The location of farms/wharves, and the approximate location of domestic goods industries. The approximate location of any housing areas, and the intended housing level. Also where export industries will be located. What you intend to export and how many raw material producers and workshops you will need. That said, I would recommend the following as a bare minimum: However, the amount of planning you do is entirely up to you. Many mistakes can be avoided by the simple expedient of a little planning. This is, in my opinion, the most important phase of city-building. The fourth phase of citybuilding is actually the first - phase zero, as it were. Well, I have been a little bit sneaky here. Doubtless you are wondering what happened to phase four. You will notice that I referred to the four phases of city-building. Once you have achieved your culture rating, you have only to wait for that peace rating to rise. Nowadays the majority of my housing blocks contain space for additional culture buildings, but a degree of 'culture parking' tends to occur if my target is 100 culture. Libraries, Theatres, Schools and Academies are added wherever there is space. The employees required for this task are usually furnished by developing my plebeian blocks to their final level (usually small insulae), and occasionally by adding an additional plebeian block. In other words, I attend to my culture rating. In the last few years of my cities, I set tidying up all the loose ends in my city. Your target prosperity rating and population should now be within your reach. Phase two of my cities ends when all the patrician blocks, most of the plebeian blocks, and the domestic industries have been established. Once again, additional plebeian blocks may be necessary to furnish the required number of employees. In addition to the patrician blocks, phase two also involves the establishment of domestic finished goods industries to supply the patrician blocks, and, later, the plebeian blocks. An additional plebeian block is developed alongside the patrician block to provide the necessary labour.ĭepending on the target population, and prosperity, it may be necessary to add a second patrician block, together with another plebeian block to supply labour. I always try to evolve Patrician housing to the highest possible level: Luxury Palace if possible, Grand Villa if not. The first act of phase two in my cities is to begin the first patrician housing block. Of course, while you will make a fair amount of money by taxing your workforce, it is much more lucrative to tax a different group of people: those wine-swilling patricians.
Thereafter, a forum is added to every housing block as soon as it reaches small casa. When the first housing block reaches small casa, I add a forum, and put my tax rate above 0 for the very first time. In order to grow your city, while still remaining self-sufficient, you will gradually need to look towards a second source of income: taxes. You have established the economic base for the city, and it is now time to expand.Īt the end of phase one, your city is still in its infancy, with, in all probability, a small population, mostly employed in making you money. Phase one ends when your export industries are maxed out, and most housing is at small casa. Army building is an ongoing process that will often continue well into phase two. Precisely when you start your army depends on how soon you are expecting an invasion, but it should always be after the first export industry.
Depending on the size of your first export industry, second (and subsequent) export industries may be started a little later in the scheme.
Obviously there is a need to be flexible here. If unemployment runs out, and trade is still not maximised, then add a second housing block to provide the workers.Add entertainment and education facilities to the housing block - use the employment for export industry three, or (on more dangerous levels) to start up the army.
Start feeding folks, and soak up the excess unemployment in export industry number two.65 tiles), and provide it with clean water and 5 temples. The step-by-step guide runs a bit like this: During this phase you develop and maximise your trade income to provide the necessary funds to keep Caesar off your back and continue growing your city. This phase begins with the start of the level and ends when you have established your city as an economically self-sufficient entity. you'll have to excuse me for borrowing shamelessly from the vocabulary of polymer chemistry
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