Caesar
Tips
Getting started on the heady road to success:
1: Try to start building your city between two rivers or better still and
area of land where two rivers converge. Instead
of building walls to enclose the city put down a line of wells - the barbarians
can't cross water or destroy the wells so
your city always gets off to a good start
2: Raise your personal income to around 100 denari so you can build up a
personal fortune. That way you can use your wealth to invest when times
get hard. Only accept promotion when
you've got maximum personal fortune.
3: Don't build houses close to industry and workshops - people won't live
there and the houses won't get past the second stage of development.
4: People want to live close to the forum - bath
houses and oracles. Make sure houses have the necessary water supply and
if you build roads near them they're much
more likely to grow.
5: Don't forget to take care of the provincial level - you must keep the
barbarians out of your
city. Increase the slave wages and army wages straight away - it's worth
making the army wages absurdly high.
Assign more slaves than you need to all the duties (particulary fire prevention)
and when you've recruited plenty of
soldiers switch to the provincial level. Place a couple of cohorts as a
precautionary measure and make them patrol
around your city.
6: Spend some time on the provincial map watching for where the barbarian
ships are landing and
when you see where the troops come ashore. Put a line of wall along the
coast. The next time the barbarians land they
should be trapped on the beach and they won't be able to knock down the
wall. You can now carry on building your
city in peace just make sure the walls don't deteriorate.
