(Here you can see the current goals and a brief story. Take note of those goals, they're currently impossible. I'll explain why late, if you don't already know. I'm currently playing on Hero difficulty, which is basically Normal.)So here we are. This is where we will found the glorious city of Athens!
This is the minimap. The yellow stuff is normal ground, gray stuff is cliffs(those are both plateus), green stuff is forest, blue stuff is water(rivers, in this case), purple stuff is fertile meadow and white lines are roads.
And right now we can build diddly-squat. Well, we can build some things, but not a lot. This isn't a full-on tutorial where I'll show you every tab, but I'm going to show you how limited our options are:
The only food we can have is cheese from goats. Goats need to graze fertile meadowland to produce milk. Dairies send out goatherds to protect and milk said goats.
We have no industrial options at all. We can still adjust our wage rate, though. Lower wages means we pay less, because apparently the entire city is on our payroll, and less people will look for work in general, which somehow reduces unemployment. Raising wages works in the opposite manner.
We cannot build a palace and tax our population, not that we have any at this point. This means we will have to rely on trade for all of our income. But we have 15000 drachmas in the treasury, so it should last a while.
We do have some cultural options available. We can build colleges to train philosophers and podiums for them to preach from. We can also build acting schools and theaters for the resulting actors. This is enough culture to meet our goal of "500 people in homestead". But they also need material goods: food, water and fleece.
Our goals are still impossible, right? Wait, maybe we can trade with some of our neighbors?
As you can see, we have two allies, Corinth and Sparta, as indicated by the red dotted lines. Those red dotted lines are trade routes, land trade routes. Unfortunately, neither one wants to trade at all with us. Delos, Knossos, Hattusas and Sardis are our rivals: They don't like us and won't trade. Erythia is an enchanted place and only relevant for quests. And all those other little "button-cities"? They're inactive, not interacting with the world at large. And there's a lot of them, because that's the theme of this adventure.
So, where are we going to build, and what?
1x Sheep Farm - Impossible, would you like goats instead?
1x House - Should probably build more than one.
1x Well - Definitely possible.
1x Pointy Stick - We can't build elite housing, so we can't get hoplites. We can't even throw rocks at invaders because we can't build a palace.
1x Sand - We have no beaches. Sand is a nonentity in this game anyway.
1x Large Flat Surface - Plenty of flat ground around here.
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