Thanks! I just bought Pharaoh off Steam, and was so excited; my old disk hasn't worked for years, and I've always loved this game. I have forgotten so much! Thank you for the awesome guide, from one Aussie to another!
Thank you for this step-by-step video! I did not know that houses could expand on their own or into a garden like that from a single plot, was trying to build additional housing plots next to my Fancy Residences to evolve them and ended up just wrecking my neighborhoods. Also the tip for the "theoretical luxury goods" was very useful and left a funny image in my mind, the jewelers simply making jewelry in the shape of an elephant tusk and calling it "ivory" to please the nobles who don't know any better. xD
David Paul yeah, it's not obvious but can be helpful when planning your layouts. Houses always expand if they need to and if there is space. And remember they can expand over gardens if required.
Nice guide, I didn’t know about the theoretical luxury goods trick! In a similar vein, you can improve access to multiple food types by setting domestically produced food types to Import to Maintain Zero. This allows bazaar buyers to get the foods from storage yards rather than just granaries. One idea for placing the mortuary and senet house is to extend the pavilion intersection by one road tile and connect the undesirable buildings there, out of the way of your precious houses.
Thanks mate. The actual building of them is pretty easy. In the end the actual challenge is all the stuff you don't see. Getting the goods into position, setting up the industry chains, etc. Each map will have its own challenges but should be easy enough to work around it. For more map specific advice check out the playlist where I did the entire game. You might find something that addresses any problems you are having for each specific map.
This old video is awesome! been getting into Pharaoh more and more the last few years, this is the first really good and practical guild I've seen for better housing that's not just some ones massive 20,000 pop mega block. While i appreciate how people have min maxed in reality its nice to have a strategy i don't need 3 spread sheets and a degree in C++ to pull off Edit, i thought you had to have plots down for houses to expand, my mind is blown. First guide i've seen point that out i've been trying to fit 4x4s with roads around them.
Glad you find it useful. And yeah, min maxing can be good but it becomes useless once you have to apply that design to all the different maps. Having a design with some leeway allows the player to adjust on the fly for anything in the terrain or design-wise they might wish to work around.
Awesome detailed guide, I mean GUIDE and not just throw down opinions and ideas which are prevalent these days. Definitely adding to "Watch later" Also definitely need 2 granaries for 3 types of food because of the same principle as warehouse (2 types of goods max)
An example of a Impressions city builder game that really benefited from widescreen modification. You can actually see all that hard work come together. The game is particularly special at resolutions ABOVE 1080p, but a person needs a large monitor to be able to use it properly.
Absolutely vital. I recall playing back under the original resolutions and it was very difficult to place the larger pyramids as the footprint was off the screen.
I think the highest house type I ever got to is fancy residence. I never got to the 3x3 house types. I may try to find a copy of this game and play it again.
Don't know how I slept on this game. Never heard of until I was looking up some Caesar III vids and found this video. Bad enough im still addicted to Caesar III after 20 years now im about to buy this on Steam lol. There goes my weekends
I do not know, if the missions are available with your version of Pharaoh, but I would recommend the mission Kyrene. The gameplay is similar to the Campaign. I also designed some Custom Missions. I would be happy, if you would test them. I will upload one of them soon at Pharaoh Heaven. I apologize for possible misspelling. Greetings from Germany.
My question not having anything to do with palatial housing, but is there a way to overcome (or even reverse) the ageing of the population and the constantly growing labour shortage in this game? Only by endlessly expanding the population?
Immigrants are about the age of 30. You can deliberately devolve housing by removing water access for a while. When you re-evolve the housing the new immigrants will be of working age.
No problem. Water is simply the easiest to use since it is the lowest level requirement. You can use anything else as well but they can be more difficult. The other alternative is to simply destroy the buildings and rebuild but that is crossying some imaginary 'too gamey' threshold for me to rationalise.
I agree. Destroying the residences would feel unrational. Weird thing is that I sometimes had the problem of both unemployment AND labour shortages at the same time for at least six game-calender-months, while all the recruiter guys had access to at least one occupied house. Immigrants weren't moving in because 'supposedly' there was a lack of jobs. No enemy armies were closing in on my city either, and all other ratings were okay. Just only after a while there finally was a sudden, massive influx of immigrants. Maybe a bug? I almost began to think it had to do with some sort of 'underqualification' of the city's population: like building a Library in your upgraded neighbourhood, but 80 percent of the available labour force in the whole city still consisting of Crude hut-dwellers. But I don't think this is a element in the game.
All workers in the city exist in some sort of invisible pool of resources. A single house is enough to provide access to this pool even if the actual population is on the other side of the map. With regards to the noble houses, when they level up the worker pool shrinks but the houses themselves keep providing access to the pool of workers that are being provided by all the other houses in the city.
@@Blxz I have played this game for 20yrs now, and I never knew this! I've always contructed like little villages for the poor/homeless in areas where it said "Poor access to workers" because I thought there was a walk limit. But if a single house can turn a high unemployment rate to power some far flung industrial estate... Thats a game changer. (I tend to level up too fast and need more and more jobs to fill up the unemployment. These in turn create even more workers! But a single house can help bring it down...)
How are you able to have little isolated clusters of houses and they don't starve to death or die of disease? The part building the papyrus, how does the papyrus get to your schools are libraries if it's not connected to the main city?
Food is a good like any other. So low level houses can survive without food as it's not yet become a required good for them. Disease is a problem so I should have apothecaries walking past them. I can use warehouses to 'get' goods from other warehouses amd if they don't share a road connection they will walk directly cross country. The local warehouses can then distribute the required goods themselves without being connected to the main warehouse near the production sites.
In the initial layout, what effect would have making the first cross large statues have had? I assume you went for the medium statues so you could see what space you were working with.
I made them medium because there can be concerns about too large a walking route on the outside. I am confident that large statues would work in this layout but I tend to eyeball it and like to keep a margin if safety because walkers can be stupid sometimes and cause needless fires.
hello, great city...... why i can not change the type of scultures...... i see you have more things than me. please can you tell me what version do you have , and where you download your version of faraoh. tkns
@@martin.baena125 as I mentioned in your other comment - make sure you are using the same map. Resources are completely map dependent. One map might have copper or gold, another might have gemstones, another might have limestone, while another map have no stone resources at all.
I've answered in more depth further down the comments but essentially all workers are in a big worker pool. Nobles obviously don't contribute to that pool in terms of numbers. However, to get access to that big citywide pool a building just needs to walk past any inhabited building, even if that building doesn't supply actual workers. Therefore, nobles houses can give access to workers from other parts of the city without supplying any workers themselves.
There is a widescreen fix. I've posted in the comments a number of times and provided links. It's been so long now that I have forgotten how to apply it but I believe my first video in the playlist, Nubt, should have the information and a download link in the description.
They block random walkers that stroll around. But if someone has a place they are trying to get to then they will walk through it. Effectively, if someone needs to go through them to complete a mission such as warehouse delivery, etc. then they are able to pass. Quite simple.
What do you mean? Elite housing? Elite housing doesn't provide employees but it does provide ACCESS to the map-wide employee pool. You can have all your worker housing on one corner of the map and your elites on another corner not connected by roads but as long as the service walkers pass any houses they will access the workers who can 'teleport' across the map and keep working. Just be careful when a lot of workers become nobles that the drop in total workforce doesn't give you shortages.
@@Blxz Yes, that's exactly what I meant, access to workforce :) Thanks!. Also, you have couple city cells with some resources that are entirely separated from the rest of the city, yet they do provide these to storage yards somehow. How does that work?
@@XEyedN00b I cannot remember the specific setup I used but by the sounds of it I am stockpiling them into a warehouse and then using another warehouse to 'get' the resources. They send a little cart guy out and he can grab up to 4 at a time and bring them back to his storage yard. Very effective at moving goods around but make sure not to give him too many different jobs or he will never get enough of each type.
@@XEyedN00b if you have roads they will take them. If you have no roads they will go cross country. No downsides to either but direct is typically faster; although along roads looks better in a big city.
Cleopatra is a paid expansion. If you bought off gog.com or something similar then it comes included. If you are using an old cd then you would have to find an old cleopatra cd to go with it.
@@Blxz I'm using an old cd, if i don't remember bad the first release of pharaoh was full of bug and I patched it 6 years ago, but now i don't remember where i downloaded the patch to fix it.
Oh yea and thanks for explaining that people in this 3x3 manors don't work... I was getting insane I have so much people in city, most was these houses.... And 1000 workers needed 🤦♂️
In all these tutorials I see I always see people place a few houses purely as a workforce but how do you solve the "too many slums prevent immigration" problem?
Off the top of my head the only slums I have are the housing near the Palatial Estate granary. If you have slum housing making up a significant percentage of your housing then no new people will immigrate. The answer to this is to use housing blocks and to minimise your feeder housing. I suggest you have a watch through of my Pharaoh playlist on my channel to see how I approach each specific mission since there are different techniques for each map. TL;DR - keep your slum housing to a minimum.
Thank you. I guess I'm just having a bit of a problem with deciding how much housing is enough to provide work for a single district as well as with numbers in general (ie. not knowing how much say a reed gatherer creates to know exactly how many papyrus makers to make for maximum efficiency it would be great if there were a list of some sort that stated how many craftsman buildings one unit of a raw material building can supply like the game tels you with the 1 clay pit = 2 potters). I suppose I should only place "slum housing" once I have enough people to sustain the percentage.
The way workers exist in Pharaoh is part of a single massive 'pool'. Every single worker exists in this pool. To access this pool a walker needs to walk past a single house. Therefore even if you have 5 guys living in some slums and 1000 jobs accessing those slums you will be fine IF you have 1000 other workers living somewhere in your city. They don't need to be connected or be anywhere near their workplace, they just need to exist. In the tutorial mission here I have a few blocks to the south and north-west. Those are providing all my workers. Then I have one or two houses that then provide magical worker access for all my palatial estates, granaries, warehouses, etc.
Wow thanks a lot that's something I didn't know. That's gonna make planning industry districts so much easier now. Make a giant moderately supplied worker quarter and then just plop down one house next to all my gold mines. Thanks again.
sorry..... but why i dont have precious stone mines, and my bazars only have buy or not buy, you have other kinds of option in the barns and in the bazars...tks
Assuming we are using the same map, I don't know why you dont have precious stones. It is always map dependant so check that first. With regards to bazaar options, I am uaing the Cleopatra expansion. No idea if that changed anything but if you are only using the base unpatched version if pharaoh then that might explain some changes.
I use the square bracket keys to change game speed and I believe page up and down rotate the camera. Not much else I can recall off the top of my head.
@@Blxz thanks, I've watched a couple tutorials now, everyone sped up the game and never mentioned how. This was an informative video on a lot of things for me. Thank you for doing this And so well
At a guess I assume you mean shrines? Mines are a good place to put them because they get guaranteed engineer cover and there are typically a lot of small little spaces spare that I can use. The shrines also give a boost to the whole city even if no houses are nearby so it's win/win.
When laying out your housing blocks. 1) Tailor the area to the need 2) Working class neighborhood's only need so much. But they better get what they need. If your workers move out you lose. 3) High status housing may be needed to meet certain win conditions. And it may look nice. But try to build only the minimum needed. 4) Overbuilding high status infrastructure can actually hurt in your high status area if that area does not have enough local workforce from a lower class neighborhood. Just keep them separated by some sort of beautification 5) Compactness helps. The farther your walkers need to go the worse it is. I started to play this when it came out circa 2000. And when planning areas sit down with pencil and graph paper.
Point 4 is blatantly wrong. The city has a global worker pool. There is no such thing as 'local workforce'. If the building can get access to workers at all then they have access to the entire working population. Having a "nearby" worker area separated by beautification is simply an aesthetic choice you appear to like. All the power to you for that but claiming it is a critical point is factually untrue.
@@Blxz Yes you do have a global workers pool. But you also get the "no workers live nearby" iirc. That's part of where compactness comes in. No point in having your delivery men having to travel all the way across the map to deliver a careful to the SY or granaries. Or the same with the bazaar girl getting supplies. One thing I would try to do in the Sandbox mode was to build multiple self sustaining cities not connected by the kingdom road. It didn't always work. But then it's only a game.
I feel you misunnderstand exactly what I am trying to communicate with this video. But please do whatever works for you. Variety is the spice of life. The "no workers live nearby" comment though does not relate to compactness though.
@@Blxz Here I went and pre-installed the game on the computer in the home office and it did some wonky stuff. It would keep playing the theme music after you closed the game out. So i uninstalled and tried to rei-install. And fried the DVD-R drive 😖 The CD-ROM is from the original 1999 release (along with my Cleo which would not install). I guess I just might have to get the download from Steam.
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Thanks! I just bought Pharaoh off Steam, and was so excited; my old disk hasn't worked for years, and I've always loved this game.
I have forgotten so much! Thank you for the awesome guide, from one Aussie to another!
Glad it's been helpful. Don't forget to check out my playlist of the whole game if you start needing a mission by mission look at things.
Thank you for this step-by-step video! I did not know that houses could expand on their own or into a garden like that from a single plot, was trying to build additional housing plots next to my Fancy Residences to evolve them and ended up just wrecking my neighborhoods. Also the tip for the "theoretical luxury goods" was very useful and left a funny image in my mind, the jewelers simply making jewelry in the shape of an elephant tusk and calling it "ivory" to please the nobles who don't know any better. xD
David Paul yeah, it's not obvious but can be helpful when planning your layouts. Houses always expand if they need to and if there is space. And remember they can expand over gardens if required.
Good joke. Worth a laugh.
@@Blxz I'd say 2x2 is optimal starter house if it can merge right away
@@DmytroBogdan it's situational. If you feel comfortable doing 2x2 then by all means go for it.
great walkthrough. All these years of playing and I never tried the second luxury goods 'threorectical' trick.
Nice guide, I didn’t know about the theoretical luxury goods trick! In a similar vein, you can improve access to multiple food types by setting domestically produced food types to Import to Maintain Zero. This allows bazaar buyers to get the foods from storage yards rather than just granaries.
One idea for placing the mortuary and senet house is to extend the pavilion intersection by one road tile and connect the undesirable buildings there, out of the way of your precious houses.
Also good advice. Thanks.
I have a strategy guide book but you made it look easy to me I like your tutorial of pharaoh and Cleopatra
Thanks mate. The actual building of them is pretty easy. In the end the actual challenge is all the stuff you don't see. Getting the goods into position, setting up the industry chains, etc. Each map will have its own challenges but should be easy enough to work around it.
For more map specific advice check out the playlist where I did the entire game. You might find something that addresses any problems you are having for each specific map.
This old video is awesome! been getting into Pharaoh more and more the last few years, this is the first really good and practical guild I've seen for better housing that's not just some ones massive 20,000 pop mega block. While i appreciate how people have min maxed in reality its nice to have a strategy i don't need 3 spread sheets and a degree in C++ to pull off
Edit, i thought you had to have plots down for houses to expand, my mind is blown. First guide i've seen point that out i've been trying to fit 4x4s with roads around them.
Glad you find it useful. And yeah, min maxing can be good but it becomes useless once you have to apply that design to all the different maps. Having a design with some leeway allows the player to adjust on the fly for anything in the terrain or design-wise they might wish to work around.
Watching some strategy videos ahead of the PANE release on Wednesday. Thanks for this!
"10 % unemployment rate is good" - that's what politician say when there's no journalist around :D
Technically, he would be very correct in that. 5-10% unemployment tends to be optimal for the economy
It's pretty hard to start new businesses if there is no available workers around. Or hire new employees to expand.
Awesome detailed guide, I mean GUIDE and not just throw down opinions and ideas which are prevalent these days.
Definitely adding to "Watch later"
Also definitely need 2 granaries for 3 types of food because of the same principle as warehouse (2 types of goods max)
This also applied to Pharaoh: A New Era which released a few days ago so thanks.
The game of my early teens. Zeus was great too.
Yes. But did you play Ceasar 3? Best game from this type of games in my opinion.
Thanks, just started playing this game again in 2022.
Great video! TY! I have done other Palatial Blocks, but I think I like the neat square of yours more. Had to subscribe & now I have to go play! :)
An example of a Impressions city builder game that really benefited from widescreen modification. You can actually see all that hard work come together. The game is particularly special at resolutions ABOVE 1080p, but a person needs a large monitor to be able to use it properly.
Absolutely vital. I recall playing back under the original resolutions and it was very difficult to place the larger pyramids as the footprint was off the screen.
27 inch can support this view?
Thank you!!! This is an awesome tutorial!!
I think the highest house type I ever got to is fancy residence. I never got to the 3x3 house types. I may try to find a copy of this game and play it again.
It's a fantastic game and coming back as an adult is completely different to playing as a child.
Don't know how I slept on this game. Never heard of until I was looking up some Caesar III vids and found this video.
Bad enough im still addicted to Caesar III after 20 years now im about to buy this on Steam lol. There goes my weekends
You are in for a ride. Enjoy it.
Ra - god of something :-D
I mean, it is technically correct 😁
Awesome tutorial! Thanks!
You are welcome. Had fun making it.
Nice tutorial! Are you going to play some of the Custom Missions? Some are quite good.
I might check some of them out when I am done with the Emperor campaigns. Are there any custom missions you recommend looking at first?
I do not know, if the missions are available with your version of Pharaoh, but I would recommend the mission Kyrene. The gameplay is similar to the Campaign. I also designed some Custom Missions. I would be happy, if you would test them. I will upload one of them soon at Pharaoh Heaven. I apologize for possible misspelling. Greetings from Germany.
27:26 "sneaky little tax collector" :) Lots of "sneaky little" quotes in your vids.
Indeed. It's a good descriptor of how I feel about a certain thing.
Blxz Your vids and this game are great. I finally finished all missions. After every mission I passed, I checked how you did it :-)
Congratulations. There are so many ways to play each missions it can be really fun to see how other people come to the same goals by different ways.
I just bought this game after not having played it for like ten years. 7 hours straight in one sitting.
Good lad. The best way to play.
I've been playing for the last 3/4 days non-stop. Please send help.
@@samankpol6091 There's no hope for you now. May your dynasty live on.
could you do some videos about how to make those industrial blocks?
I could. They are fairly simple but I will have a look. I just threw something together without really planning it much.
Nice going to try getting to palatial
It's something that always makes me a little bit scared but actually isn't that hard with proper planning. Good luck.
games with depth are rare cheers for the reply
My question not having anything to do with palatial housing, but is there a way to overcome (or even reverse) the ageing of the population and the constantly growing labour shortage in this game? Only by endlessly expanding the population?
Immigrants are about the age of 30. You can deliberately devolve housing by removing water access for a while. When you re-evolve the housing the new immigrants will be of working age.
Thanks! Knew it had something to do with bringing in new immigrants, but hadn't thought about using the water supply as a tool later on.
No problem. Water is simply the easiest to use since it is the lowest level requirement. You can use anything else as well but they can be more difficult. The other alternative is to simply destroy the buildings and rebuild but that is crossying some imaginary 'too gamey' threshold for me to rationalise.
I agree. Destroying the residences would feel unrational. Weird thing is that I sometimes had the problem of both unemployment AND labour shortages at the same time for at least six game-calender-months, while all the recruiter guys had access to at least one occupied house. Immigrants weren't moving in because 'supposedly' there was a lack of jobs. No enemy armies were closing in on my city either, and all other ratings were okay. Just only after a while there finally was a sudden, massive influx of immigrants. Maybe a bug? I almost began to think it had to do with some sort of 'underqualification' of the city's population: like building a Library in your upgraded neighbourhood, but 80 percent of the available labour force in the whole city still consisting of Crude hut-dwellers. But I don't think this is a element in the game.
No idea. The game has some odd mechanics. Wouldn't surprise me if there was some city mood issue where it only updates every few months.
One question though - when the occupants become nobles, what happens to the workers in that square loop?
All workers in the city exist in some sort of invisible pool of resources. A single house is enough to provide access to this pool even if the actual population is on the other side of the map. With regards to the noble houses, when they level up the worker pool shrinks but the houses themselves keep providing access to the pool of workers that are being provided by all the other houses in the city.
@@Blxz I have played this game for 20yrs now, and I never knew this! I've always contructed like little villages for the poor/homeless in areas where it said "Poor access to workers" because I thought there was a walk limit. But if a single house can turn a high unemployment rate to power some far flung industrial estate... Thats a game changer. (I tend to level up too fast and need more and more jobs to fill up the unemployment. These in turn create even more workers! But a single house can help bring it down...)
Make double roads with plaza!
Where did you get your pharaoh battle music from in your LP's? I noticed it isn't the standard played in game.
The music used for the timelapses is royalty free music from Kevin McCloud.
How are you able to have little isolated clusters of houses and they don't starve to death or die of disease? The part building the papyrus, how does the papyrus get to your schools are libraries if it's not connected to the main city?
Food is a good like any other. So low level houses can survive without food as it's not yet become a required good for them. Disease is a problem so I should have apothecaries walking past them. I can use warehouses to 'get' goods from other warehouses amd if they don't share a road connection they will walk directly cross country. The local warehouses can then distribute the required goods themselves without being connected to the main warehouse near the production sites.
@@Blxz Thanks very much for your response, it's a great help and I think it'll change my play style now.
In the initial layout, what effect would have making the first cross large statues have had? I assume you went for the medium statues so you could see what space you were working
with.
I made them medium because there can be concerns about too large a walking route on the outside. I am confident that large statues would work in this layout but I tend to eyeball it and like to keep a margin if safety because walkers can be stupid sometimes and cause needless fires.
hello, great city...... why i can not change the type of scultures...... i see you have more things than me. please can you tell me what version do you have , and where you download your version of faraoh. tkns
Press the 'R' key to rotate your statues and to unlock the various different types.
tks.... @@Blxz
sorry ....... another Q??. why i dont have precious stone mines @@Blxz
@@martin.baena125 as I mentioned in your other comment - make sure you are using the same map. Resources are completely map dependent. One map might have copper or gold, another might have gemstones, another might have limestone, while another map have no stone resources at all.
i am curious, how are workers available for services inside the block once all the housing develops into manors and beyond?
I've answered in more depth further down the comments but essentially all workers are in a big worker pool. Nobles obviously don't contribute to that pool in terms of numbers. However, to get access to that big citywide pool a building just needs to walk past any inhabited building, even if that building doesn't supply actual workers. Therefore, nobles houses can give access to workers from other parts of the city without supplying any workers themselves.
hiyaaaaa! = he means "here"
hello sir. may I ask that how did u fix the problem of resolution?
There is a widescreen fix. I've posted in the comments a number of times and provided links. It's been so long now that I have forgotten how to apply it but I believe my first video in the playlist, Nubt, should have the information and a download link in the description.
@@Blxz thank you very much
How about doing a video on road blocks? They confuse me as to who they do and don't block.
They block random walkers that stroll around. But if someone has a place they are trying to get to then they will walk through it. Effectively, if someone needs to go through them to complete a mission such as warehouse delivery, etc. then they are able to pass. Quite simple.
@@Blxz So not so complicated then:) Thanks for the response.
"Let's go with Ra, God of... something". That should be his new title xD
Correct on a technicality.
How do you change what the statues look like?
Press the R key to change direction and type of statue.
@@Blxz thanks!
Will service buildings loose access to employees if you go past certain level?
What do you mean? Elite housing?
Elite housing doesn't provide employees but it does provide ACCESS to the map-wide employee pool. You can have all your worker housing on one corner of the map and your elites on another corner not connected by roads but as long as the service walkers pass any houses they will access the workers who can 'teleport' across the map and keep working.
Just be careful when a lot of workers become nobles that the drop in total workforce doesn't give you shortages.
@@Blxz Yes, that's exactly what I meant, access to workforce :) Thanks!.
Also, you have couple city cells with some resources that are entirely separated from the rest of the city, yet they do provide these to storage yards somehow. How does that work?
@@XEyedN00b I cannot remember the specific setup I used but by the sounds of it I am stockpiling them into a warehouse and then using another warehouse to 'get' the resources. They send a little cart guy out and he can grab up to 4 at a time and bring them back to his storage yard.
Very effective at moving goods around but make sure not to give him too many different jobs or he will never get enough of each type.
@@Blxz Do you need roads between the two warehouses? Or can they be separate like in your video?
@@XEyedN00b if you have roads they will take them. If you have no roads they will go cross country. No downsides to either but direct is typically faster; although along roads looks better in a big city.
Hello, where can i find the patch of cleopatra for Pharaoh?
Cleopatra is a paid expansion. If you bought off gog.com or something similar then it comes included. If you are using an old cd then you would have to find an old cleopatra cd to go with it.
@@Blxz I'm using an old cd, if i don't remember bad the first release of pharaoh was full of bug and I patched it 6 years ago, but now i don't remember where i downloaded the patch to fix it.
22:55 WHAAAAAAAAT? you can switch statues?? that;s something new for me lmao
Critical gameplay knowledge. Make sure to watch my channel for more critical truthbombs :D
@@Blxz I'm back to game since I played it... Loong ago. I'm gonna watch everything 😁 and keep waiting for the remake 😁
Oh yea and thanks for explaining that people in this 3x3 manors don't work... I was getting insane I have so much people in city, most was these houses.... And 1000 workers needed 🤦♂️
@@MegaLol2xd yeah, a little counter intuitive.
In all these tutorials I see I always see people place a few houses purely as a workforce but how do you solve the "too many slums prevent immigration" problem?
Off the top of my head the only slums I have are the housing near the Palatial Estate granary. If you have slum housing making up a significant percentage of your housing then no new people will immigrate. The answer to this is to use housing blocks and to minimise your feeder housing. I suggest you have a watch through of my Pharaoh playlist on my channel to see how I approach each specific mission since there are different techniques for each map.
TL;DR - keep your slum housing to a minimum.
Thank you. I guess I'm just having a bit of a problem with deciding how much housing is enough to provide work for a single district as well as with numbers in general (ie. not knowing how much say a reed gatherer creates to know exactly how many papyrus makers to make for maximum efficiency it would be great if there were a list of some sort that stated how many craftsman buildings one unit of a raw material building can supply like the game tels you with the 1 clay pit = 2 potters).
I suppose I should only place "slum housing" once I have enough people to sustain the percentage.
The way workers exist in Pharaoh is part of a single massive 'pool'. Every single worker exists in this pool. To access this pool a walker needs to walk past a single house. Therefore even if you have 5 guys living in some slums and 1000 jobs accessing those slums you will be fine IF you have 1000 other workers living somewhere in your city. They don't need to be connected or be anywhere near their workplace, they just need to exist.
In the tutorial mission here I have a few blocks to the south and north-west. Those are providing all my workers. Then I have one or two houses that then provide magical worker access for all my palatial estates, granaries, warehouses, etc.
Wow thanks a lot that's something I didn't know. That's gonna make planning industry districts so much easier now. Make a giant moderately supplied worker quarter and then just plop down one house next to all my gold mines. Thanks again.
Good luck with it. Let me know how you go.
How do you placed those falcons?
The R key rotates thtough different statue types.
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Thank you dude, im searched back 2005 from my childhood. 🤩
It's a damn good game. Enjoy.
Thx
sorry..... but why i dont have precious stone mines, and my bazars only have buy or not buy, you have other kinds of option in the barns and in the bazars...tks
Assuming we are using the same map, I don't know why you dont have precious stones. It is always map dependant so check that first.
With regards to bazaar options, I am uaing the Cleopatra expansion. No idea if that changed anything but if you are only using the base unpatched version if pharaoh then that might explain some changes.
how or where did you get extra beatifications?
If you press the 'r'key you can cycle through and rotate the various decorations for each size.
Blxz - thanks for your help.
Are there any other shortcuts?
I use the square bracket keys to change game speed and I believe page up and down rotate the camera. Not much else I can recall off the top of my head.
@@Blxz thanks, I've watched a couple tutorials now, everyone sped up the game and never mentioned how.
This was an informative video on a lot of things for me.
Thank you for doing this
And so well
The senate house is an entertainment building and it requires beer to work, that's why I love this game
Why do you have all those God things near those mines?
At a guess I assume you mean shrines? Mines are a good place to put them because they get guaranteed engineer cover and there are typically a lot of small little spaces spare that I can use. The shrines also give a boost to the whole city even if no houses are nearby so it's win/win.
Can anyone tell me what the map name is please
I can't remember but it is one of the custom maps. Scroll down and near the bottom of the list. Not very helpful but you should be able to find it.
When laying out your housing blocks.
1) Tailor the area to the need
2) Working class neighborhood's only need so much. But they better get what they need. If your workers move out you lose.
3) High status housing may be needed to meet certain win conditions. And it may look nice. But try to build only the minimum needed.
4) Overbuilding high status infrastructure can actually hurt in your high status area if that area does not have enough local workforce from a lower class neighborhood. Just keep them separated by some sort of beautification
5) Compactness helps. The farther your walkers need to go the worse it is.
I started to play this when it came out circa 2000. And when planning areas sit down with pencil and graph paper.
Point 4 is blatantly wrong. The city has a global worker pool. There is no such thing as 'local workforce'. If the building can get access to workers at all then they have access to the entire working population. Having a "nearby" worker area separated by beautification is simply an aesthetic choice you appear to like. All the power to you for that but claiming it is a critical point is factually untrue.
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Yes you do have a global workers pool. But you also get the "no workers live nearby" iirc. That's part of where compactness comes in. No point in having your delivery men having to travel all the way across the map to deliver a careful to the SY or granaries. Or the same with the bazaar girl getting supplies. One thing I would try to do in the Sandbox mode was to build multiple self sustaining cities not connected by the kingdom road. It didn't always work. But then it's only a game.
I feel you misunnderstand exactly what I am trying to communicate with this video. But please do whatever works for you. Variety is the spice of life. The "no workers live nearby" comment though does not relate to compactness though.
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Here I went and pre-installed the game on the computer in the home office and it did some wonky stuff. It would keep playing the theme music after you closed the game out. So i uninstalled and tried to rei-install. And fried the DVD-R drive 😖 The CD-ROM is from the original 1999 release (along with my Cleo which would not install). I guess I just might have to get the download from Steam.
The lady from bazaar will buy imported goods from the storage not the granary.
They will buy it from either.
sorry I meant (imported) food* cause they will not be sent to the granary only staying in the storage.
I just put large statues all around it and voila !!
something weird about someone building pyramids to be saying "g'day mate"
Are you Australian? I'm an Indian who's just been exposed to different accents and I'm trying to understand all of them lol! 😂😂
I am australian. I don't have an inner city accent but it's not particularly strong either.
@@Blxz Well that explains why I can understand most of what you're saying. Great Content btw man, Keep up the Good work!