Pharaoh A New Erasees you step into the sandals of an Egyptian Pharaoh and take control of building an ancient city from the ground up. You’ll progress through different ages of the Egyptian era, unlocking new technologies and amassing your very own empire.
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Gamers of a certain age will remember the original Pharaoh, and this is very much a modern version. However, not everything is the same, so regardless of if you played the original Sierra classic or not, these beginner tips for Pharaoh A New Era can help you out.
Check The Game Settings
If you go into theoptions menuthere are a fewgameplay settingsthat will help you customise your game. Here are the most important ones:
There are also settings toadjust what storage yards, bazaars and docks accept by default, allowwater lifts and towers to gain workers without a road connection, andchange the overall difficultyof the game. All these optionschange immediately when selected,so you’re able to adjust them as you play.
Set Up A Food Supply Chain First
Before you do anything else you need toget your basic food supply chain in place. This meansthree or four farms - or a couple of hunter’s lodges - a granary, a well or water supply and a bazaarto go alongside your houses. You’ll also needan architect’s post and firehouseto make sure the whole lot doesn’t fall down or catch on fire.
Youcan’t build a water supply or well on sandandfarms can only go on fertile land, so make sure to account for this when working out where to build!
It takes time to gather a harvest soif you build up your population too fast you’ll run out of supplies very quickly.You only needfive or six housesto get the basic food supply chain up and running, sodon’t overpopulate.ensure your basics are stable before you expand.
Keep An Eye On Unemployment
As your city expandsyou’ll provide more services for your citizens, and in turn, houses will evolve and hold more people.One of the most difficult tasks is balancing the two so thatjob vacancies are filled, but you don’t end up with incredibly high unemployment.
Sustainedunemployment above ten percentwill lead to unrest, crime, and citizens emigrating whilehigh vacancies mean services won’t functionproperly, leading to devolution of houses and emigration.
If youhover over your palaceyou can see the currentunemployment rate, or number of workers required.As you add services and expand houses keep an eye on this figure.Each time something changes, either the houses evolving or you creating additional jobs, you need toslow time down to check the employment stats,or risk losing a large amount of citizens very quickly.
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You Can Never Have Enough Architect Posts And Firehouses
If you need to bring unemployment down then consider buildingsmall facilities such as architect posts, firehouses, apothecaries, and police stations. These allcost just 30 Debensand will prevent buildings collapsing or catching fire, reduce illness, and keep crime in check. Since they all require workers it alsomakes a little dint in the unemployment figure. Physicians are a little more expensive at50 Debensbut are also worth investing in.
Spread these structures around the town, without putting them too close to houses. Physicians and apothecaries only need to be near houses butarchitect posts and firehouses are required near all buildings.There’s nothing worse than losing a granary full of food as the floods roll in, so ensure your risks are low.
You can also buildpolice stations near courthouses and your palaceto help prevent thievery.
Use Roadblocks Wisely
Roadblocks are one of the most useful toolsthat you have but can alsoprevent vital services from reaching the places they need to.You need to combine them with a simple road design and make sure you knowwhich services require unblocked access to houses or other buildings.
When you start a city your first step should be tolay out a basic road patternyou will build around. Havinga crossroads in the middle for a Festival Square works wellbut anything that is reasonably simple is good. You want to ensure that allservices have direct paths to the places you need them. This chart shows all the buildings which containworkers who will only walk down unblocked pathsandneed to walk past either houses or other buildingsfor their services to be effective.
Distributes Food and Goods
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Any worker doing anessential job, such as collecting food from a Granary, willwalk through a roadblockto achieve this. Roadblocks only affect those distributing goods and services.
Entertainment Venuesfunction most efficiently when thetrained workers have to pass by houses to get to the performance venue. They frequently walk between the two and their passing by raises awareness of the facility. Make surethe quickest route passes by houses but isn’t too long,so they have time to perform at the venue.
Once you areconstructing monuments, or working on flood plains, you will also needWork Camps and Construction Guildsto provide labor. These also requireeasy access to the place the workers are needed as well as to the materials they requireto maximise efficiency.
Use Your Notifications And Overlays
This may all seem complex, but the game will lead you. Thefirst few levels of the campaign introduce new features gradually, and as houses develop the residents will tell you what they require. There’s alsono penalty for not evolving houses at any point, so you’re able to leave clusters of houses at different levels toensure a good spread of workers across the city.However, there are some things you’ll want tokeep an eyeon and this is whereoverlayscome into play. You can use them to check:
Alongside these are the most important overlays,risks. They allow you to monitorthe five greatest risks to your city; malaria, disease, crime, collapse, and fire.Whilemalaria and disease reduction are only required in residential areas, you’ll need toensure the entire city is covered by Architect’s Posts and Firehouses to prevent collapse and fire, and reducing crime across the whole city will help prevent theft and unrest.
Once you may spot the issues it’s easier to fix them, so ensure you keep an eye on your risks, andcheck notifications frequentlyas these will inform you of any problems you overlooked, so you can keep your city safe.
