I break this cycle?
A: Order your Labor Advisor to reassign the
workers that you do have. Make Food
Production your number 1 priority for awhile.
Don't skew these priorities for too long, or
you risk fires and riots as workers are diverted from Engineering and Fire Prevention. As
soon as you see immigrants arriving, return
your priorities to normal.
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the map by 90 degrees in the corresponding
direction. The circle with an arrow pointing
straight up returns the view to due North,
which is the direction you started with.
The first button on the bottom row (with a
big X on it) lets you undo the last thing that
you did. You aren't allowed to undo every
single action in the game, but you can usually un-build whatever you last built. This ability lasts just for a short while after you have
built something after that, the effects of
building it have already changed the game
so much that it would be very complex to
unravel.
Use the undo feature immediately after you
build something by accident. The button
appears dark when you aren't allowed to
undo anything, and lights up when you can
undo your last act. If you build something in
the wrong place, or accidentally build the
wrong building, click undo to make the
building go away and refund its cost to your
treasury. Note that if you undo something
while time is paused, it will not go away until
you un-pause the game.
Answers to Common
Questions
Why are some of my roads paved,
while others aren't?
A: Citizens pave roads when surrounding
property becomes sufficiently desirable.
Q: How can I make land more desirable for
housing?
Q:
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Q: How come all of my water supply buildings keep flashing on and off?
A: They need laborers. Consult your Labor
Advisor. If the number of actual employees
in Water Services is less than the number
required, then your water workers are doing
their best to spread water coverage throughout the city, but they can only do so sporadically. Assign a higher priority to Water
Services or increase your overall workforce.
Q: I need money! How do I get trade working?
A: First, use the Empire Map to open a trade
route. Second, make sure you have a commodity your trade partners want stocked in a
warehouse. Third, tell your Trade Advisor to
export the commodity. Finally, if the route
you opened is a sea route, you must have
functioning docks.
Q: My housing won't evolve because it can't
get pottery, but there's pottery in my warehouse and the houses have market access.
What am I missing here?
A: Make sure the market can get pottery
from the warehouse. If there's another warehouse closer to the market that doesn't have
pottery, the market won't have pottery. Use
the Special Orders button on the warehouses
to spread the pottery around. You can tell the
closer warehouse to Maintain a Level of pottery, for instance, which will request pottery
from the other warehouse.
Q: Do goods spoil if they're stored in granaries and warehouses for a long time?
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Q: Why won't my farms or mines produce
anything?
A: Assuming that you haven't ordered your
Trade Advisor to turn them off, they probably
lack laborers. Try building housing closer to
your industries, or tell your Labor Advisor to
assign a higher priority to Industry and
Commerce.
Q: Workers with full carts are just standing
around. Why don't they get to work?
A: They would like to, but there is no place
for them to deliver their goods. Make sure
you have free space in your warehouses and
granaries, and that they have enough
employees to function properly.
Q: When I right-click on a granary, it says it
can store 2400 food, but it doesn't hold anything like 2400 cartloads. What's going on
with these numbers?
A: Most of the numbers you see for commodities are measured in cartloads. But each
cartload contains 100 units of that commodity. You usually don't have to pay any attention to this, because trade deals only in
whole cartloads. However, citizens don't
consume entire cartloads of a commodity at
a time. When items go to a granary, a market, or a home, they're converted into smaller units that people can use. Keep this rule in
mind: When you're looking at industry and
trade, you are dealing in full cartloads. When
you're looking at granaries, markets or houses, you are dealing with units, and there are
100 units in a cartload. Your concern will be
chiefly with cartloads, and you'll rarely (if
ever) have to pay attention to units.
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other governors might make your job a little
easier. Of course, if they do not fit with your
playing style, by all means ignore them.
urban planning
Avoid forcing people to use a single road
in the densest parts of the city, or it will
always be clogged with traffic. Create double-wide roads or provide alternate routes to
alleviate traffic snarls.
Keep the number of road intersections in
your city to a minimum, so that you can better predict the route that walking citizens
will take.
Spend some time in the early assignments watching Overlay reports to learn
how working citizens spread access to their
buildings. Later assignments usually require
your city layout to be very efficient, and
you're more likely to succeed if you learn
how citizens walk their routes in the earlier,
more forgiving assignments.
Do not place bridges where workers need
to cross them repeatedly in the course of
their workday placing farms on the far bank
of a river and granaries on the near, or
putting a clay pit on one side and workshops
on the other, are bad ideas. If you put a raw
materials industry on the far side of the river,
put its workshops and warehouses there, too,
so that only commuters and caravans have
to cross the bridge. Better still, plan some
housing near your industrial area so that
workers need not commute across the
bridge.
Whenever you build a new bridge,
remember that you are creating a breach in
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A: No. Only divine anger or criminal acts can
bring harm to your goods.
Q: Is the Emperor deliberately asking me for
goods that he knows I can't supply? Is there
any way to get him to ask me for things that
I have?
A: Caesar asks for what he wants, when he
wants it. He doesn't care how hard or easy it
is for you to comply with his wishes, or how
convenient it is for you to respond to his
requests. He will, however, only ask you for
items it is possible for you to get him-even if
that means importing it.
Q: Are the commodities that trading cities
on the Empire Map will deal in determined
by set conditions, or does supply and
demand play a role?
A: Every province in the Empire has a unique
set of resources and capabilities, just as does
your own province. Trading cities export
goods that they can produce in quantity, and
import goods that they lack, just as you must
do. So, supply and demand play a role in that
sense, but the commodities that cities want
and have are predetermined by their climate
and resources.
Hints and Tips
ou can see by now that there is no
single "winning formula" for success in
Caesar III. There are as many paths to
victory as there are governors in the Roman
Empire, and the one you take depends
entirely on what you enjoy and are good at.
If you have trouble making money or pleasing the Emperor, some of these tips from
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shrink too quickly. Remember, patricians
don't work. When you do see patrician villas
replacing plebeian apartments, check in with
your Labor Advisor. If you have a shortage of
workers, create new low-income housing
before lack of services makes the new villas
devolve back to plebeian housing.
In times of labor shortage, tell your Trade
Advisor to temporarily turn off any farms or
industries that have built up surpluses. This
frees up workers for other sectors with more
immediate labor needs, and buys you some
time to attract new immigrants. Don't forget
to turn the industries back on when immigrants start to arrive!
Food, farming & industry
Almost all provinces have at least some
farmland, but some won't have enough to
support a large population. After you've
placed all fertile land under the plow, your
populace might well outgrow local food production. If so, and your population is not too
large, you're best off growing specialty foods
locally, and importing wheat. That's because
wheat is the cheapest commodity. Larger
populations should grow their wheat, since
they will need such a large quantity of it that
to import it might clog up trade.
Make industry more efficient by centralizing your industrial sectors. First, build the
same type of raw material producers (clay
pits, for example) close together. Second,
build the warehouse that will store the finished pottery fairly close, but on a main road.
Third, build the pottery workshops between
your cluster of clay pits and the warehouse.
This minimizes the distance that cart pushers
have to travel and improves the efficiency of
your whole pottery industry. Apply the same
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the natural defense that the river offers.
Invaders will use the bridge to reach your
city center. Do not build bridges that you
cannot defend.
Turn fires and collapsed buildings into an
opportunity for urban renewal. Instead of
simply rebuilding whatever was destroyed,
reevaluate the neighborhood that suffered
damage. Would you be better off with a
wider road or a new garden where that housing burned? Sometimes less density yields
better quality.
Develop a habit of building prefectures,
engineer's posts and other essential services
at regular intervals between residential
areas. Providing regular "service strips" like
this ensures that your patrols will be evenly
spaced, and that you won't forget to build
some crucial structure.
Try to build reservoirs exactly the right
distance apart so that their pipe networks
just meet, without overlapping. To view a
reservoir's coverage, choose the Water
Overlay.
Only housing benefits from fountain
access, so don't lay out a grid of fountains to
provide blanket coverage. Just place fountains to supply residential areas.
Overlapping coverage by multiple fountains
gives no additional benefit to a particular
house.
Managing people
A city with too many patricians won't
have enough workers. Don't devote all of
your effort to encouraging patrician villas. If
you're too successful, your labor force might
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food or commodities, it might be better to
open one expensive trade route with a city
that will both sell you imports and buy your
exports, than to open separate (but cheaper)
trade routes for exporting and importing.
When you build docks, always build a
warehouse very close by to speed the loading and unloading of trade ships.
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principle when you establish other industries,
and try to avoid having them share the same
main roads.
A few buildings working at full capacity
with a reliable labor supply will out-produce
a larger number of buildings with unreliable
labor. To ensure a steady supply of labor for
your raw material producers, farms and other
industrial buildings, create small housing
communities near them. Don't worry about
evolving these industrial tent cities very far
or very quickly, but do be sure that you build
plenty of prefectures near them, as their residents are likely to be in a perpetually bad
mood.
Learn how to use the Special Orders button in your granaries and warehouses to
spread goods evenly across your city.
Trade
Trade is the key to profitability. Check the
Empire Map early in your assignment to discover what your trading partners will buy,
and develop that industry quickly. Once
you're earning trade income, you can turn
your attention to improving your ratings.
Opening a new trade route always costs
denarii, but the "lowest cost" isn't always the
cheapest trade route fee. If you need a customer for oil, for instance, and either Tarraco
or Syracusae will buy oil, notice that
Syracusae is a sea route, while Tarraco is
probably a land route. If you haven't yet built
docks, it might be cheaper to pay a couple of
hundred extra denarii to trade with Tarraco
than it would be to build docks, a new warehouse and roads to connect them so that you
can open the "cheaper" route with Syracusae.
By the same reasoning, if you need to import
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s I write, it's a wonderful Summer's
day a holiday, here in London. And,
yet again, developing a game has
come to consume the core team's life for the
last few months. Has it been worthwhile?
It should be the case that every game I
design is better than those that have gone
before. Together with the rest of the team,
I've had a chance to learn from feedback to
previous products, and to play more games
from other people also. But with Caesar III, I
feel especially excited.
When we first began the project, we were
somewhat nervous. Caesar II had been so
well received that we didn't know quite
where we could take it. To be sure, there
were a host of sundry points that we had
considered and discarded for Caesar II that
we could add, but they certainly wouldn't
amount to a new product.
So we began working on Caesar in Space,
where new technology would allow us freedom to take the game in whole new directions. Six months in, though, we returned to
Rome. There is something special about the
entire Roman period, something special
about the congruence of elements which fit
together beautifully to make a wonderfully
compelling game. Elements such as the core
color palette, simple and seemingly innocuous, but somehow warm and inviting; or the
range of entertainments and the Roman pantheon of gods, or the way their Empire
expansion took place, coupled with the
nature of their enemies the Goths and
Hannibal, to name but two.
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(and certainly hope you agree) that we have
added enough elements to later stages of the
game for it to continue to provide surprise
and changes in strategies right to the end.
Above all, though, I feel as though we've created a game which will provide you with
hours of fun. I do hope you agree.
David Lester
31st August, 1998
Designer’s Notes
Our foray into space had developed several
core systems which tranfserred remarkably
well to the Roman setting, and which, though
they may seem minor to you as a player,
have totally transformed the way the game
works. I have read one magazine describing
Caesar III in a preview as more evolution
than revolution, which is in some ways true:
the core premise of the game remains identical. But the reality is that Caesar III is very
much a revolution compared to its predecessors.
The way the farming and industry work, for
example, is wonderfully simple for players,
but completely accurate and real (there
ought to be a better word for the opposite of
abstract), and in fact allows the game enormous depth that Caesar II never came close
to. The combat system is truly simple, yet
recreates ancient battles far better than the
system used before, and adds more to the
game by allowing street-to-street fighting.
I love the representation the game now provides of a busy ancient city. At the time, I
loved the way Caesar II brought ancient
cities somehow to life. Yet to go back today
and look at it, and compare it to a bustling
city in Caesar III, shows just how big a leap
we've made. The variety and pace of a city
are what I hoped we might be able to capture, and we've exceeded the goals for that
that I had hoped we'd meet. Again, I hope
you'll agree.
Probably the most satisfying thing of all is the
way that the game is on the surface wonderfully simple, yet under the surface, offers lots
and lots of depth and replayability. I believe
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