Civcity Rome Mediolanum Walkthrough

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Page 1CivCity Rome General FAQ.CivCity RomeGeneral FAQVersion 0.70bydeadgreg (T. Gregory Drummond)Initial Release: April 2007CONTENTS OF THIS FAQThis FAQ is organized according to a basic chapter/section/topic design. Onlychapters and sections are listed in the ToC, below.1.

INTRODUCTION1.1About This FAQ1.2Terms of Use1.3Regarding the Author1.4Disclaimer2. GAME DETAILS2.1Minimum System Requirements2.2Recommended System Requirements2.3Game Interface2.4In-Game Menu2.5Ratings and Reports3. FARMS AND COMMERCE4.1Raw Materials and Food4.2Production4.3Trade within the Empire5. SECURITY5.1Fires and Riots5.2Strategic Defense6. RESEARCH6.1Alphabet6.2Mysticism6.3Mathematics6.4Animal Husbandry6.5Exploration6.6Tool Making7. CITY MANAGEMENT7.1City Happiness and Population7.2Finances and Economy7.3Temples and Religion7.4City Entertainment7.5Civic Services7.6Grandeur and Wonders8. CAREER CAMPAIGN8.1Peaceful Missions8.2Military Missions9.

SINGLE MISSIONS9.1Free-Build Scenarios9.2Military Service9.3Imperial Service.1. INTRODUCTIONThis chapter presents information on this FAQ, its terms of use, and itsauthor. Use of this document constitutes agreement with all stipulationsbelow. There is no information relevant to game play here, so feel free toskip it.1.1 About This FAQThis is a general FAQ, written for the PC CD-ROM retail software edition ofCivCity Rome (update version 1.1), a city builder game that takes conceptualinspiration from the popular Civilization series from Sid Meyers, though noknowledge of Civilization is needed to play CivCity Rome.

City builder gamesare common to say the least, and CCR employs many of the usual elements. Herethe main difference lies in the game interface, particularly the visualrepresentation of quantitative information.

In english, that means one cansee whether a particular granary has any olives stored there simply by lookingat it, for instance. This greatly facilitates the often troublesome processof assessing the operation of a particular area in your city.I asked it, and this FAQ makes no claim of being accurate, precise, complete,or even very good looking, and has no plans of making such a claim in theimmediate future. It does claim, however, to be the first FAQ on CivCity Romeever read by the author, which still isn't saying very much.

If you shouldhappen come in contact with some of the more vacuous sections of thisdocument, do not be alarmed! Useful information is, as we speak, flyingthrough the night to join our struggle against the great void. Be patient,and check back later.CivCity Rome is Copyright 2006 Take-Two Interactive Software and itssubsidiaries. All rights reserved. Developed by Firefly Studios.1.2 Terms of UseThis document is copyright to Thomas Gregory Drummond (a.k.a.

Deadgreg), 10March 2007, California, USA. All rights reserved except as noted in thedisclaimer below. This document is free for private use and shared useamongst free-access gamer sites, with the restrictions noted in this section(and references therein). Any excerpts, quotations, or citations of thisdocument must reference this document and include the author's name. Thisdocument must not be modified for presentation in any way without the author'sprior written consent, except for direct font format conversions with nochange of text, neither insertions nor deletions nor substitutions. Sale ofthis information is expressly forbidden.1.3 Regarding the AuthorFirst, I apologize for submitting an incomplete FAQ. I am aware of how trulyangering a blank section can be sometimes.

I felt a quasi-modo was warrantedin this case by the dearth of available practical information on the mechanicsand landscape of the game. Thus, I have tried especially to include a portionof general information and advice that can be applied to many scenarios.Version 1.0 of this FAQ is nearly complete, and I promise to post it soon. Inthe meantime, I hope version 0.70 helps your game play in some small way.If you should feel the need to contact me, don't. Or at least never inanger. If there is confusing language in this document, or if you findsomething egregiously wrong, please do let me know straight away by email atthe address below. I will try to make changes as appropriate.

If you havespecific questions you would like answered, please use the related GameFaqsmessage board. Thank you for your support.banderwocky@gmail.com1.4 DisclaimerThis general FAQ is not authorized or endorsed by the creators or publishersof CivCity Rome, nor by GameFaqs or similar free-post sites. The contents ofthis document were researched and developed solely by the author, except wherenoted. This document is based upon CivCity Rome update version 1.1 of theretail PC CD-ROM software edition and inclusions. This FAQ is intended forguidance and informational purposes only; it is not accurate or complete.This document was created with Microsoft Word 2003 using 9 pt.

Courier Newfont.2. PLAY THE GAMEDon't Panic (imagine large, friendly letters).Simulation strategy games typically require you to continually parse severalpieces of changing information. This chapter presents an overview of basicinformation that is fundamental to installation and operation of the software,as well as navigation of the game and its menus.As with the Civilization series, CivCity Rome uses a complex feedback systemwith random outside influences to model to the operational environment of yourcity. Thus, it can sometimes be quite challenging (or impossible) to trackdown and repair the source(s) of certain crippling problems in the city, suchas insufficient rations, insufficient funds, etc. In this case, I refer thereader the first paragraph of this section. It can be shown mathematicallythat a dynamic system with enough influences must naturally fluctuate, nomatter how well it is controlled.

If city doesn't do exactly what you want,it doesn't necessarily mean you're doing anything wrong. Thus, it is helpfulto focus on long-term trends and ignore short-term fluctuations.

This guide will show you an efficient housing district that can be used on nearly every peaceful map in the campaign as well as most free play maps.What you should know:. This guide is focused on making a residential area, while some buildings involved do use production buildings/farms they are not explained in detail. In general, as long as these are placed within the collection radius of the stalls in the residential area that need them and out of the way of other buildings in the guide, placement is unimportant. The Production Chain - Farms/Raw Resources Stalls/Storage Residents/Storage. Farms and Logging Camps will gather materials until there is enough for a delivery to a granary or a warehouse. Stalls can grab materials from farms or storage, houses can grab materials from stalls or storage.

The Collection Radius - When clicked, a building will show a colored radius, yellow for industry and green for housing. Other buildings will appear colored if they are in the original buildings radius.

(Ex: A meat stall will highlight goat farms yellow.) This means that materials can be gathered directly from the farm rather than waiting for a delivery to a storage yard that is within range. This also applies for houses in range of a stall. As houses grow, the radius of collection will grow as well. You Can Move Houses - This residential layout will have you move houses to make space for buildings needed for growth as well as natural growth as stage two houses can be placed over stalls.

Storage Accept/Deny - Granaries and Warehouses have a list where you can allow or deny certain goods from being allowed to be stored there. This is important as some goods not needed by resident homes can overwhelm your warehouse (Ex.

Wood or linen) leaving no room for the things they do (Ex. Clothes or olive oil). The Basic GridThis is the basic design for a good residential square. You can use single lane roads if tight on space or if you prefer a more aesthetic look, double lane. I recommend starting the corner by placing two shacks side by side, then flip the facing the opposite way and place two more side by side taking care to leave one block from the back of the first two shacks. Wrap a road around the houses and then extend the roads to use as a frame for the other sections. This is important for the top and bottom rectangle squares as you will need to fit stalls there.First Level Need - Well WaterAdd water wells on the sides as seen in the left picture.

Shacks in the middle can still reach the well as shown by the green highlight on the building. These wells are temporary as later games have the cistern availble and once you complete lead working research on the current map the entire map will have water access.Second Level Need - MeatOnce you start getting into tangible goods it's a good idea to have a place to put excess goods so if demand ever spikes you won't see a shortage since you'll have some extra supply stored. With this design both a warehouse and a granary will fit next to each other in the center.Placement of the meat stalls are important to ensure all shacks can get stall access. You will want to place the stalls two stalls width away from the edge on both the top and bottom of the warehouse side. As seen above, all shacks in the area can reach the meat stalls. Be sure that when you place the goat farms they are within the collection radius of the stalls or the stall will sit unused.

I placed the goat farms at the top as seen in the screenshots for the purposes of this guide, both stalls will reach them easily in this position. Fourth Level Need: Olive Oil.Next, add an Olive farm on the outskirts of the residential area(again I put these on top next to the goat farms) and an oil press stall in the center next to the tunic stall. Placement is still important here to ensure all houses can reach the stall.As you can see above, both the far left and right houses can reach the stall. This will be true for both the top and bottom of the area.Fifth Level Needs: Beds and ReligionThose empty spots on the sides are finally filled.

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Any small temple will fit and will service each half of the neighborhood respectively. These temples can fill quickly so research the tech that gets citizens in and out quicker as soon as possible. Bed crafters have also been added around the outside of the residential area. In my experience, there is no good space to have these bed crafters to provide full coverage while also having easy access to wood. The best place to shoot for is within collection range of wood and a reasonable amount of houses which will collect from the store directly. Crafters will bring one bed to the central warehouse after their shift so remaining houses will eventually be able to grab a bed. Fifth Level Need - BreadThe next step is adding the WheatFlourBread Production line.

Place the bread stall in the center next to the meat stall. Housing radius isn't quite far enough to reach if it was placed on the other side. Make sure the mill is withen the radius of the bread stall as well.Fifth Level Need - EntertainmentOn the left is a musician patio placed in a cross of an extension of the road lines with a little decoration. Musician patios require a musician school to operate. On the right is a tavern placed in an opposite corner with decoration.The left screenshot shows where I placed these particular entertainment venues. These venues can really be placed anywhere around the residential area. What is interesting to note, is that despite being out of a houses reach, the musicians patio is still able to be accessed.

The tavern does not share the same benefit. Sixth Level Need - Pipe WaterPictured is the Aqueduct and the cistern. Aqueducts must be placed on fresh water and cisterns must be placed near a filled aqueduct. I recommend researching lead working prior to working on pipe water as that will allow the cistern to supply pipe water to the entire map.

This way, you won't have to spend thousands of denari on dragging an aqueduct closer to the residential area and having to deal with space issues. The only map that requires houses with pipe water and doesn't have lead working is the second mission in the campaign and that map is small enough that the cisterns massive default radius for supply will cover the map if placed anywhere near the center.Sixth Level Need - BathsWorking in the baths is a bit tricky. To start place the bath on the outside of a corner square. Having the bath on the outside of the residential area like this provides poor service area.

To fix this issue we need to get the corner houses to upgrade so they can be moved over stalls so the bath can moved into the best place to provide better a service area.In this screenshot, one of the houses is ready to upgrade and is about to be placed over a stall. Once the corner houses are upgraded and moved over stalls, move the baths into the vacant corners. This will ensure all the Insulas have a bath within reach.At this point the only stall you will need to add for the next series of housing will be the fruit stall. Other stalls can be added to provide additional goods, I recommend an extra meat, bread, and/or fruit stall as food is something you want to keep full otherwise your happiness will drop quickly.

Compacting to InsulasKeep moving houses and have them ready to upgrade to Insulas. If you don't want to place anymore stalls due to an overabundance of goods, Insulas can still be placed even without a stall underneath them.

The leftern Insula in the picture has no stall in it. The goal here to to have the top and bottom of the residential rectangle area (where the stalls are) filled with Insulas. You can also see in the right screenshot the collection radius of these Insula.Seventh Level Need - GrammaticusThis building fits snuggly next to the temple where a house once was. It's a little longer length wise than a house, so it will only be able to face one of two ways. Be sure to place this next to each temple. I also recommend researching education to increase student space as even with two schools it will be well used.

Ninth Level Needs - HospitalOnce you have moved the last of the houses to Insulas, the hospital will be place in the opposite corner of where the baths were before they were moved. There is a bit of extra space as the hospital isn't as robust as the baths, so I fill in the empty space with decoration.Ninth Level Needs - SlavesThe big S. This building needs to be placed around the outside of the residential area. Wherever you place it make sure you place it on the opposite end as well so all Insula's can get access. For research, I recommend taking all the techs that speeds up research first. Then take all the research that increases taxes.

Taxes alone can make a city make massive amounts of Denari. Grabbing any tech that reduces need or access time should be chosen as a case by case basis for whatever your houses need at the time. Have the center residential warehouse only accept Tunics, Olive Oil, and Beds. If you do this, make sure you have a warehouse for the other goods to go to. When you have a sizeable amount of money, consider making a warehouse specialize in one type of good for each production item.

As above, have your center residential granary only accept meat, bread, fruit. Olives, Grapes, and wine can easily fill a granary rendering it useless for residential needs.This wraps up the Residential planning Guide.

At this point the Insula's upgrade into a Villa which are larger and require even more stall access. Unfortunately, I am still experimenting with risher residential designs that work for any space and haven't come up with anything concrete enough for a guide.

Hopefully this basic design has helped you with creating a compact yet functional living space. Really good guide!

For me, I have a lot of trouble with three things; keeping the granaries filled, providing water, and unemployment. It feels like I have to build wayyyy too many farms compared to the population, even though they'll all be within the butcher's and granary's spheres of influence, is it just that they're a little too far and therefore too slow at filling it maybe?For water, it's the same thing. I'll have several shacks saying they need water, despite having a well, or even two wells, within their green aura. I'm like, bruh, the water's right there! I guess I kinda run into that issue with everything, whether its tunic stalls or butcher stalls, like CITIZEN THE STORE'S NEXT DOOR! I will try a layout more like this and see if I have the same issues.