I'm on a campaign map where the population objective is 10k, and 65 Prosperity (the hard ones at least).

The terrain is very abundant. At first everything was perfect. Houses with a lot of pottery, furniture, oil, etc.

At some point I reached 10k population but while trying to raise Prosperity, suddenly the houses dropped and almost instantly I was 500 employees short. This started a chain of events and everything went to hell. Now i'm ALWAYS 500 employees short. I start a new neighbourhood, or even just a trillion camps, it doesn't work.

Also, for some reason the pottery workshops are extremely slow and dropped from 200 units to 30.

While trying to reach that 500 employees shortage now my population is 15 k and still it's not enough. I don't know what to do. any suggestions? right now it's completely chaotic

I'm creating a scenario in which the player depends on raiding a rival for certain items, but is not allowed to conquer the rival. Has anyone documented the raiding mechanics? I know a rival with 6 military power can't be conquered, but can they be raided? How strong must the raiding party (player and ally) be? How often can a rival be raided?

My friend and I did another one, this time on the incredible Atlantis map. Turns out, it actually does change the climate zone!

The narrative was quite interesting, and so was the trade and requests, which became trivial however once I built the caravanserei very early on. I ended up with countless gold and stone mines and around 70k cash.

Military dies down too early and too conclusively for my taste, but the overall topography is the feature where the city really shines at: The plateaus descending to the center force you to really think about the layout of your blocks. Unless you are super skilled with forced walkers, it becomes a challenge to balance efficiency of the block with the maximum range in the long and winding narrow mountain blocks. Also, you really have to plan ahead with the Grand Temples and where you are going with your palaces etc.

One thing that I noticed:

Venus Grand Temple does *not* provide taverns with wine even when you select this epithet, even though it says so in the present description. Venus priests seem to only collect wine if there is already patricians around. However especially on this map where vine is not readily available until late game it would've been really cool to get some taverns working with wine from the GT, especially since there is also no theaters at all here.

https://preview.redd.it/jt27pikcalnd1.png?width=9600&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5289e01da7126a29a6c3dbd90efbf56152cb864

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the client to see the custom maps I've downloaded for C3 Augustus. I've tried placing the files in all sorts of different folders, yet whenever I launch the game, I can't see them in either the saved games or City Construction Kit (which just shows the base game Corinthus, Cyrene, Hierosolyma etc). Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

This post I made a few days ago, I was at 48.5k and that's the highest I got: https://www.reddit.com/r/impressionsgames/comments/1f6nu8h/zeus_and_europa_adventure_fully_built_on_spliced/

So my goal was to hit 50k. Not sure if it's ever been accomplished, but I wanted to try my hand at it. Well that started to become ridiculously harder than I thought it would. I was able to reach the "theoretical" 50k:

https://preview.redd.it/iliigf1iy2nd1.png?width=1023&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f3aa8d19617ef89838aee7bfac2ff87b5432238

The current population + open housing means it could be possible. But I could never hit it, at least not without cheating in money. So here's my journey and why it's really hard to overcome.

First off, providing food, oil, and fleece was the first challenge.

-Fleece was actually pretty easy, because in the Zeus and Europa scenario, there are at least 2 (maybe 3) other cities that allow you to buy fleece, on top of my own production.
-Oil wasn't all that hard either. Especially with the Arbor of Athena providing more trees, and even praying if I really had an issue. But I never had an issue

-Food on the other hand was a bit of a problem. Mostly because when it comes to the consumption rate when compared to Fleece/Oil, it's waaay higher. So I had to use an overabundance of wheat farms and 3 granaries at every "food source" area. It still caused some buyers to reach an empty granary, but it was still enough to keep it stable. I was also importing Onions, Fish, and Cheese, and those trading stations were in the far west of the map, which had the lowest food production.

So I got that all taken care of, great. Now comes the real issue and the real reason why this couldn't be accomplished. There is a sprite limit in this game. And in the Zeus 1.0 version, if you hit that limit and moved to the next month (every 20 seconds), the game would just freeze and you're donzo. So I learned that there is a 1.1 version, and it doesn't freeze. However, instead of freezing, it just doesn't spawn sprites when it needs to. I also learned that buildings are considered a sprite. I thought it was just moving objects, but no, stationary objects that have an animation count towards the sprite limit.

This caused wheat farms to just not spawn the delivery guy. So my plan was to delete all of the Artisan's Guilds in June so that there would be enough sprites at the beginning of July for the wheat harvest and then rebuild all the Artisan's Guilds. Well, that's a lot of money.. about 40,000 drachmas a year. So I had to start taxing everyone again, which removed houses.

Then the ultimate issue stopped me entirely. Food vendor buyers stopped spawning because of the sprite limit, causing all houses to devolve constantly. There's no foreseeable way to avoid this. It's either have 50% unemployment, or not have food vendors spawn. I could constantly (every month) remove and re-add the Artisan's guild to re-supply every vendor, but that's only be possible by cheating in the money to do that.

The only possibility is to just eat the unemployment. I don't know if Watch Towers would be needed at that point as the population starts to riot... but I think my journey ends here.

Hi,

I’ve been trying to install the Augustus Mod on my Mac and I’m not getting anywhere.

I’ve asked on The Zakhcolytes discord and no one there has been able to help me either unfortunately.

Basically, I’ve been following the instructions to install it that were posted here, about 4 years ago.

I get stuck on step 11. I cannot run the Augustus file.

First my Mac tells me that it cannot open the file because it cannot be scanned for malware.

Then when I force it open anyway, I just get some folders that I cannot open. Nothing will run. Nothing happens.

I am confused. Does anyone have any idea what to do next?

Thank you

These are the instructions I’ve been using by the way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/impressionsgames/s/jBp34Uu1DY

Okay I've gone online read how to install everything I know I'm more than meet the minimum requirements etc etc. Got my Windows XP machine up and running again. I've tried installing Caesar 3. I can get it into compatibility mode and it does kind of the same thing as it does without it it starts up start coming goes all the way to 100% install and nothing it just closes itself out after that. Here's a picture of what it looks like just before it poops out on me. I've also tried restarting the computer just to see if it maybe is in there but it's not. Again I'm running XP 32 bit I've got a CD disc. All my other games load just fine

So I'm on campaign mode on a Procurator mission in Carthago. So far it's been REALLY hard for me because of all the incoming attacks. After several hours playing I've managed to become stable, expand, and build a large army with walls and towers to defend myself from south and east attacks (all the attacks until this moment were from those directions).

After a while I saved the game and inmediately after that, I received an invasion from THE BACK OF MY CITY on the north-west side. They inmediately destroy everything before my army arrives. Even when I reach them (after a third of my city becomes destroyed), I just can't win because they are too many. Also, my army is very clumsy fighting on the city. I usually kite them with javalin on open field.

It feels like a cheap trick from the game and it shouldn't happen. Is there a cheat I could use to avoid this? I don't want the "instant victory" cheat, I just want to avoid this backdoor cheesy thing.

Hello! After figuring out how to actually play Zeus + Poseidon I’m wondering what the other games are like and which ones are worth it.

The rework of the Reconquered Campaign is in full swing and should be ready in about 3 weeks along with a new and improved tutorial as a separate minicampaign. I'm looking for more testers to help the project out, people from various skill levels are needed, let me know here or in the discord if you want to contribute. I can offer a place in the credits afterwards as tester mention. First 5 maps are remade already and ready to be tested. The rework is done to facilitate the new custom campaign system but also features completely overhauled events, custom images and text formating. Especially early maps changed a lot due to what some people thought could be improved.

Hello! I’m not quite sure if this is the right place but I wanted to try Zeus + Poseidon and bought it through steam. I can’t seem to get it up and working and thought this would be the best place to ask. The game allows me to see the opening cut scene but immediately crashes and force closes after that. Any help appreciated!

Hey guys, is there a way to increse the number of cities trading with us?

I know some maps automatically increase that number once the population increase.

Hi,

I’m currently playing Pharaoh on a Mac, using Porting Kit.

It’s all been working pretty well so far.

However I’ve got to the stage where I am being asked to choose between two cities.

I can’t seem to pick either one.

I can toggle between them and read about them, but have no way to progress. I’ve tried clicking on them. I’ve tried pressing enter on the keyboard. I’ve tried pressing space bar on the keyboard.

There doesn’t seem to be an icon for me to click on that specifically lets me proceed either.

I’m a bit stuck, anyone else had this issue.

Hello, I am the idiot. I am very limited technically so I apologise for my stupidity.

I’m looking into installing the Augustus mod for Caesar 3.

I’m playing on a Mac. I’ve already sorted out vanilla C3 via Porting Kit.

I’ve found some instructions elsewhere on this reddit about how to install the mod while still using Porting Kit, so I think I am fine.

However one thing is confusing me.

I’ve looked on git hub and there is a message saying

“Because of gameplay changes and additions, save files from Augustus are NOT compatible with Caesar 3 or Julius. Augustus is able to load Caesar 3 save files, but not the other way around.”

So this has confused me, because let’s say I download and install the Augustus mod. And I play a level and want to save it. How do I access it again?

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty cool.

https://preview.redd.it/10i7rviwu1ld1.png?width=114&format=png&auto=webp&s=44a6f98b9d5ddd472b7229996ec4bf569f85dd54

I recently bought Emperor on GOG and i have enjoyed it but after saving for the first time the UAC shield appeared on the desktop icon and i don't know why. The game also always trigers the UAC prompt when i launch it. Does anyone know how to fix this or is this normal?

Hi guys,

I started playing recently again, and I am on a the third level of the campaign. I am matching every single objective ( favor, prosperity, population, etc.) and the level is still not completing. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong ?

Thanks in advance!