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Ah, the mines of Anyi... a nice economy mission to introduce the Yearly Profit/Treasury Goals, and Salt as well :D In terms of salt mines, you'll usually be limited by how many you can build in missions, due to them requiring a 3x3 square of salt marsh to be built. Usually about 4-5 is enough, but if you need to get rid of a lot of workers and make a small amount of money, building loads of them can help. Additionally, it's a good homage gift if done in large amounts. 11:00 Trading Stations like any location that isn't near trees iirc. So if you clear most of the trees within a certain radius, it'll be fine to place. You can find out what a building's FS element is by simply placing it and then clicking the "See Feng Shui" button under desirability and it can be compared with the Emperor Heaven FS table :D 21:10 I'm not sure why, but the messages always refer to the gods, even though it's not actually the gods doing. That's just a scripted event that is misreferenced to the ancestor heroes (the content of the message is one I'd expect if an ancestor hero sent a disaster to the city). In terms of exports, alternate methods may have been to import clay, bronze and uncut jade, to produce weapons and carved jade, which are far more profitable than just salt. Shame there's no silk :(
You were quite lucky on the earthquake :D. I was playing this episode like a couple months ago, earth quake blew %60 of my residensies and half my salt mines. It was stupendous. Enjoyed the vid, i'll definitely give this chapter another shot ! Looking forward to next chapter so that we can play it together :).
hunters tents, farms, and labour camps don't need inspector's towers to maintain them, they can take care of themselves. Salamanders and other aggressive animals which are too close to industry can be taken care of by watchtower walkers or manned city wall towers to protect your workers. Animals aren't blocked by residential walls, but animals and floods can be held back by city walls.
Salt and later spices does not count as food. It does increase food quality, but if you just feed them meat and salt. You are basically just giving them meat, needing 3 times as much meat as you do when offering 3 types of food.
I am not sure if you realize this in later videos, but the limit in the trading post is the amount of goods they would keep in the trading post. It would be most efficient if you just limit it to the amount the merchant will buy at one go and have it fill up again from a warehouse or something. Nice videos! i hope you would do more of these!!
I'm not sure if I knew it back then but I do know it now. I tend to just overproduce/oversupply things though as I don't min/max in these games haha. I will get back into Emperor once I reach the end of the current Pharaoh dynasty.
Why don't you place a couple of warehouses nearby the production areas? It will increase efficiency and the trading houses will not need to run around. It will help the distribution system.
Also, for funsies, could you click on your city's citizens to hear what they have to say? I wonder what they would have said during the "stirrings of unrest" part of this game. Good job on recovering from the debt, by the way! :)
Ugh, damn pheasants. I *hate* that noise they make. I hate pheasants if they're not on my plate and very, very dead. Goddamn Karl Fazer! I love your company's chocolate but why did you bring Pheasants to Finland!? WHY!? Egh... Back when I was still a teenager, there was this runt of a male pheasant living in our tiny front yard, because it couldn't get any better place to set up it's "breeding ground" when the mating season came, and because it was such a runt and had a poor location for it's "territory", it had the same harem of 0 females every year. And of course it just had to be the most uppity and over-confident male pheasant in existence. Every morning at 6 am it jumped to my window-board and started to do just that typical pheasant noise, and whenever I went out, especially if the pheasant mating season was on, it just HAD to come on over in front of me and try to drive me away from "it's" territory. The first couple of times it was kind of funny, seeing that bird brain spread it's wings and trying to act so big and mighty while assaulting my shoes. After the 5th morning (going to school) AND afternoon (returning from school) of that in a row, it started to get irritating. The damn noise right outside my window at 6 am every morning didn't help. I was about to either drive the damn thing off or kill it, but of course my mom AND the neighbours liked the damn thing and told me not to, and my mom also told me I'd have my all my games taken away *for good* if I did a single thing to the damn bird. And so the damn thing lived on our front yard for *3. Friggin'. Years,* and I even named him "Nemesis" according to my hateful feelings towards him. (And because he always just kept coming back for more like Nemesis in RE3.) Well, then on the 4th year's pheasant mating season I had my dog come over from my dad's place for the coming vacation, and while my dog was as sweet and peaceful as they come, she had a "bit" of protective instincts towards me. (As in if my father even scolded me a little over some genuine misdeed or something, she began to growl at him and would place herself between me and my dad.) So I rode my bicycle to the yard with my dog running beside me, and sure as clockwork Nemesis bursts out of the bush and tries to attack me. I barely managed to hear the short intense growl, the following violent barks and turn my head before my dog was on him already, and then before I even properly realized what had happened there was this series of nasty *CRACK* noises that I assume were Nemesis' neck and some other bones breaking. And likely a lot of tendons and muscle snapping too. My dog bit down on the bugger's neck and shook him around so hard that feathers were flying all over the yard for some half a minute I'd guess. (Likely until my dog could feel that Nemesis was no longer moving at all...) And then as I look over the scene completely baffled, my dog comes over and drops Nemesis' dead body at my feet and looks up at me licking her lips like a damn puppy. My mom wasn't too pleased, but since it technically wasn't me (though my mom was pretty sure I had commanded my dog to kill Nemesis) I didn't lose my games either. Man's best friend indeed. x'D I guess that completely unrelated rant was *salty* enough for this mission, eh?
Chris Chivington Meh, one annoying bird brain less, and my dog got some exercise. Ah, I also got to sleep in further than 6am on my mornings from there on out. A real win-win-win situation if anything. If it helps you sleep any better, my mom did make sure that the annoying bugger ate pretty *damn* well for those 3 years he lived in our yard, and even trimmed the set of bushes he lived under to better suit his needs by cutting off the lower branches so he could move around better, so despite being a "forever alone"-bachelor runt, he was quite well off for a pheasant while he lived. Also, while his death wasn't likely painless, it was preeeeetty quick since he was completely dead once my dog dropped him at my feet. One thing that pissed me off was that my mom or the neighbours couldn't bear to eat him once he was dead, and couldn't allow anyone else to do so either, so I wasn't allowed to cook him and all that tasty meat went to waste when he was buried in the neighbour's yard, dammit. (Oh the amount of schadenfreude I would've had while eating him, lol.) xD
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This mission had a BUNCH of rendering issues! All were fixed except 1 remaining red flash. Red is a lucky colour in Chinese culture. Spot it for more ōng (fortune). If you would like to buy Emperor (or any other game) and support the channel please use this referral link: af.gog.com/game/emperor_rise_of_the_middle_kingdom?as=1715648857
Ah, the mines of Anyi... a nice economy mission to introduce the Yearly Profit/Treasury Goals, and Salt as well :D
In terms of salt mines, you'll usually be limited by how many you can build in missions, due to them requiring a 3x3 square of salt marsh to be built. Usually about 4-5 is enough, but if you need to get rid of a lot of workers and make a small amount of money, building loads of them can help. Additionally, it's a good homage gift if done in large amounts.
11:00 Trading Stations like any location that isn't near trees iirc. So if you clear most of the trees within a certain radius, it'll be fine to place. You can find out what a building's FS element is by simply placing it and then clicking the "See Feng Shui" button under desirability and it can be compared with the Emperor Heaven FS table :D
21:10 I'm not sure why, but the messages always refer to the gods, even though it's not actually the gods doing. That's just a scripted event that is misreferenced to the ancestor heroes (the content of the message is one I'd expect if an ancestor hero sent a disaster to the city).
In terms of exports, alternate methods may have been to import clay, bronze and uncut jade, to produce weapons and carved jade, which are far more profitable than just salt. Shame there's no silk :(
You were quite lucky on the earthquake :D. I was playing this episode like a couple months ago, earth quake blew %60 of my residensies and half my salt mines. It was stupendous.
Enjoyed the vid, i'll definitely give this chapter another shot ! Looking forward to next chapter so that we can play it together :).
hunters tents, farms, and labour camps don't need inspector's towers to maintain them, they can take care of themselves. Salamanders and other aggressive animals which are too close to industry can be taken care of by watchtower walkers or manned city wall towers to protect your workers.
Animals aren't blocked by residential walls, but animals and floods can be held back by city walls.
Salt and later spices does not count as food. It does increase food quality, but if you just feed them meat and salt. You are basically just giving them meat, needing 3 times as much meat as you do when offering 3 types of food.
I especially love the maps where u can make salt in Emperor
I am not sure if you realize this in later videos, but the limit in the trading post is the amount of goods they would keep in the trading post. It would be most efficient if you just limit it to the amount the merchant will buy at one go and have it fill up again from a warehouse or something. Nice videos! i hope you would do more of these!!
I'm not sure if I knew it back then but I do know it now. I tend to just overproduce/oversupply things though as I don't min/max in these games haha. I will get back into Emperor once I reach the end of the current Pharaoh dynasty.
Why don't you place a couple of warehouses nearby the production areas? It will increase efficiency and the trading houses will not need to run around. It will help the distribution system.
good placement of housing block🤯
i place hemp farm near salamander 😂
GamerZakh: i gonna do some water trade.
Also GamerZakh: dose only land trade.
i did this because water trade and roadblocks are satisfying
the earthquake wiped out 10 of my villas lol
The salt is real. (12:12)
7:00 26:56 Salamander sabotage.
map "Thanh Long, for open play" so cool, u must try play it
Despite the fact that "Emperor" and "Pharaoh" are very similar I still think "Pharaoh" is it better. ;) Great vid, anyway. Like!
It seems like the Food shop only take one Salt, I wonder why :P (Do you eat Meat/Food with Salt or Salt with a lil bit Food xD
Your prebuilding seems to come with consequences on Very Hard--looks like those buildings collapse VERY quickly indeed. O_o
Yeah, I should slow down a bit on that haha.
Also, for funsies, could you click on your city's citizens to hear what they have to say? I wonder what they would have said during the "stirrings of unrest" part of this game.
Good job on recovering from the debt, by the way! :)
Thanks! Yeah, I could click on them a bit more at some points. I'll try in the next part.
GamerZakh Citizens have special lines during invasions, when enemies are close. Some are rather funny.
what happens if you're in debt for too long?
Ugh, damn pheasants. I *hate* that noise they make. I hate pheasants if they're not on my plate and very, very dead.
Goddamn Karl Fazer! I love your company's chocolate but why did you bring Pheasants to Finland!? WHY!?
Egh...
Back when I was still a teenager, there was this runt of a male pheasant living in our tiny front yard, because it couldn't get any better place to set up it's "breeding ground" when the mating season came, and because it was such a runt and had a poor location for it's "territory", it had the same harem of 0 females every year.
And of course it just had to be the most uppity and over-confident male pheasant in existence.
Every morning at 6 am it jumped to my window-board and started to do just that typical pheasant noise, and whenever I went out, especially if the pheasant mating season was on, it just HAD to come on over in front of me and try to drive me away from "it's" territory.
The first couple of times it was kind of funny, seeing that bird brain spread it's wings and trying to act so big and mighty while assaulting my shoes.
After the 5th morning (going to school) AND afternoon (returning from school) of that in a row, it started to get irritating.
The damn noise right outside my window at 6 am every morning didn't help.
I was about to either drive the damn thing off or kill it, but of course my mom AND the neighbours liked the damn thing and told me not to, and my mom also told me I'd have my all my games taken away *for good* if I did a single thing to the damn bird.
And so the damn thing lived on our front yard for *3. Friggin'. Years,* and I even named him "Nemesis" according to my hateful feelings towards him.
(And because he always just kept coming back for more like Nemesis in RE3.)
Well, then on the 4th year's pheasant mating season I had my dog come over from my dad's place for the coming vacation, and while my dog was as sweet and peaceful as they come, she had a "bit" of protective instincts towards me.
(As in if my father even scolded me a little over some genuine misdeed or something, she began to growl at him and would place herself between me and my dad.)
So I rode my bicycle to the yard with my dog running beside me, and sure as clockwork Nemesis bursts out of the bush and tries to attack me.
I barely managed to hear the short intense growl, the following violent barks and turn my head before my dog was on him already, and then before I even properly realized what had happened there was this series of nasty *CRACK* noises that I assume were Nemesis' neck and some other bones breaking. And likely a lot of tendons and muscle snapping too.
My dog bit down on the bugger's neck and shook him around so hard that feathers were flying all over the yard for some half a minute I'd guess. (Likely until my dog could feel that Nemesis was no longer moving at all...)
And then as I look over the scene completely baffled, my dog comes over and drops Nemesis' dead body at my feet and looks up at me licking her lips like a damn puppy.
My mom wasn't too pleased, but since it technically wasn't me (though my mom was pretty sure I had commanded my dog to kill Nemesis) I didn't lose my games either.
Man's best friend indeed.
x'D
I guess that completely unrelated rant was *salty* enough for this mission, eh?
Nooooooooo! Poor Nemesis ;__;
Chris Chivington
Meh, one annoying bird brain less, and my dog got some exercise.
Ah, I also got to sleep in further than 6am on my mornings from there on out.
A real win-win-win situation if anything.
If it helps you sleep any better, my mom did make sure that the annoying bugger ate pretty *damn* well for those 3 years he lived in our yard, and even trimmed the set of bushes he lived under to better suit his needs by cutting off the lower branches so he could move around better, so despite being a "forever alone"-bachelor runt, he was quite well off for a pheasant while he lived.
Also, while his death wasn't likely painless, it was preeeeetty quick since he was completely dead once my dog dropped him at my feet.
One thing that pissed me off was that my mom or the neighbours couldn't bear to eat him once he was dead, and couldn't allow anyone else to do so either, so I wasn't allowed to cook him and all that tasty meat went to waste when he was buried in the neighbour's yard, dammit.
(Oh the amount of schadenfreude I would've had while eating him, lol.)
xD