;**************** 2501 - ??? - event names as used in scenario editor **************
2501 "Pharaoh death"
2502 "No Bread"
2503 "Missing Common Good"
2504 "Missing Luxury Good"
2505 "CotN 2505"
2506 "Generic worship need"
2507 "Get Training"
2508 "Funerary need"
2509 "CotN 2509"
2510 "Overthrow attempt"
2511 "CotN 2511"
2512 "CotN 2512"
2513 "null"
2514 "Reaction to bad flood (farmers)"
2515 "CotN 2515"
2516 "Muster"
2517 "Boundary Dispute"
2518 "Adultery"
2519 "Breach of Contract"
2520 "Edict Additional tax levy edict"
2521 "Edict? Religious Festival"
2522 "Tomb Needed"
2523 "CotN 2523"
2524 "CotN 2524"
2525 "CotN 2525"
2526 "CotN 2526"
2527 "CotN 2527"
2528 "CotN 2528"
2529 "CotN 2529"
2530 "CotN 2530"
2531 "CotN 2531"
2532 "CotN 2532"
2533 "CotN 2533"
2534 "CotN 2534"
2535 "CotN 2535"
2536 "CotN 2536"
2537 "S Mugged by vagrant reaction"
2538 "S Home robbed by vagrant reaction"
2539 "S Family member killed by vagrant reaction"
2540 "S Mugged by raider reaction"
2541 "S Home robbed by raider reaction"
2542 "S Family member killed by raider reaction"
2543 "S Attacked by animal reaction"
2544 "W Festival to Osiris"
2545 "W Pharaoh Death worshiping"
2546 "W City Patronage Small: Osiris"
2547 "W City Patronage Large: Osiris"
2548 "W Disease Epidemic Reaction"
2549 "W Elite Patronage: Isis"
2550 "W Housewife Patronage: Isis"
2551 "W City Patronage Small: Isis"
2552 "W Pharaoh Birthday Celebration"
2553 "W Elite Men Patronage: Horus"
2554 "W City Patronage Small: Horus"
2555 "W Sun Worship"
2556 "W Overseer/Laborer Patronage: Ra"
2557 "W City Patronage Small: Ra"
2558 "W Festival of Shemu"
2559 "W Entertainer Patronage: Hathor"
2560 "W City Patronage Small: Hathor"
2561 "W Peasant Patronage: Amun"
2562 "W City Patronage Small: Amun"
2563 "W Shopkeeper/Craftsmen Patronage: Ptah"
2564 "W City Patronage Small: Ptah"
2565 "W Scribe Patronage: Thoth"
2566 "W City Patronage Small: Thoth"
2567 "W Elite Death Reaction"
2568 "W Death Worship"
2569 "W City Patronage Small: Anubis"
2570 "W Healthy Children"
2571 "W City Patronage Small: Bast"
2572 "W City Guard Patronage: Sobek"
2573 "W Commander Patronage: Sobek"
2574 "W City Patronage Small: Sobek"
2575 "W Crime Wave Reaction"
2576 "W Invasion Reaction"
2577 "W Soldier Patronage: Set"
2578 "W Commander Patronage: Set"
2579 "W Battle Won Reaction"
2580 "W City Patronage Small: Set"
2581 "W No Flood: Farmers Only"
2582 "W High Flood: Farmers Only"
2583 "W City Patronage Large: Isis"
2584 "W City Patronage Large: Horus"
2585 "W City Patronage Large: Ra"
2586 "W City Patronage Large: Hathor"
2587 "W City Patronage Large: Amun"
2588 "W City Patronage Large: Ptah"
2589 "W City Patronage Large: Thoth"
2590 "W City Patronage Large: Anubis"
2591 "W City Patronage Large: Bast"
2592 "W City Patronage Large: Sobek"
2593 "W City Patronage Large: Set"
2594 "W No Flood: Non-Farmers"
2595 "W High Flood: Non-Farmers"
2596 "Raiders Nubian"
2597 "xxx"
2598 "H Abscesses"
2599 "H Arthritis"
2600 "H Bad Dreams - Adult"
2601 "H Bad Dreams - Child"
2602 "H Bilharziasis"
2603 "H Broken Arm"
2604 "H Broken Finger"
2605 "H Bubonic Plague"
2606 "H Checkup"
2607 "H Common Cold"
2608 "H Compound Fracture"
2609 "H Cracked Ribs"
2610 "H Cuts & Bruises"
2611 "H Dementia"
2612 "H Dental Work"
2613 "H Depression"
2614 "H Eye Injury"
2615 "H Fever"
2616 "H Gangrene"
2617 "H Lacerations"
2618 "H Malaria"
2619 "H Measles"
2620 "H Minor Prosthetic"
2621 "H Pulled Muscle"
2622 "H Scorpion Bite"
2623 "H Severe Gash"
2624 "H Shattered Wrist"
2625 "H Silicosis"
2626 "H Swollen Gums"
2627 "S Fraud"
2628 "No tomb for Pharaoh"
2629 "No tomb for Royal"
2630 "Visit Tomb"
2631 "Threaten Supply Lines"
2632 "W Royal visit patron: Isis"
2633 "W Royal visit patron: Horus"
2634 "W Royal visit patron: Ra"
2635 "W Royal visit patron: Hathor"
2636 "W Royal visit patron: Amun"
2637 "W Royal visit patron: Ptah"
2638 "W Royal visit patron: Thoth"
2639 "W Royal visit patron: Anubis"
2640 "W Royal visit patron: Bast"
2641 "W Royal visit patron: Sobek"
2642 "W Royal visit patron: Set"
2643 "W Royal visit patron: Osiris"
2644 "L Visit Yacht"
2645 "L Go Hunting"
2646 "L Feast noblemen - have and hold"
2647 "W Royal visit Osiris"
2648 "W Royal visit Horus"
2649 "W Royal visit Isis"
2650 "W Royal visit Ra"
2651 "W Royal visit Sobek"
2652 "H Pharaoh checkup"
2653 "H Royal ill"
2654 "L Feast Commander"
2655 "L Feast Overseer"
2656 "L Feast Priests"
2657 "L Feast Scribe"
2658 "L Feast Noblewomen"
2659 "L Feast Royals"
2660 "Raiders Asian"
2661 "Raiders Egyptian"
2662 "Raiders Libyan"
2663 "Raiders Bedouin"
;**********3000-3038 ********3000's********
3000 "CotN 3000"
3001 "CotN 3001"
3002 "CotN 3002"
3003 "CotN 3003"
3004 "CotN 3004"
3005 "CotN 3005"
3006 "CotN 3006"
3007 "CotN 3007"
3008 "CotN 3008"
3009 "CotN 3009"
3010 "CotN 3010"
3011 "CotN 3011"
3012 "CotN 3012"
3013 "CotN 3013"
3014 "CotN 3014"
3015 "CotN 3015"
3016 "CotN 3016"
3017 "CotN 3017"
3018 "CotN 3018"
3019 "CotN 3019"
3020 "CotN 3020"
3021 "CotN 3021"
3022 "CotN 3022"
3023 "CotN 3023"
3024 "CotN 3024"
3025 "CotN 3025"
3026 "CotN 3026"
3027 "CotN 3027"
3028 "CotN 3028"
3029 "CotN 3029"
3030 "CotN 3030"
3031 "CotN 3031"
3032 "CotN 3032"
3033 "CotN 3033"
3034 "CotN 3034"
3035 "CotN 3035"
3036 "CotN 3036"
3037 "CotN 3037"
3038 "CotN 3038"
;**********4000-4097 ********4000's********
4000 "CotN 4000"
4001 "CotN 4001"
4002 "CotN 4002"
4003 "CotN 4003"
4004 "CotN 4004"
4005 "CotN 4005"
4006 "CotN 4006"
4007 "CotN 4007"
4008 "CotN 4008"
4009 "CotN 4009"
4010 "CotN 4010"
4011 "CotN 4011"
4012 "CotN 4012"
4013 "CotN 4013"
4014 "CotN 4014"
4015 "CotN 4015"
4016 "CotN 4016"
4017 "CotN 4017"
4018 "CotN 4018"
4019 "CotN 4019"
4020 "CotN 4020"
4021 "CotN 4021"
4022 "CotN 4022"
4023 "CotN 4023"
4024 "CotN 4024"
4025 "CotN 4025"
4026 "CotN 4026"
4027 "CotN 4027"
4028 "CotN 4028"
4029 "CotN 4029"
4030 "CotN 4030"
4031 "CotN 4031"
4032 "CotN 4032"
4033 "CotN 4033"
4034 "CotN 4034"
4035 "CotN 4035"
4036 "CotN 4036"
4037 "CotN 4037"
4038 "CotN 4038"
4039 "CotN 4039"
4040 "CotN 4040"
4041 "CotN 4041"
4042 "CotN 4042"
4043 "CotN 4043"
4044 "CotN 4044"
4045 "CotN 4045"
4046 "CotN 4046"
4047 "CotN 4047"
4048 "CotN 4048"
4049 "CotN 4049"
4050 "CotN 4050"
4051 "CotN 4051"
4052 "CotN 4052"
4053 "CotN 4053"
4054 "CotN 4054"
4055 "CotN 4055"
4056 "CotN 4056"
4057 "CotN 4057"
4058 "CotN 4058"
4059 "CotN 4059"
4060 "CotN 4060"
4061 "CotN 4061"
4062 "CotN 4062"
4063 "CotN 4063"
4064 "CotN 4064"
4065 "CotN 4065"
4066 "CotN 4066"
4067 "CotN 4067"
4068 "CotN 4068"
4069 "CotN 4069"
4070 "CotN 4070"
4071 "CotN 4071"
4072 "CotN 4072"
4073 "CotN 4073"
4074 "CotN 4074"
4075 "CotN 4075"
4076 "CotN 4076"
4077 "CotN 4077"
4078 "CotN 4078"
4079 "CotN 4079"
4080 "CotN 4080"
4081 "CotN 4081"
4082 "CotN 4082"
4083 "CotN 4083"
4084 "CotN 4084"
4085 "CotN 4085"
4086 "CotN 4086"
4087 "CotN 4087"
4088 "CotN 4088"
4089 "CotN 4089"
4090 "CotN 4090"
4091 "CotN 4091"
4092 "CotN 4092"
4093 "CotN 4093"
4094 "CotN 4094"
4095 "CotN 4095"
4096 "CotN 4096"
4097 "CotN 4097"
;**********4500-4589 ********4500's*********
4500 "CotN 4500"
4501 "CotN 4501"
4502 "CotN 4502"
4503 "CotN 4503"
4504 "CotN 4504"
4505 "CotN 4505"
4506 "CotN 4506"
4507 "CotN 4507"
4508 "CotN 4508"
4509 "CotN 4509"
4510 "CotN 4510"
4511 "CotN 4511"
4512 "xxx"
4513 "xxx"
4514 "xxx"
4515 "xxx"
4516 "xxx"
4517 "xxx"
4518 "xxx"
4519 "xxx"
4520 "xxx"
4521 "xxx"
4522 "xxx"
4523 "xxx"
4524 "xxx"
4525 "xxx"
4526 "xxx"
4527 "xxx"
4528 "CotN 4528"
4529 "CotN 4529"
4530 "CotN 4530"
4531 "CotN 4531"
4532 "CotN 4532"
4533 "CotN 4533"
4534 "CotN 4534"
4535 "CotN 4535"
4536 "CotN 4536"
4537 "CotN 4537"
4538 "CotN 4538"
4539 "CotN 4539"
4540 "CotN 4540"
4541 "CotN 4541"
4542 "CotN 4542"
4543 "CotN 4543"
4544 "CotN 4544"
4545 "CotN 4545"
4546 "CotN 4546"
4547 "CotN 4547"
4548 "CotN 4548"
4549 "CotN 4549"
4550 "CotN 4550"
4551 "CotN 4551"
4552 "CotN 4552"
4553 "CotN 4553"
4554 "CotN 4554"
4555 "CotN 4555"
4556 "CotN 4556"
4557 "CotN 4557"
4558 "CotN 4558"
4559 "CotN 4559"
4560 "CotN 4560"
4561 "CotN 4561"
4562 "CotN 4562"
4563 "CotN 4563"
4564 "CotN 4564"
4565 "CotN 4565"
4566 "CotN 4566"
4567 "CotN 4567"
4568 "CotN 4568"
4569 "CotN 4569"
4570 "CotN 4570"
4571 "CotN 4571"
4572 "CotN 4572"
4573 "CotN 4573"
4574 "CotN 4574"
4575 "CotN 4575"
4576 "CotN 4576"
4577 "CotN 4577"
4578 "CotN 4578"
4579 "CotN 4579"
4580 "CotN 4580"
4581 "CotN 4581"
4582 "CotN 4582"
4583 "CotN 4583"
4584 "CotN 4584"
4585 "CotN 4585"
4586 "CotN 4586"
4587 "CotN 4587"
4588 "CotN 4588"
4589 "CotN 4589"
;**********5000-5047 *******5000's*******
5000 "CotN 5000"
5001 "CotN 5001"
5002 "CotN 5002"
5003 "CotN 5003"
5004 "CotN 5004"
5005 "CotN 5005"
5006 "CotN 5006"
5007 "CotN 5007"
5008 "CotN 5008"
5009 "CotN 5009"
5010 "CotN 5010"
5011 "CotN 5011"
5012 "CotN 5012"
5013 "CotN 5013"
5014 "CotN 5014"
5015 "CotN 5015"
5016 "CotN 5016"
5017 "CotN 5017"
5018 "CotN 5018"
5019 "CotN 5019"
5020 "CotN 5020"
5021 "CotN 5021"
5022 "CotN 5022"
5023 "CotN 5023"
5024 "CotN 5024"
5025 "CotN 5025"
5026 "CotN 5026"
5027 "CotN 5027"
5028 "xxx"
5029 "xxx"
5030 "xxx"
5031 "xxx"
5032 "xxx"
5033 "CotN 5033"
5034 "CotN 5034"
5035 "xxx"
5036 "CotN 5036"
5037 "CotN 5037"
5038 "CotN 5038"
5039 "xxx"
5040 "CotN 5040"
5041 "CotN 5041"
5042 "CotN 5042"
5043 "CotN 5043"
5044 "CotN 5044"
5045 "CotN 5045"
5046 "CotN 5046"
5047 "CotN 5047"
;********5100-5108***********
5100 "CotN 5100"
5101 "CotN 5101"
5102 "CotN 5102"
5103 "CotN 5103"
5104 "CotN 5104"
5105 "CotN 5105"
5106 "CotN 5106"
5107 "CotN 5107"
5108 "CotN 5108"
;**********6000-6036 *******6000's********
;
6000 "CotN 6000"
6001 "CotN 6001"
6002 "CotN 6002"
6003 "CotN 6003"
6004 "CotN 6004"
6005 "CotN 6005"
6006 "CotN 6006"
6007 "CotN 6007"
6008 "CotN 6008"
6009 "CotN 6009"
6010 "CotN 6010"
6011 "CotN 6011"
6012 "CotN 6012"
6013 "CotN 6013"
6014 "CotN 6014"
6015 "CotN 6015"
6016 "CotN 6016"
6017 "CotN 6017"
6018 "CotN 6018"
6019 "Walk around city"
6020 "CotN 6020"
6021 "CotN 6021"
6022 "CotN 6022"
6023 "CotN 6023"
6024 "CotN 6024"
6025 "CotN 6025"
6026 "CotN 6026"
6027 "CotN 6027"
6028 "CotN 6028"
6029 "CotN 6029"
6030 "CotN 6030"
6031 "CotN 6031"
6032 "CotN 6032"
6033 "CotN 6033"
6034 "CotN 6034"
6035 "CotN 6035"
6036 "CotN 6036"
;**********7000-7210 ********7000's*********
7000 "Start"
7001 "Save"
7002 "Save As"
7003 "Delete"
7004 "Cancel"
7005 "Saved Games"
7006 "Video"
7007 "Audio"
7008 "Interface"
7009 "Players"
7010 "Video Settings"
7011 "Video Card"
7012 "Screen Resolution"
7013 "3D Acceleration"
7014 "Custom Graphics Settings"
7015 "Graphics Quality"
7016 "Best"
7017 "Performance"
7018 "Graphics"
7019 "Allow Zoom"
7020 "UNUSED"
7021 "OK"
7022 "Music Settings"
7023 "Music Quality"
7024 "High"
7025 "Low"
7026 "Off"
7027 "Music Volume"
7028 "Min"
7029 "Max"
7030 "Sound Effects Settings"
7031 "Sound Volume"
7032 "Max Number of Sounds"
7033 "New"
7034 "Cost"
7035 "Add"
7036 "Remove"
7037 "Sound Effects"
7038 "CotN 7038"
7039 "CotN 7039"
7040 "CotN 7040"
7041 "CotN 7041"
7042 "Campaigns"
7043 "Choose Campaign"
7044 "Begin Campaign"
7045 "Campaign Builder"
7046 "Campaign Editor"
7047 "Interface Settings"
7048 "Mouse Orientation"
7049 "Right-Handed Mouse"
7050 "Left-Handed Mouse"
7051 "Slide Scroll Speed"
7052 "Slow"
7053 "Fast"
7054 "Mouse Sensitivity"
7055 "CotN 7055"
7056 "Play Campaign"
7057 "Unassigned"
7058 "Play Random Map"
7059 "Load game"
7060 "Game Settings"
7061 "Main Menu"
7062 "Tutorials"
7063 "Close this window"
7064 "Name"
7065 "CotN 7065"
7066 "CotN 7066"
7067 "CotN 7067"
7068 "CotN 7068"
7069 "Custom"
7070 "Custom Campaign"
7072 "Year:%4d%s Week:%02d %d:%02d %s"
7073 "AM"
7074 "PM"
7075 "Overview"
7076 "History"
7077 "Tips"
7078 "Speed: %4.2f"
7079 "Open"
7080 "Load Scenario"
7081 "Scenarios"
7082 "New Game"
7083 "Ambient Sounds"
7084 "Campaign Name"
7085 "Unknown"
7086 "Author's Name"
7087 "Author's E-mail"
7088 "Campaign Description"
7089 "Available Scenarios"
7090 "Scenarios in Campaign"
7091 "Up"
7092 "Down"
7093 "CotN 7093"
7094 "Ready"
7095 "CotN 7094"
7096 " Year:%4d%s %s"
7097 "Game Type"
7098 "Campaign Information"
7099 "Game Variant"
7100 "Game Speed"
7101 "Record Game"
7102 "CotN 7102"
7103 "CotN 7103"
7104 "CotN 7104"
7105 "CotN 7105"
7106 "CotN 7106"
7107 "CotN 7107"
7108 "CotN 7108"
7109 "CotN 7109"
7110 "A campaign of that name exists already; please delete it first."
7111 "The campaign name contains invalid characters; please try again."
7112 "The e-mail address must contain an '@' sign to be valid."
7113 "The author info is incomplete. Do you want to continue without giving your name and contact info?"
7114 "A campaign must have at least one scenario; please add one using the Add button."
7115 "There was an error writing the campaign to disk; please make sure you have enough disk space."
7116 "There was an error reading the campaign. Verify it is a valid campaign and try again."
7117 "This campaign has been locked by the author. The password must be entered before it can be viewed or edited."
7118 "The password you entered is invalid; please try again."
7119 "@"
7120 "You must enter a name for your campaign."
7121 "CotN Campaign"
7122 "None provided"
7123 "None provided"
7124 "No description provided"
7125 "Couldn't open campaign for writing."
7126 "The files below are used in the scenario %s, but do not exist. Please fix this error in the Scenario Editor and try again."
7127 "The campaign couldn't be deleted. Is it open in another program?"
7128 "Custom Assets"
7129 "Return to city"
7130 "Resign"
7131 "Pause Game"
7132 "Restart game"
7133 "Previous Messages"
7134 "Quit Scenario"
7135 "Store (temp)"
7136 "Model Detail"
7137 "Effect Detail"
7138 "Medium"
7139 "Hi-Res Filter"
7140 "Hi-Res Lighting"
7141 "Hi-Res Textures"
7142 "Smoother Animations"
7144 "Clouds"
7145 "Weather Effects"
7146 "Scenario Information"
7147 "xxx"
7148 "Standard - High"
7149 "Standard - Low"
7150 "xxx"
7151 "CotN 7151"
7152 "The file couldn't be opened."
7153 "The save game isn't valid."
7154 "Save game incompatible with this version of Children of the Nile. Please update Children of the Nile and try again."
7155 "Save current Campaign before creating a new Campaign?"
7156 "Save game contains invalid data and cannot be loaded. Invalid save games may cause issues if you do not restart Children of the Nile."
7157 "Save game is missing data and cannot be loaded."
7158 "Save Options"
7159 "Autosave Frequency"
7160 "Autosaves to Keep"
7161 "Save current Campaign before loading the new Campaign?"
7162 "Save current Campaign before exiting?"
7163 "Scenario %s didn't exist on the disk. You must have all the scenarios to modify a campaign file."
7164 "There was an error reading a tag for the campaign file."
7165 "Game"
7166 "Unable to write save file - it's probably marked Read-only. Please try another file name."
7167 "xxx"
7168 "CotN 7168"
7169 "Background Image"
7170 "xxx"
7171 "Invert Mouse Vertical Rotation"
7172 "Invert Mouse Horizontal Rotation"
7173 "First Person View When Zoomed In"
7174 "You entered: "
7175 "No custom campaigns could be found. To create a custom campaign, please use the Campaign Editor. To access the Campaign Editor, click on Editor from the Main Menu."
7176 "Invert mouse pitch during right-click rotation"
7177 "Invert mouse yaw during right-click rotation"
7178 "Use the first person mouselook when camera is fully zoomed in"
7179 "CotN 7179"
7180 "CotN 7180"
7181 "CotN 7181"
7182 "CotN 7182"
7183 "CotN 7183"
7184 "CotN 7184"
7185 "CotN 7185"
7186 "CotN 7186"
7187 "CotN 7187"
7188 "CotN 7188"
7189 "CotN 7189"
7190 "Send me email about Tilted Mill products."
7191 "CotN 7191"
7192 "Day/Night Cycle"
7193 "CotN 7193"
7194 "CotN 7194"
7195 "Vertical Sync"
7196 "CotN 7196"
7197 "CotN 7197"
7198 "Fullscreen Antialiasing"
7199 "CotN 7199"
7200 "CotN 7200"
7201 "CotN 7201"
7202 "CotN 7202"
7203 "CotN 7203"
7204 "CotN 7204"
7205 "CotN 7205"
7206 "CotN 7206"
7207 "CotN 7207"
7208 "You must first select a Campaign."
7209 "⌐ 2004 Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Children of the Nile and Immortal Cities are trademarks of Tilted Mill Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners."
7210 "Water detail"
7211 "LOD Index Modifier"
7212 "Rear Clipping Plane (fog)"
;*************SCENARIO INTRO SCREEN*************
7213 "Replay"
7214 "Previous scenario"
7215 "Next scenario"
7216 "Main Demo Menu"
7217 "Replay current scenario"
7218 "Play previous"
7219 "Play next"
7220 "Return to the main demo menu"
7221 "(Scenario Name)"
7222 "Start"
7223 "Begin this scenario"
7224 "Cancel"
7225 "Don't play this scenario"
7226 "Close"
7227 "Exit Scenario Information screen"
7228 "View Tips on Playing"
7229 "View Scenario Overview"
7230 "Proceed"
7231 "Applying new settings - please wait"
7232 "Start this different tutorial"
7233 "Return to current tutorial"
7234 "-"
7235 "Minimize instructions"
7236 "<"
7237 "View previous instruction"
7238 ">"
7239 "View next instruction"
7240 "Instructions"
7241 "Show tutorial instructions"
7242 "Medium"
7243 "Fast"
7244 "Slow"
7245 "Min"
7246 "Min"
7247 "Min"
7248 "Min"
7249 "Max"
7250 "Max"
7251 "Max"
7252 "Max"
7253 "High"
7254 "High"
7255 "High"
7256 "Low"
7257 "Low"
7258 "Low"
7259 "Performance"
7260 "Best"
7261 "Best"
7262 "Best"
7263 "Audio"
;***********UI LABELS FOR TUTORIAL******************
7500 "Build"
7501 "People Report"
7502 "Report Buttons"
7503 "Resources Report"
7504 "Selected Item Info"
7505 "Family Satisfaction"
7506 "Use these buttons to build homes and other facilities"
7507 "Click on the top white gem for more information about your people"
7508 "Click on the white gems for city administration information"
7509 "Click on the bottom white gem for information on your city's resources"
7510 "This area shows detailed information on whatever person, building or thing is selected"
7511 "This area shows if the selected family is satisfied, and if not, what problems they are having"
8520 "This video card has been selected as your default. Be sure you have the most current drivers installed for this card."
8521 "Select the rendering system you want to use. Only systems supported by your video card appear in this list."
8522 "Set the balance between performance and graphics. Slower computers should set this to Best Performance, which turns off some of the graphics effects and allows the game to run more smoothly."
8523 "Select the screen resolution. Slower computers should select lower resolutions to increase performance. Only resolutions supported by the selected video card and rendering system appear in this list."
8524 "Turn the zoom feature on or off. Turning off the zoom feature will improve performance on slower computers."
8525 "CotN 8525"
8526 "Set the volume of the music in the game."
8527 "Set the volume of the sound effects in the game."
8528 "Set the sound quality of the music or turn the music off. Slower computers should set this to Low or Off. Turning music off saves 5Mb of RAM."
8529 "Set the maximum number of sound effects that can play at once. Slower computers should set this to Best Performance."
8530 "Set how fast you want the game screen to scroll when the mouse pointer is at the edge of the screen."
8531 "Set how sensitive you want your mouse to be. This controls how fast the mouse pointer moves on the screen."
8532 "Set whether you want your mouse to be right-handed or left-handed. This swaps the assignments of the left and right mouse buttons."
8533 "Set how bright you want the game to appear."
8534 "Are you sure you want to restore these settings to their default values?"
8535 "Click this button to hear a sample sound."
8536 "CotN 8536"
8537 "CotN 8537"
8538 "Hide UI"
8539 "Continue playing the current game"
8540 "CotN 8540"
8541 "Pause/Unpause the game"
8542 "Restart the current game"
8543 "Display previously sent messages"
8544 "Load a previously saved city"
8545 "Begin a new scenario"
8546 "Save the current game"
8547 "Display the objectives for the current city"
8548 "Change the game settings"
8549 "Leave this scenario"
8550 "Choose what type of game you wish to play"
8551 "CotN 8551"
8552 "Change Children of the Nile game settings and preferences"
8553 "Editor options available with release"
8554 "Set how often the game is automatically saved. You can also turn Autosave off."
8555 "Set the maximum number of autosaved games to keep on your hard drive. The oldest file is deleted first."
8556 "CotN 8556"
8557 "CotN 8557"
8558 "CotN 8558"
8559 "CotN 8559"
8560 "CotN 8560"
8561 "Restore default game settings"
8563 "Accept changes and exit Settings screen."
8564 "Cancel changes and exit Settings screen."
8566 "Create a new campaign."
8567 "Save this campaign."
8568 "Delete the selected campaign"
8569 "Add the selected scenario to this campaign"
8570 "Remove the selected scenario from this campaign"
8571 "Move up the selected scenario in the campaign"
8572 "Move down the selected scenario in the campaign"
8573 "Start the Scenario Editor"
8574 "Go to the Campaign Editor"
8575 "CotN 8575"
8576 "Return to the Main Menu"
8577 "Choose a background image for the campaign (optional)"
8578 "Enter password and click OK to protect this campaign (optional), or to unlock the selected campaign"
8579 "CotN 8579"
8580 "CotN 8580"
8581 "CotN 8581"
8582 "CotN 8582"
8583 "Exit Campaign Menu"
8584 "Embark upon a campaign"
8585 "Continue with a previously saved city"
8586 "Develop a single city"
8587 "Play Children of the Nile learning scenarios"
8588 "Begin a campaign to develop multiple cities"
8589 "Set the detail level of the 3D models. Choose \"Low\" for best performance."
8590 "Set the detail level of the graphic effects. Choose \"Low\" for best performance."
8591 "Filter the textures to improve graphics quality. Turn off for better performance."
8592 "Use high-resolution textures. Turn off for better performance (Note: changes to this option take effect only if you exit and restart Children of the Nile)."
8593 "Use 3D lighting effects. Turn off for better performance."
8594 "Controls how the screen is redrawn. Turn off for best performance (minor screen artifacts may result)."
8595 "Show shadows. Turn off for better performance."
8596 "Show clouds. Turn off for better performance."
8597 "CotN 8597"
8598 "Turn ambient sounds on or off"
8599 "Exit Children of the Nile"
;***8600's*************
8600 "xxx"; "Players currently Allies. Click to make them Enemies."
8601 "xxx"; "Players currently Enemies. Click to make them Allies."
8602 "Enables fullscreen antialiasing for improved graphics on video cards that support it."
8603 "[Illuminates Water]"
8604 "[Multiple Conversions]"
8605 "[Stronger Walls]"
8606 "[Self Healing]"
8607 "[Reveal Buildings]"
8608 "Show water density detail. Turn off for better performance"
8609 "Level of detail index modifier. Set to minimum for better performance"
8610 "Adjust rear clipping plane. Set to minimum for better performance"
8611 "CotN 8611"
8612 "Embark upon the Grand Campaign: Immortal Egypt"
10022 "(%s) does not exist in scenario and text file."
10023 "(%s) is not in the text file."
10024 "File error"
10025 "File exported successfully"
10026 "Exported file name has changed\nThe scenario will need to be re-saved."
10027 "{%s} is an invalid token"
10028 "(%d) is an invalid effect id for token {%s}"
10029 "{%s} is an invalid effect type to be a token."
10030 "The text file effect name (%s) does not match the scenario's effect name of (%s)."
10031 "File imported successfully"
10032 "Importing the file replaces all text in the scenario. Continue?"
10033 "The following errors occurred while importing the file.\n Proceed with replacement of text?"
10034 "xxx"
10035 "xxx"
10036 "There was an error reading the file."
10037 "xxx"
10038 "xxx"
10039 "xxx"
10040 "xxx"
10041 "xxx"
10042 "You don't have enough bricks to construct this building"
10043 "Do you really want to quit now?"
10044 "xxx"
10045 "Do you wish to restart this game?"
10046 "Exit test mode and return to Editor?"
10047 "There was an error trying to load an old Scenario file."
10048 "Error Deleting File"
10049 "Error Creating File
You may be trying to save over a read only file, or the filename you are using contains an invalid character such as:
/ \ : * ? \" < > |"
10050 "Error Saving File
You may be trying to save over a read only file, or the filename you are using contains an invalid character such as:
/ \ : * ? \" < > |"
10051 "File already exists. Overwrite?"
10052 "You can't start the game until all save files have been transferred."
10053 "{%s} is an invalid condition type to be a token."
10054 "(%d) is an invalid condition ID for token {%s}"
10055 "The text file effect name (%s) does not match the scenario's condition name of (%s)."
10056 "Invalid Player Number(%d) for this Scenario."
10057 "The .lcl file has an invalid version number assigned or the version number is not on the first line of the text file."
10058 "xxx"
10059 "xxx"
10061 "xxx"
10063 "xxx"
10064 "File transfer failed. Please restart game and try again."
10065 "xxx"
10066 "Could not find the requested game."
;***11000's*********
11000 "CotN 11000"
11001 "Import a localized text file into scenario"
11002 "Export the scenario to a text file to be localized"
11003 "CotN 11003"
11004 "CotN 11004"
11005 "CotN 11005"
11006 "Elevation file to use with blank map"
11007 "This is the depth (in meters) that is set to be equal to the Water Depth value. Any depths greater that this in the data will be cut off at the maximum water depth."
11008 "This is the maximum height that the land will reach in Children of the Nile's elevation."
11009 "This is the height, in meters, that is set to be equal to the Land Height value. Any heights greater than this value will be cut off at the maximum land height."
11010 "This is the maximum depth that the water will reach in Children of the Nile's elevation."
;**********12000-12010**********
12000 "CotN 12000"
12001 "CotN 12001"
12002 "CotN 12002"
12003 "CotN 12003"
12004 "CotN 12004"
12005 "CotN 12005"
12006 "CotN 12006"
12007 "CotN 12007"
12008 "CotN 12008"
12009 "CotN 12009"
;**********12100-12110**********
12100 "CotN 12100"
12101 "CotN 12101"
12102 "CotN 12102"
12103 "CotN 12103"
12104 "CotN 12104"
12105 "CotN 12105"
12106 "CotN 12106"
12107 "CotN 12107"
12108 "CotN 12108"
12109 "CotN 12109"
;**********12200-12210**********
12200 "CotN 12200"
12201 "CotN 12201"
12202 "CotN 12202"
12203 "CotN 12203"
12204 "CotN 12204"
12205 "CotN 12205"
12206 "CotN 12206"
12207 "CotN 12207"
12208 "CotN 12208"
12209 "CotN 12209"
;**********12300-12310**********
12300 "CotN 12300"
12301 "CotN 12301"
12302 "CotN 12302"
12303 "CotN 12303"
12304 "CotN 12304"
12305 "CotN 12305"
12306 "CotN 12306"
12307 "CotN 12307"
12308 "CotN 12308"
12309 "CotN 12309"
;**********12330-12339**********
12330 "CotN 12330"
12331 "CotN 12331"
12332 "CotN 12332"
12333 "CotN 12333"
12334 "CotN 12334"
12335 "CotN 12335"
12336 "CotN 12336"
12337 "CotN 12337"
12338 "CotN 12338"
12339 "CotN 12339"
;**********12360-12369**********
12360 "CotN 12360"
12361 "CotN 12361"
12362 "CotN 12362"
12363 "CotN 12363"
12364 "CotN 12364"
12365 "CotN 12365"
12366 "CotN 12366"
12367 "CotN 12367"
12368 "CotN 12368"
12369 "CotN 12369"
;**********12400-12409**********
12400 "CotN 12400"
12401 "CotN 12401"
12402 "CotN 12402"
12403 "CotN 12403"
12404 "CotN 12404"
12405 "CotN 12405"
12406 "CotN 12406"
12407 "CotN 12407"
12408 "CotN 12408"
12409 "CotN 12409"
;**********12500-12509**********
12500 "CotN 12500"
12501 "CotN 12501"
12502 "CotN 12502"
12503 "CotN 12503"
12504 "CotN 12505"
12505 "CotN 12505"
12506 "CotN 12506"
12507 "CotN 12507"
12508 "CotN 12508"
12509 "CotN 12509"
;**********13000-13009**********
13000 "CotN 13000"
13001 "<NONE>"
13002 "Copy"
13003 "Exists"
13004 "Always True"
13005 "Do Nothing"
13006 "Off Map"
13007 "Previous Location"
13008 "Degrees"
;*** 14001-14999 Unit Set Names
14001 "None"
14002 "Walls"
14003 "Medical Buildings"
14004 "Adults"
14005 "Worship buildings"
14006 "Shops, Common"
14007 "Shops, Luxury"
14008 "Shops, Government"
14009 "Elite Homes"
14010 "Storage Facilities"
14011 "Soldiers"
14012 "Training area"
14013 "Hospital"
14014 "Apothecary"
14015 "Mortuary"
14016 "Elite adults"
14017 "Peasant people"
14018 "Ambient sprites"
14019 "New Walls"
14020 "Justice Buildings"
14021 "Adults -- Not Priest"
14022 "Adults -- Not Priests, Not Royals"
14023 "Adults -- Not Priests/ Peasants/CommonShops"
14024 "Elite Men and Elite Children -- Not Priests"
14025 "Elite Women"
14026 "Female Adults"
14027 "Overseers and Laborers"
14028 "Entertainers"
14029 "Adult Peasants"
14030 "Adult Shopkeepers and Craftsmen"
14031 "Scribes"
14032 "Adult Elites -- Not Priests"
14033 "Non-Elite Adults"
14034 "City Guard"
14035 "Commanders"
14036 "Adults -- Not Priests/Soldiers/Commanders"
14037 "Adult Common Craftsmen"
14038 "Adult Lux Craftsmen"
14039 "Adult Gov't Labor"
14040 "Adult Gov't Craftsmen"
14041 "Resources"
14042 "Fish"
14043 "Dedicated Buildings - Osiris"
14044 "Dedicated Buildings - Isis"
14045 "Dedicated Buildings - Horus"
14046 "Dedicated Buildings - Ra"
14047 "Dedicated Buildings - Hathor"
14048 "Dedicated Buildings - Amun"
14049 "Dedicated Buildings - Ptah"
14050 "Dedicated Buildings - Thoth"
14051 "Dedicated Buildings - Anubis"
14052 "Dedicated Buildings - Bast"
14053 "Dedicated Buildings - Sobek"
14054 "Dedicated Buildings - Ma'at"
14055 "Dedicated Buildings - Set"
14056 "Dedicated Buildings - Nekhbet"
14057 "Dedicated Buildings - Udjet"
14058 "Dedicated Buildings - Khmun"
14059 "Dedicated Buildings - Hapi"
14060 "Dedicated Buildings - Nephthys"
14061 "Gathering Sites - Festival"
14062 "Gathering Sites - Religious"
14063 "Any Temple or Cult Temple"
14064 "Anubis (any) OR Shrine to Osiris"
14065 "Osiris Temple or Cult Temple"
14066 "Osiris Shrine"
14067 "Osiris Cult Temple"
14068 "Any Temple or Cult Temple"
14069 "Isis Temple or Cult Temple"
14070 "Isis Shrine"
14071 "Horus Shrine"
14072 "Ra Shrine"
14073 "Hathor Shrine"
14074 "Amun Shrine"
14075 "Ptah Shrine"
14076 "Thoth Shrine"
14077 "Anubis Shrine"
14078 "Bast Shrine"
14079 "Sobek Shrine"
14080 "Ma'at Shrine"
14081 "Set Shrine"
14082 "Hapi Shrine"
14083 "Horus Temple or Cult Temple"
14084 "Ra Temple or Cult Temple"
14085 "Hathor Temple or Cult Temple"
14086 "Amun Temple or Cult Temple"
14087 "Ptah Temple or Cult Temple"
14088 "Thoth Temple or Cult Temple"
14089 "Anubis Temple or Cult Temple"
14090 "Bast Temple or Cult Temple"
14091 "Sobek Temple or Cult Temple"
14092 "Ma'at Temple or Cult Temple"
14093 "Set Temple or Cult Temple"
14094 "Hapi Temple or Cult Temple"
14095 "Isis Cult Temple"
14096 "Horus Cult Temple"
14097 "Ra Cult Temple"
14098 "Hathor Cult Temple"
14099 "Amun Cult Temple"
14100 "Ptah Cult Temple"
14101 "Thoth Cult Temple"
14102 "Anubis Cult Temple"
14103 "Bast Cult Temple"
14104 "Sobek Cult Temple"
14105 "Set Cult Temple"
14106 "Raiders"
14107 "Adults -- Not Farmers"
14108 "Adult Farmers"
14109 "Nobles"
14110 "Military"
14111 "Workers"
14112 "Children"
14113 "Nobles, Peasants and Children"
14114 "Bilharziasis Set"
14115 "Malaria Set"
14116 "Arthritics"
14117 "Workers, Labor and Military"
14118 "Laborers and Family"
14119 "Elites - Not Priest and Lux. Craftsmen"
14120 "Labor and Craftsmen"
14121 "Labor and Military"
14122 "Non-Elite Adults and Scribes"
14123 "Children and Female Adults"
14124 "Protest Sites"
14125 "Muster Sites"
14126 "Noblemen"
14127 "Royals"
14128 "Townhouses"
14129 "things that need stone cutting"
14130 "Overseers"
14131 "Priests"
;**********16959**********
16959 "*Missing Name*"
;**********19000-19006**********
19000 "Brains"
19001 "Scout Brain"
19002 "Stand Brain"
19003 "Protect Brain"
19004 "Dumbharrass Brain"
19005 "Tiptoe brain"
19006 "Berserk brain"
;**********19500-19509**********
19500 "CotN 19500"
19501 "CotN 19501"
19502 "CotN 19502"
19503 "CotN 19503"
19504 "CotN 19504"
19505 "CotN 19505"
19506 "CotN 19506"
19507 "CotN 19507"
19508 "CotN 19508"
19509 "CotN 19509"
;*** scenario editor ***
20000 "CotN 20000"
20001 "Map Height"
20002 "Map Type"
20003 "Inland"
20004 "Coastal"
20005 "Blank"
20006 "Random"
20007 "Seed"
20008 "Default Terrain"
20009 "<NONE>"
20012 "Create new scenario (resets everything)"
20013 "Map Width"
20016 "Paint cliff"
20017 "Raise/Lower"
20018 "Terrain"
20019 "Elevation"
20020 "Slope"
20021 "Sea"
20022 "Level"
20023 "Flood"
20024 "Fine"
21087 "Paint roads"
21089 "Degraded road"
21090 "Normal road"
21091 "Nice road"
21092 "Plaza1"
21093 "Plaza2"
21094 "Plaza3"
21095 "Plaza4"
21096 "Scenario name"
;**********20500-20584**********
20500 "Brush Size"
20501 "Tiny"
20502 "Small"
20503 "Normal"
20504 "Large"
20505 "Huge"
20506 "UNDO"
20507 "REDO"
20508 "Terrain"
20509 "Colors"
20510 "Remove sprites"
20511 "Select terrain"
20512 "CotN 20512"
20513 "CotN 20513"
20514 "CotN 20514"
20515 "Start period"
20516 "Build List"
20517 "CotN 20517"
20518 "Players"
20519 "CotN 20519"
20520 "CotN 20520"
20522 "CotN 20521"
20523 "Player"
20524 "Time period"
20526 "Life exp"
20527 "Current Pharaoh"
20530 "Unit types"
20531 "Units"
20532 "Unit set"
20534 "CotN 20534"
20535 "World"
20536 "Alpha"
20537 "Period"
20538 "Family"
20539 "Remove"
20540 "Cargo"
20541 "Sort"
20542 "Terrain Color"
20543 "Scen Inst. Map"
20544 "Movie"
20545 "Inst. Sound Over"
20546 "Options"
20548 "End period"
20549 "Scenario Instructions"
20550 "Aftermath"
20551 "Tips"
20552 "CotN 20552"
20553 "World level"
20554 "Capture Units"
20555 "History"
20556 "Active"
20557 "Cheat"
20558 "Attack"
20559 "Defend"
20560 "Build/Repair"
20561 "Explore"
20562 "Ignore"
20563 "Gather"
20564 "Citizen Percentage"
20565 "Events"
20566 "Favorites"
20567 "Objects To add"
20568 "Objects added"
20569 "Set Int Value 1"
20570 "Set Int Value 2"
20571 "Set Float Value"
20572 "Camera Scroll Speed"
20573 "Snap"
20574 "Old Kingdom"
20575 "Middle Kingdom"
20576 "New Kingdom"
20577 "Week"
20578 "Year"
20579 "Rank"
20580 "City name"
20581 "Nome name"
20582 "Worship"
20583 "BC"
20584 "AD"
;**********20600-20601**********
20600 "Embiggened"
20601 "Dig Quarry Pit"
;**********20999-21095**********
20999 "CotN 20999"
21000 "Ambients - Marsh"
21001 "CotN 21001"
21002 "Grass - Tufts"
21003 "Rock"
21004 "Desert"
21005 "CotN 21005"
21006 "Grass - Overgrown"
21007 "Cracked Earth - Dark"
21008 "Marsh"
21009 "Blackness"
21010 "CotN 21010"
21011 "Grass - Patches"
21012 "Grass"
21013 "CotN 21013"
21014 "Infantry"
21015 "Smooth Stone"
21016 "Beach"
21017 "CotN 21017"
21018 "CotN 21018"
21019 "CotN 21019"
21020 "Weeds"
21021 "White"
21022 "Flowers"
21023 "CotN 21023"
21024 "Sand - Medium"
21025 "Forest - Palm"
21026 "CotN 21026"
21027 "CotN 21027"
21028 "Forest - Maple"
21029 "Forest - Dead"
21030 "CotN 21030"
21031 "Ambients - Aquatic"
21032 "Ambients - Beach"
21033 "Ambients - Desert"
21034 "Ambients - Forest"
21035 "Cliff - Texture 1"
21036 "Cliff - Texture 2"
21037 "Sand - Cracked"
21038 "CotN 21038"
21039 "CotN 21039"
21040 "Grass - Sparse"
21041 "Sand Fine"
21042 "Pebbles"
21043 "CotN 21043"
21044 "CotN 21044"
21045 "CotN 21045"
21046 "CotN 21046"
21047 "Grass - Tall"
21048 "Sand - Coarse"
21049 "CotN 21049"
21050 "CotN 21050"
21051 "CotN 21051"
21052 "CotN 21052"
21053 "CotN 21053"
21054 "CotN 21054"
21055 "CotN 21055"
21056 "CotN 21056"
21057 "CotN 21057"
21058 "CotN 21058"
21059 "CotN 21059"
21060 "CotN 21060"
21061 "CotN 21061"
21062 "CotN 21062"
21063 "CotN 21063"
21064 "CotN 21064"
21065 "CotN 21065"
21066 "CotN 21066"
21067 "CotN 21067"
21068 "CotN 21068"
21069 "CotN 21069"
21070 "CotN 21070"
21071 "CotN 21071"
21072 "CotN 21072"
21073 "CotN 21073"
21074 "CotN 21074"
21075 "CotN 21075"
21076 "CotN 21076"
21077 "CotN 21077"
21078 "CotN 21078"
21079 "CotN 21079"
21080 "CotN 21080"
21081 "CotN 21081"
21082 "CotN 21082"
21083 "CotN 21083"
21084 "CotN 21084"
21085 "CotN 21085"
21086 "CotN 21086"
21087 "Paint Roads"
21088 "Road Style"
21089 "Low Quality Road"
21090 "Medium Quality Road"
21091 "High Quality Road"
21092 "CotN 21092"
21093 "CotN 21093"
21094 "CotN 21094"
21095 "CotN 21095"
;**********22000-22024**********
22000 "Grass"
22001 "Desert"
22002 "Rock"
22003 "CotN 22003"
22004 "CotN 22004"
22005 "CotN 22005"
22006 "CotN 22006"
22007 "CotN 22007"
22008 "CotN 22008"
22009 "CotN 22009"
22010 "CotN 22010"
22011 "CotN 22011"
22012 "CotN 22012"
22013 "CotN 22013"
22014 "CotN 22014"
22015 "CotN 22015"
22016 "CotN 22016"
22017 "CotN 22017"
22018 "CotN 22018"
22019 "CotN 22019"
22020 "CotN 22020"
22021 "CotN 22021"
22022 "CotN 22022"
22023 "CotN 22023"
22024 "CotN 22024"
;**********23000-23000**********
23000 "CotN 23000"
;***26000's***************
26000 "To run Children of the Nile, your Windows desktop must be in 16-bit color mode or higher. Please change your color mode and try again."
;********27000-27006**********
27000 "CotN 27000"
27001 "CotN 27001"
27002 "CotN 27002"
27003 "CotN 27003"
27004 "CotN 27004"
27005 "CotN 27005"
27006 "CotN 27006"
;********28000-28123********
28000 "CotN 28000"
28001 "CotN 28001"
28002 "CotN 28002"
28003 "CotN 28003"
28004 "CotN 28004"
28005 "CotN 28005"
28006 "CotN 28006"
28007 "CotN 28007"
28008 "CotN 28008"
28009 "CotN 28009"
28010 "CotN 28010"
28011 "CotN 28011"
28014 "CotN 28014"
28015 "CotN 28015"
28019 "CotN 28019"
28020 "CotN 28020"
28021 "CotN 28021"
28024 "CotN 28024"
28025 "CotN 28025"
28026 "CotN 28026"
28027 "CotN 28027"
28028 "CotN 28028"
28029 "CotN 28029"
28030 "CotN 28030"
28031 "CotN 28031"
28032 "CotN 28032"
28033 "CotN 28033"
28034 "CotN 28034"
28035 "CotN 28035"
28036 "CotN 28036"
28037 "CotN 28037"
28038 "CotN 28038"
28039 "CotN 28039"
28040 "CotN 28040"
28041 "CotN 28041"
28042 "CotN 28042"
28043 "CotN 28043"
28044 "CotN 28044"
28045 "CotN 28045"
28046 "CotN 28046"
28047 "CotN 28047"
28048 "CotN 28048"
28049 "CotN 28049"
28050 "CotN 28050"
28051 "CotN 28051"
28052 "CotN 28052"
28053 "CotN 28053"
28054 "CotN 28054"
28067 "CotN 28067"
28070 "CotN 28070"
28071 "CotN 28071"
28072 "CotN 28072"
28077 "CotN 28077"
28078 "CotN 28078"
28082 "CotN 28082"
28087 "CotN 28087"
28088 "CotN 28088"
28089 "CotN 28089"
28090 "CotN 28090"
28091 "CotN 28091"
28095 "CotN 28095"
28096 "CotN 28096"
28097 "CotN 28097"
28098 "CotN 28098"
28099 "CotN 28099"
28100 "CotN 28100"
28101 "CotN 28101"
28103 "CotN 28103"
28104 "CotN 28104"
28106 "CotN 28106"
28108 "CotN 28108"
28109 "CotN 28109"
28110 "CotN 28110"
28111 "CotN 28111"
28112 "CotN 28112"
28113 "CotN 28113"
28114 "CotN 28114"
28115 "CotN 28115"
28116 "CotN 28116"
28118 "CotN 28118"
28119 "CotN 28119"
28120 "CotN 28120"
28121 "CotN 28121"
28122 "CotN 28122"
28123 "CotN 28123"
;28500-28623
28500 "CotN 28500"
28501 "CotN 28501"
28502 "CotN 28502"
28503 "CotN 28503"
28504 "CotN 28504"
28505 "CotN 28505"
28506 "CotN 28506"
28507 "CotN 28507"
28508 "CotN 28508"
28509 "CotN 28509"
28510 "CotN 28510"
28511 "CotN 28511"
28514 "CotN 28514"
28515 "CotN 28515"
28519 "CotN 28519"
28520 "CotN 28520"
28521 "xxx"
28523 "xxx"
28524 "xxx"
28525 "xxx"
28526 "xxx"
28527 "xxx"
28528 "xxx"
28529 "xxx"
28530 "xxx"
28531 "xxx"
28532 "xxx"
28533 "xxx"
28534 "xxx"
28535 "xxx"
28536 "xxx"
28537 "xxx"
28538 "xxx"
28539 "xxx"
28540 "xxx"
28541 "xxx"
28542 "xxx"
28543 "xxx"
28544 "xxx"
28545 "xxx"
28546 "xxx"
28547 "xxx"
28548 "xxx"
28549 "xxx"
28550 "xxx"
28551 "xxx"
28552 "xxx"
28553 "xxx"
28554 "xxx"
28567 "xxx"
28570 "xxx"
28571 "xxx"
28572 "xxx"
28577 "xxx"
28578 "xxx"
28582 "xxx"
28587 "xxx"
28588 "xxx"
28589 "xxx"
28590 "xxx"
28591 "xxx"
28595 "xxx"
28596 "xxx"
28597 "xxx"
28598 "xxx"
28599 "xxx"
28600 "xxx"
28601 "xxx"
28603 "xxx"
28604 "xxx"
28606 "xxx"
28608 "xxx"
28609 "xxx"
28610 "xxx"
28611 "xxx"
28612 "xxx"
28613 "xxx"
28614 "xxx"
28615 "xxx"
28616 "xxx"
28618 "xxx"
28619 "xxx"
28620 "xxx"
28621 "xxx"
28622 "xxx"
28623 "xxx"
;*******29000-29003********
29000 "TRIGGER LISTS"
29001 "Distance to"
;29050-29057
29050 "World"
29051 "Any Human"
29052 "Any Computer"
29053 "All Human"
29054 "All Computer"
29055 "Any Player"
29056 "Any Exclude World"
29057 "Player %d"
;***29100's ***************
; Scenario editor trigger screen - effects - world site actions
;*** scenario editor - conditions - player statistics - other
30115 "PharaohAge"
30116 "PlayerVar0"
30117 "PlayerVar1"
30118 "PlayerVar2"
30119 "PlayerVar3"
30120 "PlayerVar4"
30121 "PlayerVar5"
30122 "PlayerVar6"
30123 "PlayerVar7"
30124 "PlayerVar8"
30125 "PlayerVar9"
30126 "Prestige"
;******* EPOCHS *******
; !! Should be unused- see 46600-46620 !!
30144 "xxx"; "PERIODS"
30145 "xxx"; "Naqada()"
30146 "xxx"; "First Intermediate Period()"
30147 "xxx"; "Middle Kingdom()"
30148 "xxx"; "Second Intermediate Period()"
30149 "xxx"; "New Kingdom()"
30150 "xxx"; "Greco-Roman Period()"
30151 "xxx"; "World Level a"
30152 "xxx"; "World Level b"
30153 "xxx"; "World Level c"
30154 "xxx"; "World Level d"
30155 "xxx"; "World Level e"
30156 "xxx"; "World Level f"
30157 "xxx"; "World Level g"
30158 "xxx"; "World Level h"
30159 "xxx"; "Random Age"
;********30198-30492************
30198 "CotN Editor"
30200 "Single Player"
30201 "xxx"
30202 "Scenario Editor"
30203 "Exit Game"
30204 "xxx"
30205 "xxx"
30206 "xxx"
30207 "xxx"
30208 "xxx"
30209 "xxx"
30210 "There is an optional update available for Children of the Nile. Would you like to run the update utility now?"
30211 "Your version of Children of the Nile is up to date."
30212 "Unable to determine your current version of Children of the Nile. It is recommended that you reinstall the game from the CD."
30213 "Checking for an updated version of Children of the Nile, please wait..."
30216 "xxx"
30217 "xxx"
30218 "xxx"
30219 "xxx"
30220 "xxx"
30221 "xxx"
30222 "xxx"
30223 "xxx"
30224 "xxx"
30225 "Cancel"
30226 "xxx"
30227 "xxx"
30228 "OK"
30229 "xxx"
30230 "CotN 26"
30231 "CotN 27"
30232 "CotN 28"
30233 "CotN 29"
30234 "CotN 30"
30235 "CotN 31"
30236 "CotN 32"
30237 "CotN 33"
30238 "CotN 34"
30239 "CotN 35"
30240 "CotN 36"
30241 "xxx"
30242 "CotN 38"
30243 "CotN 38"
30244 "CotN 39"
30245 "CotN 40"
30246 "CotN 41"
30247 "CotN 42"
30248 "CotN 43"
30249 "CotN 44"
30250 "CotN 45"
30251 "CotN 46"
30252 "CotN 47"
30253 "CotN 48"
30254 "CotN 49"
30255 "CotN 50"
30256 "xxx"
30257 "Game Options (F10)"
30258 "xxx"
30259 "xxx"
30260 "xxx"
30261 "Diplomacy"
30262 "xxx"
; 30263 (unused) - was Calamities
30264 "xxx"
30265 "xxx"
30266 "xxx"
30267 "xxx"
30268 "Reset Defaults"
30269 "xxx"
30270 "xxx"
30271 "xxx"
30272 "xxx"
30273 "xxx"
30274 "xxx"
30275 "xxx"
30276 "xxx"
30277 "xxx"
30278 "xxx"
30279 "xxx"
30280 "Off"
30281 "xxx"
30282 "xxx"
30283 "xxx"
30284 "xxx"
30285 "xxx"
30286 "xxx"
30287 "xxx"
30288 "Yes"
30289 "No"
30290 "CotN 67"
30291 "Loading Global Media..."
30292 "Loading Game..."
30293 "Creating Nile Valley..."
30294 "Populating Egypt..."
30295 "Loading Egypt..."
30296 "Loading Complete."
30297 "Loading %s Period , for Player (%d)"
30298 "Loading (%s), for Player (%d)"
30299 "Trigger"
30300 "Condition"
30301 "Effect"
30302 "Object"
30303 "Area"
30304 "New"
30305 "Duplicate"
30306 "Delete"
30307 "Name"
30308 "Select On Map"
30309 "Object Specification"
30310 "Owner"
30311 "Class"
30312 "Number Of Units"
30313 "Min"
30314 "Max"
30315 "Dynamic"
30316 "In Area"
30317 "Visible By"
30318 "Has State"
30319 "Selected By"
30320 "Has Attribute"
30321 "Object Details"
30322 "Unit Selected List"
30323 "Select Area Type"
30324 "FPS"
30325 "Center Camera On Area"
30326 "No Area Selected"
30327 "Trigger Condition Attributes"
30328 "The Trigger"
30329 "Is On"
30330 "Has Fired"
30331 "Player Attribute Condition Details"
30332 "Attribute"
30333 "Compare"
30334 "Random number between 1 and 100 is <="
30335 "Amount"
30336 "Use Player Attribute"
30337 "Use Amount"
30338 "Type Of Condition"
30339 "Player Condition Details"
30340 "xxx"
30341 "xxx"
30342 "xxx"
30343 "xxx"
30344 "is"
30345 "Game Condition Details"
30346 "Challenge Level at"
30347 "Elapsed Year is"
30348 "Min Units"
30349 "Max Units"
30350 "Object Condition Details"
30351 "Choose Object"
30352 "Type Of Effect"
30353 "Object Effect"
30354 "Action"
30355 "To"
30356 "Stance"
30357 "Attribute"
30358 "Value"
30359 "%"
30360 "Use Value"
30361 "Use Percent"
30362 "Player Effect"
30363 "around"
30364 "at"
30365 "xxx"
30366 "Add"
30367 "Media Effect"
30368 "Message"
30369 "Duration In Seconds"
30370 "Text Object"
30371 "Clear"
30372 "Add Line"
30373 "Sound"
30374 " (path & extension)"
30375 "Use Object"
30376 "Description"
30377 "24 Hour Time"
30378 "Day Night Cycle Time"
30379 "seconds"
30380 "Game Effect"
30382 "Use Area"
30383 "Use Object"
30384 "State"
30385 "Trigger Effect"
30386 "If"
30387 "Then"
30388 "not"
30389 "Delay"
30390 "And"
30391 "Or"
30392 "Trigger Statement"
30393 "Trigger Is On"
30394 "Conditions True For"
30395 "Looping"
30396 "Cond"
30397 "End"
30398 "Del"
30399 "Week is in range"
30400 "Day/Night"
30401 " " ; won game
30402 " " ; lost game
30403 "X Pos"
30404 "Y Pos"
30406 "xxx"
30419 "xxx"
30423 "xxx"
30448 "xxx"
30449 "xxx"
30451 "xxx"
30452 "xxx"
30453 "xxx"
30465 "Paint Hills"
30466 "Paint Cliffs"
30467 "Paint Cliff Paths"
30469 "Flood Level"
30470 "Graphic Effect"
30471 "Import"
30472 "Export"
30473 "Localization Text File Name"
30474 "xxx"
30475 "xxx"
30476 "xxx"
30477 "xxx"
30478 "xxx"
30479 "xxx"
30480 "xxx"
30482 "Elevation File"
30483 "Water Cutoff"
30484 "Water Depth"
30485 "Land Height"
30486 "Land Cutoff"
30487 "Your Children of the Nile CD key is invalid."
30488 "Your Children of the Nile CD key has been banned by .com."
30489 "Please enter the Children of the Nile CD key that is printed on your CD case."
30490 "Default"
30491 "Narmer"
30492 "World Site Condition Details"
30493 "Player Event Condition"
30494 "Random Percent Condition"
;********30600-30671*******
30600 "Scroll"
30601 "Easiest"
30602 "Hardest"
30603 "CPU Only"
30604 "Options"
30605 "xxx"
30606 "xxx"
30607 "xxx"
30608 "xxx"
30609 "xxx"
30610 "xxx"
30611 "xxx"
30612 "xxx"
30613 "Map Size"
30614 "xxx"
30615 "Assignment"
30616 "xxx"
30617 "xxx"
30618 "Save Game"
30619 "Load Game"
30620 "Statistics"
30621 "xxx"
30622 "headshot"
30623 "xxx"
30624 "CotN A"
30625 "CotN B"
30626 "ADDGOLD"
30627 "CotN D"
30628 "ADDSTONE"
30629 "CotN F"
30630 "CotN G"
30631 "CotN H"
30632 "Unused"
30633 "CotN J"
30634 "CotN K"
30635 "CotN L"
30636 "CotN M"
30637 "CotN N"
30638 "CotN O"
30639 "CotN P"
30640 "CotN 30641"
30642 "CotN 30642"
30643 "CotN 30643"
30645 "CotN 30645"
30646 "Move Camera"
30647 "CotN 30647"
30648 "CotN 30648"
30649 "CotN 30649"
30650 "CotN 30650"
30651 "CotN 30651"
30652 "Face Cam"
30653 "Follow"
30654 "Track"
30655 "Scr Spd"
30656 "Slow"
30657 "Fast"
30658 "Very"
30659 "Zoom Level"
30660 "Flare (Alt-F)"
30661 "Saving game as '%s' ..."
30662 "xxx"
30663 "Loading '%s' ..."
30664 "xxx"
30665 "xxx"
30668 "CotN Q"
30669 "CotN R"
30670 "CotN S"
30671 "CotN Sa"
30700 "Select Rectangular Area"
;31000-31012
31000 "Formation"
31001 "Fast"
31002 "Smart"
31005 "Short Line"
31006 "Long Line"
31007 "Loose Line"
31008 "CotN 31008"
31009 "CotN 31009"
31010 "CotN 31010"
31011 "CotN 31011"
31012 "CotN 31012"
;***31200's************
31200 "Variable"
31201 "xxx"
31202 "Buildings removed"
31203 "Hyksos killed"
31204 "xxx"
31205 "xxx"
31206 "Divine intervention"
31207 "Wheat"
31208 "Papyrus"
31209 "Mining"
31210 "Quarrying"
31211 "Bricks()"
31212 "Period Reached"
31213 "Warriors"
31214 "Citizens"
31215 "Pharaohs"
31216 "Unused stat"
31217 "Unused stat"
31218 "Unused stat"
31219 "Progress"
31220 "Hot Key count"
31221 "Mouse Clicks"
31222 "Period Advancement"
31223 "Population"
31224 "Map Explored"
31225 "Stat_future1"
31226 "Stat_future2"
31227 "Stat_future3"
31228 "Stat_future4"
31229 "Stat_future5"
31230 "Stat_future6"
31231 "Weather_active"
31232 "Review of the city"
31233 "Over Time"
31234 "Game Time (minutes:seconds)"
31235 "Population"
31236 "Exit city review"
31237 "Overall"
31238 "Timeline"
31239 "Military"
31240 "Economy"
31241 "Period"
31242 "Society"
31243 "Misc"
31244 "Miscellaneous"
31245 "Statistics"
31246 "Check this box to display this player's statistic. Uncheck the box to hide this player's statistic."
31247 "xxx"
31248 "xxx"
31249 "xxx"
31250 "xxx"
31251 "xxx"
31252 "xxx"
31253 "xxx"
31254 "xxx"
31255 "xxx"
31256 "Epic"
31257 "Back to Editor"
31258 "xxx"
31259 "Scenario"
31260 "Saved Game"
31261 "I"
31262 "II"
31263 "III"
31264 "CotN 31264"
31265 "CotN 31265"
31266 "CotN 31266"
31267 "CotN 31267"
31268 "CotN 31268"
31269 "CotN 31269"
31270 "CotN 31270"
31271 "CotN 31271"
31272 "CotN 31272"
31273 "CotN 31273"
31274 "CotN 31274"
31275 "CotN 31275"
31276 "CotN 31276"
31277 "CotN 31277"
31278 "CotN 31278"
31279 "CotN 31279"
31280 "N/A"
31281 " - "
31282 "xxx"
31283 "xxx"
;31500-31527
31500 "CotN 31500?"
31501 "CotN 31501"
31502 "CotN 31502"
31503 "CotN 31503"
31504 "CotN 31504"
31505 "CotN 31505"
31506 "CotN 31506"
31507 "CotN 31507"
31508 "CotN 31508"
31509 "CotN 31509"
31510 "CotN 31510"
31511 "CotN 31511"
31512 "CotN 31512"
31513 "CotN 31513"
31514 "CotN 31514"
31515 "CotN 31515"
31516 "CotN 31516"
31517 "CotN 31517"
31518 "CotN 31518"
31519 "CotN 31519"
31520 "CotN 31520"
31521 "CotN 31521"
31522 "CotN 31522"
31523 "CotN 31523"
31524 "CotN 31524"
31525 "CotN 31525?"
31526 "CotN 31526?"
31527 "CotN 31527? %s"
;31550-31552
31550 "CotN remove End"
31552 "Toggles Display of Hidden Units (F5)"
;31601-31601
31601 "CotN U relationship change"
;31700-31713
31700 "Game Speed"
31701 "Include In cinematic"
31705 "xxx"
31706 "Close"
31707 "You have not yet received any messages to store. Messages either pop up or appear at the bottom of the city view before they are stored here."
31708 "xxx"
31709 "xxx"
31710 "xxx"
31711 "xxx"
31712 "xxx"
31713 "Very Fast"
;***31800's***************
31800 "This transport has no place to unload CotN."
31801 "CotN AB"
31802 "CotN AC"
31803 "CotN AD no location to unload"
31804 "%6.2g%%"
31805 "(Campaign in progress; %d of %d completed.)"
31806 "(Campaign completed.)"
31807 "(Scenario Completed)"
31808 "xxx"
31809 "xxx"
31810 "xxx"
31811 "xxx"
31812 "xxx"
31813 "--GAME--"
31816 "CotN 31816"
31817 "CotN 31817"
31818 "CotN 31818"
31819 "CotN 31819"
31820 "CotN 31820"
31821 "CotN 31821"
31822 "CotN 31822"
31823 "CotN 31823"
31824 "CotN 31824"
31825 "CotN 31825"
31826 "CotN 31826"
31827 "CotN 31827"
31828 "CotN 31828"
31829 "CotN 31829"
31830 "CotN 31830"
31831 "CotN 31831"
31832 "CotN 31832"
31833 "CotN 31833"
31834 "CotN 31834"
31835 "CotN 31835"
31836 "CotN 31836"
31837 "CotN 31837"
31838 "CotN 31838"
31839 "CotN 31839"
31840 "CotN 31840"
31841 "xxx"
31842 "Please wait..."
31843 "xxx"
31844 "You do not have enough resources to build."
31845 "xxx"
31846 "xxx"
31847 "The campaign %s has a scenario %s which differs from the version in your Scenario folder. You should remove the scenario from the campaign and add it again to make sure the campaign is updated properly."
31848 "xxx"
31849 "xxx"
31850 "xxx"
31851 "xxx"
31852 "xxx"
31853 "xxx"
31854 "xxx"
31855 "xxx"
31856 "xxx"
31857 "xxx"
31858 "xxx"
31859 "xxx"
31860 "xxx"
31861 "Favorite Land"
31862 "Favorite Air"
31863 "Favorite Sea"
31864 "xxx"
31865 "xxx"
31866 "xxx"
31867 "xxx"
31868 "(Locked)"
31869 "(Unlocked)"
31870 "This feature is not available in the Children of the Nile Demo."
31871 "Thank you for playing the Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile Demo!"
31872 "CotN 31872"
31873 "...and the people of Egypt are united."
31874 "Would you like to come to our information page on our website to learn more about Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile?"
31875 "Yes"
31876 "No"
31877 "CotN 31877"
31878 "CotN 31878"
31879 "* Preorder Children of the Nile!"
31880 "CotN 31880"
31881 "CotN 31881"
31882 "CotN 31882"
31883 "CotN 31883"
31884 "CotN 31884"
31885 "The adventure continues in the full version of Children of the Nile."
31886 "From the humble beginnings of a village..."
31887 "...a dynasty is born..."
31888 "CotN 31888"
31889 "CotN 31889"
31890 "Preorder Children of the Nile right now!"
;***32000's***************
32800 "xxx"
32801 "xxx"
32802 "xxx"
32803 "xxx"
32804 "xxx"
32805 "xxx"
32806 "xxx"
32807 "xxx"
32808 "xxx"
32809 "To change the screen resolution, 3D acceleration, or video card, please exit to the Main Menu and choose 'Settings.'"
32810 "xxx"
32811 "xxx"
32812 "Adapter Selection"
32813 "<default>"
32814 "Adapter 1"
32815 "Adapter 2"
32816 "xxx"
32817 "Unable to launch the update utility. Please exit this program and run Update Children of the Nile from the Start menu."
;****33000's Text for pharaoh birth and death messagees
33000 "Pharaoh Ascends Throne"
33001 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> ascends the throne at age of <pharaoh_age>"
33002 "Pharaoh Dies!"
33003 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> just died unexpectedly for such a young man."
33004 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> is dead of natural causes after a productive life."
33005 "After a long and meaningful life, Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> has crossed over to Osiris."
33006 "A runaway chariot just ran down Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number>, killing him instantly!"
33007 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> was just struck dead by a falling brick!"
33008 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> died tragically of a broken neck when the throne collapsed."
33009 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> took an errant arrow while reviewing the troops, and died."
33010 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> fell from the royal yacht and was killed by a crocodile."
33011 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> finally lost his long battle with bilharziasis."
33012 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> has succombed to a vicious bout of malaria."
33013 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> died unexpectedly after eating a bad pomegranate."
33014 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> was carried off last night by a mysterious illness."
33015 "Pharaoh <pharaoh_name> <pharaoh_number> died from complications involving a tooth extraction."
33118 "No tomb for Pharaoh? This is unthinkable! Prestige suffers!"
33119 "Pharaoh's ba cannot join with his ka - his akh is sundered forever, and the afterlife denied. His shadow is gone, his name already fading. This is awful! Without a tomb, where will the offerings go and the spells be inscribed? Your dynasty's prestige won't soon recover."
;*** 35000 - 35??? names of keywords for message system ***
35000 "pharaoh_name"
35001 "pharaoh_number"
35002 "pharaoh_age"
35003 "city_name"
;40000-40024*******MAIN MENU*************
40000 "Play"
40001 "xxx"
40002 "Leave Egypt"
40003 "Settings"
40004 "Editor"
;40010-40020**********MISC FRONT END*********************
40010 "Test Speech Volume"
;40022-40049*******SINGLE PLAYER MENU*************
40022 "Normal Challenge"
40023 "Hard Challenge"
40024 "Choose a challenge level. This only comes into effect when beginning a new scenario or replaying an existing one."
40025 "Single Player Choices"
40026 "Play a Campaign"
40027 "Play a Scenario"
40028 "Load a Saved Game"
40029 "Play Demo"
40030 "Back to Main Menu"
40031 "Enter your family name, O Pharaoh:"
40032 "xxx"
40033 "Continue Game"
40034 "Continue playing where you left off"
40048 "Event:"
40049 "Game Message"
;40050-40059**********MISC FRONT END*********************
40059 "If unchecked, important messages will still be displayed at the bottom of the screen, and will still be recorded in the message log."
;40060-40099***********WIN AND LOSE DIALOGS AND HELP*****************
40060 "Elapsed Time"
40061 "%d years"
40062 "Prestige"
40063 "Challenge Level"
40064 "Total Population"
40065 "%d people"
40066 "City Satisfaction"
40067 "xAverage"
40068 "You cheated! Your heart weighs heavy against the feather of Ma'at."
40070 "You have failed the people of Egypt. The multitude of starving and unhappy people have overthrown your government and expelled you from the city."
40071 "Replay"
40072 "You have accomplished your goals!"
40073 "Success!"
40074 "Continue Campaign"
40075 "Keep Playing"
40076 "New"
40077 "Leave"
40078 "Exit game"
40079 "Failure!"
40080 "You were overthrown!"
40081 "Try Again"
40082 "Continue with this Campaign"
40083 "Continue Playing this Scenario..."
40084 "Choose a New Scenario to Play"
40085 "Leave this Scenario and Return to the Game Menu"
40086 "Leave this Scenario and Exit the Game"
40087 "Play this Scenario Over Again"
;40090-40099 *********************Significant Message Form text & help
40090 "Close"
40091 "Close this message"
40092 "Next"
40093 "Show the next message"
;40100-40110***********CAMPAIGN MENU SCREEN****************
40100 "Campaigns"
40101 "Old Kingdom"
40102 "New Kingdom"
40103 "Middle Kingdom"
40104 "Grand Campaign"
40105 "Back"
40106 "Load a Saved Game"
40107 "Other Campaigns"
40108 "Campaign description"
;40111-40124************IN GAME OPTIONS PANEL***********
40178 "Begin your journey here, transforming a loose band of simple hunter-gatherers into a specialized society of farmers, shopkeepers and craftsmen, bringing them to the doorstep of civilization."
40179 "Through learning and culture your society will cross the threshold from mere stable existence to health and prosperity. An educated priest class will provide your people with healthcare, worship and funerary facilities. Scribes will increase your revenue, while your emissaries begin to extend your dominion to other parts of Egypt."
40180 "The glory of Pharaoh will last a thousand lifetimes!
Here you'll secure your place in history by building massive monuments, engaging in foreign relations and conducting military campaigns abroad."
40181 "Learn how priests educate students to produce graduates, and see to the non-material needs of your people"
40182 "Learn how to levy taxes on the estates of nobles to pay your government workers"
40183 "Learn about quarrying, mining and monument construction"
40184 "Learn about prestige, justice and royal tombs"
40185 "Learn how to explore the world at large, establish outposts and bring other Egyptian settlements under your authority"
40186 "Learn about merchant transactions, and cargo exchanges with foreign governments and Egyptian settlements"
40187 "Learn about crime, security and military engagements abroad"
40188 "Tut11 description"
40189 "Tut12 description"
40190 "Tut13 description"
40191 "Tut14 description"
40192 "Tut15 description"
40193 "Tut16 description"
40194 "Tut17 description"
40195 "Tut18 description"
40196 "Tut19 description"
40197 "Tut20 description"
40198 "Exit Learning Scenario Menu"
40199 "Building an advanced civilization and society from the ground up is no small feat, and even the great Khufu needed help getting started!
Play through the learning scenarios below to become a successful leader."
;40200-40249 **** GAME SETTINGS SCREENS ****
40200 "Building Sounds"
40201 "Turn building sounds on or off"
40202 "Shadows"
40203 "None"
40204 "No shadows. Best performance."
40205 "Fixed"
40206 "Fixed shadows"
40207 "Cast"
40208 "Cast shadows on ground. This option may cause problems on some low end video cards. View the Readme document for details."
40209 "Best"
40210 "Shadows on ground and other objects"
40211 "Speech Sounds"
40212 "Turn speech on or off"
40213 "Sky Detail"
40214 "Lowest"
40215 "Basic sky"
40216 "Low"
40217 "Add cloud texture"
40218 "Medium"
40219 "Better sky shading. Sun and moon rise and set."
40658 "Only three Activation/Deactivation costs allowed. Soldiers count as 1 cost. Minimum prestige counts as 1 cost if not 0"
40660 "Enemy sites cannot have imports and exports. If you change this site to become an ememy site, all imports and exports will be removed. Are you sure you want to make this an enemy site?"
40661 "You need a quay to trade with this site."
40662 "<city_name> :You need a barge landing to trade with this site."
40663 "Warning: Shipment from %s missed due to unavailable barge landing."
40664 "Delete this goal?"
40665 "Replace this goal?"
;40700-40799 *** Dissatisfaction Event Dissatisfaction cause strings ***
41507 "<city_name> :There is nowhere in the city for deliverymen from this site to deposit their cargo. Use the Infrastructure build button to place a cargo drop-off point in the city, and assign it to this site"
41508 "<city_name> :You have no cargo drop off points associated with this site. Deliveries will be placed in generic cargo drop off points"
; don't change the following string (which is blank)
41509 ""
41510 "Click to select this scenario and view information"
41511 "Resource or variety name"
41512 "Requires"
41513 "This is our capital city."
41514 "This site is severely lacking in upkeep"
41515 "This site cannot survive without upkeep"
41516 "more..."
41517 "previous..."
41520 "Expedition will reach this site soon"
41521 "This site lacks required upkeep"
41522 "Your army will proceed to this destination soon"
41523 "Send troops"
41524 "Relations with this site will be established soon"
41525 "Relations with merchants will be open soon"
41526 "You have suspended relations with this site"
41527 "This site has shut down due to lack of upkeep"
41528 "Insufficient estates for more farms"
41529 "Designate more townhouses if you want to manage more farming families"
;41530-41600****WORLD LEVEL HELP STRINGS
41530 "Return to the City"
41531 "Show map labels"
41532 "Hide map labels"
41533 "Dispatch expedition to this site"
41534 "Display help"
41535 "xxx"
41536 "Items exported from your city in the last 12 months"
41537 "Items anticipated to be delivered to your city in the next 12 months"
41538 "Total prestige provided by existing world level sources"
41539 "Total number of cult centers"
41540 "Total funerary accomodations provided by existing world level sources"
41541 "Total number of hostile sites"
41542 "Total amount of this item exported from the city / maximum possible"
41543 "Total amount of this item delivered to the city / maximum possible"
41544 "resource or variety name"
41545 "amount needed and amount you currently have in the city"
41546 "Prestige"
41547 "Worship"
41548 "Funerary"
41549 "Raiders strike from this site"
41550 "Show government-owned sites"
41551 "Show government trade partners"
41552 "Show commercial merchants"
41553 "Select next site"
41554 "Select previous site"
41556 "Quantity imported from your city on the last trip, and maximum possible quantity"
41557 "Quantity to be exported to your city on the next trip, and maximum possible quantity"
41558 "Suspend relations with this site (can be resumed later)"
41559 "Total prestige provided by this site"
41560 "God to which this facility is dedicated"
41561 "Total funerary accomodations provided by this site"
41562 "Hostile site"
41563 "View next page of resources"
41564 "View previous page of resources"
41565 "Resume relations with this site"
41566 "Click to toggle between merchant trade and government cargo traffic"
41644 "A few people can be overheard muttering about the declining quality of life in the city"
41645 "Some people grumble too much about the way you run your city"
41646 "Quite a few of the city's factions talk of the good old days, before you ruled"
41647 "Questions about your ability to govern now unite many different types of people"
41648 "Telling stories about your incompetence has become a very popular pastime"
41649 "Only a few people still feel you might deserve a chance to turn things around"
41650 "People are pretty unanimous now: life is getting worse, and it's all your fault"
41651 "Is your resume up to date, Pharaoh? People joke that you will be an outstanding vagrant"
41652 "That's it. Everybody's patience has finally run out. You are about to be overthrown!"
41653 "Nobody seems to have any complaints with your god-given rulership"
41654 "Most citizens are content with their quality of life. A few people just like to grumble "
41655 "There isn't a whole lot of grumbling anymore about your leadership style"
41656 "More and more types of people are arguing that the good old days are overrated"
41657 "A few groups have been heard defending your inborn ability to govern"
41658 "People are no longer swapping outraged stories of government incompetence"
41659 "Dissatisfaction is still widespread, but at least a few factions now defend your name"
41660 "All but your most bitter detractors acknowledge improvement. People might give you another chance"
41661 "Nobody really has any confidence in you, but at least the cries for revolution aren't as shrill"
41662 "Popularity Improves!"
;*****OTHER EVENTS************41663
41663 "The leader of your dynasty has passed away!"
41664 "Minor illnesses have broken out across the city"
41665 "Your people flock to worship"
41666 "Soldiers begin training exercises"
41667 "A funeral has occurred among the elite"
41668 "Some workers were badly hurt on the job"
41669 "You barely escaped overthrow, Pharaoh! You almost lost the throne to mockery and dissent. Egypt is near chaos. Unless you can regain some popularity quickly, your disgraced dynasty ends with you."
41670 "A plague is rampaging through the city!"
41671 "Your people enjoy the holiday you have given them"
41672 "Soldiers Begin Training"
41673 "Death of Pharaoh!"
41674 "Holiday Celebration"
41675 "Funeral Underway"
41676 "The People Rise Up!"
41677 "Workers Injured"
41676 "xxx"
41677 "xxx"
41678 "xxx"
41679 "xxx"
41680 "xxx"
41681 "xxx"
41682 "xxx"
41683 "xxx"
41684 "xxx"
41685 "xxx"
41687 "xxx"
41688 "xxx"
41689 "xxx"
41690 "xxx"
41691 "xxx"
41692 "xxx"
41693 "xxx"
41694 "xxx"
41695 "xxx"
41696 "xxx"
41697 "xxx"
41698 "xxx"
41699 "xxx"
;*****WORSHIP EVENT MESSAGES******
41700 "Your people feel the need to worship Osiris."
41701 "Your people feel the need to worship Isis."
41702 "Your people feel the need to worship Horus."
41703 "Your people feel the need to worship Ra."
41704 "Your people feel the need to worship Hathor."
41705 "Your people feel the need to worship Amun."
41706 "Your people feel the need to worship Ptah."
41707 "Your people feel the need to worship Thoth."
41708 "Your people feel the need to worship Anubis."
41709 "Your people feel the need to worship Bast."
41710 "Your people feel the need to worship Sobek."
41711 "Your people feel the need to worship Ma'at."
41712 "Your people feel the need to worship Set."
41713 "Victory Is Ours!"
41714 "City Patron Worship: Amun"
41715 "City Patron Worship: Anubis"
41716 "City Patron Worship: Bast"
41717 "City Patron Worship: Hathor"
41718 "City Patron Worship: Horus"
41719 "City Patron Worship: Isis"
41720 "City Patron Worship: Osiris"
41721 "City Patron Worship: Ptah"
41722 "City Patron Worship: Ra"
41723 "City Patron Worship: Set"
41724 "City Patron Worship: Sobek"
41725 "City Patron Worship: Thoth"
41726 "Crime Disturbs Peace"
41727 "Disease Sweeps City"
41728 "Happy Shemu!"
41729 "Festival of Osiris"
41730 "Raiders Cause Panic!"
41731 "Religious Holiday"
41732 "High Flood Alarms Farmers"
41733 "City Frets Over High Flood"
41734 "No Flood! Farmers Despair"
41735 "No Flood! City Nervous"
41736 "Another Year, Pharaoh"
41737 "Pharaoh Goes to the West"
41738 "Our glorious forces delivered the will of Pharaoh to our misguided enemy! The world holds its breath in awe as our people flock to the temples of Set."
41739 "Our people periodically feel the need to worship our city's patron, the holiest of gods and father to Pharaoh, Amun the self-created, who remains forever hidden and apart. They will want Amun's cult temple to be ready, but will settle for any dedicated building."
41740 "The time has come for our citizens to lighten their hearts by worshiping our ancient patron Anubis, who guides the dead into the kingdom of Osiris. Is the cult temple ready? People will be disappointed if they must show their respect at some lesser worship facility."
41741 "Somehow we know when Bast, our patron goddess, needs to hear the soothing praise that refocuses the Eye of Ra upon pleasure. Maybe the cats tell us this somehow. No matter; as long as her cult temple is prepared, citizens will be content. Even lesser dedicated places of worship will help."
41742 "People now wish to adore the patron of our fair city: Hathor, the cow-horned one who brings us love and joy and music and all else that adds beauty to life. They will be upset if they cannot worship in a proper cult temple, although lesser buildings dedicated to Hathor can appease some."
41743 "Horus is our divine falcon-headed patron, who dwells in Pharaoh's breast and rules over the living. His eyes, the sun and the moon, see everything under the sky. Now the people wish to exalt under his gaze, and will grow restive if they cannot do Horus justice in his cult temple."
41744 "Isis, the queen first of good Osiris and then of evil Set...Isis, who fought the murdering deceiver with the magic of Thoth - Isis is our patron. Prepare to glorify her name in her cult temple, or bear the people's dissatisfaction if her lesser temples are not prepared."
41745 "Have the priests readied the cult temple sanctum? Our people go now to honor our patron, Kind and gentle Osiris, who gave our ancestors the law and taught them to worship, who fell to Set's treachery and who now stands in judgment in the abode of the dead. "
41746 "Now the people go to visit the cult temple of Ptah to thank the prime creator, who with Isis devised the Opening of the Mouth magic that awakens us in death. If the cult temple is not ready, lesser dedicated buildings can alleviate people's disappointment. "
41747 "Many citizens now wish to approach the dazzling golden master of life Ra, from whose tears and in whose image men were made. He rules heaven as Pharaoh rules earth. He is born each morning and dies each night. Our city is dedicated to Ra, and its people like to worship in a cult temple dedicated to him."
41748 "It is prudent to provide the followers of Set with appropriate places of worship when they seek them, as they do now. He became the city's patron out of admiration for his power, but his reputation for jealousy and vengeance is not unjustified. People will fear his anger if they cannot worship in a proper cult temple. "
41749 "People go now to appease Sobek, our patron, the ferocious god of the Dark Water who created the Nile. By acknowledging Sobek's power and agility in a proper cult temple, we gain protection from the sacred crocodile. Those who shun Sobek risk being attacked and devoured in the underworld, while the just are protected."
41750 "Today people want to worship our patron Thoth, the Great Measurer who planned the earth according to the Sacred Geometry and set time in motion. The cult temple to Thoth helps us face final judgment with a little more confidence, knowing that he must ultimately inscribe the result before we pass on."
41751 "Times are dire when a person cannot walk the streets without fear. People are turning for solace to the temples of Ma'at. Those who cannot worship Ma'at look instead to any temple for a shred of reassurance."
41752 "Illness, bad dreams, injuries, disquiet - these afflictions and more grow increasingly widespread, driving people to seek comfort in the temples of Isis, the lady of the words of power. Those who cannot reach Isis turn instead to the temples of any god."
41753 "It's hot, it's dry, it's harvest time, and Hapi will soon bring the waters of Akhet. On the first moonrise of Shemu, Pharaoh will release the four birds and sacrifice the grain...and you know what that means. It's party time! Of course our people want to express their joy in Hathor's temples at this time, too. They would be less content with other temples. "
41754 "The Festival of Osiris is the best part of Akhet. Honey, rare grains, breads of exotic shapes and flavors, goose meat, beef, fruit, flowers, flavored oils, and especially great quantities of beer...these delicacies and others are now being taken to the temples of Osiris. After the god consumes their essence, we gorge ourselves in air thick with aromas of incense and perfumed candles. It is no wonder that people who cannot attend an Osiris temple become unhappy."
41755 "Having foreign raiders in our streets makes people feel insecure, as you might imagine. While we try to prevent further invasions by improving our defenses, citizens head for the temples of Ma'at to pray for protection. Other temples can help reduce dissatisfaction, too, but none like Ma'at."
41756 "By your edict, people all over the city are breaking from their routines to gather at their neighborhood religious sites. The unexpected holiday will cost your government some food, but religious satisfaction will improve in most households. "
41757 "This year's higher-than-normal Inundation has upset the city's farmers. While we'd rather see too much water than none at all, the effect can be pretty disconcerting to those who live on the floodplain's edge. As long as they can worship in temples to Hapi, though, they should be alright."
41758 "Everybody's talking about this year's higher-than-normal Inundation. It's not as serious as a failed flood, but it does make people uneasy, and some worry about property damage. Hapi's temples will probably be busy until people feel reassured."
41759 "A failed flood is what farmers dread the most. If we planned well, full granaries might get us all through the year, but next Shemu's crop is going to be scant, and the farmers' livelihood will be meager. They are seeking succor now in the temples of Hapi."
41760 "When the flood fails, we all size up the condition of the city's granaries. If we planned well, we will get through the next year. If not...well, many of us have known hunger before, and learned to live on short rations. All we can do is pray to Hapi that it won't happen again."
41761 "Pharaoh's birthday always moves some people to worship Horus, who dwells inside of you and rules the living through you. Happy birthday, O Living Horus, and may your reign be long and happy. "
41762 "We rejoice that Pharaoh has joined his ancestors in the company of Osiris, but we shall miss his steady hand among the living. If his tomb was ready and his dynasty endures, then all will probably be well, but many people are mourning in the temples of Osiris or, if they cannot be accommodated there, in the temple of Anubis. "
41763 "People thank Set for the army's recent victory."
41764 "People need to worship Amun, our patron god."
41765 "It is time to worship our patron god, Anubis."
41766 "Bast, our patron goddess, calls her people to worship."
41767 "Hathor's people need to worship our patron goddess."
41768 "Our patron Horus casts his eye upon the people, who wish to worship. "
41769 "The time has come to mark the love of our good patron, Isis."
41770 "People are going to worship Osiris, our city's patron god."
41771 "People go to thank patron Ptah for creating the Opening of the Mouth ceremony."
41772 "The city's patron god, Ra, has inspired in many people an urge to worship."
41773 "One does not deny worship facilities to Set's followers with impunity."
41774 "Citizens approach Sobek for our patron's strength and protection."
41775 "People need to worship our patron, Thoth, in the way that he taught."
41776 "Crime drives people to seek comfort in Ma'at, or any other temple."
41777 "Disease and suffering send people to worship Isis, or any other god. "
41778 "Happy Shemu! Thank Hathor for beauty, happiness, dance and music."
41779 "People celebrate the great festival in honor of Osiris."
41780 "People look to Ma'at for reassurance about raiders in the streets."
41781 "The religious holiday that you decreed reduces dissatisfaction."
41782 "High flood waters are sending farmers to Hapi's temples for reassurance."
41783 "High flood waters motivate more visits to the temples of Hapi. "
41784 "Failed flood sends farmers flocking to the temples of Hapi."
41785 "Failed flood encourages many citizens to visit the temples of Hapi."
41786 "Those who cannot approach Pharaoh visit Horus in his temple instead."
41787 "The city turns to Osiris as we mourn Pharaoh's death."
;************Flood Messages
41788 "Unusually High Inundation!"
41789 "Inundation Fails!"
41790 "Very Rich Inundation"
41791 "Inundation On Target"
41792 "The waters just kept coming! This year's flood rose to levels we don't see very often."
41793 "It's no mistake. The flood did not come at all this year."
41794 "Hapi blessed the land with unusually rich flood waters this year. The next harvest will be bountiful."
41795 "People are relieved that the Inundation met their expectations."
41796 "It's always a relief to see the Nile rise, but this year the waters just wouldn't quit. People are alarmed, and want to petition Hapi. You don't see water levels rise this high very often, but they aren't unprecedented. If any low-lying buildings were swept away, think twice about rebuilding on the same land."
41797 "The season of Achet did not bring the life-giving Inundation this year. People - especially farmers - will wonder if you are honoring Hapi properly. The harvest will be quite meager this Shemu."
41798 "Hapi must be greatly pleased! This year's flood brought more good black soil than we normally see. The next harvest will be extremely rich."
41799 "This year's Inundation was normal in every way. You can expect an average harvest this Shemu. "
;41800 - 41999 ************** MORE MISC MAIN MENU STRINGS & HELP & REPORT2 STRINGS & HELP
; Reports, status, and selected object info: See: 41251 - 41499 and 41800 - 41999 and 48600-48999
41800 "Food Ledger"
41801 "harvest"
41802 "tariffs"
41803 "imported"
41804 "workers"
41805 "spoiled"
41806 "exported"
41807 "Workers need:"
41808 "%d food/ year"
41809 "Tax coverage"
41810 "none"
41811 "poor"
41812 "fair"
41813 "good"
41814 "complete"
41815 "Flood has failed!"
41816 "Flood is good"
41817 "Flood is very rich!"
41818 "xxx"
41819 "xxx"
41820 "xxx"
41821 "xxx"
41822 "Waters are too high!"
41823 "Terrible fertility!"
41824 "Good fertility"
41825 "Excellent fertility!"
41826 "xxx"
41827 "xxx"
41828 "Prestige provided by colossal statuary built in the city"
41829 "Prestige resulting from positive and negative occurrences"
41830 "Flood rose too high!"
41831 "Flood will fail!"
41832 "Good flood predicted"
41833 "Flood will be great!"
41834 "Statues"
41835 "Events"
41836 "xxx"
41837 "Fertility and quality of flood"
41838 "Extreme flood predicted!"
41839 "Reserve"
41840 "importing"
41841 "exporting"
41842 "importing & exporting"
41843 "xxx"
41844 "-%d"
41845 "+%d"
41846 "Total amount of this item stored in government facilities; click icon for more info and to set reserve amount"
41847 "Amount of food received from taxes and palace estates at harvest"
41848 "Amount of food collected in tariffs in year prior to harvest"
41849 "Amount of food imported in year prior to harvest"
41850 "Amount of food eaten by government workers in year prior to harvest"
41851 "Amount of food lost to spoilage in year prior to harvest"
41852 "Amount of government food exported in year prior to harvest"
41853 "Amount of food needed to feed government workers for a year"
41854 "Educated workers need %"
41855 "Craftsmen need %"
41856 "Laborers need %"
41857 "soldiers need %"
41858 "%d scribes are assessing %d of %d fields."
41859 "Amount of this item reserved for cargo movers and world level activities"
41860 "Decrease amount reserved"
41861 "Increase amount reserved"
41862 "total wheat stored in government granaries and bakeries"
41863 "total barley stored in government granaries and bakeries"
41864 "total vegetables stored in government granaries and bakeries"
41865 "total meat stored in government granaries and bakeries"
41866 "Trade status of this item"
41867 ". Click for more info and to set reserve amount"
41868 "Exit selected resource information and return to Food Ledger"
41869 "Overseers harvesting: %d "
41870 "Craftsmen producing: %d"
;********REPORT 2 STRINGS & HELP
41871 "Prestige"
41872 "Exploits"
41873 "Tombs"
41874 "Propaganda"
41875 "Prestige is rising"
41876 "Prestige is stable"
41877 "Prestige is falling"
41878 "Total prestige provided by all combined sources"
41879 "Prestige earned from world level development and successes"
41880 "Prestige provided by tombs you've built"
41881 "Prestige provided by your propaganda efforts"
41882 "Prestige provided by your palace and its enhancements"
41883 "Healthcare is unavailable"
41884 "Widespread health complaints"
41885 "Many healthcare complaints"
41886 "Moderate healthcare complaints"
41887 "Some healthcare complaints"
41888 "Adequate healthcare services"
41889 "No worship services"
41890 "Widespread worship complaints"
41891 "Many worship complaints"
41892 "Moderate worship complaints"
41893 "Some worship complaints"
41894 "Adequate worship services"
41895 "Funeral services unavailable"
41896 "Widespread funerary complaints"
41897 "Many funerary complaints"
41898 "Moderate funerary complaints"
41899 "Some funerary complaints"
41900 "Adequate funerary services"
41901 "No functioning schools"
41902 "Education"
41903 "Education"
41904 "Education"
41905 "Education"
41906 "Education"
41907 "No security services"
41908 "Severe security problems"
41909 "Many security problems"
41910 "Moderate security problems"
41911 "Some security problems"
41912 "Adequate security"
41913 "No leisure opportunities"
41914 "Widespread leisure complaints"
41915 "Many leisure complaints"
41916 "Moderate leisure complaints"
41917 "Some leisure complaints"
41918 "Adequate leisure opportunities"
41919 "No Apothecaries, no hospitals";unused
41920 "No Apothecaries, %d hospital";unused
41921 "No Apothecaries, %d hospitals";unused
41922 "%d Apothecary, no hospitals";unused
41923 "%d Apothecary, %d hospital";unused
41924 "%d Apothecary, %d hospitals";unused
41925 "%d Apothecaries, no hospitals";unused
41926 "%d Apothecaries, %d hospital";unused
41927 "%d Apothecaries, %d hospitals";unused
41928 "No Shrines, no temples";unused
41929 "No Shrines, %d temple";unused
41930 "No Shrines, %d temples";unused
41931 "%d Shrine, no temples";unused
41932 "%d Shrine, %d temple";unused
41933 "%d Shrine, %d temples";unused
41934 "%d Shrines, no temples";unused
41935 "%d Shrines, %d temple";unused
41936 "%d Shrines, %d temples";unused
41937 "No Mortuaries, no tombs";unused
41938 "No Mortuaries, %d tomb";unused
41939 "No Mortuaries, %d tombs";unused
41940 "%d Mortuary, no tombs";unused
41941 "%d Mortuary, %d tomb";unused
41942 "%d Mortuary, %d tombs";unused
41943 "%d Mortuaries, no tombs";unused
41944 "%d Mortuaries, %d tomb";unused
41945 "%d Mortuaries, %d tombs";unused
41946 "No schools";unused
41947 "%d school";unused
41948 "%d schools";unused
41949 "%d, no schools";unused
41950 "%d, %d school";unused
41951 "%d, %d schools";unused
41952 "%d, no schools";unused
41953 "%d, %d school";unused
41954 "%d,%d schools";unused
41955 "No Courts, no guardposts";unused
41956 "No Courts, %d guardpost";unused
41957 "No Courts, %d guardposts";unused
41958 "%d Court, no guardposts";unused
41959 "%d Court, %d guardpost";unused
41960 "%d Small estate: %d farms";singular
41961 "%d Small estates: %d farms";plural
41962 "%d Medium estate: %d farms";singular
41963 "%d Medium estates: %d farms";plural
41964 "%d Large estate: %d farms";singular
41965 "%d Large estates: %d farms";plural
41966 "Palace estate: %d farms"
41967 "%d dissatisfied with healthcare availability" ;healthcare - singular
41968 "%d dissatisfied with healthcare availability" ;healthcare - plural
41969 "%d dissatisfied with worship opportunities" ;worship - singular
41970 "%d dissatisfied with worship opportunities" ;worship - plural
41971 "%d dissatisfied with funerary services" ;funerary - singular
41972 "%d dissatisfied with funerary services" ;funerary - plural
41973 "Priests provide education at schools" ;education - singular
41974 "Priests provide education at schools" ;education - plural
41975 "%d dissatisfied with security" ;security - singular
41976 "%d dissatisfied with security" ;security - plural
41977 "%d dissatisfied with leisure pursuits" ;leisure - singular
41978 "%d dissatisfied with leisure pursuits" ;leisure - plural
41979 "Click to see households complaining about healthcare"
41980 "Click to see households unable to worship as they wish"
41981 "Click to see households having trouble arranging funerals"
41982 "xxx Click to see households having trouble visiting schools xxx"
41983 "Click to see households dissatisfied with security in the city"
41984 "Click to see households dissatisfied with leisure pursuits"
41985 "%d shrine dedicated to"
41986 "%d temple dedicated to"
41987 "%d shrines dedicated to"
41988 "%d temples dedicated to"
;*** Flood descriptions for scenario editor game effect ***
41990 "No Flood"
41991 "Standard Flood"
41992 "Rich Flood"
41993 "High Flood"
;*******EXTRA TERRAIN NAMES*******
41995 "xxx"
41996 "xxx"
41997 "Decorative, Mud"
41998 "Decorative, Clay Pits"
41999 "Sprite, Clay Pits"
;42000-42049*******TERRAIN NAMES*******
42000 "Grass"
42001 "Desert Light"
42002 "River water"
42003 "Mud"
42004 "Cliff"
42005 "Cliff to Desert B"
42006 "Road"
42007 "Scrub Light"
42008 "Desert Med"
42009 "Desert Dark"
42010 "Desert A"
42011 "Desert B"
42012 "Grass to Desert A"
42013 "Scrub"
42014 "Quarry to Desert"
42015 "Grass to Mud"
42016 "Decorative, Desert"
42017 "Mud, Rich"
42018 "Plaza A"
42019 "Plaza B"
42020 "Plaza blank"
42021 "M Desert Lt"
42022 "Decorative, Flood"
42023 "Scrub Dark"
42024 "Plaza C"
42025 "Plaza D"
42026 "Decorative, Grass"
42027 "Decorative, Scrub"
42028 "Grass A"
42029 "Grass to Desert B"
42030 "Cliff to Desert A"
42031 "Sprite, Rocks"
42032 "Sprite, Marsh Lt"
42033 "Sprite, Marsh Med"
42034 "Sprite, Marsh Dense"
42035 "Sprite, Marsh to Lush"
42036 "Sprite, Lush Lt"
42037 "Sprite, Lush Med a"
42038 "Sprite, Lush Med b"
42039 "Sprite, Lush Dense"
42040 "Sprite, Weeds"
42041 "Flood Plain"
42042 "Sprite, Palm Trees"
42043 "Cliff, Granite"
42044 "Cliff, Red"
42045 "CliffA, Granite"
42046 "CliffA, Red"
42047 "Sprite, Marsh Lt to Med"
42048 "Sprite, Marsh Med to Dense"
42049 "Sprite, Waterplants"
;42050 - 42099*******SHOP PRODUCTION STRINGS*******
42078 "One of your city's priests has finished his years of service. He looks forward to moving into a townhouse - in your city, if one is open. Maybe he'll even start a family. "
42079 "A priest finally ended his long years of service"
42080 "Overseer Retires"
42081 "After many long years of motivating laborers, one of your city's overseers plans to take it easy now. He's looking for a vacant townhouse estate - if not in your city, then elsewhere in Egypt. "
42082 "An overseer has hung up his whip to enjoy his latter years"
42083 "Scribe Retires"
42084 "One of your city's scribes, tired of tallying other people's wealth, now seeks a peaceful townhouse in which to write his memoirs - even if he has to leave your city to find one. "
42085 "A scribe just laid down his pen for the last time"
42086 "Commander Retires"
42087 "They say that old soldiers never die, and that suits one elderly commander just fine. He is hunting for an empty townhouse where he can fade away happily, whether in your city or somewhere else in Egypt."
42088 "A commander left active duty to make way for a younger man"
42089 "A non-educated elite has retired who should not have"
;42354-42378***********SUB-CLASS DISSATISFACTION MOUSE HELP
42354 "This group is reasonably content" ;stable
42355 "This group is reasonably content, though dissatisfaction is growing";rising
42356 "This group is reasonably content"
42357 "It is unlikely other citizens will join this group";stable
42358 "It is unlikely other citizens will join this group, and things are getting worse";rising
42359 "It is unlikely other citizens will join this group, though conditions are improving";falling
42360 "Members of this group are likely to protest poor conditions";stable
42361 "Members of this group are likely to protest poor conditions";rising
42362 "Members of this group are likely to protest poor conditions, though things are improving"
42363 "Some members are likely to leave this group!";stable
42364 "Some members are likely to leave this group, and things are getting worse!";rising
42365 "Some members are likely to leave this group, though conditions are improving";falling
;***Palace / royal family
42366 "The royal family is really enjoying life in the palace!"
42367 "The royal family is really enjoying life in the palace, though dissatisfaction is likely"
42368 "The royal family is really enjoying life in the palace!"
42369 "The royal family is not really happy with life at the palace"
42370 "The royal family is not really happy with life at the palace, and dissatisfaction is increasing"
42371 "The royal family is not really happy with life at the palace, but things are improving"
42372 "The royal family is not pleased with life at the palace."
42373 "The royal family is not pleased with life at the palace, and things are getting worse!"
42374 "The royal family is not pleased with life at the palace, but things are improving."
42375 "The royal family is quite displeased with life at the palace!"
42376 "The royal family is quite displeased with life at the palace, and things are getting worse!"
42377 "The royal family is quite displeased with life at the palace, but things are improving"
;42379-42399 **** TAX ASSESMENT FEEDBACK*****
42379 "no fields counted"
42380 "some fields counted"
42381 "many fields counted"
42382 "most fields counted"
42383 "all fields counted"
42384 "no fields counted"
42385 "most fields missed"
42386 "many fields missed"
42387 "some fields missed"
42388 "all fields counted"
42389 "bare minimum"
42390 "were low"
42391 "were moderate"
42392 "were high"
42393 "were maximum"
42394 "%d scribes are assessing %d of %d fields"
42395 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
42396 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
;42400-42405 *** OEM BUILD ***
42400 "Save game function has been disabled"
;42406 - 42499 *** WORLD LEVEL MESSAGES ***
42406 "Egyptian Site Lost!"
42407 "<city_name>: This site has been lost due to lack of required upkeep. You need to send another expedition if you want to re-open the site."
42408 "<city_name>: Site closed due to lack of upkeep."
42409 "Army Defeated!"
42410 "<city_name>: Your troops have failed to beat the defenders at this site, and are returning home."
42411 "<city_name>: Your troops have been defeated in battle."
42412 "No Barge Landings in City"
42413 "<city_name>: Deliverymen from this site will require barge landings to make landfall. Build at least one barge landing."
42414 "<city_name>: You will need a barge landing to receive deliveries from this site."
42415 "Shipment Missed!"
42416 "<city_name>: You couldn't accept the shipment from this site because no barge landing was available. To prevent lost deliveries, build more barge landings."
42417 "<city_name>: Shipment from this site missed due to lack of available barge landing."
42418 "New Egyptian Site"
42419 "<city_name>: Relations with this site have been established. This Egyptian settlement will surely succeed under your leadership!"
42420 "<city_name>: Relations with this site have been established."
42421 "Army Victorious!"
42422 "<city_name>: Your troops fought valiantly in battle and were victorious! This site is no longer a threat to peace in the city."
42423 "<city_name>: Your army was victorious in battle! This site is no longer a threat."
42424 "Foreign Relations Begin"
42425 "<city_name>: Relations have been established with this foreign site. Your city will certainly benefit from this interaction."
42426 "<city_name>: Relations with this site have been established."
42427 "Merchants Open"
42428 "<city_name>: Merchants from this site are preparing to conduct business in your city. Your people anticipate the fruits of this contact."
42429 "<city_name>: Merchants from this site will now conduct business in your city."
42430 "Enemy Found!"
42431 "<city_name>: Hostile raiders have been traced to this site. They threaten the peace and stability of your city"
42432 "<city_name>: Raiders have been found here."
42433 "Upkeep Missed"
42434 "<city_name>: This Egyptian site was unable to acquire its needed upkeep. Without the necessary support, it could wither and die."
42435 "<city_name>: This site was unable to acquire its needed upkeep."
42436 "Upkeep Missed Again"
42437 "<city_name>: Once again this site was unable to acquire its needed upkeep. It is getting dangerously close to collapse due to lack of support from your city."
42438 "<city_name>: This site was once again unable to acquire its needed upkeep."
42439 "Upkeep Missed for Third Time!"
42440 "<city_name>: This site was unable to acquire its upkeep for the third time. It cannot possibly sustain itself any longer."
42441 "<city_name>: This site was unable to acquire its upkeep for the third time, and cannot sustain itself."
42442 "Barge Landings"
42443 "You may have too few barge landings in the city, and are running the risk of missing some waterborne cargo deliveries. Ideally, you should have one barge landing for every three sites delivering cargo by water."
42444 "Too few barge landings in the city, some waterborne cargo deliveries will probably be lost."
42445 "New Discovery!"
42446 "Reports are coming in about a new world-level site. Look at the world map to find out what it is."
42447 "New world level site revealed - see map."
42448 "New Discoveries"
42449 "Some new sites have been revealed on the world level. Look at the world map to find out what they are."
42450 "New world level sites revealed - see map"
42451 "World extra message slot04 (title)"
42452 "World extra message slot04 (full)"
42453 "World extra message slot04 (short)"
42454 "No designated drop-off point"
42455 "You have not designated where deliverymen from <city_name> should deposit their cargo, so it will be deposited wherever is convenient for them. To specify a drop-off point, use the Infrastructure build button."
42456 "Cargo from this site will be deposited wherever is convenient for deliverymen."
42457 "Raiders Attack!"
42458 "Raiders are approaching the city!"
42459 "Raiders are approaching, intent on stealing what they can from homes and mugging any who get in their way. Hopefully city guards are nearby to stop the looting!"
42460 " Supply Lines Threatened!"
42461 " Your supply lines are being threatened!"
42462 " Your supply lines are being threatened!"
;*************Tax assessment single vs. plural strings
;***********PLURAL OR 0 SCRIBES, PLURAL OR 0 ASSESSED FIELDS
42470 "%d scribes are assessing %d of %d fields"
42471 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
42472 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
;***********SINGLE SCRIBE, PLURAL OR 0 ASSESSED FIELDS (TOTAL FIELDS MUST BE PLURAL BY DEFINITION)
42473 "%d scribe is assessing %d of %d fields"
42474 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
42475 "%d of %d fields were assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
;***********PLURAL OR 0 SCRIBES, SINGLE ASSESSED FIELD, PLURAL OR 0 TOTAL FIELDS
42476 "%d scribes are assessing %d of %d fields"
42477 "%d of %d fields was assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
42478 "%d of %d fields was assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
;***********PLURAL OR 0 SCRIBES, SINGLE ASSESSED FIELD, SINGLE TOTAL FIELDS
42479 "%d scribes are assessing %d of %d field"
42480 "%d of %d field was assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
42481 "%d of %d field was assessed in planting season
%d scribes now working as tax assessors"
;***********SINGLE SCRIBE, SINGLE ASSESSED FIELD, PLURAL OR 0 TOTAL FIELDS
42482 "%d scribe is assessing %d of %d fields"
42483 "%d of %d fields was assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
42484 "%d of %d fields was assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
;***********SINGLE SCRIBE, SINGLE ASSESSED FIELD, SINGLE TOTAL FIELDS
42485 "%d scribe is assessing %d of %d field"
42486 "%d of %d field was assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
42487 "%d of %d field was assessed in planting season
%d scribe now working as tax assessor"
;42500-42599***********BUILDING ORDER TEXT********
;42650-42699**SOCIAL CLASS TYPES (mixture of classes & sub-classes)(SINGULAR FOLLOWED BY PLURAL)*****
42650 "Unemployed Peasant"
42651 "Unemployed Peasants"
42652 "Peasant"
42653 "Peasants"
42654 "Craftsman"
42655 "Craftsmen"
42656 "Entertainer"
42657 "Entertainers"
42658 "Soldier"
42659 "Soldiers"
42660 "Elite"
42661 "Elites"
42662 "Merchant"
42663 " Merchant ships and caravans occassionally visit the city on their own initiative to buy locally-produced luxury <household wares,link=43>, or to sell their own exotic luxury wares. With many merchants, however, you need to open the first negotiations yourself, though, by visiting the <world level,link=201>, locating their sites, and dispatching an expedition.
Once in the city, merchants like to set up their stalls at a <merchant center,link=57>, but the lack of such a facility won't stop them from doing business. Merchant stalls operate like commercial shops, being periodically restocked by the merchant's ship or caravan. Merchants own their own ships - your <shipyards,link=44> do not build these.
Merchant shipments always contain an assortment of all the commodities that the given merchant sells. Your government can collect substantial <tariffs,link=195> on merchant transactions, provided your <scribes,link=19> are on the scene at the merchant cetner. "
42664 "Simian"
42665 "Royals"
42666 "No one lives here."
;42670 - 42699 ***** Service Building report strings
42670 "Apothecaries - click to select"
42671 "Shrines - click to select"
42672 "Mortuaries - click to select"
42673 "Schools - click to select"
42674 "Courts of Law - click to select"
42675 "Yachts"
42676 "Hospitals - click to select"
42677 "Temples - click to select"
42678 "Tombs - click to select"
42679 "Guard Posts - click to select"
42680 "Cult Temples - click to select"
42681 "Number of active apothecaries / total built"
42682 "Number of active shrines / total built"
42683 "Number of active mortuaries / total built"
42684 "Number of active schools / total built"
42685 "Number of active courts of law / total built"
42686 "Number of yachts owned by nobles"
42687 "Number of active hospitals / total built"
42688 "Number of active temples / total built"
42689 "Number of available tombs / total built"
42690 "Number of active guard posts / total built"
42691 "Number of active cult temples / total built"
44206 "Anyone coughing up blood had better finalize their funerary arrangements, because their time among the living is short. Our healers say that the disease now terrifying the city is worsened by malnutrition. The sick are mobbing medical buildings for any remedy."
44207 "Shivering, fatigue, soreness and fever signal the onset of malaria. Healers say that poor diets weaken people. The afflicted are painfully making their way to medical buildings. Any survivors who cannot find treatment will be seriously dissatisfied."
44208 "The condition that we call bilharziasis, which healers associate with poor nutrition, is spreading. People should seek medical care at the first sign of a rash or itchy skin. Although death from bilharziasis is uncommon, dissatisfaction among the untreated is not."
44209 "Don't ignore a malnourished child's runny nose, especially if it comes with a cough and mild fever. These symptoms can progress to the tell-tale red blotches of measles, which can kill without treatment, or at least cause dissatisfaction in survivors."
44210 "Nobody dies directly from dental abscesses, but they do cause dull, constant facial pain and make teeth sensitive to the touch. Better nutrition would help prevent them. People who can't get treatment grow dissatisfied, even though it means having the tooth pulled."
44211 "You must have noticed people with swollen gums. It doesn't hurt, so they let the condition go. A sick-looking smile is embarrassing, especially since it indicates poor nutrition. You can see why these people become dissatisfied if they can't get treatment. "
44212 "Plague is spreading! People mob medical buildings as healers point to malnutrition."
44213 "Malaria cases are sending people to medical buildings. Healers blame malnutrition."
44214 "Bilharziasis is sending itchy, malnourished people to our healthcare facilities."
44215 "Healthcare providers report seeing some children with measles. Malnutrition is implicated. "
44216 "Abscessed teeth make some poorly nourished people seek painful dental care."
44217 "Swollen gums embarrass poorly nourished citizens and raise demand for dental services."
47051 "Most government buildings are made from bricks."
47052 "These craftsmen help construct monuments."
47053 "The Shipwright builds ships from cedar."
47054 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47055 "Mastabas are humble brick tombs. They do provide some prestige."
47056 "An obelisk is a great granite monolith commemorating a noteworthy event."
47057 "A small incribed stone tablet commemorating an accomplishment."
47058 "Statues make the city more attractive, and add to prestige."
47059 "Priests educate students here."
47060 "Priests tend the gods here; citizens worship here."
47061 "Priests work here to dispense prescriptions."
47062 "Priests embalm deceased elite citizens."
47063 "Citizens bring offerings and pray here".
47064 "Priests provide healthcare to the sick and injured."
47065 "Priests and scribes make scrolls here."
47066 "These educated workers provide all social services."
47067 "Citizens worship here; priests tend the gods"
47068 "xxx"
47069 "xxx"
47070 "xxx"
47071 "A pyramid with a mud brick core."
47072 "Harvested crops are threshed here and then collected by the government"
47073 "Merchants from foreign lands sell exotic luxury goods here."
47074 "Commanders train soldiers here."
47075 "An obelisk is a great granite monolith commemorating a noteworthy event."
47076 "An obelisk is a great granite monolith commemorating a noteworthy event."
47077 "Gardeners raise fruit trees for sale to nobles."
47078 "xxx"
47079 "xxx"
47080 "xxx";Description of MBButton 061, its role and uses.
47081 "xxx";Description of MBButton 062, its role and uses.
47082 "xxx";Description of MBButton 063, its role and uses.
47083 "xxx";Description of MBButton 064, its role and uses.
47084 "xxx";Description of MBButton 065, its role and uses.
47085 "xxx";Description of MBButton 066, its role and uses.
47086 "xxx";Description of MBButton 067, its role and uses.
47087 "A large inscribed stone tablet commemorating an accomplishment."
47088 "An inscribed stone tablet commemorating an accomplishment."
47089 "xxx";Description of MBButton 070, its role and uses.
47090 "xxx";Description of MBButton 071, its role and uses.
47091 "xxx";Description of MBButton 072, its role and uses.
47092 "xxx";Description of MBButton 073, its role and uses.
47093 "xxx";Description of MBButton 074, its role and uses.
47094 "xxx";Description of (customs house), its role and uses.
47095 "xxx";Description of (tax house), its role and uses.
47096 "xxx";Description of (army barracks), its role and uses.
47097 "xxx";Description of (navy barracks), its role and uses.
47098 "xxx";Description of (police station), its role and uses.
47099 "City guard commanders work here, rallying city guard soldiers and supressing crime."
47100 "xxx";Description of (mat shop), its role and uses.
47101 "xxx";Description of (basket shop), its role and uses.
47102 "xxx";Description of (pottery shop), its role and uses.
47103 "xxx";Description of (linen shop), its role and uses.
47104 "xxx";Description of (cosmetics shop), its role and uses.
47105 "xxx";Description of (sculpture shop), its role and uses.
47106 "xxx";Description of (furniture shop), its role and uses.
47107 "xxx";Description of (sandal shop), its role and uses.
47108 "xxx";Description of (jewelry shop), its role and uses.
47109 "xxx";Description of (perfume shop), its role and uses.
47110 "Papyrus is used by priests and scribes. It is also a major export."
47111 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47112 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47113 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47114 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47115 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47116 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47117 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47118 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47119 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47120 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47121 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47122 "Decoration is fun and costs you nothing"
47123 "xxx";Description of (granite quarrier), its role and uses.
47124 "xxx";Description of (woodcutter), its role and uses.
47125 "xxx";Description of (reed cutter), its role and uses.
47126 "xxx";Description of (gold miner), its role and uses.
47127 "xxx";Description of (gem miner), its role and uses.
47128 "xxx";Description of (work camp), its role and uses.
47129 "xxx";Description of (physician's office), its role and uses.
47130 "xxx";Description of (mourner's kiosk), its role and uses.
47131 "xxx";Description of (tin miner), its role and uses.
47132 "xxx";Description of (copper miner), its role and uses.
47133 "xxx";Description of (captain's quarters), its role and uses.
47134 "xxx";Description of (general's quarters), its role and uses.
47135 "xxx";Description of Native dwelling, its role and uses.
47136 "xxx";Description of MBButton 117, its role and uses.
47137 "xxx";Description of MBButton 118, its role and uses.
47138 "xxx";Description of MBButton 119, its role and uses.
47139 "xxx";Description of MBButton 120, its role and uses.
47140 "xxx";Description of MBButton 121, its role and uses.
47141 "xxx";Description of MBButton 122, its role and uses.
47142 "xxx";Description of MBButton 123, its role and uses.
47143 "xxx";Description of MBButton 124, its role and uses.
47144 "xxx";Description of MBButton 125, its role and uses.
47145 "xxx";Description of MBButton 126, its role and uses.
47146 "xxx";Description of MBButton 127, its role and uses.
47147 "xxx";Description of MBButton 128, its role and uses.
47148 "xxx";Description of MBButton 129, its role and uses.
47149 "xxx";Description of MBButton 130, its role and uses.
47150 "xxx";Description of MBButton 131, its role and uses.
47151 "xxx";Description of MBButton 132, its role and uses.
47152 "xxx";Description of MBButton 133, its role and uses.
47153 "xxx";Description of MBButton 134, its role and uses.
47154 "xxx";Description of MBButton 135, its role and uses.
47155 "xxx";Description of MBButton 136, its role and uses.
47156 "xxx";Description of MBButton 137, its role and uses.
47157 "xxx";Description of MBButton 138, its role and uses.
47158 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47159 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47160 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47161 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47162 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
47163 "Pyramids inter the deceased and inspire your people. They are built from limestone and fine limestone."
;47250-47990*** UNUSED ******RELATED BUILDING INFO TEXT (REMOVED) ********
;47990 TO 48000 ********* FIGURE BUBBLE STRINGS ***************
47990 "Going home from fishing"
47991 "Going to quarry granite"
47992 "Going to quarry granite"
47993 "Going to quarry basalt statues"
47994 "Going to shrine"
47995 "Floating"
47996 "Going to the threshing area"
;48000 TO 48399 ********* FIGURE BUBBLE STRINGS ***************
48000 "Going to harvest"
48001 "Going to small mastaba"
48002 "Going to collect oil"
48003 "Going to mine copper"
48004 "Going to dig kohl"
48005 "Going to harvest flax"
48006 "Going to mine emeralds"
48007 "Raiding"
48008 "Going to mine tin"
48009 "I am a coffin"
48010 "Going to dig clay"
48011 "Going to cut papyrus reeds"
48012 "Going to quarry grand obelisks"
48013 "Going to quarry limestone"
48014 "Going to mine gold"
48015 "Going to cut acacia"
48016 "Going to mastaba"
48017 "Going to quarry fine limestone"
48018 "Going to pick grapes"
48019 "Going to collect myrrh"
48020 "Going to pick flowers"
48021 "Going to harvest wheat"
48022 "Going to collect quartz"
48023 "Going to harvest leather"
48024 "Going to gather rushes"
48025 "Going to pick dates"
48026 "Going to mine turquoise"
48027 "Going to pick pomegranates"
48028 "Carrying small statue"
48029 "Going to butcher fowl"
48030 "Going to clean fish"
48031 "Carrying large statue"
48032 "Going to harvest onions"
48033 "Going to harvest lettuce"
48034 "Going to harvest barley"
48035 "Going to collect henna"
48036 "Going to large mastaba"
48037 "Shopping"
48038 "Shopping for furs"
48039 "Shopping for monkeys"
48040 "Shopping for baskets"
48041 "Shopping for cosmetics"
48042 "Shopping for furniture"
48043 "Shopping for incense"
48044 "Shopping for jewelry"
48045 "Shopping for linen"
48046 "Shopping for mats"
48047 "Shopping for papyrus"
48048 "Shopping for perfume"
48049 "Shopping for pottery"
48050 "Shopping for sandals"
48051 "Shopping for sculpture"
48052 "Shopping for spices"
48053 "Going home"
48054 "Studying"
48055 "Overseeing granite quarrying"
48056 "Overseeing granite quarrying"
48057 "Overseeing granite quarrying"
48058 "Overseeing granite quarrying"
48059 "Hauling"
48060 "Going to attack"
48061 "Fighting"
48062 "Visiting small mastaba"
48063 "Visiting mastaba"
48064 "Visiting large mastaba"
48065 "Trading wares"
48066 "Going to quarry obelisks"
48067 "Moving to a new home"
48068 "Going to quarry small stele"
48069 "Going to quarry stele"
48070 "Going home from mugging"
48071 "Traveling"
48072 "Going to collect tariffs"
48073 "Available for use"
48074 "Hauling"
48075 "Going to bakery"
48076 "Going to exchange"
48077 "Going to storage area"
48078 "Going to court of law"
48079 "Going to mortuary"
48080 "Going to townhouse"
48081 "Going to work"
48082 "Going to build"
48083 "Moving"
48084 "Going to funeral"
48085 "Tending god"
48086 "Visiting"
48087 "Going to haul large statue"
48088 "Going to haul stele"
48089 "Commanding guard post"
48090 "Visiting court of law"
48091 "Visiting mortuary"
48092 "Engaging in recreation"
48093 "Begging for food"
48094 "Giving to beggar"
48095 "Mugging"
48096 "Being mugged"
48097 "Chatting"
48098 "Buying wares"
48099 "Building"
48100 "Carving obelisk"
48101 "Building pyramid"
48102 "Upgrading"
48103 "Beautifying"
48104 "Playing"
48105 "Tending"
48106 "Tending wheat"
48107 "Tending barley"
48108 "Tending onions"
48109 "Tending lettuce"
48110 "Working"
48111 "Hauling"
48112 "Hauling"
48113 "Going to assess taxes"
48114 "Hearing cases"
48115 "Providing funerary services"
48116 "Entertaining"
48117 "Counting crops for taxes"
48118 "Supervising"
48119 "Harvesting"
48120 "Going to haul limestone"
48121 "Collecting oil"
48122 "Mining copper"
48123 "Digging kohl"
48124 "Harvesting flax"
48125 "Mining emeralds"
48126 "Going to quarry granite"
48127 "Mining tin"
48128 "Going to haul grand obelisk"
48129 "Digging clay"
48130 "Cutting papyrus reeds"
48131 "Going to quarry small stele"
48132 "Quarrying limestone"
48133 "Mining gold"
48134 "Chopping wood"
48135 "Hauling"
48136 "Quarrying fine limestone"
48137 "Picking grapes"
48138 "Collecting myrrh"
48139 "Picking flowers"
48140 "Harvesting wheat"
48141 "Collecting quartz"
48142 "Harvesting leather"
48143 "Gathering rushes"
48144 "Picking dates"
48145 "Mining turquoise"
48146 "Picking pomegranates"
48147 "Going to farm wheat"
48148 "Butchering fowl"
48149 "Fishing"
48150 "Going to quarry small statues"
48151 "Harvesting onions"
48152 "Harvesting lettuce"
48153 "Harvesting barley"
48154 "Collecting henna"
48155 "Hauling"
48156 "Deciding what to do"
48157 "Making mats"
48158 "Making baskets"
48159 "Making pottery"
48160 "Weaving linen"
48161 "Making cosmetics"
48162 "Making perfume"
48163 "Making sandals"
48164 "Making papyrus"
48165 "Making sculpture"
48166 "Crafting jewelry"
48167 "Making furniture"
48168 "Making bricks"
48169 "Making armor"
48170 "Overseeing basalt quarrying"
48171 "Overseeing copper mining"
48172 "Overseeing tin mining"
48173 "Overseeing emerald mining"
48174 "Overseeing fine limestone quarrying"
48175 "Overseeing gold mining"
48176 "Overseeing granite quarrying"
48177 "Overseeing turquoise mining"
48178 "Overseeing limestone quarrying"
48179 "Carrying small stele"
48180 "Dispensing remedies"
48181 "Fleeing!"
48182 "Providing healthcare"
48183 "Getting khopesh"
48184 "Making khopeshes"
48185 "Emigrating"
48186 "Teaching students"
48187 "Tending gods"
48188 "Collecting tariffs"
48189 "Tending gods"
48190 "Collecting tariffs"
48191 "Training soldiers"
48192 "Managing raw materials"
48193 "Receiving remedies"
48194 "Going to haul small statue"
48195 "Receiving healthcare"
48196 "Going to haul small stele"
48197 "Making ships"
48198 "Going to guard post"
48199 "Going to school"
48200 "worshiping"
48201 "worshiping"
48202 "Exchanging goods"
48203 "Going to beg"
48204 "Moving into nursery"
48205 "Carrying obelisk"
48206 "Going to quarry small statues"
48207 "Going to quarry large statues"
48208 "Moving into townhouse"
48209 "Robbing"
48210 "Going to brickworks"
48211 "Going to cargo area"
48212 "Going to storage area"
48213 "Wandering around"
48214 "Crossing river"
48215 "Going to use reed boat"
48216 "Hauling"
48217 "Going to quarry limestone"
48218 "Going to mine copper"
48219 "Going to mine tin"
48220 "Going to mine emeralds"
48221 "Going to quarry grand obelisks"
48222 "Going to mine gold"
48223 "Going to quarry granite"
48224 "Going to mine turquoise"
48225 "Going to quarry basalt statues"
48226 "Going to entertain at feast"
48227 "Going to work at apothecary"
48228 "Going to entertain at feast"
48229 "Going to work at hospital"
48230 "Going to entertain at feast"
48231 "Going to farm lettuce"
48232 "Going to farm onions"
48233 "Going to teach at school"
48234 "Going to tend god at shrine"
48235 "Going to work at quay"
48236 "Going to tend god at temple"
48237 "Going to work at merchant's stall"
48238 "Going to train soldiers at training ground"
48239 "Going to work at exchange"
48240 "Going to work at mortuary"
48241 "Going to work at court of law"
48242 "Going to apothecary"
48243 "Going to cargo drop off area"
48244 "Going to hospital"
48245 "Growing grove saplings"
48246 "Going to farm barley"
48247 "Hauling"
48248 "Going to school"
48249 "Going to shrine"
48250 "Going to temple"
48251 "Carrying stele"
48252 "Carrying fine limestone"
48253 "Carrying grand obelisk"
48254 "Carrying limestone"
48255 "Getting armor"
48256 "Making bread"
48257 "Collecting evasion taxes"
48258 "Transporting bricks"
48259 "Following master"
48260 "Going to haul fine limestone"
48261 "Moving into armor workshop"
48262 "Moving into bakery"
48263 "Moving into basket shop"
48264 "Moving into bricklayer's house"
48265 "Moving into brickworks"
48266 "Moving into chariot factory"
48267 "Moving into commander's quarters"
48268 "Moving into common shop"
48269 "Moving into cosmetics shop"
48270 "CotN 48270"
48271 "Going to haul obelisk"
48272 "Moving into entertainers house"
48273 "Moving into farmhouse"
48274 "Moving into furniture shop"
48275 "Moving into jewelry shop"
48276 "Moving into laborer's hut"
48277 "Moving into luxury shop"
48278 "Moving into mat shop"
48279 "Moving into townhouse"
48280 "Moving into overseers' quarters"
48281 "Moving into papyrus mill"
48282 "Moving into perfume shop"
48283 "Moving into pottery shop"
48284 "Moving into priest apartment"
48285 "Moving into sandal shop"
48286 "Moving into scribe's house"
48287 "Moving into sculpture shop"
48288 "Moving into servant shack"
48289 "Moving into shipyard"
48290 "Going to quarry fine limestone"
48291 "Moving into barracks"
48292 "Moving into stone carver's house"
48293 "Moving into townhouse"
48294 "Setting up vagrant's mat"
48295 "Moving into Monkey Town"
48296 "Moving into hovel"
48297 "Moving into weapons workshop"
48298 "Moving into linen shop"
48299 "Protesting poor conditions"
48300 "Going to protest"
48301 "Making weapons"
48302 "Making chariots"
48303 "Going to celebrate"
48304 "Celebrating good conditions"
48305 "Collecting evasion taxes"
48306 "Going to collect evasion taxes"
48307 "Going to funeral"
48308 "Going to mortuary/burial"
48309 "Funeral"
48310 "Getting mugged"
48311 "Mugging"
48312 "Leisure hunting"
48313 "Being trained"
48314 "Going to training ground"
; ****** DO NOT DELETE OR CHANGE THE FOLLOWING NEEDED SO THAT THE BUILDINGS Dissastisfaction icons will work
48315 "Dissatisfaction Level 0"
48316 "Dissatisfaction Level 1"
48317 "Dissatisfaction Level 2"
48318 "Dissatisfaction Level 3"
48319 "Dissatisfaction Level 4"
48320 "Dissatisfaction Level 5"
48321 "Empty House"
48322 "Service building OV: active"
48323 "Service building OV: inactive"
48324 "Tomb OV: available"
48325 "Tomb OV: occupied"
48326 "Dissatisfaction OV: n/a"
48327 "Static building OV"
48328 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 0"
48329 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 1"
48330 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 2"
48331 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 3"
48332 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 4"
48333 "sbDissatisfaction OV: house level 5"
48334 "sbDissatisfaction OV: unoccupied"
48335 "sbService building OV: active"
48336 "sbService building OV: inactive"
48337 "sbTomb OV: available"
48338 "sbTomb OV: occupied"
48339 "sbDissatisfaction OV: n/a"
48340 "sbStatic building OV"
;** End DO NOT DELETE section
48341 "Getting weapon"
48342 "Visiting mastaba"
48343 "Viewing realm"
48344 "Creating new refuge"
48345 "Celebrating religious holiday"
48346 "Going to religious holiday"
48347 "Quarrying granite"
48348 "Quarrying granite"
48349 "Collecting tariffs"
48350 "Quarrying basalt statues"
48351 "Quarrying basalt statues"
48352 "Quarrying granite"
48353 "Quarrying granite"
48354 "worshiping"
48355 "Going to tend god at cult temple"
48356 "Going to cult temple"
48357 "Going to shrine"
48358 "Going to shrine"
48359 "Going to collect evasion taxes"
48360 "Patrolling"
48361 "Bartering for spices"
48362 "Bartering for sculpture"
48363 "Bartering for sandals"
48364 "Bartering for pottery"
48365 "Bartering for perfume"
48366 "Bartering for mats"
48367 "Bartering for linen"
48368 "Bartering for jewelry"
48369 "Bartering for incense"
48370 "Bartering for furniture"
48371 "Bartering for cosmetics"
48372 "Bartering for baskets"
48373 "Bartering for monkeys"
48374 "Bartering for furs"
48375 "Overseeing cult statue construction"
48376 "Overseeing statue construction"
48377 "Preparing to cross river"
48378 "Overseeing statue construction"
48379 "Overseeing cult statue construction"
48380 "Shopping for saplings"
48381 "Bartering for vineyard"
48382 "Going to the fields"
48383 "Going to war"
48384 "Delivering Goods"
48385 "Browsing for commodities"
48386 "Going to carve stone"
48387 "Carving stone"
48388 "Going to rob"
48389 "Going to mug"
48390 "Floating"
48391 "Going to the threshing area"
48392 "Going Fishing"
48393 "Wandering around"
;***48400-48499*********EGYPTIAN NOME NAMES***************
;upper
48400 "Ta-Khent"
48401 "Thes"
48402 "Ten"
48403 "Uast"
48404 "Herui"
48405 "Aa-ta"
48406 "Seshesh"
48407 "Abt"
48408 "Min"
48409 "Uatchet"
48410 "Set"
48411 "Tu-f"
48412 "Atef-Khent"
48413 "Atef-Pehu"
48414 "Un"
48415 "Mehmahetch"
48416 "Anpu"
48417 "Sep"
48418 "Uab"
48419 "Atef-Khent"
48420 "Atef-Pehu"
48421 "Maten"
;lower
48422 "The White Fortress"
48423 "Khensu"
48424 "Ament"
48425 "Sapi-res"
48426 "Sap-meh"
48427 "Kaset"
48428 "West Harpoon"
48429 "East Harpoon"
48430 "Ati"
48431 "Ka-qem"
48432 "Ka-henseb"
48433 "Theb-ka"
48434 "Heq-at"
48435 "Khent-abt"
48436 "Tehut"
48437 "Kha"
48438 "Sam-Behutet"
48439 "Am"
48440 "Am-pehu"
48441 "Sept"
;48500-48550 *** UNUSED ***
;***48551-48599****** Difficulty Levels *********
48551 "Difficulty Level 1"
48552 "Difficulty Level 2"
48553 "Difficulty Level 3"
48554 "Difficulty Level 4"
48555 "Difficulty Level 5"
;***48600-48999 ********More(3) Misc Main UI (reports and selected objects)*******
; Reports, status, and selected object info: See: 41251 - 41499 and 41800 - 41999 and 48600-48999
;Service demand
48600 ""
48601 "High demand for healthcare"
48602 "Moderate demand for healthcare"
48603 "Low demand for healthcare"
48604 "No current demand for healthcare"
48605 "Many people wish to worship"
48606 "Some people wish to worship"
48607 "A few people wish to worship"
48608 "No people currently wish to worship"
48609 "High funerary demand"
48610 "Moderate funerary demand"
48611 "Low funerary demand"
48612 "No current funerary demands"
48613 "";High demand for education
48614 "";Moderate demand for education
48615 "";Low demand for education
48616 "";No current demand for education
48617 "High demand for security"
48618 "Moderate demand for security"
48619 "Low demand for security"
48620 "No current demand for security"
48621 "High demand for leisure"
48622 "Moderate demand for leisure"
48623 "Low demand for leisure"
48624 "No current demand for leisure"
;Service building activation/visitation/visit history
;apothecary
48626 "A priest is dispensing remedies"
48627 "%d priests are dispensing remedies"
48628 "Remedies may be picked up"
48629 "Has never been open"
48630 "Days closed: %d"
48631 "No remedies available"
48632 "No one being served"
48633 "One person being served"
48634 "%d people being served"
48635 "%d served last year"
;court of law
48636 "Court is in session"
48637 "Court is in session"
48638 "Court is in session"
48639 "Has never been open"
48640 "Days closed: %d"
48641 "No justice available"
48642 "No one in court"
48643 "One person in court"
48644 "%d people in court"
48645 "%d served last year"
;hospital
48646 "A priest is tending patients"
48647 "%d priests are tending patients"
48648 "Care is available"
48649 "Has never been open"
48650 "Days closed: %d"
48651 "No patients can be treated"
48652 "No patients are being treated"
48653 "One patient being treated"
48654 "%d patients being treated"
48655 "%d served last year"
;library *UNUSED*
48656 "Open to visitors"
48657 "Open to visitors"
48658 "Open to visitors"
48659 "Has never been open"
48660 "Days closed: %d"
48661 "Not open to visitors"
48662 "No one visiting"
48663 "One person visiting"
48664 "%d people visiting"
48665 "%d served last year"
;mortuary
48666 "A priest is providing services"
48667 "%d priests providing services"
48668 "Services available"
48669 "Has never been open"
48670 "Days closed: %d"
48671 "No services available"
48672 "No one receiving services"
48673 "One person receiving services"
48674 "%d people receiving services"
48675 "%d served last year"
;school
48676 "A priest is teaching"
48677 "%d priests teaching"
48678 "Education available"
48679 "Has never been open"
48680 "Days closed: %d"
48681 "No education available"
48682 "No one being taught"
48683 "One student being taught"
48684 "%d students being taught"
48685 "%d served last year"
;shrine
48686 "A priest is tending the shrine"
48687 "%d priests tending the shrine"
48688 "Open for worship"
48689 "Has never been open"
48690 "Days closed: %d"
48691 "No one may worship"
48692 "No one worshiping"
48693 "One person worshiping"
48694 "%d people worshiping"
48695 "%d served last year"
;Temple
48696 "A priest is conducting services"
48697 "%d priests conducting services"
48698 "Open for worship"
48699 "Has never been open"
48700 "Days closed: %d"
48701 "No one may worship"
48702 "No one is worshiping"
48703 "One person worshiping"
48704 "%d people worshiping"
48705 "%d served last year"
;Added in visitors served (plural strings)
48706 "%d served last year"
48707 "%d served last year"
48708 "%d served last year"
48709 "%d served last year"
48710 "%d served last year"
48711 "%d served last year"
48712 "%d served last year"
48713 "%d served last year"
;Wares for sale descriptors
48714 "No"
48715 "Few"
48716 "Adequate"
48717 "Many"
48718 "Max"
;Foreign merchants wares selected object text
48719 "No"
48720 "Few"
48721 "Some"
48722 "Many"
48723 "Buying "
;guard post
48724 "A commander is on duty"
48725 "%d commanders are on duty"
48726 "Post is active"
48727 "Post has never been active"
48728 "Has been inactive for %d days"
48729 "No guards may patrol"
48730 "No guards on patrol"
48731 "One guard on patrol"
48732 "%d guards on patrol"
48733 "%d guard patrolled last year" ;singular
48734 "%d guards patrolled last year";plural or 0
;more merchant phrases
48735 "Selling"
;***49000-49999****** Edicts form *********
; 7/22/04 When UI is revised, the entries labeled NAME will be the edict names. Ones marked REMOVE are replaced by the 49200+ text (reuse these ID's for mousehelp for the NAME)
49000 "Done"
49001 "Edicts"
49002 "Great Pharaoh, would you like to change any government policies?"
49003 "Nobles pay no estate taxes";NAME 2
49004 "Release food to estates"; NAME 7
49005 "49005" ;REMOVE
49006 "All citizens may have government-owned food" ;NAME 1 obsolete
49007 "49007" ;REMOVE
49008 "49008" ;REMOVE
49010 "Additional taxes on every private home" ;NAME 6
49011 "49011" ;REMOVE
49012 "49012" ;REMOVE
49013 "Raw materials are available for free" ;NAME 3
49014 "49014" ;REMOVE
49015 "49015" ;REMOVE
49016 "Decree a religious holiday" ;NAME 4
49017 "49017" ;REMOVE
49018 "49018" ;REMOVE
49019 "49019" ;REMOVE
49020 "49020" ;REMOVE
49021 "Hold a state holiday" ;NAME 5
49022 "49022" ;REMOVE
49023 "49023" ;REMOVE
49024 "49024" ;REMOVE
49100 "Help text to be implemented"
49101 "Exit Edicts"
49102 "Click here to toggle edict activation" ;REMOVE
49103 "Click to proclaim this edict"
49104 "Edict may not be declared right now"
49105 "Click to rescind this edict"
49106 "You may not rescind this edict"
49107 "This edict has been declared and will take effect shortly"
;Edict status text
;Edict- Gov. food to all OBSOLETE
49200 "Opens government bakeries to everyone" ;OBSOLETE
49201 "Pharaoh is generous! Government stores of food are available to all" ;OBSOLETE
49202 "x"
49203 "x"
49204 "x"
49205 "Lets private citizens take food from bakeries, just like government employees." ;OBSOLETE
49206 "Anyone who needs food can take it from the government's bakeries." ;OBSOLETE
49207 "x"
49208 "x"
49209 "x"
;Edict- Collect no taxes
49210 "Stops collecting taxes from noble's estates"
49211 "No estate taxes will be taken from the harvest"
49212 "x"
49213 "x"
49214 "x"
49215 "Nobles will pay no taxes after the harvest. You still collect food from your Palace estate."
49216 "No taxes will be collected until you rescind this edict"
49217 "x"
49218 "x"
49219 "x"
;Edict- Free Exchange materials
49220 "Lets luxury shopkeepers take raw materials from your stores free of charge."
49221 "Luxury shopkeepers may take free raw materials from your stores."
49222 ""
49223 ""
49224 ""
49225 "Would let luxury shopkeepers or their servants take needed raw materials from storage areas and exchanges at no cost."
49226 "Raw materials are free until this edict is canceled."
49227 "x"
49228 "x"
49229 "x"
;Edict- Religious holiday
49230 "Dedicates a holiday celebration to the gods tomorrow. Requires %d food."
49231 "Your citizens are happily praising the gods right now."
49232 "People are really looking forward to tomorrow's religious holiday."
49233 "You do not have the %d food required to hold this holiday."
49234 "You have already decreed a holiday"
49235 "Religious holidays help satisfy people's needs to worship."
49236 "Your citizens enjoy worshiping all of the gods during the holiday."
49237 "The city is gearing up for tomorrow's holiday celebrations."
49238 "This food has to come from your granaries and bakeries."
49239 "Only one holiday may be decreed at a time"
;Edict- State holiday
49240 "Proclaims a holiday celebrating your glorious reign. Requires %d food."
49241 "Your citizens are enjoying the fine holiday, and praising your name."
49242 "Your holiday tomorrow will be outstanding."
49243 "You do not have the %d food required to hold this holiday celebration."
49244 "You have already decreed a holiday."
49245 "People are more satisfied with your actions after a holiday."
49246 "People feel more satisfied about their government's actions."
49247 "The city is preparing for tomorrow's holiday."
49248 "This food must be stored in your granaries and bakeries."
49249 "Only one holiday celebration may be held at a time"
;Edict- Head tax
49250 "Collects a household tax from the city's private citizens."
49251 "Private households are dutifully paying the tithe that you decreed."
49252 "x"
49253 "x"
49254 "You already collected this tax once in the past year."
49255 "The tax is a tithe of private citizen's food supplies. Levying this tax upsets the people it affects."
49256 "The additional food levy has been stored in your bakeries and granaries."
49257 "x"
49258 "x"
49259 "You must wait before collecting this tax again."
;Edict- Release food to estates
49260 "Distribute %d food from your supplies to farmers and nobles"
49261 "Nobles and farmers are receiving their food subsidies now."
49262 "x"
49263 "You do not have %d food needed to release to estates"
49264 "x"
49265 "Subsidizes private estates by giving a certain amount of food to each farmer and noble household."
49266 "Exit and return to issue this edict again if you wish to release more food to estates."
49267 "x"
49268 "This edict can not be ordered if there is not enough food to release to all estate families."
49950 " As you walk the streets, you might sometimes encounter certain groups of people expressing gloomy opinions about the city's future direction. It's not a popular sentiment, but it could be worth noticing."
49951 " It seems like more types of people are grumbling about your actions or how they feel neglected, and they're grumbling more openly. This bears watching."
49952 " There is a general feeling that times used to be better, before your reign began. More and more people wish that they could go back to happier days."
49953 " Some very dissimilar types of people are finding common ground in questioning your ability to govern the city. That is certainly becoming worrisome."
49954 " From the most fashionable feasts to the simplest peasant meals, stories of your government's incompetence have come to dominate most people's mealtime conversation. "
49955 " Very few factions in the city are willing to defend your right to rule, or believe that things will ever improve again. Your support is drying up fast."
49956 " Virtually everyone agrees that you and your government are the source of all their many problems. Something had better change very soon, Pharaoh."
49957 " This can't be a good development: People have gone from complaining about you angrily to joking about you, as if you no longer matter. Have you considered retiring to a country home?"
49958 " There is nobody left to turn the people from their course. Soon they will take the palace. Your reign has come to its end, and you are the Lord of Nothing."
49959 " Nobody would ever question that Osiris intends for you to rule, O Great One. There has never been a more beloved leader than yourself."
49960 " There will always be a few citizens who love to mutter about anything. Everybody else is very pleased with the direction of this city."
49961 " Much of the complaining that was going on seems to have died down, so that all that remains is the grumbling of a minority."
49962 " It seems to an increasing number of people that times are getting better, although there are still plenty who say that's just wishful thinking. "
49963 " More and more factions in the city are defending your right to rule. That is certainly an improvement."
49964 " Good news: talk of government blunders and poor decisions no longer monopolizes dinnertime conversation. Your opposition is losing support. "
49965 " Your government's defenders are growing more numerous, and gaining confidence to counter all those critical voices. People still oppose you, but with less conviction than before."
49966 " The people are definitely pulling back from the brink. While talk of rebellion persists, some groups are openly saying that such drastic action is unwise. "
49967 " The city remains on the verge of revolution, Pharaoh, but there is new hesitation in the rebel cries. Perhaps you can turn this situation around after all."
;*** 50000-55000 ****************** Help & Historical info *************************************************************
;Search on "TBD" to find unfinished entries.
;*** 50000-50999 ****************** Game Help and Index*****************************************************************
50003 " Bricklayers are the skilled craftsmen employed by your government to build most of the city's structures. These middle-class citizens occasionally visit various <service,link=62> facilities, and have the same appetite for <household wares,link=43> as their counterparts in the private sector (shopkeepers and entertainers). Like all government employees, bricklayers retrieve their salary, in the form of food, from your bakeries.
Bricklayers pick up bricks from a <brickworks,link=33>, then carry them to the nearest construction site needing bricks. Some people call <bricklayers,link=12> lazy, because they always carry small loads along whatever route lets them move the most bricks over the shortest distance...but the bricklayers themselves protest that they're just being efficient. Whatever the reason, it's always wise to have a brickworks near a construction zone. Because so many of your buildings are built from bricks, a developing city can't have too many brickworks and bricklayers. To optimize or accelerate brick construction projects, locate bricklayers' homes near brickworks, which in turn should not be too far from anticipated construction sites. Many a project has languished for lack of bricks, and the men to lay them. Placing too many buildings at once is another good way to cause serious construction delays, as all projects compete equally for your bricklayers' attention. The only ways to control the order in which buildings are completed are to place them one by one, or ensure that each project has its own nearby bricklayer, who in turn has a nearby brickworks. It is not a bad idea to periodically replace your city's brick facilities as new construction projects get farther away from the existing ones.
"
50004 "Commanders"
50005 " Commanders ensure peace and <security,link=191>, both within the city and for the nation at large. Your <prestige,link=84> determines how many of these men you can lead, and only <graduates,link=165> or existing <educated workers,link=150> can become commanders. You can order a commander to army, navy or city guard service by right-clicking on his home. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'commanders' to see how all your commanders have been instructed.
If ordered to serve in the army, the commander trains <common soldiers,link=74> and leads them on world-level <military engagements,link=73>.
If assigned to the navy, the commander commissions and later captains a military ship that will carry army forces to those engagements that require waterborne transport.
Commanders ordered to <city guard,link=66> service man <guard posts,link=66>, which focus the efforts of city guards themselves.
Like all employees of your government, military commanders pick up their pay (in the form of food) from your <bakeries,link=29>. Commanders expect fair amounts of food and <wares,link=43>, and frequently find the need to visit various <service,link=62> facilities.
Place commanders' quarters near their postings, but don't forget their need to periodically travel to a bakery and other government facilities, as well as <shops,link=264>. Commanders are also frequently sought-after guests at <townhouse,link=21> feasts.
Commanders who survive their military careers don't expect to die under arms, like common soldiers. They look forward to earning retirement after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't discourage people from managing new estates, the retired commander and his family will <move in,link=279>, bringing all of their food and wares with them. If there is no suitable retirement estate, the family leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a career as a new commander - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation.
HISTORY: <The Army,link=337>
HISTORY: <The Navy,link=368>
HISTORY: <Police,link=370>"
50006 "Taxation"
50007 " We have all heard that life's two certainties are death and taxes. In Egypt, we devote a lot of attention to the former, but the latter is very simple - you can't tax what you don't know about. If your <scribes,link=19> are out assessing <farm,link=14> fields, nobles will pay in taxes fully half of the food that's left after the farm families are fed. This food is deposited directly into your <bakeries,link=29>, with any leftover crops going to your <granaries,link=30>. Without adequate scribes to constantly monitor crop growth, opportunistic nobles will yield only a small portion of their crops in taxes. To maximize the efforts of your tax assessors, locate the homes of scribes performing such work close to farm <fields,link=157>.
The tax rate never changes, but you can issue <edicts,link=86> to infrequently levy special taxes, or to waive taxes until further notice. You can also issue specific instructions to individual estates as to what type of crop you would like to be grown there for taxes, by right-clicking on townhouses. Wheat is the most cost-effective <food,link=158>, as it has the highest yield, but a single-food diet is not healthy for your workers. Balance townhouse crop orders to produce a high yield for world-level spending needs without compromising varied diet for your workers.
Taxes are where your government gets most of its income. The <noblemen,link=21> who own the townhouse estates don't have a lot of storage, so food that doesn't go into your storage facilities is often just wasted - another reason to have plenty of scribes. The more <household wares,link=43> and <townhouse enhancements,link=21> there are for nobles to spend their food upon, the more food they grow, and the fuller your bakeries and granaries become as a result. Your <palace,link=16> is an estate with its own fields, just like a townhouse, and your government gets all of that food that's left after feeding your own household and the farm families that work there.
You just can't have too much tax income if you hope to launch big construction projects, maintain a military force, pay all of your government's workers, and keep some surplus against the possibility of a failed <flood,link=37>. And you can't afford to tolerate tax evasion, which is an immediate and practical result of <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility. If you see nobles protesting, chances are that your food stores are suffering for it. If that happens, a scribe accompanied by <city guards,link=66> has to pay a visit. A couple of goons with clubs can be very persuasive.
Apart from the harvest tax, your government also gets some income from <trade tariffs,link=56>.
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is currently available in your granaries and bakeries:
<img=25>
Use the <Resources Report,link=188> for a detailed breakdown of your revenue sources and expenses."
50008 "Entertainers"
50009 " Everyone in this self-employed, middle-class family earns food by amusing other people who can afford their services. In hard times, you can find them performing in the streets, but that's not much better than begging. An entertainer's real livelihood comes from performing at lavish feasts thrown by nobles at their <townhouses,link=21>, where the audience often includes many of the neighborhood's elite citizens.
All members of the entertainer family, including children, can perform in one way or another, though shopping takes up some of the time female entertainers could spend performing. Entertainment is a <leisure,link=82> activity called for primarily by nobles.
HISTORY: <Entertainment,link=349>"
50010 "Farmers"
50011 " The rich Nile floodplain is the basis for all of Egypt's agricultural wealth. Once you designate where they belong, peasant farmers construct their own homes from mudbrick and diligently proceed to plant, tend, and eventually harvest fields of barley, wheat and vegetables in the fertile black floodplain soil. Although estate-owning <nobles,link=21> hold dominion over the land worked by farmers, they always allow the farming family to take what it needs to support itself from the harvest.
Every member of the farming family toils in the fields, though only adult male farmers can plant them. The family plants during the season of Peret, and harvests in Shemu. The family then rests during the floods of Ahket. To maximize <food production,link=28>, locate farmhouses near the floodplain, and give farmers convenient access to common wares <shops,link=264> and <service,link=62> facilities so that they can spend as much time as possible working in the fields.
As nobles find more and more opportunities to spend their wealth, their household expenses increase, and they must increase food production on the estate to maintain their standard of living. Their estates, therefore, grow from small to medium to large, allowing them to take on more and more farming families. But nobody will build these additional farmhouses, of course, until you designate where they should be built. The <People Report,link=180> shows you how many farming families can be managed by your current estates.
New peasant farming families typically come from the local <village,link=24> population. If the farming life doesn't work out for them, they'll often return to these simple roots."
50012 "Laborers"
50013 " Laborers supply the muscle that builds Egypt's glory in the service of your government. These unskilled peasants, fueled by bread and vegetables from your <bakeries,link=29>, mine metals, extract gems, and quarry and haul the stone to build your monuments. Laborer families typically come from the local <village,link=24> population, and are likely to return to those roots if their lives as members of Egyptian society don't work out.
Laborers can only serve you when supervised by <overseers,link=17> - <educated workers,link=150> whose numbers are limited by your <prestige,link=84>, and whom you order to the various tasks that you want the laborers to undertake. Those tasked with hauling work in teams. Because one overseer can supervise multiple teams at once, and because laborers need some down time like anyone else, there is no simple optimum ratio between overseers and laborers. However, unless enough laborers are ready to work, nothing can be hauled.
Locate laborer huts near their work projects, but make sure they have convenient access to <shops,link=264> and <service,link=62> facilities as well. Their needs are slight, but they are prone to exhaustion and injury."
50014 "Overseers"
50015 " All the <laborers,link=15> in Egypt won't accomplish anything without somebody to organize and motivate them, and that is where overseers come in. It is up to these <educated government employees,link=150> to turn muscle power into useful work. Your <prestige,link=84> determines how many of these men you can lead, and only <graduates,link=165> or existing <educated workers,link=150> can become overseers.
When you want something done, tell an overseer to <mine,link=42> specific metals or gems, <quarry,link=41> specific types of building stones or obelisks, stele or statues, manage a <construction,link=145> project, or just find the nearest worksite where he can apply his supervisory skills. Absent specific orders, overseers eventually find someplace to make themselves useful. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'overseers' to see how all your overseers have been instructed.
Locate overseers' quarters near the work projects that they will manage, and make sure there is a <bakery,link=29> nearby so they can pick up their pay. Overseers and their spouses want easy access to the common and luxury <shops,link=264>, and <service,link=62> facilities that other elite Egyptians frequent. Overseers like to attend <townhouse,link=21> feasts on those occasions when they receive invitations. Seeing to the needs of overseer families can pose a challenge, as their worksites and homes are often located in remote areas, far from the city proper.
Overseers don't expect to die in harness, like common laborers. They look forward to earning retirement after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't prevent <migration,link=279>, the retired overseer and his family will move in, bringing all of their food and wares with them. If there is no suitable retirement estate, the family leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a career as a new overseer - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation."
50016 "Palace and Its Residents"
50017 " Only one family lives at the palace - yours - and this magnificent royal residence also imparts some <prestige,link=84> to you and your dynasty. Initial construction of the palace costs nothing - in fact, when you arrive at your new familial estate, you might very well find your own modest supply of food and bricks waiting for you nearby, giving you a head start on achieving your ambitions. Like a <townhouse,link=21>, your palace commands its own estate, worked by <farming families,link=14> who are supported by its produce. <Food,link=28> harvested on the palace estate goes directly to your government (after the estate's farmers receive their annual allotment, of course).
PALACE ENHANCEMENTS
Your palace can be further developed through the addition of various enhancements, imparting even more prestige for your dynasty. The prestige section of the <Administration Report,link=136> tells you how much prestige your palace conveys. To add an enhancement to your palace, right-click on it and choose an item from the list. Each enhancement costs some <bricks,link=33> and/or food. As your palace increases in splendor, designate more farmhouses to work the additional fields associated with the growing palace estate. The <People Report,link=180> shows you how many farming families can be managed by your current estates, including the palace estate.
PALACE RESIDENTS
As the palace grows, the <food,link=158> and <household wares,link=43> needs of the palace staff and royal family also increase. If your family has difficulty getting food or wares, their dissatisfaction doesn't prompt them to demonstrate, but instead diminishes the prestige bestowed by the palace.
Besides yourself, your household consists of various princes, princesses and retainers. You or your princes visit <courts of law,link=64> as needed to dispense justice. Princesses and retainers do the household shopping. Envoys, too, reside at the palace, where they are trained for the special <world-level,link=317> diplomatic missions that require their skills. Their number is limited by your prestige.
HISTORY: <Government,link=356>"
50018 "Priests"
50019 " Priests work at temples, shrines, hospitals, mortuaries, schools and other government facilities, providing valuable social <services,link=62> to your citizens. Like other government employees, they obtain their food, as salary, from your <bakeries,link=29>. Your <prestige,link=84> determines how many of these men you can lead, and only <graduates,link=165> or existing <educated workers,link=150> can become priests. If your city has no educated workers or graduates, either a gifted <young noble,link=115> or a precocious luxury shopkeeper's child can move directly into a vacant priest's apartment and assume all the duties of a priest, bypassing the normal <educational,link=151> process. This initial priest is so crucial to your city's development that your citizens overlook his on-the-job learning.
You can order a priest to focus his efforts on providing healthcare, teaching students at schools, tending the gods at worship facilities, or providing mortuary services at mortuaries by right-clicking his home and selecting from the list that appears. If you give no such specific instructions, the priest will spread his efforts across all the social service facilities he can in the time he has available. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'priests' to see how all your priests have been instructed.
Priests like to acquire and use a modest assortment of <household wares,link=43>. Having a supply of <papyrus,link=236> on hand speeds up the educational process. As unmarried men without children, priests don't need to live close to a school (unless you intend for them to work at one). Locate priest apartments near the buildings where you expect them to work, but make sure they are also close to <shops,link=264>, as priests have no other family members who can help out with the shopping. They appreciate an invitation to a good <townhouse,link=21> feast as much as any other educated citizen.
One cannot overstate the importance of priests. They are integral to all stages of the lives of your people, from childhood to the tomb. Priests look forward to earning retirement after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't discourage people from managing new estates, the retired priest will move in, bringing all of his food and wares with him. After retirement, a priest may choose to marry, and possibly even have children. If there is no suitable retirement estate, he leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a career as a new priest - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation.
HISTORY: <Priests and Temples,link=372>
"
50020 "Scribes"
50021 " These indispensable educated workers are responsible for ensuring a revenue stream for your government, and their efforts are fundamental to building and running a robust and powerful civilization. Your <prestige,link=84> determines how many of these men you can lead, and only <graduates,link=165> or existing <educated workers,link=150> can become scribes.
Scribes monitor the fields of private estates and tally the crops for proper <taxes,link=91>. Scribes also operate <Exchanges,link=60>, where craftsmen and shopkeepers can conveniently obtain fine raw materials owned by your government. They also ensure that <tariffs,link=195> are paid on all merchant transactions by monitoring <merchant centers,link=57>. You can order a scribe to focus on just one of these jobs by right-clicking his home and selecting from the list that appears. If you give no such specific instructions, the scribe will spread his efforts across all the tasks he can in the time he has available. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'scribes' to see how all your scribes have been instructed. All of the scribe's functions can be conducted much more efficiently if he has a supply of <papyrus,link=40> on hand.
Scribes obtain their food from <bakeries,link=29>, like other government employees. The scribe's wife handles most of the household <shopping,link=264>, although the scribe himself will run such errands when necessary. Scribes' children attend school so that they can one day enjoy their own lives as adult professionals.
Locate a scribe's home near the farm fields, merchant center or Exchange at which you intend him to work. People who bring in revenue tend to be better paid than people who spend it, so scribes are among the best-paid people in the city. They can afford and expect a full range of <household wares,link=43>, and like to take their <leisure,link=82> at <townhouse,link=21> feasts whenever they can wrangle an invitation. Some people think that scribes are boring guests, but they often make the list for the air of sophistication that they bring.
Scribes don't expect to die on the job. They look forward to earning retirement after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't discourage people from managing new estates, the retired scribe will move his family in, bringing all of their food and wares with them. If there is no suitable retirement estate, the family leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a career as a new scribe - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation."
50022 "Servants"
50023 " Noblewomen have an awful lot of shopping to do. Without hired help, they cannot hope to run a household in the elegant and carefree style to which they are entitled. Servants are so indispensable to a well-run estate that nobles often build servants' quarters into their <townhouses,link=21> to house the help and facilitate their employment. Even with such accommodations, servants still actually live in their own shacks, where their wares are kept and they can gather together as family. Servants are also frequently hired by luxury shopkeepers to harvest basic raw materials. When so employed, servants let the shopkeeper focus on his craft, and, by freeing them from this duty, allow the shopkeeper's children to attend <school,link=70>. In both these ways servants help your city run more smoothly.
Despite their frequent interaction with the pinnacle of society, servants are just <peasants,link=80>, normally having come recently from the <villager,link=24> population, and their homes are correspondingly modest. Like farmers and laborers, they are never more than a few missed meals away from becoming <vagrants,link=23> or returning to the lives of <villagers,link=24>. A husband and wife both work as servants, and their children expect to grow into lives of servitude as well, unless of course your leadership can provide them with better opportunities in the middle class, allowing unemployed peasants to take over the servants' home.
Servants' shacks are best located near the townhouses of nobles and homes of the other elite citizens or luxury shopkeepers who will need their services. You might see servants pressed into building townhouses or constructing your palace, but that is not their normal role."
50024 "Stone Carvers"
50025 " All of Egypt might be made of brick if not for the talents of the stone carvers who finish the <temple,link=71> god statues and <colossal statues,link=302> made of <basalt,link=207>, <granite,link=224> <obelisks and stele,link=79>, and the <fine limestone,link=219> blocks on <pyramids,link=211>. Stone carvers are government employees who obtain their food from <bakeries,link=29>. These skilled craftsmen normally come from the city's <peasant,link=80> population. Build their homes near bakeries, common wares shops and the services that they will sometimes need, but not too far from anticipated construction sites."
50026 "Noblemen and Townhouses"
50027 " Noble families, the pinnacle of Egyptian society, live in urban townhouses. From here they manage their farming <estates,link=153>, which your government taxes for food. Providing noblemen lots of opportunities to spend their wealth motivates them to increase the size of their estates to grow more food, resulting in more tax revenue for you. When you select a townhouse, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows the size of the noble's estate. Hold the mouse pointer over this label to see what enhancements the townhouse has, as well as how many farming families you can expect the nobleman to currently manage. The <People Report,link=180> shows the maximum number of farming families that can work on all the city's current estates.
If you want a nobleman to grow a particular <type of foods,link=158> on his estate to pay in taxes, tell him by right-clicking on his townhouse and selecting a crop from the list. Without specific orders nobles will <grow,link=28> a variety of crops to pay in taxes. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'noblemen' to see what tax instructions have been given to all your noblemen.
Noblemen will do some shopping when they aren't managing the estate. Noble women <shop,link=264> vigorously, preferably with the aid of <servants,link=20>. Noble children form most of your city's student population, and subsequently become the <educated workers,link=150> who bring Egypt its splendor. On many evenings, nobles will invite their friends over for a feast. These lavish affairs are the social elite's main <leisure,link=82> activity and <entertainers',link=13> sole means of employment. What well-bred Egyptian doesn't enjoy a night of good food, drink, conversation and amusement at one of the city's opulent townhouses?
Nobles expect all that Egyptian society can offer, and in abundance. Build townhouses convenient to high-priced <household wares,link=43> and the full range of <service,link=62> facilities - nobles and their families always seem to have a reason to visit such places. Don't forget that noblewomen need servants to help them with their shopping burdens, so unsightly servants' shacks are a necessary evil near noble neighborhoods. Dissatisfied nobles may try to avoid paying taxes, as indicated by the presence of this icon when you select a townhouse:
<img=131>
Townhouses are usually built by bricklayers, but in a pinch farmers, servants or villagers will do the work. No government bricks are used. New noble families immigrate to the city if there are vacant townhouses, and the city is a desirable place to live, based on the experiences of existing noble families. Especially prosperous luxury shopkeepers can sometimes accumulate enough food to buy their way into a townhouse. Young nobles can also carry on their family tradition and move directly into a new townhouse, provided they have a good supply of food for the pantry. Noble parents who can afford it willingly bestow this generous gift to send their child out into the world - establishing a new estate is a significant expense, after all.
TOWNHOUSE ENHANCEMENTS
Nobles like to enhance and expand their homes when they have wealth to spare after buying wares and paying maintenance costs. Since each townhouse enhancement requires additional ongoing maintenance, the number of farms the estate owner needs to employ increases as he improves his home. If you see some of the townhouse's enhancements falling into disrepair, chances are there are not enough farming families to work all of the city's estates.
Nobles can add these enhancements to their homes:
FAMILY SHRINE - This can only be added if the city already has a <cult temple,link=65>. The family shrine functions just like an undedicated public <shrine,link=72>, letting the noble family worship at such a facility without having to leave home.
GROVE - Nobles purchase young plants from a <nursery,link=32> and transplant them to a plot in the townhouse courtyard. Nobles make wine from the grapes, dates and pomegranates that grow in their groves, so the family no longer needs to make beer to drink.
POOL - Once operational, and for as long as the noble can afford to maintain it, the pool conveys health benefits to the noble family.
YACHT - Boating on the Nile is a favorite <leisure,link=82> pastime. A popular entertainer once said a yacht is 'a hole in the water that you pour bread into' because they cost so much to maintain. Yachts are purchased from a <shipwright,link=44> - a skilled craftsman supported by your government.
TOMB - Perhaps the most important, and certainly the most expensive, thing a noble family can invest in. A family <tomb,link=196> ensures the safe passage of all members of the noble family into the afterlife. Surviving members of the noble family will become extremely <dissatisfied,link=83> after the passing of a loved one if there is no family tomb in which to inter the deceased. When you select a townhouse, if the family has a tomb you'll see the following button. Clicking on it takes you to the tomb:
<img=133>
GRANARY - Families with a lot of wealth need a place to store it. A home granary increases a townhouse's storage capacity, while reducing spoilage.
SERVANT QUARTERS - <Servants,link=20> work longer days when they don't have to commute back and forth to their shacks. On-site servant quarters give noblewomen immediate access to the help they need for their extensive shopping trips. Even with such accommodations, though, servants still live in their own shacks, where their wares are kept and they can gather together as family.
WALL - A wall surrounding the townhouse makes the noble family feel safe and secure, even if the world outside may be a little chaotic.
"
50028 "Vagrants"
50029 " When hard times befall a family, its members can wind up living on the streets as vagrants - homeless, jobless and hungry. Despite their situation, these unfortunates remain fond of urban living and optimistic about their futures, and would rather ride out hard times in the city than return to village life. Unfortunately, they often seem to lay their mats right where they're least wanted, convenient to the better-off citizens from whom they beg their livelihood.
If their situation grows desperate, or if they are emboldened by growing numbers, vagrant men might turn to <crime,link=283>, making the situation in the city even worse. The only real cure for vagrancy is sufficient prosperity to re-employ these displaced people. Build up your city's private sector carefully, ensuring that new businesses have enough customers to prosper (without taking business away from existing entertainer families and shops!). Rapid expansion can cause suffering that can take a long time to alleviate.
The <People Report,link=180> shows how many vagrants are looking for a chance to rejoin productive society. Click the label to select all of the vagrant mats in the city.
"
50030 "Villagers"
50031 " Villagers are the numerous native people living quiet, purposeless lives along the shores of the Nile in modest hovels, subsisting as simple hunter-gatherers without higher ambition. Inspired by your leadership, they are eager to join your growing society and become productive Egyptian citizens. Villagers don't have any skills or trades, and <forage,link=35>, hunt and fish for their food in the countryside. But they can join the lowest ranks of Egyptian <society,link=80> as farmers, laborers, servants or soldiers. Village women often rise out of their condition by marrying when a peasant <forms a new household,link=279>.
The <People Report,link=180> shows how many villagers are ready to leave their simple lives behind and join civilization. Click the label to select all of the villager hovels in your nome.
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50032 "Build Buttons"
50033 " Use the buttons along the upper left side of the screen to build structures belonging to various categories:
<img=2> Private Citizens' Homes
<img=3> Government Workers' Homes
<img=4> Government Facilities
<img=5> Infrastructure Buildings
<img=6> Monuments
When you click on a build button, you'll see a list of the buildings or people associated with that category. Hold the pointer over each name to see a brief description of the role of the associated building in the game. You'll also see if any government bricks are required for construction, and, if so, how many.
Click on a name in the list. An image of the desired building attaches to the mouse pointer. You can then move the structure around the environment to locate a good spot to place it. When the image of the building is in full color and the outline at its base is green, just click to place its foundation, and it will soon be <constructed,link=145>. You can <rotate,link=190> buildings before placing them. If the image is red, all or part of the building is over terrain upon which it cannot be built. The red portion of the base outline shows you the problem.
Structures built on low ground can be destroyed during a particularly high <flood,link=37>. When placing a building, such low lands are highlighted in yellow. Build upon these terrains at your own peril."
50034 "Houses"
50035 " People move into specific <occupations,link=176> based on the types of homes that you order to be built. Simply put, building homes is how you tell your people what you want them to do. You can give further instructions to <educated workers,link=150> and <nobles,link=21> by right-clicking on their homes. Depending on the occupation, working members of the family might labor primarily within their home, or they might travel to outdoor projects to work, or they might work at indoor facilities separate from the home. In any case, the home is the family's base of operation. When you click on a house, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows household information (such as food and <wares,link=43> stocks) at the bottom, and work information at the top. When you click on a person, his or her home appears in the <family tracking windows,link=156>.
To settle a new nome, you usually start with some peasant homes (especially <farmhouses,link=14>), which entice <villagers,link=24> to join the city's population. After the agricultural underpinnings of civilization are established, demand quickly arises for commercially-made <household wares,link=43>, sold only by <shops,link=264>. To build a strong and lasting government, you'll need homes for <craftsmen,link=301> and <educated workers,link=150>. Place each type of house only when the city needs, and can support, the appropriate workers. Citizens <migrate,link=279> from one house to another, enter and leave the city, and are born into existing households.
Private citizens build their own homes from readily-available materials, and therefore do not require government <bricks,link=139> for this purpose. The elite, as you might expect, conscript the services of whichever farmers, servants or villagers are at hand. The homes of government workers require the efforts of <bricklayers,link=12> and, of course, a supply of bricks produced by <brick makers,link=33> at a brickworks. You'll typically want to get some <brickworks,link=33> up and running as soon as people start farming.
As every homeowner knows, houses need constant <maintenance,link=171>. Wealthy homeowners not only maintain their houses, but <beautify,link=137> them as well. You can tell how well a family is doing by the condition of its house.
The factors that determine the ideal location for a house are as varied as Egypt's people. Everyone needs food - first for sustenance, and then to purchase household wares. Government workers like to live near the <bakery,link=29> where they obtain their wages. <Shopkeepers,link=264> who live near important <service,link=62> facilities and <natural resource sites,link=276>, and/or the <Exchange,link=60>, can spend more of their time working, and thus earn a better living. Educated workers need to travel to outdoor work sites or service facilities, and so should normally live close to these places of employment. Giving people convenient access to the things that they need and want is a constant challenge to city planners.
Don't place large numbers of new homes all at once, as sudden surges of migration can be disruptive. Remember, new residents always come from someplace else - those 'free' houses don't cost you any bricks, but they do 'cost' you some people. For example, a new shopping district immediately attracts peasants to these welcome middle-class opportunities, opening up their former positions as <farmers,link=14>, <laborers,link=15>, <soldiers,link=74> and <servants,link=20>. Although they're glad to take these now-vacant occupations, villagers need a little time to move in.
50037 " Resources are physical materials extracted from the natural environment, and the finished goods into which some of these are transformed. Anything that people can use is a resource. These include foods, drinks, household wares, bricks, construction stone - even exotic animals!
RAW MATERIALS AND HARVESTING
Basic raw materials (such as acacia wood, clay, reeds and quartz) are harvested directly from the natural environment by the shopkeepers and craftsmen who use them. Fine raw materials (such as metals, gems and building stones) must be <mined,link=42> or <quarried,link=41> by large teams of overseers and laborers, after which they are available for use by craftsmen and shopkeepers via an <Exchange,link=60>. Exotic raw materials (such as cedar and myrrh) are also commonly imported into Egypt. With the exception of raw foods, your government is solely responsible for (and has exclusive rights over) the harvesting and <trade,link=56> of all fine raw materials. Basic raw materials never reside in government <storage areas,link=61>, nor are they traded.
MANUFACTURE
Through the efforts of industrious <shopkeepers,link=264> and tireless <government craftsmen,link=301>, raw materials are combined and transformed into a wide variety of finished goods, ranging from personal items like jewelry, pottery and linen (household wares) to bricks, papyrus, ships, weapons and armor. See also <production,link=184>.
RESOURCES LISTED BY CATEGORY
CONSUMABLES
Foods
<img=61> <Barley,link=206>
<img=102> <Bread,link=210>
<img=66> <Dates,link=215>
<img=71> <Fish,link=220>
<img=74> <Fowl,link=221>
<img=77> <Grapes,link=225>
<img=82> <Lettuce,link=231>
<img=86> <Onions,link=235>
<img=88> <Pomegranates,link=132>
<img=119> <Vegetables,link=246>
<img=95> <Wheat,link=248>
BASIC RAW MATERIALS
Plants and plant byproducts
<img=128> <Acacia,link=125>
<img=72> <Flax,link=38>
<img=73> <Flowers,link=128>
<img=78> <Henna,link=129>
<img=85> <Oil,link=131>
<img=87> <Papyrus Reeds,link=237>
<img=90> <Rushes,link=134>
Minerals
<img=64> <Clay,link=34>
<img=80> <Kohl,link=130>
<img=89> <Quartz,link=133>
Animal byproducts
<img=81> <Leather,link=230>
FINE RAW MATERIALS
Metals
<img=65> <Copper,link=213>
<img=75> <Gold,link=223>
<img=93> <Tin,link=244>
Gems
<img=68> <Emeralds,link=217>
<img=94> <Turquoise,link=245>
Imported
<img=129> <Cedar,link=126>
Stone
<img=62> <Basalt,link=207>
<img=70> <Fine Limestone,link=219>
<img=76> <Granite,link=224>
<img=83> <Limestone,link=232>
FINISHED GOODS
Common Household Wares
<img=100> <Baskets,link=208>
<img=109> <Linen,link=233>
<img=110> <Mats,link=234>
<img=114> <Pottery,link=239>
Luxury Household Wares, Local
<img=105> <Cosmetics,link=214>
<img=106> <Furniture,link=222>
<img=108> <Jewelry,link=228>
<img=113> <Perfume,link=238>
<img=115> <Sandals,link=240>
<img=116> <Sculpture,link=241>
Luxury Household Wares, Exotic
<img=97> <Furs,link=203>
<img=107> <Incense,link=226>
<img=98> <Monkeys,link=51>
<img=118> <Spices,link=242>
Military Equipment
<img=99> <Armor,link=205>
<img=104> <Chariots,link=212>
<img=127> <Khopeshes,link=229>
<img=120> <Weapons,link=247>
Miscellaneous
<img=103> <Bricks,link=139>
<img=112> <Papyrus,link=236>
FULL ALPHABETICAL LIST
<img=128> <Acacia,link=125>
<img=97> <Furs,link=203>
<img=99> <Armor,link=205>
<img=61> <Barley,link=206>
<img=62> <Basalt,link=207>
<img=100> <Baskets,link=208>
<img=102> <Bread,link=210>
<img=103> <Bricks,link=139>
<img=129> <Cedar,link=126>
<img=104> <Chariots,link=212>
<img=64> <Clay,link=34>
<img=65> <Copper,link=213>
<img=105> <Cosmetics,link=214>
<img=66> <Dates,link=215>
<img=68> <Emeralds,link=217>
<img=70> <Fine Limestone,link=219>
<img=71> <Fish,link=220>
<img=72> <Flax,link=38>
<img=73> <Flowers,link=128>
<img=74> <Fowl,link=221>
<img=106> <Furniture,link=222>
<img=75> <Gold,link=223>
<img=76> <Granite,link=224>
<img=77> <Grapes,link=225>
<img=78> <Henna,link=129>
<img=107> <Incense,link=226>
<img=108> <Jewelry,link=228>
<img=80> <Kohl,link=130>
<img=127> <Khopeshes,link=229>
<img=81> <Leather,link=230>
<img=82> <Lettuce,link=231>
<img=83> <Limestone,link=232>
<img=109> <Linen,link=233>
<img=110> <Mats,link=234>
<img=98> <Monkeys,link=51>
<img=84> <Myrrh,link=187>
<img=85> <Oil,link=131>
<img=86> <Onions,link=235>
<img=112> <Papyrus,link=236>
<img=87> <Papyrus Reeds,link=237>
<img=113> <Perfume,link=238>
<img=88> <Pomegranates,link=132>
<img=114> <Pottery,link=239>
<img=89> <Quartz,link=133>
<img=90> <Rushes,link=134>
<img=115> <Sandals,link=240>
<img=116> <Sculpture,link=241>
<img=118> <Spices,link=242>
<img=93> <Tin,link=244>
<img=94> <Turquoise,link=245>
<img=119> <Vegetables,link=246>
<img=120> <Weapons,link=247>
<img=95> <Wheat,link=248>
"
50038 "Food Production"
50039 " Before Osiris brought agriculture, everyone <foraged,link=35> for wild foods. Some people still fish and hunt, but only the poor and the primitive do so for sustenance. Most modern city dwellers depend on agriculture. No Egyptian of good breeding willingly gathers nuts and berries!
Private farming <estates,link=153> are the ultimate source of Egypt's bounty. Nobles manage these estates, which you <tax,link=91> for food. Each <noble family,link=21> in a townhouse can manage between four and eight <farming families,link=14>.
After the annual flood recedes (the <season of Peret,link=193>), farmers plant either grains or vegetables in <floodplain,link=37> fields. Before the next flood (the <season of Shemu,link=193>), all food in the harvest goes to a <threshing area,link=31>, where it is properly apportioned. Nobles and farmers receive food directly from the harvest, with more food going to larger <estates,link=153>. Half of the remainder goes as tax income to your government's <bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30>. All food produced on the <palace estate,link=16> is government property (after your own family is fed, of course). You do not need to worry about moving large amounts of food around from one place to another.
Fields that are well-tended by farmers grow faster than untended fields. Adult male farmers are the most effective tenders, followed by their wives, then their children. The whole family also helps with the harvest, which continues until all the crops are gathered or until the flood waters move in (the <season of Akhet,link=193>). Wives can help in the fields only after the household's shopping needs are met.
Two types of grain grow in Egypt. Wheat and barley are both suitable for baking bread. Since wheat is the most efficient thing to grow, and therefore produces more revenue than a barley field, why grow barley? Because barley bread that doesn't have to be eaten can be made into beer.
People love onions and lettuce, but they are the least productive (or most expensive, if you prefer) crop type to grow.
If you want to control the type of <tax income,link=91> you receive - to get more wheat, for instance, for world-level needs such as <upkeep and foreign trade,link=56> - right-click on townhouses to give orders to the nobles, and they'll make sure farmers grow the right crops. Without specific orders from you, you'll receive the mix of wheat, barley and vegetables that the nobles think is best.
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is currently available in your granaries and bakeries:
<img=25>
Use the <Resources Report,link=188> for a detailed breakdown of your revenue sources and expenses.
HISTORY: <Beer,link=340>
HISTORY: <Food and Drink,link=352>
"
50040 "Bakeries"
50041 " The bakery is an important government building where raw wheat and barley are baked into bread for your government's workers - peasant, craftsmen and educated elite alike. Bakeries also stock vegetables and other foodstuffs for these workers, and are in fact their only source for farm-grown <foods,link=158>. The <baker,link=297> does the actual food preparation, while his <wife,link=300> handles the household shopping. When you select a bakery, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows what prepared foods currently available, as well as the different kinds of raw foods the bakers have on hand for preparation. The city's whole economy would come apart without well-supplied bakeries to fuel your workers and support their spending needs. Bakers are middle-class government employees, who generally come from the <peasantry,link=80>.
When developing a new <labor camp,link=15> or other settlement that might be somewhat detached from your main city, make sure there are enough local bakeries to support the government employees that will live and work there.
Each of your bakeries receives a portion of the food taken as tax at <harvest time,link=28>. Leftover food is stored in <granaries,link=30>, and later redistributed to bakeries if they run low.
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is currently available in your granaries and bakeries:
<img=25>
HISTORY: <Bakeries,link=338>"
50042 "Granaries"
50043 " Granaries are massive storage structures that can hold all types of food, keeping them away from vermin and the elements. Dry grains are the best for long-term storage, but even they will decay over time. Your granaries store excess food when your bakeries are stuffed, and refill the bakeries when they run low. Only your government employees may get food from bakeries, but in times of need you can decree that government food be released to the city's nobles and farmers by issuing an <edict,link=86>. Woe unto the ruler whose granaries are empty when the Inundation fails!
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is currently available in your granaries and bakeries:
<img=25>
Nobles can build more modest home granaries for storing the family's food, but this is a <townhouse,link=21> enhancement, unrelated to the government granary.
"
50044 "Threshing Areas"
50045 " After harvest, all crops are taken to a bare patch of ground called the threshing area, where edible grain is temporarily stored. All food, including vegetables, is gathered in these areas before being distributed to <farmhouses,link=14>, <townhouses,link=21>, <bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30>. Farmers will establish threshing areas without instruction from you, as long as there's open land for them near the fields.
If you don't have enough bakeries and granaries to store newly-harvested tax revenue, some will be left sitting in the threshing area, where it can be freely taken by all citizens. This can often occur at the early stages of city development, when you may not have any bakeries or granaries. This is not a good long-term food distribution solution, however, as threshing areas are typically not conveniently located, and food left in threshing areas is vulnerable to spoilage and the elements.
"
50046 "Nurseries"
50047 " Your government runs nurseries to raise pomegranate trees, date palms, and grape vines. <Gardeners,link=299> are middle-class government employees who generally come from the <peasantry,link=80>. The young plants are sold to nobles to enhance their <townhouses,link=21> with gardens and groves.
People whose residences sport private groves have a ready supply of fruit, from which they make wine. Fruit and wine represent such an investment of time and effort that, besides being a coveted culinary delicacy, they are quite a status symbol as well. Households that can make wine don't need barley bread to make <beer,link=209>."
50048 "Foraging"
50049 " You will always see primitive <villagers,link=24> getting by on whatever food nature provides. And although they won't happily admit it, peasant <farmers,link=14>, <laborers,link=15> and <servants,link=20> are not above foraging to supplement their diets, although they will eventually return to their villager origins if they come to rely on wild food. In fact, even middle-class craftsmen (well, their wives anyway), entertainers and shopkeepers may sometimes be seen hunting, fishing and gathering wild food. This is cause for concern, because it means that they can't properly feed themselves in a civilized manner. Elite workers won't forage, but instead protest in the streets if they are unable to eat. Foraged food can never be used to buy anything.
Nobles hunt lions, hippos and even crocodiles sometimes, but purely for sport. Far from indicating a problem, hunting shows that they have spare time to indulge their passion for <leisure,link=82> activities. The rich would rather starve than forage for food."
50050 "Decoration"
50051 " Decorating your city is fun and gratifying, allowing you to get just the right look for your city, and making your <snapshots,link=194> really shine. To place decorative items, use the Infrastructure build button:
<img=5>
Decorative plants and figurines cost you nothing to build, and can be freely built upon later should you eventually decide you need to use the given space for a functional building or home.
"
50052 "The Inundation and the Floodplain"
50053 " The annual pulse of the Nile defines and enables life in Egypt. Crop yields are only as good as the flood, so its quality obviously affects the wealth and even the very survival of the nation. At one extreme, flood waters fail entirely, and none of the floodplain is renewed with deposits of fertile mud. At the other extreme, the Nile can rise enough to flood lowlands that aren't part of the floodplain, potentially sweeping away buildings. Most of the time, all is in harmony, and the floods of Akhet rise to expected levels. Even in normal years, the waters can sometimes leave behind more silt than in other years, allowing for superior fertility. Consult the <Resources Report,link=188> for information on the current flood and fertility.
That land which drowns and dries out year after year is called the floodplain, and is at a great premium. Normally farmhouses are located fairly close to the floodplain, since this is where farming families work. Read about <land,link=170> to avoid placing structures where they can wash away.
HISTORY: <The Inundation,link=359>"
50054 "Brickworks"
50055 " Almost all government buildings, including some types of <tombs,link=196>, are made from <bricks,link=139>, produced by middle-class <brick makers,link=288> at the home workshops called 'brickworks.' Simple mudbricks, used to build private homes, are not made by these professionals.
Finished bricks are stored right at the brickworks where the brick maker lives, until a <bricklayer,link=12> takes them to a <construction,link=145> site. <Clay,link=34> and wild <rushes,link=134> or <papyrus reeds,link=237> are collected by the brick maker or his <children,link=101> and combined in molds to make sun-dried bricks, while the <brick maker's wife,link=104> sees to the family's shopping needs. When you select a brickworks, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any finished bricks available there, as well as the raw materials the brick maker has on hand for use in brick production. If a brickworks isn't making very many bricks, make sure that it can get raw materials, and find out if the brick maker has competing demands on his time.
Your government sometimes trades in bricks with <foreign settlements,link=159>, or uses bricks for the upkeep of other <Egyptians settlements,link=152>. It's best to locate brickworks near anticipated construction sites, so bricklayers don't have to carry the heavy bricks too far.
HISTORY: <Bricks,link=341>"
50056 "Clay"
50057 " People have been using this soft, easily-shaped natural resource since the beginning of time. Clay is one of the two component raw materials used to make <bricks,link=139> - the indispensable construction material used to build most government buildings. Clay is also used by <potters,link=53> to make <pottery,link=239>, a common <household ware,link=43>, and <sculptors,link=296> make their cheapest <sculpture,link=241> from clay. Potters and <brick makers,link=33> alike easily dig all the clay they need from almost anywhere along the banks of the river.
HISTORY: <Clay,link=344>"
50058 "Flax"
50059 " Flax grows wild throughout Egypt, often near water. Weaver husbands and children harvest the plants and carry them back to the <linen shop,link=49>, where the weaver turns their fibers into fine <linen,link=233>, a common <household ware,link=43> that all citizens want for clothing.
HISTORY: <Flax,link=351>
"
50060 "Weapons Workshops"
50061 " The <weapon smith,link=289> can produce basic <weapons,link=247>, <armor,link=205>, <chariots,link=212> or <khopeshes,link=229> at his weapons workshop. You choose which by right-clicking on the building and selecting the desired type of military equipment from the list. All <soldiers,link=74>, including city <guards,link=66>, visit weapons workshops to obtain their equipment.
Like all government employees, the weapon smith gets his bread from your government's <bakeries,link=29>. Weapon smiths are middle-class craftsmen who arose from the <peasantry,link=80>. Both he and his <children,link=102> gather <acacia wood,link=125>, from which he makes basic weapons, while his <wife,link=104> sees to the family's shopping needs. He turns fine <copper,link=213> and <tin,link=244> from the city's <Exchange,link=60> or <storage areas,link=61> into high-quality bronze khopeshes that improve soldiers' combat abilities. Armor is made from <leather,link=230>, while chariots require fine <cedar,link=126>. When you select a weapons workshop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows what weapons are currently available, as well as the raw materials the workshop has stocked.
Locate weapons workshops near the barracks that house the soldiers who will acquire their goods, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the weapon smith's own household needs.
"
50062 "Papyrus Mills"
50063 " Writing on <papyrus,link=236> makes so many things so much more efficient that it can greatly accelerate your city's development. Students complete their lessons much more easily with papyrus, enabling the <priests,link=18> in <schools,link=70> to educate more youngsters at a time. <Scribes,link=19> with papyrus can serve a lot more customers simultaneously in <the Exchange,link=60>, while those who account for crop production can assess fields much more quickly. In <merchant centers,link=57>, scribes collect tariffs more effectively with the aid of papyrus. Priests and scribes obtain papyrus free of charge from your papyrus mills, and store it in their homes.
The <papyrus maker,link=290> creates his valuable product from native <papyrus reeds,link=237>, which he or his <children,link=105> gather, while his <wife,link=104> sees to the family's shopping needs. Since papyrus reeds only grow in Egypt, the rest of the literate world depends on exports of Egyptian papyrus. When you select a papyrus mill, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any papyrus currently, and the quantity of reeds the papyrus maker has in stock.
Quite apart from its utility in writing, Egypt's abundant papyrus reeds are sometimes used in making <bricks,link=139>. On most days you can see peasants fishing the Nile in <reed boats,link=90> they make for themselves.
Locate papyrus mills near the homes of the scribes and priests that will acquire the papyrus, but not too far from the reeds, common wares shops and service facilities the papyrus maker and his family needs."
50064 "Quarrying"
50065 " That which is not built from brick is built from stone, cut from the eternal bones of the land by teams of <laborers,link=15> directed by <overseers,link=17>. Unlike common rock, building-quality stone is not found everywhere, but comes only from special quarry sites. Quarries can yield inexhaustible supplies of <limestone,link=232>, <fine limestone,link=219>, <granite,link=224> or <basalt,link=207>, which are hauled to their destination (usually a construction site or <barge landing,link=58>) on sledges by other laborers serving as 'block-haulers.' <Stone carvers,link=22> transform particularly large or fine blocks of stone into <obelisks,link=79>, <stele,link=79> and <colossal statues,link=302>.
Quarriers remove stone from the earth in blocks, or single large pieces when quarrying obelisks, stele and statues. Block-haulers then remove the stone from the quarry. Quarrying is a long-term, labor-intensive effort in rocky areas unsuitable for prosperous large-scale settlement. You cannot build upon the quarry site itself... but why would you want to?
To quarry a particular type of stone, or obelisks, stele or statues, order an <overseer,link=17> to this task by right-clicking on his home. Quarry workers will not quarry large items such as <obelisks and stele,link=79> until you designate the construction of such a monument by placing its base where you want the monument to be erected, using the Monuments build button:
<img=6>
"
50066 "Mining"
50067 " Away from the fertile banks of the Nile, desert sands hide considerable mineral wealth. <Laborer,link=15> teams, supervised by <overseers,link=17>, can harvest inexhaustible deposits of gemstones like <emeralds,link=217 and <turquoise,link=245>, and such metals as <gold,link=223>, <tin,link=244> and <copper,link=213>. Metals are smelted or refined by the craftsmen who use them.
To mine a particular metal or gemstone, order an <overseer,link=17> to this task by right-clicking on his home.
"
50068 "Shipyards"
50069 " A shipyard is always located on the shoreline, where the resident <shipwright,link=298> produces transport <barges,link=58> used for river transport, oceangoing <military ships,link=77> for your navy, and <private yachts,link=21> for nobles to buy. Neither <reed boats,link=90> nor <cargo,link=143> barges come from shipyards. Like <barge landings,link=58> and <quays,link=57>, shipyards are built to withstand the waters of the <Inundation,link=37>.
The <acacia,link=125> of our native land is fine for making <furniture,link=222> and <weapons,link=247>, but too knotty or open-grained for shipbuilding. Ships must be made from straight, strong timbers, like those of <cedar,link=126> imported from <foreign lands,link=159> like Lebanon, then acquired by the shipwright via the <Exchange,link=60>. When you select a shipyard, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if ships are available, and what, if any, raw materials the shipwright has on hand.
Shipwrights are middle-class government employees who arose from the peasantry or migrated from other middle-class occupations. The <shipwright's wife,link=104> sees to the family's shopping needs, while the shipwright himself works in the shipyard.
HISTORY: <Ships,link=375>
"
;********************************* Buildings - Commerce and Household wares ***********************************************
50070 "Household Wares"
50071 " Everybody wants household wares to make life more comfortable. Common and luxury household wares are produced by the city's commercial shopkeepers, and sold in their <shops,link=264>. Exotic luxury wares are brought into the city by foreign <merchants,link=280>.
COMMON HOUSEHOLD WARES
<img=100> <Baskets,link=208>
<img=109> <Linen,link=233>
<img=110> <Mats,link=234>
<img=114> <Pottery,link=239>
All citizens need common wares.
LOCALLY PRODUCED LUXURY HOUSEHOLD WARES
<img=105> <Cosmetics,link=214>
<img=106> <Furniture,link=222>
<img=108> <Jewelry,link=228>
<img=113> <Perfume,link=238>
<img=115> <Sandals,link=240>
<img=116> <Sculpture,link=241>
IMPORTED (EXOTIC) LUXURY HOUSEHOLD WARES
<img=97> <Furs,link=203>
<img=107> <Incense,link=226>
<img=98> <Monkeys,link=51>
<img=118> <Spices,link=242>
Only <elite citizens,link=80> need luxury wares.
There are all different types of jewelry, sandals, etc. - the price of which reflects the materials and labor that went into producing them. Citizens don't desire specific kinds of these items, but just want 'jewelry', for example. Cheaper kinds of wares satisfy that need just as well as expensive ones do - a cheap faience bracelet fulfills the same need for one luxury ware as an emerald brooch will do. But that emerald will satisfy somebody for a longer time than the quartz. The longer something lasts, the less often one has to buy replacements. Making more expensive wares available therefore reduces the time that people have to spend <shopping,link=264>. People naturally want to buy the best wares that they can afford. As long as the better raw materials are available to your city's shopkeepers, they'll make the more expensive wares to satisfy their customers' tastes."
50072 "Basket Shops"
50073 " The <woman,link=286> of the basket shop household produces sturdy baskets for use in all the city's homes, while her <husband,link=99> and <child,link=95> collect raw materials for her. <Baskets,link=208> are a common <household ware,link=43> made from <papyrus reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134>. When you select a basket shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any baskets currently for sale, as well as the raw materials the basket maker has on hand in her shop.
Basket makers are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry. The basket maker also has to shop for the common wares that her family needs. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more work she can get done. Locate basket shops near the households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the basket maker's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Baskets,link=339>"
50074 "Cosmetics Shops"
50075 " The <cosmetician,link=291> creates <cosmetics,link=214>, a luxury <household ware,link=43>, in his shop, for sale to the city's elite citizens and to foreign <merchants,link=280> that visit the city. Cosmetics are made from <kohl,link=130> or <henna,link=129>, or from malachite made from <copper,link=213> ore. When you select a cosmetics shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any cosmetics currently for sale, as well as the raw materials the cosmetician has on hand in his shop.
Elite citizens hate so much to appear in public without proper makeup, with all its protective aspects, that they don't consider the cosmetician's wares 'luxuries' at all. A successful cosmetician might hire a servant to help his <children,link=106> gather kohl and henna. If freed from this duty, the children might have time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become <educated workers,link=150>. If it's available, the cosmetician will buy copper ore from your government at the <Exchange,link=60> to get that coveted deep green shade of malachite that goes into the most expensive cosmetics. The <cosmetician's wife,link=112> does the shopping.
Cosmeticians are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. Very prosperous cosmetics shops can enable their owners to move into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and become elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate cosmetics shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the cosmetician's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Cosmetics,link=346>"
50076 "Furniture Shops"
50077 " <Furnishers,link=292> create fine <furniture,link=222> in their shops for sale to the city's elite citizens and to foreign <merchants,link=280> that visit the city. Furniture can be made from <reeds,link=237>, <acacia,link=125>, or fine <cedar,link=126>. Cedar must be imported, and is then purchased by the furnisher at the <Exchange,link=60>. Good, workable wood is precious in Egypt, so furniture is one of the more expensive luxury <household wares,link=43>. When you select a furniture shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any furniture currently for sale, and the raw materials the furnisher has on hand in his shop.
Furnishers are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. The furnisher's <children,link=107> can collect acacia and reeds for the shop, while the <furnisher's wife,link=112> sees to the family's shopping needs. If freed from this duty when the furnisher hires a <servant,link=20>, the children might have time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become <educated workers,link=150>. Very prosperous furniture shops can enable their owners to achieve the dream of moving into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and becoming elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate furniture shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the furnisher's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Furniture,link=354>"
50078 "Jewelry Shops"
50079 " <Jewelers,link=293> fashion fine <jewelry,link=228>, a luxury <household ware,link=43>, in their commercial jewelry shops for sale to local elite citizens and foreign <merchants,link=280> that visit the city. Jewelry varies widely in value, depending on the materials the jeweler puts into each piece. <Faience,link=133>, made from common quartz sands that the jeweler's <children,link=108> and <servants,link=20> gather, is fairly common. <Gold,link=223>, <emeralds,link=217> and <turquoise,link=245> have to be <mined,link=42> or imported by your government and are then purchased by the jeweler from an <Exchange,link=60>. Jewelry made from these materials is more precious. When you select a jewelry shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any jewelry currently for sale, and the raw materials the jeweler has on hand in his shop.
Any piece of jewelry satisfies an elite citizen's need for one luxury item, but the more valuable the piece, the longer it satisfies its owner. Jewelers produce every kind of jewelry that they can from the materials available to them, and their customers buy the best pieces they can afford.
Jewelers are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. Jewelers' children who are freed from their harvesting duties might have time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become <educated workers,link=150>. Very prosperous jewelry shops can enable their owners to move into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and become elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate jewelry shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials and service facilities the jeweler's own household needs, and from the common wares shops at which the <jeweler's wife,link=112> will need to shop.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Jewelry,link=360>"
50080 "Linen Shops"
50081 " <Linen,link=233>, the clothing material of choice, is an inexpensive common <household ware,link=43> desired by everyone who doesn't wish to go around naked. The <weaver,link=287> makes linen at her home shop, using <flax,link=38> that her <husband,link=100> and <children,link=96> gather from the wild. When you select a linen shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any linen currently for sale, and the raw materials the weaver has on hand in her shop.
Weavers are members of the middle class who either arose from the ranks of the peasantry or migrated from other middle-class occupations. The weaver has to shop for the common wares that her family needs. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more work she can get done. Locate linen shops near the households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the weaver's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Clothing and Linen,link=345>
HISTORY: <Flax,link=351>"
50082 "Mat Shops"
50083 " Everybody needs to cover their floors, windows and doors with mats, making them among the most common of <household wares,link=43>. The <mat maker,link=285> weaves her mats from the <papyrus reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> that her <husband,link=98> and <children,link=94> gather from the river's banks. When you select a mat shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any mats currently for sale, and the raw materials the mat maker has on hand in her shop.
Mat makers are members of the middle class who either arose from the ranks of the peasantry or migrated from other middle-class occupations. When she is not actually making mats, the mat maker has to shop for household wares for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more work she can get done. Locate mat shops near the households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the mat maker's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Mats,link=363>"
50084 "Monkeys"
50085 " Trained monkeys are a luxury <household ware,link=43> available only through import. Nobles train them to harvest fruit from the trees in their <townhouse groves,link=21>. Monkeys are an endless source of amusement, and nobles who own them are fond of showing them off.
HISTORY: <Monkeys,link=365>"
50086 "Perfume Shops"
50087 " <Perfume,link=238> is a luxury <household ware,link=43> made by the <perfumer,link=294> from <oil,link=131> mixed with <flowers,link=128>, <henna,link=129> or <myrrh,link=187>. The <perfumer's children,link=109> collect these materials, while his <wife,link=112> sees to the family's shopping needs. When the family can afford to hire a <servant,link=20> to help with the gathering, perfumers' children might have enough free time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become <educated workers,link=150>.
The city's wealthier residents patronize perfume shops, as do foreign <merchants,link=280>. When you select a perfume shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any perfume currently for sale, as well as the variety of raw materials the perfumer has on hand in his shop.
Perfumers are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. Very prosperous perfume shops can enable their owners to move into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and become elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate perfume shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the perfumer's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Perfume,link=369>"
50088 "Pottery Shops"
50089 " <Pottery,link=239> is a common <household ware,link=43> - a basic, inexpensive commodity that everybody likes to have. The <potter,link=284> works in her home, fashioning all manner of vessels from the <clay,link=34> that her <husband,link=97> and their <children,link=93> dig from the shores of the Nile. When you select a pottery shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any pots currently for sale, and the raw materials the potter has on hand for production.
Potters are members of the middle class who either arose from the ranks of the peasantry or migrated from other middle-class occupations. When she is not actually throwing pots, the potter has to shop for household wares for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more work she can get done. Locate pottery shops near the households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the potter's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Pottery,link=371>"
50090 "Sandal Shops"
50091 " <Sandal makers,link=295> create footwear for sale to the wealthier residents of your city and to foreign <merchants,link=280> that visit the city. <Sandals,link=240> are a luxury <household ware,link=43> made from <rushes,link=134>, more valuable <leather,link=230>, or a combination of these materials. When you select a sandal shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there are any sandals currently for sale, and the raw materials the sandal maker has on hand for production.
Sandal makers are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. The sandal maker's <children,link=110> help him by gathering raw materials, while his <wife,link=112> sees to the family's shopping needs. If the family can afford to employ a <servant,link=20> to harvest their resources, the children might have enough free time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become <educated workers,link=150>. Very prosperous sandal shops can enable their owners to move into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and become elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate sandal shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials, common wares shops and service facilities the sandal maker's own household needs.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Sandals,link=373>"
50092 "Sculpture Shops"
50093 " <Sculptors,link=296> create <sculpture,link=241>, a luxury <household ware,link=43>, using <clay,link=34> - a basic raw material dug by the <sculptor's children,link=111>. Sculpture can also be made from fine raw materials such as <basalt,link=207>, or from <copper,link=213> and <tin,link=244>. These materials must be harvested or imported by your government, after which they can be purchased by the sculptor at an <Exchange,link=60>. A sculptor who can afford to employ a <servant,link=20> to gather clay might enable his children to attend <school,link=70>, and ultimately become <educated workers,link=150>.
Sculpture is bought by members of elite society, and by foreign <merchants,link=280> that visit the city as well. When you select a sculpture shop, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows if there is any sculpture currently for sale, and the raw materials the sculptor has on hand to use in creating his masterpieces. Spirits of the dead, and even gods, reside in sculptures, making the sculptor's importance (and his resultant high standard of living) obvious.
Sculptors are members of the middle class who have risen from the ranks of the peasantry, or migrated from other middle-class occupations. Very prosperous sculpture shops can enable their owners to move into vacant <townhouses,link=21> and become elite noble families, provided they have enough food to finance their new start. Locate sculpture shops near the elite households that will buy their wares, but not too far from the raw materials and service facilities the sculptor's own household needs, and from the common wares shops where the <sculptor's wife,link=112> will do the family shopping.
You can change the shop to a different type by right-clicking on it and selecting a new kind of ware from the list.
HISTORY: <Sculpture,link=374>"
50094 "Trade"
50095 " Many other <Egyptian settlements,link=152> rely on your capital city for regular <upkeep,link=200>. Maintaining these Egyptian sites gives your capital city access to resources not available locally, and might also increase your prestige, depending on the nature of the site. <Trade with foreign governments,link=282> lets you exchange locally-harvested raw materials and locally-produced government finished goods, such as bricks and papyrus, with items harvested or manufactured abroad. In addition, elite citizens like to purchase exotic luxury wares from foreign <merchants,link=280>, and your city's luxury shopkeepers sell their wares to these merchants, so that the whole world can know the joy of Egypt's finest commodities.
Resources that are harvested exclusively by the government (such as metals, gems and stones) or manufactured exclusively by the government (such as bricks, weapons and papyrus) are likewise traded exclusively by the government, and used exclusively by the government for the upkeep of other Egyptian settlements. These are referred to as <'cargo',link=143>. Food, too, can be traded by your government as cargo. When a cargo barge from a <foreign settlement,link=159> or another Egyptian settlement enters your city, it ties up a landing, where it remains until its deliverymen take all of its cargo to the designated <drop-off points,link=59>, and then retrieve whatever cargo you are sending out in return. That takes time. If another cargo barge from some other settlement arrives while the barge landing is occupied, or if a local barge is tied up there, you might miss a delivery. Drop-off points can be dedicated to particular world-level sites, but barge landings cannot. To avoid losing cargoes, make sure that your city has at least as many barge landings as there are waterborne cargo deliverers - more if you are using local barges. Setting resource <reserves,link=186> is also very important to ensure that the desired items are available when deliverymen arrive in the city to retrieve them.
Unlike cargo, household wares are exchanged exclusively in private transactions between merchants and your citizens. A merchant center allows you to collect <tariffs,link=195> on these transactions. However, the main benefit of importing exotic luxury household wares is not to collect revenue for the government, but to stimulate the private economy, and satisfy the citizenry.
View the worldwide trade summary on the <world level,link=317> to see total annual trade in both cargo and merchant commodities. Click the trade type label to toggle between these two reports.
HISTORY: <Trade,link=378>"
50096 "Merchant Centers, Quays and Merchants' Stalls"
50097 " <Merchant,link=280> caravans and ships bring luxury <household wares,link=43> from <faraway lands,link=168>. Newly arrived merchants look for a merchant center with an available stall from which to sell their exotic wares, or to serve as a base while they purchase locally-produced luxury wares from your city's luxury shops. If no stalls are vacant, the merchant sets up someplace near his customers or suppliers. He conducts as much business as he can, then returns home. Merchants continue to come and go periodically, buying and selling all that they can on each trip.
Merchant centers provide an organizational advantage. It is easier to keep track of the city's merchant commerce when it's centralized, and easier for your <scribes,link=19> to record merchant transactions and collect <tariffs,link=195> on them. Order a scribe to dedicate his efforts to tariff collection by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list. Some unscrupulous merchants set up outside of merchant centers to escape paying tariffs, but scribes know this and occasionally go out looking for these renegade stalls.
A merchant center built on the water's edge can serve waterborne merchants. It sports a dock, and is called a quay. Like <barge landings,link=58> and <shipyards,link=44>, quays are built to withstand the waters of the <Inundation,link=37>.
HISTORY: <Trade,link=378>"
50098 "Barge Landings"
50099 " Barges are large vessels of <cedar,link=126> wood. They are little more than floating platforms for moving resources from one landing to another, or moving <cargo,link=143> from one city to another. The shipwright at a <shipyard,link=44> produces local barges when you place barge landings somewhere along the shore. After each trip, a local barge remains at its destination landing, ready for reuse. These simple platforms, which are the only way to move resources across water, can never leave the placid waters of the Nile. Naturally, the shipwright can't supply a barge unless it can reach the new landing by water.
When a cargo barge from a <foreign settlement,link=159> or another <Egyptian settlement,link=152> enters your city, it ties up a landing, where it remains until its deliverymen take all of its cargo to the designated <drop-off points,link=59>, and then retrieve whatever cargo you are sending out in return. That takes time. If all your barge landings are occupied when a delivery from some other settlement arrives, you might miss a delivery. Drop-off points can be dedicated to particular world-level sites, but barge landings cannot. To avoid losing cargoes, make sure that your city has at least one barge landing for each waterborne trade partner. Like <quays,link=57> and <shipyards,link=44>, barge landings are built to withstand the waters of the <Inundation,link=37>.
Cargo barges suitable for foreign travel are supplied by your trade partner, not made at your shipyards."
50100 "Cargo Drop-off Points"
50101 " Designate a cargo drop-off point to indicate where cargo movers and <foreign traders,link=282> will deposit government <cargo,link=143> imported to the city. You can dedicate a drop-off point to receive imports from an individual <world-level,link=317> location by right-clicking on it and selecting the site from the list. If you don't give such instructions, the drop-off point can receive goods imported from any site. A <storage area,link=61> is formed on and around the drop-off point. After they're in a storage area, imported goods are treated just like any other, and can be distributed via the <Exchange,link=60>."
50102 "The Exchange"
50103 " <Shopkeepers,link=264> and <craftsmen,link=301> gain convenient access to all government-harvested or imported raw materials (which are actually held in <storage areas,link=61>) simultaneously via the Exchange. Exchanges are expensive to build and require the services of a <scribe,link=19> to operate, but giving finished goods producers a central place to obtain raw materials makes their lives easier. When there is no Exchange, these manufacturers have to get their raw materials directly from individual storage areas, which are often situated in remote and inaccessible locations. Shopkeepers have to pay for what they take with food, but government craftsmen get government raw materials for free, since they'll use them to make finished goods solely for the government. The number of <scribes,link=19> employed at an Exchange, and whether they have <papyrus,link=236>, determines how many customers it may serve at any given time. Order a scribe to dedicate his efforts to the Exchange by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list. "
50104 "Storage Areas"
50105 " Everything has to be put somewhere. Often, that place is a storage area, which is just a bare patch of ground set aside for accumulating <resources,link=27> that have been harvested or imported by your government. These areas are created spontaneously, as needed. <Craftsmen,link=301> and <shopkeepers,link=264> can obtain raw materials directly from storage areas, or get access to all of the city's storage areas simultaneously via <the Exchange,link=60>. "
50107 " All of your citizens' non-material needs and desires are collectively called 'services.' Most are provided directly by your government, and most of these specifically by priests. To instruct a priest, or any <educated worker,link=150>, to provide a specific service, right click on his home and choose one from the list that appears. Service providers who don't have other orders will spread their efforts among all nearby buildings that can use them.
Most services, with the exception of education, are important in keeping citizens satisfied. Leisure is the only service provided by private citizens. Security is a measure of the level of stability and safety in the environment you have provided for the city's families, while leisure is comprised of entertainment and recreation opportunities. For more information, see:
<img=123> <Healthcare,link=166>
<img=126> <Worship,link=202>
<img=122> <Funerary Services,link=87>
<img=130> <Education,link=151>
<img=125> <Security,link=191>
<img=124> <Leisure,link=82>
The <Administration Report,link=136> gives comprehensive information on the quality of services in the city, as well as the number of each service facility in the city.
When you select a service building, an indicator above it shows if it is currently operational:
<img=150>
Or not
<img=151>
"
50108 "Apothecaries"
50109 " This <healthcare,link=166> facility is the first stop when citizens feel unwell. Here <priests,link=18> can prescribe herbal cures, poultices, amulets and spells to help cure the sufferer. More serious complaints take longer to address, and might require a visit to a <hospital,link=67>. People become <dissatisfied,link=83> when they can't visit the necessary healthcare facilities.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many apothecaries are operating in the city at any given time. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to providing healthcare by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
HISTORY: <Medicine,link=364>"
50110 "Courts of Law"
50111 " When <legal disputes,link=191> arise between nobles, they come here to ask a prince of the <royal family,link=16> to judge who is in the right. Only nobles ever feel the need for this type of justice, and they become <dissatisfied,link=83> if nobody will hear their boundary dispute, breach of contract, fraud or adultery complaint. The generally civil nature of Egyptian society makes one court of law sufficient to handle a city's infrequent needs for justice.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many courts of law are operating in the city at any given time."
50112 "Cult Temples"
50113 " A cult temple is a monumental construction effort, and the highest form of homage to a god. Indicate the specific god you wish to honor by right-clicking on the cult temple and selecting the god's name from the list. The cult temple is built from <bricks,link=139>, but isn't dedicated until a <stone carver,link=22> makes the sacred statue for the patron god from a large block of <basalt,link=207>. After this, <priests,link=18> can regularly tend the god, ensuring the full operation of the facility. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to tending the gods at <worship,link=202> facilities by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
People who live in cities that worship a patron god expect a cult temple to their patron, and will become dissatisfied with anything less. To discover your city's patron, if any, hover your mouse pointer over the city's name on the main interface. Nobles in a city with a cult temple can enhance their <townhouses,link=21> with family shrines, somewhat reducing their need to attend public worship facilities. A cult temple can serve many citizens at once, but it requires a lot of priestly attention.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many cult temples are operating in the city at any given time. It also reports the name of your patron god.
"
;50114 "CotN 50114"
;50115 "CotN 50115"
;50116 "CotN 50116"
;50117 "CotN 50117"
50118 "Guard Posts"
50119 " <Soldiers,link=74> who are assigned to city guard duty and led by a <commander,link=11> deter <crime,link=283>, apprehend any criminals who do dare to break the law, and fight off wild animals that wander into the city. Without these officers to police the streets and keep order, the threat of crime eventually causes <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the populace. Guard posts organize patrols and make them more effective. Unlike regular army soldiers, city guards don't drill at a <training ground,link=75>. They can police the city using nothing more than basic clubs from a <weapons workshop,link=39>, but are more formidable when fully outfitted with <armor,link=205> and <khopesh,link=229>. The very existence of a manned guard post suppresses crime in its immediate surroundings.
Don't locate guard posts too far from the <barracks,link=74> or commanders' quarters in which the city's guardsmen live. City guards are the city's last line of defense if <raiders,link=89> enter, but they leave actual <warfare,link=144> to the infantry, archers and charioteers that comprise the army proper. Order commanders and soldiers to serve in the city guard by right-clicking on their homes.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many guard posts are operating in the city at any given time.
HISTORY: <Police,link=370>"
50120 "Hospitals"
50121 " Hospitals, attended by physician <priests,link=18>, provide a higher level of <medical care,link=166> than an <apothecary,link=63> can handle. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to providing healthcare by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list. People need to visit one when they have serious medical problems. The injured and afflicted not only become <dissatisfied,link=83> when they can't get to a hospital - they might even die!
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many hospitals are operating in the city at any given time.
HISTORY: <Medicine,link=364>"
50122 "Credits"
50123 "
<img=226>
LEAD DESIGNER
Chris Beatrice
PRODUCER
Mat Williams
LEAD PROGRAMMER
Mike Gingerich
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER
Greg Sheppard
DESIGNERS
Jeff Fiske
Tony Leier
PROGRAMMERS
Gus Smedstad
Jeff Somers
Tony Hosier
Victor Rachels
Jim Solomon
Eli Pulsifer
Thanh Pham
ARTISTS
Dennis Rose
Mike Malone
Adam Carriuolo
Kwan Sukasame
COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER & VIDEO ENGINEER
Keith Zizza
SCENARIO DESIGNERS
Lenny Eusebi
Matt Zimmitti
David Kondor
WRITER
Ken Parker
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
David Beebe
ADDITIONAL SCENARIO DESIGN
Tom Fenselau
Jared Sorensen
Jonathan Peters
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING
Chris Harvey
LEAD TESTER
Blair Evans
QUALITY ASSURANCE & DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
Hans Schroder
Tom Wilhelm
Peter Hollmer
Ron Aghababian
WEBMASTER
Jeremiah Freyholtz
FINANCE & OPERATIONS
Peter Haffenreffer
LEGAL COUNSEL
Marsha Phillips Beatrice
VOICE ACTORS
Gil Andrews
Gene Bogart
David Fielding
James K. Flynn
Pam Good
Tom Guyette
Howie Hoggins
Vivian Liu-Somers
George McNerlin
Ruthi McNerlin
Tess McNerlin
Bruce Miles
Lani Minella
Michael Monsour
Eve Passeltiner
George Piehl
Danielle Seadia
Jessica Wachsman
Francine Wolf
<img=227>
PRODUCTION
Gene Mauro
Grant Winton
MARKETING
Sharon Wood
CREATIVE
Ken Woo
Brett Icahn
Lesley Zinn
SALES
Strategic Marketing Partners
PUBLIC RELATIONS
cho HighWater
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tilted Mill would like to give special thanks to the following individuals for their help in making Children of the Nile possible:
Rick Goodman
Dara-Lynn Pelechatz
Stainless Steel Studios
Claudia Kuehl
Tim Znamenacek
Bonnie Ross
Jim Veevaert
Jan Wagner
Michael Conza
Scott Birnbaum
Deb Munro
Lani at Audio Godz
Everyone at Earworks
Thanks also to all the beta testers, our loyal fans, the CotN Luminaries, and our long time supporters at CBC & Heavengames
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Uses Bink Video. Copyright ⌐ 1997-2004 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.
<img=225>
Uses Miles Sound System. Copyright ⌐ 1991-2004 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.
MPEG Layer-3 playback supplied with the Miles Sound System from RAD Game Tools, Inc. MPEG Layer-3 audio compression technology licensed by Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia.
"
50124 "Mortuaries"
50125 " When an elite citizen dies, surviving family members gather in his or her home. Pallbearers are recruited to carry the coffin, and the funeral party goes to the nearest operational mortuary, where a <priest,link=18> prepares the body for its journey to the afterlife. After a time, the bereaved return to their normal business. If the deceased was a noble or a royal, the mourners proceed to the <tomb,link=196> for a final ceremony. If there is no mortuary in operation, survivors become understandably <dissatisfied,link=83>. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to providing funerary services by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many mortuaries are operating in the city at any given time.
HISTORY: <The Afterlife,link=336>
HISTORY: <Mummification,link=366>"
50126 "Funerary Services"
50127 "<img=122>
Life in flesh is brief, but with careful preparation we shall live forever, and in comfort. There is nothing more important than proper funerary rites and a suitable <tomb,link=196> to ensure eternal life. Whenever an elite citizen dies from any cause, his survivors hold a funeral. First the survivors visit a <mortuary,link=69>, where the deceased is embalmed by a priest. Nobility and royals who own a <tomb,link=196>, such as a <mastaba,link=197> or <pyramid,link=211>, then proceed there for the interment. Lesser elites, or nobles who have no tomb, end their services at the mortuary. The lack of adequate funerary services makes the bereaved family highly <dissatisfied,link=83>. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to providing funerary services by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many tombs are available at any given time. If you select a tomb, the indicator shows whether or not it is still available for use:
<img=153>
Or has been acquired by a family:
<img=154>
"
50128 "Schools"
50129 " <Priests,link=18> prepare students for careers as <educated workers,link=150> here. The process goes more quickly with a supply of <papyrus,link=40>. A child who finishes his education becomes a <graduate,link=165>. When you <place a new house,link=26> for a <military commander,link=11>, priest, <overseer,link=17>, or <scribe,link=19>, the position can only be filled if there is a graduate ready to embark on a career. It is good to have a pool of graduates ready to take these professional assignments so that you can fill them as soon as your <prestige,link=84> permits. The <People Report,link=180> shows you how many graduates are currently available for work. When you select an elite home, the number next to the graduates icon shows how many graduates live there:
<img=58>
Students never come from priest households, as priests never marry.
Since students have to commute from their homes, those who live near school will complete their educations more quickly. Build schools near the homes of the elite families they will serve, and near the priest apartments that house your teachers. Luxury shopkeepers can sometimes send their kids to school, too, if they can hire a <servant,link=20> to take over their children's harvesting duties. Education is so critical to developing your civilization that if you don't have any graduates or educated workers in the city, either a gifted <young noble,link=115> or a precocious luxury shopkeeper's child can move directly into a vacant priest's apartment and assume all the duties of a priest, bypassing the normal <educational,link=151> process. This initial priest is so crucial to your city's development that your citizens overlook his on-the-job learning. People do not become <dissatisfied,link=83> for lack of education, but without schools you will never be able to build a developed civilization. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to teaching at schools by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many schools are operating in the city at any given time.
HISTORY: <Education,link=348>
"
50130 "Temples"
50131 " When circumstances motivate people to <worship,link=202>, they seek a temple to a specific god, depending on what moved them to worship. If they cannot attend a temple to their chosen god, visiting any kind of temple can help reduce their resulting <dissatisfaction,link=83>, provided the resident <god,link=140> has been well tended by a <priest,link=18>. Temples serve more people simultaneously and are usually more satisfying than <shrines,link=72>, but they take up more of a priest's time. Dedicate a temple to a specific god by right-clicking on it and selecting the god's name from the list. A <stone carver,link=22> will make the sacred statue of the god from a small <basalt,link=207> block, after <laborers,link=15> haul it to the site under the watchful eye of an <overseer,link=17>. Other than this statue, the building is made of <brick,link=139>. Temples may be rededicated to other gods. In such cases, the old god statue is removed, and a new statue must be created to embody the new god.
There is no advantage to leaving a temple undedicated, since its effect on somebody's level of dissatisfaction is just like that of a temple to the 'wrong' god. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to tending the gods at worship facilities by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
The <Administration Report,link=136> shows you how many temples are operating in the city at any given time, and how many exist in total. click on individual temples for more detailed information.
HISTORY: <Priests and Temples,link=372>
"
50132 "Shrines"
50133 " Shrines provide a low level of <worship,link=202> service to a small number of people. They are cheap to build, and require less of your <priests',link=18> time to operate than do <temples,link=71> - a priest can tend several shrines in the time it would take him to service one temple. Like temples, shrines are dedicated to a particular <god,link=140> by right-clicking on the shrine and selecting the god's name from the list. Rededicating a shrine requires the services of a <bricklayer,link=12> to assemble a new statue. He will reuse existing bricks. Because anybody may worship any god at any religious building, there is no reason to leave shrines undedicated.
People become <dissatisfied,link=83> when they can't visit the worship facilities they want. Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to tending the gods at worship facilities by right-clicking on his home and selecting this from the list.
The <Administration Report,link=136> summarizes how many shrines are operating in the city at any given time, out of how many exist. For more detailed information, click on individual shrines.
HISTORY: <Priests and Temples,link=372>
"
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50134 "Military"
50135 " One of your government's main responsibilities is providing <security,link=191> against a dangerous world. Severe <crime,link=283>, widespread animal attacks, and armed <raids,link=89> launched from <enemy strongholds,link=167> all create feelings of insecurity, which take a toll on the public's <satisfaction,link=83>.
<City guards,link=66> and <walls,link=76> counteract threats within the city itself. To remove enemy pressure at its source, you need a strong army and navy. Various types of regular soldiers living in <barracks,link=74>, led and trained by <commanders,link=11>, form the backbone of the Egyptian army. One commander can lead up to 30 soldiers.
Soldiers get both basic weapons and more advanced equipment from <weapons workshops,link=39>. All soldiers except charioteers can fight when armed with their basic weapon. Charioteers only need <chariots,link=212>. Once they're properly equipped, soldiers can train at a <training ground,link=75>. There are no degrees of training - soldiers are either trained, or they are not. City guards do not train.
In addition to their basic weapons, all troops can wield a sword called a <khopesh,link=229> for close fighting. They can also wear <armor,link=205>. Right-click a weapons workshop to order the <Weapon smith,link=39> to produce either khopeshes or armor instead of basic weapons. A soldier with a khopesh is more deadly than one carrying only his basic weapon, and one wearing armor is less likely to die in combat. Egypt's enemies have been known to flee at the mere sight of a trained, armored Egyptian soldier swinging a khopesh and riding in a chariot.
When a foreign threat is found, you can usually increase your <prestige,link=84> and end raiding by crushing enemy encampments. If your army is large enough, of sufficient quality, and comprised of the right types of troops, you can meet any challenge. The entire army - all available soldiers - is dispatched together on each world level mission. Only one army can be abroad at any time. If is equal to or greater than the recommended troops, you will achieve your objective with an acceptable number of casualties. If it exceeds the recommendation, your losses will be minimized. If it is less than the force suggested, casualties will be higher, and your conquest might even fail.
Remember that your prestige determines how many educated workers (including, of course, commanders) you can employ. To be a serious military power, try to maintain as many soldiers as you can. Because you don't know the nature of the threats you'll face, your army should contain multiple troop types. They need to be equipped, trained and armored, and their morale should be good. Your soldiers' <satisfaction,link=83> determines the army's morale. The number of commanders present, and the army's morale, improve your chances of winning an engagement and sustaining minimal casualties.
Of course, you cannot reach overseas destinations without <warships,link=77>, each of which must be produced at a <shipyard,link=44> and captained by a commander <ordered,link=178> to navy service.
HISTORY: <The Army,link=337>
HISTORY: <The Navy,link=368>"
50136 "Barracks and Soldiers"
50137 " Right-click on a barracks to order its soldiers to equip and serve as infantry, archers, city guards or charioteers. Each barracks houses three soldiers, all of whom are unmarried men without children. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'soldiers' to see what orders they've all received. Infantry, archers and city guards get their weapons from a <weapons workshop,link=39> instructed to produce <basic weapons,link=247>. Charioteers, of course, need <chariots,link=212> from a weapons workshop which has been instructed to make these vehicles - the chariot is their 'basic weapon'. Armor is made at yet another weapons workshop ordered to the task, and reduces casualties among all soldiers. <Khopeshes,link=229> are superior metal weapons that all soldiers can use, in addition to their given basic weapon. Charioteers also appreciate being equipped with armor and khopeshes.
Only soldiers equipped with basic weapons can participate in <military engagements,link=144> abroad, so build their barracks near the weapons workshops from which they will acquire their equipment, and the <training ground,link=75> where they will drill under the guidance of a <commander,link=11>. Spread city guards' barracks and guard posts throughout the city to discourage crime and protect people from raiders. Guards don't receive training, and therefore don't need proximity to training grounds, but they can't patrol without weapons from a weapons workshop."
50138 "Training Grounds"
50139 " <Commanders,link=11> drill <troops,link=74> here. Soldiers need at least basic weapons to train for <military,link=73> careers; charioteers need only <chariots,link=212>. There are no levels of training; soldiers are either trained, or they are not. Training improves soldiers' skill levels and increases their chance of surviving a <battle,link=144>. City guards do not receive military training. Locate training grounds reasonably near the <barracks,link=74> of the soldiers and the home of the commander who will use them."
50140 "Walls"
50141 " By their very existence, walls deter bands of hostile <raiders,link=89> from entering the city proper. You can also employ well-placed walls to provide better protection to specific parts of the city, or to deflect raiders to where your <city guards,link=66> might be in a better position to dispatch them. "
50142 "Ships"
50143 " <Military,link=73> ships are captained by a <commander,link=11> who has been <ordered,link=178> to naval service. They are crewed by whatever <soldiers,link=74> you dispatch on a waterborne mission abroad. Transport <barges,link=58> are used to move heavy loads of stone around your city. Both military ships and local barges are built at <shipyards,link=44>. Merchant ships, and those cargo barges that are used by cargo movers and <foreign traders,link=282>, are built outside of your city. They are owned and operated by the men who use them. Citizens build their own <reed boats,link=90> as needed to navigate the Nile.
HISTORY: <Ships,link=375>
"
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50146 "Monuments"
50147 " When you look at our city's horizon, your eye goes naturally to the <mastabas,link=197> and <pyramids,link=211> of your ancestors, <obelisks and stele,link=79> reaching skyward and <colossal statues,link=302> watching over all. Such monuments inspire faith and confidence in your leadership and in the strength of our people, and command the respect of our foreign neighbors.
Colossal statues are the only type of monument that serves no particular purpose other than to impress by their sheer beauty and grandeur. By contrast, obelisks and stele can only be built to commemorate specific accomplishments, and are used to generate prestige through spreading <propaganda,link=185>. Pyramids and mastabas serve as <tombs,link=196> where the elite and members of the <royal family,link=16> are interred.
Building them is a major undertaking, and completing one greatly enhances a ruler's <prestige,link=84>, especially when you build the first monument of a kind, or when a new monument of the same kind surpasses those that went before it. Consider this carefully - if your first monument is, for example, a large pyramid, no one will be very impressed if you build a small pyramid later. Constructing these same two monuments in the opposite order, however, will earn you more overall prestige.
Monument projects begin with <quarrymen,link=41> or <brick makers,link=33> securing the basic building material. Teams of <laborers,link=15>, guided by <overseers,link=17>, haul the stone on sledges to the monument site and wrestle it into place. <Bricklayers,link=12> or <stone carvers,link=22> finish them. Efforts like this can engage veritable villages of laborers, craftsmen and overseers, and all the food, wares and services that they require."
50148 "Obelisks and Stele"
50149 " Some <world-level,link=317> accomplishments entitle you to commemorate historic events, like victory in battle or foreign conquest, by erecting <propaganda,link=185> monuments to proclaim your greatness to all who can read. Both massive obelisks and the more modest stele are shaped by <stone carvers,link=22> from a single piece of <granite,link=224> and covered with inscriptions. These raise your <prestige,link=84> by ensuring that your deeds are known to all.
The amount of prestige you receive depends upon the size and grandeur of the obelisk or stele, and on how impressive the event you're commemorating is. You might choose to order an obelisk or small stele for a quick boost in prestige at a relatively low cost, or you might prefer to invest the time and effort in a more impressive grand obelisk or standard stele to yield the greater reward. Each of these monuments requires the appropriate rough stone resource, for example, a grand obelisk requires that you import or quarry a grand obelisk. An obelisk requires an obelisk, etc. However, you can only memorialize an event once. You can't replace a smaller propaganda monument with a larger one later on to receive more prestige - once you've made a statement about the given accomplishment, the people won't fall for it if you try to expand upon it later. The prestige section of the <Administration Report,link=136> tells you how much prestige your propaganda efforts are earning you.
Obelisks and stele require huge quarrying, transportation and finishing efforts. If you want a work gang to erect an obelisk or stele, place its <brick,link=139> base to trigger <quarrying,link=41> for the monument, and make sure an <overseer,link=17> has been ordered to quarry the proper item."
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50152 "Social classes"
50153 " All working members of Egyptian society are divided into three broad social classes:
-Lower Class (peasants)
-Middle Class (shopkeepers, craftsmen and entertainers)
-Upper Class (Nobles, educated workers and members of the royal family)
Unemployed peasants (villagers and vagrants) form the fourth and lowest group.
UNEMPLOYED PEASANTS
At the bottom of the social structure are <villagers,link=24> and <vagrants,link=23>. Villagers are hunter-gatherers who have yet to join the civilization you are seeking to develop. Vagrants are citizens who have somehow lost their position in society and found themselves on the streets. You don't need to be concerned with the satisfaction of members of this group, and they never seek to partake of government services.
Both will gladly integrate into society when you create opportunities by designating new houses for members of the peasant class, but they cannot leap directly to the middle class. Because they have little stake in society, you have no real control over these people. If you destroy their homes, they'll just rebuild elsewhere.
LOWER CLASS (Peasants)
Employed peasants form the manual labor pool that provides Egypt's muscle and sinew. <Farmers,link=14>, <laborers,link=15>, <soldiers,link=73> and <servants,link=20> might not add glory to Egypt's civilization, but without the toil of these anonymous masses nothing would ever get done. They form the bulk of your population. Peasants utilize common <household wares,link=43>, but not luxury household wares. Circumstances periodically motivate them to seek <healthcare,link=166> and <worship services,link=202>.
Peasants will happily move up the social ladder to become members of the middle class, if you provide such opportunities for them.
MIDDLE CLASS (Shopkeepers, Craftsmen and Entertainers)
The middle class is comprised of private <shopkeepers,link=264>, government <craftsmen,link=301> and <entertainers,link=13>. These skilled workers learn their trades at home. Some work directly for your government, building monuments or producing military equipment, and earn their food from government <bakeries,link=29>. Others maintain their own shops and earn their food through commerce. Like peasants, middle-class citizens consume common household wares and need periodic healthcare and religious services.
UPPER CLASS (Nobles, Educated Workers and members of the Royal Family)
<Noblemen,link=21>, <scribes,link=19>, <priests,link=18>, <overseers,link=17>, and <military commanders,link=11> provide the brains that organize the lower class to productive endeavor, and fill other invaluable roles in your government. These elite families are the most responsible for Egypt's glory, and the number of educated workers who will follow you depends upon your <prestige,link=84>. Nobles manage the vast farming estates that feed all of Egypt and provide most of your government's tax income. All elite citizens consume both common and luxury household wares. In addition to healthcare and religion, elite citizens need <mortuary,link=69> services when there's a death in the family. Nobles also require <leisure,link=82> pursuits, and occasionally need access to <courts of law,link=64>, where members of the royal family mete out justice.
"
50154 "Families and Households"
50155 " The family is the basis of Egyptian society. Families consist of a man, a woman, and up to three children, each of whom consumes <food,link=158> and <household wares,link=43> equally. An existing family can move into a newly-built house (vacating their current one for somebody else to occupy), or a man and a woman might come together from separate households to form a new family. Mothers, fathers and first children have particular responsibilities that contribute to the family's well-being. Second children help out, but third children are always a burden. Families with three children are as eager to send their eldest out to form a new household as the child is to leave (see <migration,link=279>).
Death touches every family, regardless of social standing or wealth. Old age carries off some people, but disease and accidents are more frequent occurrences. Mortality is highest among children. When a mother or father dies, the surviving adult seeks to remarry quickly. If a single parent dies, any children immediately become <vagrants,link=23>.
Hathor willing, births usually exceed deaths, and your population grows. Any household with two adults and fewer than three children may have a new baby.
<Priests' apartments,link=18> are always occupied by single men, while <barracks,link=74> are occupied by up to three male soldiers.
HISTORY: <Families,link=350>
"
50156 "Leisure"
50157 "<img=124>
When the pressures of managing their vast estates finally get to them, <nobles,link=21> need to kick back, relax, and enjoy themselves. In fact, this is what they like to do all the time, assuming they have no pressing needs to visit <service,link=62> facilities or obtain <household wares,link=43>, and they have <food,link=158>. Entertainment (feasting) and recreation (hunting and yachting) are the leisure pursuits of choice. The longer a noble goes without recreation or entertainment, the greater his need grows.
ENTERTAINMENT
If the noble feels like entertainment, one evening he'll throw the biggest feast he can afford. Neighboring nobles who might have been thinking of having a party will postpone their plans, and attend the existing one instead, because going to somebody else's feast is just as much fun as throwing your own. Some <working elite,link=150> citizens might also attend townhouse feasts. The more <entertainers,link=13> there are, the better the time revelers will have. To make sure the feast is a success, nobles will hire as many entertainers as they can afford. That's good for the entertainers, since feasts provide all of their income.
RECREATION
For recreation, a noble might set out one morning to hunt lions, hippos or crocodiles. If other nobles are of like mind, they'll form up a hunting party. Everyone enjoys the hunt regardless of who actually makes the kill. Nobles who are fortunate enough to own a yacht might take the family for an outing on the Nile instead. Yachts are a form of townhouse improvement, and are denoted by a flag on the owner's home.
HISTORY: <Entertainment,link=349>
"
50158 "Needs and Satisfaction"
50159 " Citizens need <food,link=158>, drink, and <household wares,link=43> on a regular basis. They also need periodic access to <services,link=62>, as circumstances dictate - an injury that prompts a visit to the hospital, for example, or a catastrophe that drives a citizen to worship a certain god at a temple. It's also important for your people to feel safe and secure in the environment you have provided for them.
When any of these needs go unmet, the affected household becomes dissatisfied. If many members of the same occupational group are dissatisfied, the group may react with an outburst, such as a protest or strike, and other citizens may be reluctant to take up the given occupation.
Generally speaking, the higher someone is on the social ladder, the greater are his needs and expectations. Occupational hazards similarly increase the likelihood of specific health problems for the given group. Needs also increase as the city grows in size.
HOUSEHOLD DISSATISFACTION:
When you select a home, a satisfaction indicator appears above it. The color inside of this frame shows how satisfied the family is, ranging from green (fully satisfied) through red (strongly dissatisfied) along this spectrum:
And if the household does not belong to Egyptian society (and therefore their satisfaction is of no concern to you), you'll see this:
<img=148>
When you select a person or home, the colored indicator under the family history button shows you the household's satisfaction, using the same color scheme:
<img=34> <img=40> <img=39>
To the right of this, the prior causes of any dissatisfaction are shown:
<img=41> Insufficient Bread
<img=42> Difficulty Obtaining Household Wares
<img=43> Insufficient Healthcare
<img=44> Insufficient Access to Worship
<img=45> Insufficient Funerary Services
<img=46> Insufficient Security
<img=47> Insufficient Leisure
<img=48> Mistreatment by Government
Note that the household might have already solved the indicated problems, but its residents haven't forgotten them. For example, a household may have plenty of bread in its <inventory,link=192> right now, but still feel dissatisfied from previous missed meals. The red icons that show these dissatisfaction causes fade over time, as people get over past grievances. If the original problem doesn't recur, people forgive and forget.
OCCUPATIONAL GROUP DISSATISFACTION:
The <City Satisfaction Indicator,link=272> shows the level of dissatisfaction for all occupational groups in the city:
<img=23>
Hold your pointer over any of the small colored rectangles to see the name of the occupational group.
Satisfaction for each occupation is also shown on the <People Report,link=180>. A yellow square means new people are unlikely to enter the group, orange means mass demonstrations are likely, and red warns of mass migration from the group. Widespread dissatisfaction can cause citywide dissent that can lead to attempts to overthrow your government, which ends the game in defeat. You will be warned each time dissent rises, and notified as your popularity recovers.
"
50160 "Prestige"
50161 " Prestige is the measure of the fame and notoriety you have earned through your actions and decisions. It forms the basis of your leadership power, and governs how many <educated workers,link=150> will serve you. If your prestige falls, some professionals might leave your service, and nobody new will seek to follow you until your reputation rises again.
The <Prestige Indicator,link=273> shows how many educated workers currently serve you, as well as the maximum number that can currently serve you given your level of prestige:
<img=24>
Positive, impressive actions like building <monuments,link=78>, winning <military engagements,link=144> and exploring or dominating the <world,link=317> all demonstrate that you're a great ruler, and therefore elevate your prestige. Ensuring that everyone knows of your latest deed by erecting a <stele or obelisk,link=79> to spread <propaganda,link=185> never hurts your cause. Adventures that enhance your prestige on the world stage are usually circumstantial - you have to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.
The <Administration Report,link=136> gives an itemized breakdown of the various things currently contributing to your prestige. Hold the mouse pointer over the numbers shown for more detailed information.
Some events can even have negative effects on your prestige. Dying without an adequate tomb is about the least impressive thing you can do. Human memory is short, so the impact of particular events on your prestige fades over time. The effect of buildings persists longer than that of events.
"
50162 "Edicts"
50163 " Your word is law, and edicts put your will into action.
To issue edicts to the population, click on the crook and flail:
<img=18>
With little more than a snap of your fingers, you can decree:
RELEASE FOOD TO ESTATES
Refund some food from your government's <bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30> to the cityÆs farmers and nobles, helping to alleviate dissatisfaction over missed bread. More important, this command gives your cityÆs most important residents an infusion of wealth to spend on <wares,link=43>, <services,link=62>, and <townhouse enhancements,link=21>. You cannot issue this decree unless you have enough food in storage. Assuming that you do have sufficient food, you can release it as often as you want.
NOBLES PAY NO ESTATE TAXES
Townhouse <taxation,link=91> is suspended until you decree that it should resume.
ADDITIONAL TAXES ON EVERY PRIVATE HOME
Once per year, you can confiscate 10 percent of all the food stored in private homes and add it to your government's granaries and bakeries, up to their capacity to hold it. Of course, this will cause some dissatisfaction among the people whose food you took!
RAW MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE
Shopkeepers may take materials stored at an <Exchange,link=60> free of charge until you decree otherwise. Craftsmen never pay for government resources, so only shopkeepers benefit from this.
DECREE A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY
On the morning of the day after you issue this edict, instead of going to work people gather in open areas around the city to have some government food and celebrate for half a day. Any dissatisfaction they are currently experiencing from unmet worship needs is dispelled.
HOLD STATE HOLIDAY
Unlike a religious holiday, a general holiday relieves dissatisfaction due to unmet household wares needs, rather than unmet worship needs."
50164 "Envoys"
50165 " Your <palace,link=16> can attract and train up to one envoy each year, but the number of these valuable ambassadors that will serve you at a given time is based on your <prestige,link=84>. You don't need to do anything to recruit envoys, though they consume your household's <food,link=158> and <wares,link=43> while training at the palace for their future careers <abroad,link=317>.
Envoys open and maintain relationships with <foreign powers,link=159> and may contribute to some other missions outside your city as well. When you need to engage in foreign diplomacy for some reason, an envoy leaves the palace and takes some time to travel to his destination. Envoys take quite a while to train, and are therefore very valuable and should not be assigned lightly. The <People Report,link=180> shows how many envoys are currently available for world level service."
50166 "Raiders"
50167 " Bands of criminals sometimes come into the city to steal, loot and cause mayhem. When they come from an identifiable <enemy encampment,link=167> that you can see on the <world map,link=317>, you can end the raids by sending the army to <conquer,link=144> their home base. When in your city, raiders look for the richest target of opportunity. They avoid operational <guard posts,link=66> but aren't very afraid of guards, and will fight back if accosted. Raiders leave only when they have their fill of plunder. Your citizens expect and demand adequate <security,link=191>, and excessive raids make them extremely dissatisfied."
50168 "Reed boats"
50169 " These humble vessels can carry, at most, two or three passengers and their personal effects. People build them as needed for fishing, hunting or just to cross the river. When not in use, the boats are simply left on the shore for others to use later. "
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50172 "Potters' Children"
50173 " The <potter's,link=284> child digs <clay,link=34> for the family <shop,link=53>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Potter children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household. "
50174 "Mat Makers' Children"
50175 " The <mat maker's,link=285> children gather <reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> for the family <shop,link=50>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Mat maker children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household. "
50176 "Basket Makers' Children"
50177 " The <basket maker's,link=286> children gather <reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> for the family <shop,link=45>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Basket maker children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household. "
50178 "Weavers' Children"
50179 " <Weaver,link=287> children collect <flax,link=38> all day for the family <shop,link=49>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Weaver children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household. "
50180 "Potters' Husbands"
50181 " While his <wife,link=284> throws <pottery,link=239> (a common <household ware,link=43>), shops for the household's needs and tends to the chores, the potter's husband harvests <clay,link=34>. If it doesn't sound like much of a life, imagine what would happen to the <family business,link=53> if his strong back wasn't bringing in an endless supply of clay."
50182 "Mat Makers' Husbands"
50183 " While his <wife,link=285> manufactures mats (a common <household ware,link=43>), shops for the household's needs and tends to the chores, the mat maker's husband gathers <reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134>. It's hard work, but imagine what would happen to the <family business,link=50> if his strong back wasn't bringing in an endless supply of raw materials."
50184 "Basket Makers' Husbands"
50185 " While his <wife,link=286> manufactures baskets (a common <household ware,link=43>), shops for the household's needs and tends to the chores, the basket maker's husband gathers <reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134>. The <family business,link=45> wouldn't go far without his strong back to bring in an endless supply of these raw materials."
50186 "Weavers' Husbands"
50187 " While his <wife,link=287> weaves linen (a common <household ware,link=43>), shops for the household's needs and tends to the chores, the weaver's husband collects <flax,link=38>. His hard work helps the family's <linen shop,link=49> by providing an endless supply of flax."
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50190 "Brick Makers' Children"
50191 " Unlike most of their friends whose parents do all the work, these government <craftsmen,link=301> kids have to gather the resources that their fathers use to make <bricks,link=139> in the home <brickworks,link=33>. Most of their day is spent getting <clay,link=34> and <rushes,link=134> or <reeds,link=237>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Government craftsmen's children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household."
50192 "Weapon Smiths' Children"
50193 " Unlike most of their friends whose parents do all the work, these government <craftsmen,link=301> kids have to help out at the family's <weapons workshop,link=39> gathering the <acacia,link=125> that their fathers use to make <basic weapons,link=247>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Weapon smiths' children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household."
50194 "Government Craftsmen's Children"
50195 " These kids were fortunate to be born into a family whose trade obtains resources at the city's <Exchange,link=60>, so they don't have to work gathering natural materials. They can spend their days pretty much as they like. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Government craftsmen's children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household."
50196 "Government Craftsmen's Wives"
50197 " The <shopping,link=264> and housekeeping chores of the government craftsman's wife keeps her household running smoothly so that her husband can spend his days practicing his craft. She dreams that her family will <migrate,link=279> to keeping a luxury shop one day."
50198 "Papyrus Makers' Children"
50199 " Unlike most of their friends whose parents do all the work, these government <craftsmen,link=301> kids have to gather the <reeds,link=237> that their <fathers,link=290> use to make <papyrus,link=236> in their <home shops,link=40>. When the time comes to strike out on their own, they can <migrate,link=279> into better circumstances, stay at the same <social level,link=80>, or decrease their standing, depending on the opportunities in your city when they grow up. Papyrus makers' children hope to become luxury shopkeepers someday, but those openings are often filled before they get a chance to form a household."
50200 "xxx"
50201 "xxx"
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50202 "Cosmeticians' Children"
50203 " While his <father,link=291> works at <home,link=46> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the cosmetician's child harvests the <kohl,link=130> and <henna,link=129> that go into the family's less costly luxury products. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather these raw materials, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50204 "Furnishers' Children"
50205 " While his <father,link=292> works at <home,link=47> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the furnisher's child harvests the <reeds,link=237> and <acacia,link=125> that go into the family's less costly luxury products. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather these raw materials, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50206 "Jewelers' Children"
50207 " While his <father,link=293> works at <home,link=48> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the jeweler's child harvests the <quartz,link=133> that goes into the family's less costly faience jewelry. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather the raw material, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50208 "Perfumers' Children"
50209 " While his <father,link=294> works at <home,link=52> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the perfumer's child harvests the <flowers,link=128>, <henna,link=129>, <myrrh,link=187> and <oil,link=131> that go into the family's luxury products. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather these raw materials, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50210 "Sandal Makers' Children"
50211 " While his <father,link=295> works at <home,link=54> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the sandal maker's child harvests the <rushes,link=134> and <leather,link=230> that go into the family's luxury products. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather these raw materials, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50212 "Sculptors' Children"
50213 " While his <father,link=296> works at <home,link=55> and his <mother,link=112> shops for common <household wares,link=43>, the sculptor's child harvests the <clay,link=34> that makes up the least expensive sculptures. When the family can afford a <servant,link=20> to gather clay, the child may have enough time to attend <school,link=70> and eventually become an <educated worker,link=150>."
50214 "Luxury Shopkeepers' Wives"
50215 " The <shopping,link=264> and housekeeping chores of the luxury shopkeeper's wife keeps her household running smoothly so that her husband can spend his days making the merchandise that keeps their business going. She hopes that one day her children will have enough free time to attend <school,link=70> and become <educated workers,link=150>, elevating future generations to the <elite class,link=80>. Even more, she dreams of her husband's business becoming so successful that her own household can join the nobility. "
;50216 "xxx"
;50217 "xxx"
;******* Elite family members ********************************************************************************************
50218 "Elite Children"
50219 " Children of the <working elite,link=150> attend <school,link=70>. When they graduate, they can become <scribes,link=19>, <overseers,link=17>, <commanders,link=11> or <priests,link=18>, depending on what types of new homes for these workers you have designated, or what types of existing homes are vacant."
50220 "Elite Citizens' Wives"
50221 " There is an amazing amount of <shopping,link=264> to do when you reach the pinnacle of society. <Elite,link=80> households require the full range of common and luxury <household wares,link=43> - and then there are <feasts,link=82> to attend, of course. Fortunately, elite women have <servants,link=20> to help them, or they could never hope to maintain a proper household. "
50222 "Young Nobles"
50223 " Children of <noblemen,link=21> make up most of the city's <student,link=70> population. When they graduate, they can become <scribes,link=19>, <overseers,link=17>, <commanders,link=11> or <priests,link=18>, depending on what types of new homes for these workers you have designated, or what types of existing homes are vacant. These youngsters can also carry on their family's noble tradition and move directly into a new townhouse, provided they have a good supply of food for the pantry. Noble parents who can afford it willingly bestow this generous gift to send their child out into the world - establishing a new estate is a significant expense, after all. "
50224 "Noblewomen"
50225 " There is an amazing amount of <shopping,link=264> to do when you reach the pinnacle of society and have a <townhouse,link=21> to run. <Elite,link=80> households require the full range of common and luxury <household wares,link=43>, and of course need to host lavish <feasts,link=82> for other elite to attend... and then there are the yachting outings... it seems like the obligations never end. Without <servants,link=20> to help them, noblewomen could never hope to maintain a household in proper style."
;50226 "xxx"
;50227 "xxx"
;******* Peasant family members ******************************************************************************************
50228 "Farmers' Wives"
50229 " Although her first responsibilities are shopping for the family's common <household wares,link=43> and doing household chores, the farmer's wife can help <tend crops,link=28>. Tended fields grow faster than neglected ones. The farmer's wife isn't as effective as her <husband,link=14> at tending, but she's better than the <children,link=118>. She'll pitch in at harvest time in Shemu, too. <Villagers,link=24> make fine farmers' wives, and when new <middle-class,link=80> opportunities become available, farm families like to move into roles as <shopkeepers,link=264>, <craftsmen,link=301> or even <entertainers,link=13>."
50230 "Farmers' Children"
50231 " The children of farming families tend fields, which makes the crops <grow faster,link=28>. Their efforts aren't as effective as the work of their <mothers,link=117> or <fathers,link=14>, but every little bit helps. When the plants ripen in Shemu, farm children help with the harvest. If there are any <middle-class,link=80> opportunities available when they're ready to <form a household,link=279>, farm children will happily become <shopkeepers,link=264>, <craftsmen,link=301> or even <entertainers,link=13>. If no such openings exist, they'll start new peasant families. In the worst case, they might become <vagrants,link=23>."
50232 "Laborers' Wives"
50233 " Apart from <shopping,link=264> for the family's common <household wares,link=43> and tending to domestic chores, laborers' wives have no particular work of their own. When new <middle-class,link=80> opportunities become available, laborers' families like to move into roles as <shopkeepers,link=264>, <craftsmen,link=301> or even <entertainers,link=13>. "
;"Laborer's Child"
;"Use the Peasant Child entry"
50234 "Female Servants"
50235 " Female servants work just as their <husbands,link=20> do, but they need to <shop,link=264> for their family's common <household wares,link=43> as well. When new <middle-class,link=80> opportunities become available, servant families like to move into roles as <shopkeepers,link=264>, <craftsmen,link=301> or even <entertainers,link=13>."
;"Servant's Child"
;"Use the Peasant Child entry."
;"Vagrant"
;"Use the normal Vagrant entry."
;"Young Vagrant"
;"Use the normal Vagrant entry."
50236 "Peasant Children"
50237 " Peasant children have no formal responsibilities. If there are any <middle-class,link=80> opportunities available when they're ready to <form a household,link=279>, they will happily become <shopkeepers,link=264>, <craftsmen,link=301> or even <entertainers,link=13>. If no such openings exist, they'll start new peasant families. In the worst case, they might become <vagrants,link=23>."
;"Peasant's Wife"
;"Unnecessary"
;50238 "xxx"
;50239 "xxx"
;********************************** Animals, plants and terrain features *************************************************
50240 "Cats"
50241 " <Bast,link=259> sent her sacred animals to live among us back in antiquity. We feed them treats and welcome them into our homes, and they keep the city free of vermin. As long as the cats are free to come and go as they please, both sides are happy with the arrangement.
HISTORY: <Cats,link=342>"
50242 "Predator"
50243 " Crocodiles, hippos and lions are dangerous animals. <Noblemen,link=21> and other elite citizens sometimes like to hunt them as a form of <leisure,link=82>, to the bemusement of more prudent people. "
50244 "Prey Animals"
50245 " Fish, gazelles, cattle, and various types of fowl are all part of the Nile's abundant wildlife. Fish and fowl may be <foraged,link=35>. Gazelles occasionally fall prey to lions, and cattle provide <leather,link=230> used to make <sandals,link=240> and
<armor,link=205>. Your people don't eat the flesh of gazelles or cattle. None of these creatures are ever hunted for sport."
50246 "Acacia"
50247 " Lush forests are not, alas, among the Nile's many gifts to Egypt. Egypt's native wood comes from the thorny, gnarled acacia tree. <Furnishers,link=47> find this richly colored and fine-grained wood beautiful to behold, as well as being hard and nearly indestructible, and <weapon smiths,link=39> appreciate its strength. But acacia doesn't yield the long, flexible planks suitable for <construction,link=145> and <shipbuilding,link=44>. For those uses, <cedar,link=126> is needed."
50248 "Cedar"
50249 " This fine wood does not grow in Egypt, and is therefore rare and valuable. It is much better suited to <construction,link=145> and <shipbuilding,link=44> than is native <acacia,link=125>. Cedar only ever comes in <trade,link=56> from <world-level,link=317> sites."
;50250 "xxx"
;50251 "OOPS"
50252 "Flowers"
50253 " <Perfumers,link=52> can use the scent from practically any kind of flowers to make pleasant perfumes, a luxury <household ware,link=43> for <elite citizens,link=80>."
50254 "Henna"
50255 " The juice of the henna plant yields a long-lasting red or yellow cosmetic stain for skin, hair and fingernails. The resultant dye is one of the less costly luxury <household wares,link=43> that <cosmeticians,link=46> make for <elite citizens,link=80>. Henna flowers also have a pleasant scent desired by <perfumers,link=52>.
HISTORY: <Henna,link=357>"
50256 "Kohl"
50257 " Imagine how drab Egyptians would look without kohl! <Cosmeticians,link=46> powder this black mineral for use in eye makeup, one of the less expensive luxury <household wares,link=43> for <elite citizens,link=80>. The eye of Horus that is so often worn is not only attractive, but has strong magical powers as well.
HISTORY: <Kohl,link=361>"
50258 "Oil"
50259 " <Perfumers,link=52> can use the oil pressed from the seeds of oil trees as a base for perfume, a luxury <household ware,link=43> for the <social elite,link=80>."
50260 "Pomegranates"
50261 " Who doesn't like pomegranates? Not only are they a widely <foraged food,link=35>, but noblemen sometimes get pomegranate trees from <nurseries,link=32> for their <townhouse,link=21> groves."
50262 "Quartz"
50263 " The sandy crystalline mineral goes into faience, a beautiful but relatively inexpensive luxury <household ware,link=47> that <jewelers,link=48> make for <elite citizens,link=80>."
50264 "Rushes"
50265 " Rushes are used by <basket makers,link=45> and <mat makers,link=50> to make common <household wares,link=43> needed by everyone. <Sandal makers,link=54> use them to make their luxuries for the <social elite,link=80>, and <brick makers,link=288> need either rushes or <reeds,link=237> to stiffen <bricks,link=139>."
;50266 "xxx"
;50267 "xxx"
;50268 "xxx"
;50269 "xxx"
;50270 "xxx"
;50271 "xxx"
;50500 - 50899 ****************************** Most Game Concepts *********************************
50500 "Achievements - World Level"
50501 " Usually it takes a long time for your city and people to acquire the wealth, power and stability to undertake a cultural achievement. These endeavors are so impressive that they can sometimes usher in a new era of history. At a minimum, completing one of these objectives will boost your <prestige,link=84> substantially. Available achievements, and the criteria needed to achieve them, appear on the <world level,link=317>. Indicators like these tip you off that the time is ripe to undertake such an historic achievement:
<img=160> <img=161> <img=162> <img=163> <img=164>
"
50502 "Administration Report"
50503 " Click on middle white gem to view the Administration report: <img=26>
The left side of this panel shows your total <prestige,link=84> and how much of it comes from the <tombs,link=196> in your city, from your <propaganda,link=185> efforts, from any <colossal statues,link=302> you've built, from your <palace,link=16>, from your <world-level,link=317> exploits, and from various events (such as Pharaoh passing without a proper tomb!). Additional details appear for all of these items when you place your pointer above the numbers.
The right side of the panel shows the status of your city's various <services,link=62>, along with a summary of how many buildings are actively providing each service out of how many have been built. Place the mouse pointer over each line to learn how many households are dissatisfied with that service, and click on the summary line to select the houses whose families have service-related complaints. The entry for tombs shows how many are available. The yachts entry shows how many <townhouses,link=21> have yacht enhancements. The worship entry displays the name of the city's patron <god,link=140>, if any. Click on a building icon to select all buildings of that type in the city.
<Healthcare,link=166>
<Worship,link=202>
<Funerary,link=87>
<Education,link=151>
<Security,link=191>
<Leisure,link=82>"
50504 "Beautification"
50505 " When homeowners have satisfied all of their needs for <household wares,link=43>, <services,link=62>, and <leisure,link=82>, and they find that they still have food left over, they will beautify their homes. You can easily see where the most prosperous families live by looking for the most beautiful homes."
50506 "Pharaoh's Birthday"
50507 " Pharaoh's birthday is announced each year. Every year brings you closer to the inevitable day when your mortal life ends, and you go to join Osiris in the underworld. Accident or illness can carry off even mighty Pharaoh with no warning, so it is always wise to build your own <tomb,link=196> as early in your reign as you can. When it is completed, you can relax and have a happy birthday, but until then, birthday announcements should make you feel a little nervous. If Pharaoh departs this world without a proper tomb, the <prestige,link=84> of your dynasty will suffer."
50508 "Bricks"
50509 " You are never going to have a truly magnificent city without an enormous number of bricks to build government structures. Privately-owned buildings do not require any bricks to build:
<img=2>
If you're going to start developing a new area, locate <brickworks,link=33> and <bricklayers' houses,link=12> nearby to expedite construction. Brickworks must be within half a day's walk from the <clay,link=34> and <reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> that the <brick maker,link=288> needs. The <Bricks Indicator,link=274> shows how many bricks you have available in all the brickworks and <storage areas,link=61> in the city:
<img=25>
Bricklayers work most efficiently when they don't have to waste too much time traveling. They choose the route that lets them move the most bricks over the shortest distance. Because bricks are heavy, they can carry only small numbers of bricks at once, and often have to make several trips to the brickworks before they can complete a project.
A new <palace,link=16> often provides an up-and-coming pharaoh with a modest supply of food and bricks as his personal wealth.
HISTORY: <Bricks,link=341>"
50510 "Gods"
50511 " It is a good thing for Pharaoh that people assign so much of the world's misfortune to the gods, rather than laying it at your government's feet. Chief among their expectations is your duty to uphold the principle of ma'at. You do this by providing the <shrines,link=72>, <temples,link=71>, and sometimes even <cult temples,link=65> that satisfy your people's need to <worship,link=202> the gods who bring balance and order to the world. People always need to worship particular gods for specific reasons. For example, when the Inundation fails, people naturally seek out a temple to Hapi, whom they believe to be responsible. If they do not find proper worship facilities, they are likely to blame their empty stomachs on your neglect of the god. Instead of wondering why Hapi did not come, they will become <dissatisfied,link=83> with you. If, however, there is a prominent death in your city, some people might seek out Anubis, and a temple to Hapi would be of lesser consolation.
Some gods are simply more important than others, and some are associated with specific events, both good and bad. The following is a list of all the gods that can be worshiped in your city. Bear this order in mind when you decide which gods to honor first:
<Osiris,link=250>
<Isis,link=251>
<Horus,link=252>
<Ra,link=253>
<Hathor,link=254>
<Amun,link=255>
<Ptah,link=256>
<Thoth,link=257>
<Anubis,link=258>
<Bast,link=259>
<Sobek,link=260>
<Ma'at,link=261>
<Set,link=262>
<Hapi,link=263>
People whose city honors a patron god expect to have a cult temple to that deity. To discover your city's patron (if any), hover your mouse pointer over the city's name, or over the Worship information displayed in the <Administration Report,link=136>.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50512 "Camera Controls"
50513 " Move the mouse pointer past the edge of your screen to scroll. Use your mouse wheel or the straight bracket keys to zoom the viewpoint in (]) and out ([). Hold down the right mouse button while moving the mouse forward or back to change the view angle, or left and right to rotate the camera. To return to the standard view, click the blue arrow above the mini-map: <img=15>. Use the F2 key to cycle through different camera rotation and zoom modes.
Click on any person to select him or her. In addition to an informational panel in the lower right corner of your screen, you can see three camera tracking buttons. These let you follow the person in one of three ways.
<img=7> 'Standard tracking' follows the selected person without changing your viewpoint.
<img=35> 'Street-level tracking' zooms the viewpoint to street level and follows the subject without otherwise changing your viewing angle.
<img=36> 'Chase tracking' lowers the viewpoint to street level and follows directly behind the subject."
50514 "Capital City - World Level"
50515 " The world level displays your current capital city:
<img=180>
If you're playing a campaign, you can also see your previous capital cities:
<img=219>
"
50516 "Cargo"
50517 " Resources that are harvested only by the government (such as metals, gems and stones) or manufactured only by the government (such as bricks, weapons and papyrus) are likewise traded only by the government, and can be used by the government for the upkeep of other Egyptian settlements. Food can also be traded directly by your government, while <cedar,link=126> is a common government import. These resources are called 'cargo.' Egyptian movers and foreign traders acquire cargo from city bakeries, granaries, government businesses, <storage areas,link=61> or <Exchanges,link=60>, just as local citizens acquire these items. To make sure the necessary resources are on hand when they arrive, you can <set a reserve amount,link=186> for any government resource by selecting it on the <Resources Report,link=188>: <img=27>
City residents can't use the given resource if your stocks are below the set amount.
Imported cargo is delivered to the city wherever is convenient for the movers and traders. You can also place <drop-off points,link=59> to specify where imported cargo be deposited. Land-based movers and traders can use city transport <barges,link=58>, if any exist, to reach drop-off points across water. Sea-based traders and movers can move resources overland to access drop-off points. A <barge landing,link=58> can only handle one barge at a time. When a cargo barge from a <foreign settlement,link=159> or another <Egyptian settlement,link=152> enters your city, it ties up a landing, where it remains until its deliverymen take all of its cargo to the designated <drop-off points,link=59>, and then retrieve whatever cargo you are sending out in return. That takes time. If another barge from some other settlement arrives while the barge landing is occupied, or if a local barge is tied up there, you might miss a delivery. Drop-off points can be dedicated to particular world-level sites, but barge landings cannot. To avoid losing cargoes, make sure that your city has at least one barge landing for each waterborne trade partner.
No tariffs are collected on government cargo exchanges.
"
50518 "Military Engagements - World Level"
50519 " Military action is often useful for destroying those places that breed the <raiders,link=89> who sometimes harass our city, creating <security,link=191> problems. You may sometimes have other reasons to use <military,link=73> forces, too. When you click to dispatch troops to an enemy <world-level,link=210> site, the Military Engagements panel shows your current forces, the recommended forces, whether <ships,link=77> are required, and gives you some advice. This panel lets you gauge your chances of military success, and whether the potential losses are worth the risk. Enemy strongholds look like this:
<img=215> <img=216> <img=217> <img=218>
Every available member of the army must embark upon the given military mission. Success depends on your army's size, quality and morale. Waterborne missions require captained ships for transport. The size of the force dispatched can be reduced substantially if you don't have enough ships or naval captains to carry your whole army. However, those left behind, or new troops acquired while the army is abroad, cannot be sent on other world-level missions until the main army returns from its assignment.
For missions requiring ships, the 'actual force' reported includes only those soldiers who can fit on available transports. The best-equipped and trained soldiers are included first."
50520 "Construction"
50521 " Everything gets built in one of three ways. First you use the <build buttons,link=25> to place structures. Then somebody has to build them.
-Private homes are built from free materials, at no cost to your government.
-Most government buildings, including government workers' homes, are built from <bricks,link=139>.
-Most <monuments,link=78> are built from various types of stone.
PRIVATE HOME CONSTRUCTION
Private homes are constructed by their future occupants. If newly-designated private homes are not being built, it's because no one can, or wants to, move in. See the relevant entry in <Problems and Solutions,link=8>.
<Villagers,link=24> aren't part of our civilization, and build their hovels wherever they please. And you've undoubtedly noticed <vagrants,link=23> doing the same - not that a vagrant's mat can be called 'construction'!
BRICK CONSTRUCTION
Brick makers fashion bricks from <clay,link=34> and <rushes,link=134> or <papyrus reeds,link=237> at <brickworks,link=33>. Some people call <bricklayers,link=12> lazy, because they always carry small loads of bricks from the brickworks to the construction site along whatever route lets them move the most bricks over the shortest distance...but the bricklayers themselves will tell you they're just being efficient. Very large projects might enlist <laborers,link=15> to deliver bigger loads of bricks. Make sure you have plenty of brickworks and bricklayers' houses near areas that will see a lot of construction - many a project has languished for lack of bricks, and the men to lay them. Placing too many buildings at once is another good way to cause serious construction delays, as all projects compete equally for your bricklayers' attention. The only ways to control the order in which buildings are completed are to place them one by one, or ensure that each project has its own nearby bricklayer, who in turn has a nearby brickworks. It is not a bad idea to periodically replace your city's brick facilities as new construction projects get farther away from them.
Don't forget to provide these government workers with a <bakery,link=29>, some common <household wares,link=43> shops, and reasonable access to <healthcare,link=166> and <worship,link=202> services.
STONE CONSTRUCTION
Permanent structures, intended to last through the ages, are made from stone that laborers cut from different types of <quarries,link=41>. Laborers, of course, are useless without <overseers,link=17> to manage their work and organize them into teams of block haulers. To set laborers in action, right-click on an overseer's quarters and select the 'construction' order. If your work gang is to erect an obelisk or stele, be sure to place its base to enable the quarrying, and order an overseer to supervise the quarrying. <Stone carvers,link=22>, too, are needed to finish the rough stone.
"
50522 "Cult Center - World Level"
50523 " From time to time, founding a lavish worship complex to a particular <god,link=140> somewhere outside of your nome becomes feasible. These potential cult centers are plainly marked on the <world-level,link=317> map, although you might have to achieve some intermediate goal before they appear. Look for variations on this indicator:
<img=168>
Simply click on the site to discover the requirements for building the cult center. After you establish a cult center, people no longer need local worship facilities within the city for that god, alleviating some burden on your priests. You can rededicate any existing <temples,link=71> and <shrines,link=72> to other gods.
"
50524 "Destroying Buildings and Trees"
50525 " To destroy buildings or trees, click the clear land button:
<img=8>
Your mouse pointer becomes a 'clear land' tool. Destructible structures and vegetation change color when this tool hovers over them. Just click to delete the highlighted item. You cannot salvage any <construction,link=145> materials from demolition sites.
"
50526 "Dispatching - World Level"
50527 " Typically you will need to dispatch forces consisting of envoys, resources and sometimes military personnel to the <world level,link=317> to establish a site, open relations with its representative, accomplish a cultural achievement, or conquer a hostile site. Click on each site to see what is required of the mission. This information appears near the middle of the panel on the left side of the screen. You see an icon for the necessary resources or personnel, with two numbers under it. Place your mouse pointer over the icon to learn what it represents. The first number shows how many people or items are required. The second number, in parentheses, shows how many are available in your city. When you can fulfill all of the requirements, the dispatch button appears:
<img=30>
If combat is associated with the site, you'll see the <Military Engagements Panel,link=144>.
After a site is established, or relations opened, the dispatch button changes to a 'suspend' button that you can click to sever relations with the site.
"
50528 "Doorways"
50529 " If a building's doorway is obstructed, people could have trouble entering it. To <rotate,link=190> a building before placing it, hold down the left mouse button, drag the pointer around, and release the button when the building faces the desired orientation. Doorways do not have to face roads.
"
50530 "Educated workers"
50531 " Educated workers are employed exclusively by your government, and are one of the most important human resources you manage. Because these valuable citizens must have a great deal of faith and confidence in their leader, the number of educated workers who will follow you is determined by your current <prestige,link=84>. The <Prestige Indicator,link=273> shows the current and maximum number of educated workers you can lead:
<img=24>
Educated citizens commute to facilities such as <temples,link=71>, <schools,link=70>, <training grounds,link=75> or <Exchange,link=60> buildings, or to such outdoor worksites as <farm fields,link=157>, <mines,link=42> and <quarries,link=41>. Certain facilities can still be used by your citizens for some time after the associated educated worker has left. Other facilities are only functional while the educated worker is present.
Students receive their <education,link=151> at schools, where they are taught by priests. Once they have completed their education they become 'graduates', and may assume specific jobs as educated workers by moving into the corresponding type of home. The <People Report,link=180> shows how many unemployed graduates are currently waiting for career opportunities to become available. If your city has neither educated workers nor graduates, either a gifted <young noble,link=115> or a precocious luxury shopkeeper's child can move directly into a vacant priest's apartment and assume all the duties of a priest, bypassing the normal <educational,link=151> process. This initial priest is so crucial to your city's development that your citizens overlook his on-the-job learning.
An educated worker looks forward to retiring after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't discourage people from managing new estates, he and his entire family will move in, bringing all of their food and wares with them. If there is no suitable retirement estate, the family leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a new life of service - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation.
There are four different types of educated workers, all of whom can be given specific instructions by right-clicking their homes:
-<Scribes,link=19> collect revenue for your government, from <taxes,link=91> on farming estates, <tariffs,link=56> on household wares trade, and fees for procurement of fine raw materials by private craftsmen.
-<Priests,link=18> provide social services (<healthcare,link=166>, <education,link=151>, <worship,link=202>, and <funerary,link=87>).
-<Overseers,link=17> supervise teams of <laborers,link=15>, and are ordered to harvest specific resources and oversee <construction,link=145>.
-<Military Commanders,link=11> maintain internal security by serving as city guard captains at <guard posts,link=66>. They help maintain external security by serving in the army and navy. Commanders train and lead peasant soldiers and city guards in these pursuits."
50532 "Education"
50533 " <Educated workers,link=150> are one of the most important human resources you manage. The number of educated workers who will follow you is determined by your current <prestige,link=84>. Education transforms students, typically drawn from the noble population, into graduates. Unlike other <services,link=62>, a lack of education doesn't cause <dissatisfaction,link=83> - you aren't likely to hear youngsters complain about a lack of schools or <priests,link=18> to teach them. A shortage of educated workers, however, will doom your city to mediocrity.
All children of <elite citizens,link=80> want the social status of educated workers, which they can't achieve without education. Luxury shopkeepers can send their kids to school, too, if they can hire a <servant,link=20> to take over their children's harvesting duties. Once they complete their education, students become 'graduates' who can begin their lives as educated workers by moving into the corresponding type of home. The availability of <papyrus,link=236> speeds up the education process considerably. The <People Report,link=180> shows how many unemployed graduates are currently waiting for career opportunities to become available.
If your city has neither educated workers nor graduates, either a gifted <young noble,link=115> or a precocious luxury shopkeeper's child can move directly into a vacant priest's apartment and assume all the duties of a priest, bypassing the normal <educational,link=151> process. This initial priest is so crucial to your city's development that your citizens overlook his on-the-job learning.
This symbol denotes education: <img=130>
HISTORY: <Education,link=348>"
50534 "Egyptian Settlements - World Level"
50535 " All of Egypt, and even parts of the world beyond, are your domain. Such expansion and dominion comes with a price, as these other Egyptian cities and towns, monuments, forts, and other settlements normally expect some support from your capital city. To establish relations with them, you often have to <dispatch,link=148> resources or personnel. Many sites need regular <upkeep,link=200> to remain useful. The resulting <cargo,link=143> shipments and <trade,link=56> activity are almost always worth the cost of upkeep. If, at some point, you feel differently, you can always suspend relations with other settlements.
When a cargo barge from an Egyptian settlement enters your city, it ties up a landing, where it remains until its deliverymen take all of its cargo to the designated <drop-off points,link=59>, and then retrieve whatever cargo you are sending out in return. That takes time. If another barge from some other settlement arrives while the <barge landing,link=58> is occupied, or if a local barge is tied up there, you might miss a delivery. Drop-off points can be dedicated to particular world-level sites, but barge landings cannot. To avoid losing cargoes, make sure that your city has at least one barge landing for each waterborne trade partner.
Egyptian settlements take on various appearances, including:
<img=181> <img=182> <img=183> <img=184> <img=185>
"
50536 "Estates"
50537 " Although all of Egypt's land is yours, you can't possibly manage it yourself. Fortunately, all of Egypt's people are yours, too. When you grant estates to <noblemen,link=21> by designating townhouses, they ensure that <farmers,link=14> work the land and <produce food,link=28>. After the farm family is fed, the estate pays half of the harvest in <taxes,link=91> to your government - provided, of course, that your <scribes,link=19> are out assessing fields. Nobles keep the remaining food for their own families. But they only need to eat a fraction of it. The rest is available to spend. Only farmed food may be used to buy household wares.
Making plenty of luxury <household wares,link=43> and townhouse improvements available for nobles to buy gives them a strong incentive to produce even more food - and therefore pay more taxes. To encourage nobles to consume more, <trade,link=56> for precious materials and exotic wares. Build a <nursery,link=32> so that noblemen will add groves to their homes. A <shipyard,link=44> can make the yachts that are such a popular <leisure,link=82> pursuit. And, of course, no noble ever wants to die without a family <tomb,link=196>. A prosperous noble eventually starts feeling like there's never quite enough food to <maintain,link=171> all of his townhouse improvements, so he willingly expands his estate's holdings. As townhouses grow more elaborate, the number of farmers that their owners are willing to manage increases.
When you select a townhouse, the <Selected Item,link=192> area shows the size of the noble's estate. Hold the mouse pointer over this label to see what enhancements the townhouse has, as well as how many farming families you can expect the nobleman to manage. The <People Report,link=180> shows the maximum number of farming families that can work on all the city's current estates."
50538 "Exploration - World Level"
50539 " Not all <world-level,link=317> sites offer obvious benefits. Sometimes only after dispatching a mission will you find out what there is to gain there. The farther you get from your capital city, the more likely you are to encounter the unknown. You never know what you're going to find, but exploratory missions are usually worth their cost. If you are to rule the world, can you really afford not to know what's beyond the distant mountains?
"
50540 "Family History"
50541 " Each household in your city has a story. Click this button to read it:
<img=9>
The family history lets you trace a family's progression over the generations, sometimes all the way from primitive <villager,link=24> to <educated elite,link=150>. Their paths through life are not always smooth, and might include steps back down the social ladder. The most recent history is at the top of the report. Don't let the countdown of years BC confuse you.
"
50542 "Family Tracking Windows"
50543 " When you select a home, three spherical windows at the lower right of your screen show what each of the people who live there is doing at that moment:
<img=223>
If you select a person, the first window displays his or her home. Clicking on any one of these windows takes you to the pictured person or home. In this way, you can get a complete picture of a family's activities, and the status of the household. Note that the person or home that you've selected is never simultaneously shown in the tracking windows.
A square icon near somebody's feet in one of these windows indicates what that person is doing at the moment. If the person has no task icon, he or she is resting at home or doing household chores.
"
50544 "Fields"
50545 " When you grant estates to <noblemen,link=21> by building townhouses, they ensure that <farmers,link=14> work the <floodplain,link=37> fields to <produce food,link=28>. You don't need to pay any attention to fields yourself. You don't need to designate them or manage them in any way - just make sure farmhouses are located close to the floodplain, and not too far from the other things farmers need. Farmers will grow an assortment of <wheat,link=248>, <barley,link=206> and <vegetables,link=246> for optimal nutrition, unless you right-click on a townhouse to order particular foods grown for <taxes,link=91>. Wheat and barley are both suitable for baking bread. Wheat is the most efficient crop to grow, and therefore produces more revenue than a barley field. But barley bread that doesn't have to be eaten can be made into <beer,link=209>. Onions and lettuce are the least productive (or most expensive, if you prefer) crop type.
Fields that are well-tended by farmers grow faster than untended fields. Adult male farmers are the most effective tenders, followed by their wives, then their children. The whole family also helps with the harvest, which continues until all the crops are gathered or until the flood waters move in (the <season of Akhet,link=193>). Wives can help in the fields only after the household's shopping needs are met. The quality of each year's flood affects field productivity. "
50546 "Food and Drink"
50547 " There are two great things about food. First, food fills our bellies. Second, food is the means of exchange in Egypt. Everything is bought and sold for food, in the form of farmed bread and vegetables (foraged food is not redeemable for anything). Naturally, people won't spend food until they've satisfied their basic hunger. To maintain peak health, every household needs at least two types of food, plus beer to drink. Families who lack any of those basics are at higher risk of dying and less likely to bear children. People will quickly grow <dissatisfied,link=83> if they have no bread to eat.
People get their food in various ways. <Foraging,link=35> works for <villagers,link=24>, and everyone except <elite citizens,link=80> will stoop to foraging when necessary. But civilized people do not hunt and gather. We rely upon proper <food production,link=28> for our daily bread.
<Farmers,link=14>, <noblemen,link=21> and <your own family,link=16> take their household food directly from the harvest. Half of what's left after these families are fed goes to the noble whose <estate,link=153> produced it. The other half goes to your government in the form of <taxes,link=91>, provided your <scribes,link=19> are out assessing <fields,link=157>. This tax income is automatically apportioned among all of your city's <bakeries,link=29>. Anything left after filling the bakeries goes into your <granaries,link=30>. If there is still food left over, it remains on the estate that produced it. Townhouses have limited storage capabilities, though, so much of this surplus will simply be wasted.
Raw grain isn't eaten, stored or bartered, but is instead made into bread once it enters a <bakery,link=29> or home. Regardless of whether it was made from <wheat,link=248> or <barley,link=206>, bread is one food type. <Onions,link=235> and <lettuce,link=231> also count as one food type (vegetables). Barley bread that isn't eaten can be made into <beer,link=209>, so it's best to satisfy the family's appetite mainly with wheat bread.
All <government workers,link=164> get their wages in the form of vegetables and bread from bakeries. Shopkeepers earn their food by making and selling <household wares,link=43>. <Entertainers,link=13> and <servants,link=20> are paid by the nobles who hire their services.
For optimum health, everyone needs to eat one measure of food, made up of two different farmed (not foraged) food types, each day, and have beer or wine to drink. Because it is more expensive to grow, barley is better used for making beer than being simply eaten as bread. However, people don't drink beer until they've had at least one measure of farmed food, and they become dissatisfied if that food isn't bread. This all means that you want to have some, but not too much, barley and vegetables. Fortunately, people take care of all of this without your attention. The only way you'll ever involve yourself in crop allocation is to specify what foods you want as tax income.
Having only one farmed food type, having no beer or wine to drink, having only foraged food, and having insufficient food all cause nutritional problems. The higher an individual's <social class,link=80>, the more he or she expects abundant dietary choices. Malnutrition makes people more susceptible to disease, and therefore more likely to need <healthcare,link=166>. When malnutrition becomes widespread, so might disease.
Fruit trees may be planted at nobles' townhouses and the palace. Pomegranates, dates and grapes are used for wine, which noble families can drink instead of beer.
Spoilage is the last point you should know about food. It won't usually be much of a factor, but food does gradually rot or get eaten by pests. Most people don't keep food around long enough for spoilage to matter, but it does keep the wealthy from amassing great quantities of bread.
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is currently available in your granaries and bakeries:
<img=25>
The <Resources Report,link=188> gives a detailed breakdown of your revenue sources and expenses.
HISTORY: <Bakery,link=338>
HISTORY: <Beer,link=340>
HISTORY: <Economics,link=347>
HISTORY: <Food and Drink,link=352>
"
50548 "Foreign Settlements - World Level"
50549 " You, being Pharaoh, can trade <cargo,link=143> directly with other governments to obtain materials that are useful for your nome. Look for markers like these:
<img=203> <img=206> <img=207> <img=208> <img=209>
<Trade,link=56> of this sort is quite straightforward. Governments deal only in raw materials, and those items that are only used by the government (such as bricks and stone) - never household wares. You can trade food, too. No tariffs are involved in this type of trade. Once a trade relationship between governments is established, each does its best to meet its commitment. If you don't provide all of the commodities that you promised in one year when the representatives of your trade partners come to claim it, your trade partner will reduce its shipments proportionately the next year. To make sure the necessary resources are on hand when <foreign traders,link=282> arrive, you can <set a reserve amount,link=186> for any government resource by selecting it on the <Resources Report,link=188>: <img=27>
City residents can't use the given resource if your stocks are below the set amount.
When a cargo barge from a foreign settlement enters your city, it ties up a landing, where it remains until its deliverymen take all of its cargo to the designated <drop-off points,link=59>, and then retrieve whatever cargo you are sending out in return. That takes time. If another barge from some other settlement arrives while the <barge landing,link=58> is occupied, or if a local barge is tied up there, you might miss a delivery. Drop-off points can be dedicated to particular world-level sites, but barge landings cannot. To avoid losing cargoes, make sure that your city has at least one barge landing for each waterborne trade partner. "
50550 "Game Settings"
50551 " Go into these screens to adjust your sound and video settings. Place the mouse pointer over each option for information about that item. Sound and interface settings are purely a matter of personal preference. Video settings let you suit the game's performance to your computer's capabilities.
To access game settings from within the game, click on the options button:
<img=12>
then select game settings.
Not all settings are available from within the city. Exit the program to see the full range of options (such as screen resolution).
"
50552 "Game Speed"
50553 " Use the + and - keys to speed up or slow down the passage of time in the game."
50554 "Goals"
50555 " To view scenario goals, click the Scenario Information button:
<img=16>
You'll find it here:
<img=21>
Re-read the Overview carefully when you aren't sure what you should do, or why you can't win a scenario and move on to the next one.
"
50556 "Government"
50557 " You are the <prestigious,link=84> and mighty <Pharaoh,link=182>, without whom the people of Egypt might have all remained primitive hunter-gatherers forever. From your <palace,link=16> you issue the <edicts,link=86> that ultimately ensure the people's long-term <satisfaction,link=83> (even if they can't always see the wisdom in your ways). You keep Egypt <secure,link=191> against threats from the <outside world,link=317> and build the <monuments,link=78> that define Egypt's grandeur. All of this the people receive from your government, and in return you ask merely <taxes,link=91>.
"
50558 "Government Workers"
50559 " Economically speaking, there are three kinds of people in Egypt. There are the unemployed, who matter only for their potential. There are private citizens, who earn their bread either by making and selling <household wares,link=43>, or by hiring out their services (<entertainers,link=13> and <servants,link=20>). Finally, there are the government workers whose livelihood depends on the food in your <bakeries,link=29>. The following types of households are the only ones that you employ directly:
-<bakers,link=29>
-<brick makers,link=33>
-<bricklayers,link=12>
-<educated workers,link=150> (all of them)
-<gardeners,link=32>
-<laborers,link=15>
-<papyrus makers,link=40>
-<shipwrights,link=44>
-<soldiers,link=74>
-<stone carvers,link=22>
-<weapon smiths,link=39> "
50560 "Graduates"
50561 " Graduates are <students,link=70> who have completed their <education,link=151>. The <People Report,link=180> shows how many graduates are ready to start careers as <educated workers,link=150>. When you select an elite home, the number next to the graduates icon shows how many graduates live there:
<img=58>
Students never come from priest households, as priests never marry. They are typically the children of nobles and educated workers. Some luxury shopkeepers can send their children to school, too.
If graduates are not setting out into the working world, verify that you placed homes for these professions, that the homes were actually built, that occupational <dissatisfaction,link=83> isn't preventing migration, and that your <prestige,link=84> limit has not been reached.
HISTORY: <Education,link=348>
"
50562 "Health and Healthcare"
50563 "<img=123>
Proper <nutrition,link=158> helps to keep people well, but parasites, evil gods, vengeful magicks and disturbances of Ma'at bring disease all too often, and injuries can happen without warning. <Priests,link=18> can cure many of these afflictions, or at least keep them from spreading, if your city has <apothecaries,link=63> and <hospitals,link=67>. The nature and severity of someone's complaint determines which facility he'll visit and how long he has to stay there (and how much work he'll miss). A lucky person might go for years without ever needing healthcare, but when someone does need healing, he or she will grow quite dissatisfied, and might even die, if it isn't available. Poor health can reduce the population, decrease birth rates, and cause serious losses of work time. Large-scale health crises can even send healthy people flocking to worship <Isis,link=251>, further burdening overworked priests.
To avoid health problems, make sure that citizens have the food that they need, and keep some healthcare facilities in operation at all times. To order a priest to provide healthcare, right click on his home and choose 'Provide Healthcare' from the list that appears. Service providers who don't have other orders will spread their efforts among all nearby buildings that can use them.
HISTORY: <Medicine,link=364>
"
50564 "Hostile Sites - World Level"
50565 " Whether from envy or from fear, Egypt has enemies in the world. Though none are of sufficient stature to harm the nation in any significant way, many are the homes of hostile raiders that periodically harass the city, causing insecurity among your people. These appear on the <world level,link=317> as hostile sites:
<img=215> <img=216> <img=217> <img=218>
Use <military force,link=73> to crush them and end the threat. The <military engagements,link=144> panel contains all of the information you need.
HISTORY: <Forts,link=353>
"
50566 "Merchant Sites - World Level"
50567 " <Merchants,link=280> come by ship or by caravan, bringing exotic luxury <household wares,link=43> that your people could not otherwise obtain, and buying luxuries from the city's shopkeepers in exchange for food. Your government can take a piece of this action through <tariffs,link=195>, if <scribes,link=19> are monitoring the city's <merchant centers,link=57> and quays. Simply click on <world-level,link=317> merchant sites to see what they buy and sell:
<img=213> <img=214>
Merchants are happy to do business in your city, so while it might cost you something to establish the relationship, there is never any upkeep involved."
50568 "Challenge Level Settings"
50569 " Before you start a new game, you can choose whether to play at the normal challenge level, or try a harder challenge. In Hard games, people become <dissatisfied,link=83> more readily, you can lead fewer <educated workers,link=150> with the same <prestige,link=84>, and it's harder to <produce food,link=28> than in Normal games. You can only change this setting when you start a new game, not when you resume a saved game, so choose carefully."
50570 "Land"
50571 " You build your city upon the flesh and bones of a god. The House of Geb, as Egyptians call the land, presents these attributes:
FLOOD PLAIN
That land which drowns in the <Inundation,link=37> and re-emerges year after year is called the floodplain. The fertile black soil of this farmable land makes Egypt's civilization possible. The floodplain cannot be build upon. Locate <farmhouses,link=14> near the floodplain, so that farmers can plant their <fields,link=157> there.
FLOOD LANDS
Some land lies at the same height as the floodplain. Despite being regularly flooded, these lands don't receive enough of the life-giving black soil to be farmed, and so are not part of the floodplain. Such flood lands can be built upon, but any structures placed there are vulnerable to destruction. A building's <footprint,link=25> displays orange squares when your mouse pointer hovers over this type of land.
LOWLANDS
Land that lies slightly above the floodplain's elevation can be built upon. You never know, though, how much water Hapi will bring in a given year. When the Inundation is especially high, structures built upon these lowlands might be washed away. Lowlands are identified by yellow squares in a building's footprint.
HILLS
You cannot build in the hills or on uneven terrain. A building's footprint turns red when your pointer is over unbuildable terrain.
NORMAL, FLAT
Most of your city should be built upon normal, flat land that is safe from flooding. Building footprints are green when your mouse pointer is over this prime building land.
"
50572 "Maintenance"
50573 " As every homeowner knows, houses need constant maintenance. Residents who can meet all of their needs for <food,link=158> and <wares,link=43> will maintain their homes in good repair, and those with wealth left over can even improve and <beautify,link=137> them. You can tell prosperous families by the pride they take in their houses. Poorly maintained, shabby looking homes are a sure sign that somebody is having financial trouble. Dilapidated homes might even be abandoned by their struggling owners. Abandoned houses eventually collapse.
Each improvement that a <nobleman,link=21> adds to his townhouse costs him some food to maintain. If you see some of his enhancements slipping into disrepair, the noble living there is having some trouble meeting his financial obligations. Make sure that your city has as many <farmers,link=14> as its estates can manage.
"
50574 "Messages"
50575 " To review messages, consult the message log:
<img=11>
Messages are listed in chronological order, with the most recent being at the bottom. Because Egypt's story unfolds Before the Common era (BC), the years run 'backwards,' counting down toward zero. Don't get confused!
"
50576 "Mini Map"
50577 " The mini map shows your city as it might look from Ra's fiery chariot. Left click on the mini map to jump to any location in your nome:
UI map:<img=28>
The turquoise inlay at the top of the mini map resets your viewpoint to a standard angle. Click this arrow-shaped gem if you become confused about the <camera's,link=141> location:
<img=15>
"
50578 "Monuments - World Level"
50579 " Normally, you build <monuments,link=78> within your own nome, but you can build them on the world level as well. Go to the <world level,link=317> to find such opportunities, and click on markers like these to discover what materials you must send to build there:
<img=186> <img=188> <img=192> <img=180> <img=198>
Your representatives conscript laborers, overseers and stone carvers from areas near the construction site, so you need not send workers - only resources.
World-level monuments convey <prestige,link=84> benefits, just like monuments built within your nome.
"
50580 "User Interface - World Level"
50581 " The left side of the <world level,link=317> screen contains detailed information about the locations shown on the map of Egypt, as you select them. The top half of this panel gives you the facts about whatever specific site you selected on the map. Where you see numbers separated by a slash, the value on the left is the amount traded in the current year, and the amount on the right is the annual maximum. Where you see one number followed by another in parentheses, the first one is the total needed, and the second is the amount that you have.
The bottom half of the information panel summarizes all of your city's world trade for the year to date. Everything that left your city appears in the left-hand column. Everything that came in is listed on the right. Totals are reported separately for cargo traffic (government trade in resources and commodities) and merchant transactions (private trade in household wares). Simply click on the worldwide trade report label to toggle between these categories.
You can also hide the map labels:
<img=37>
See also <dispatching,link=148>
"
50582 "Occupations"
50583 " Large numbers of simple <villagers,link=24> usually populate your city and the surrounding area. It's up to you, as their powerful and charismatic leader, to transform these unspecialized hunter-gatherers into an organized society comprised of many types of skilled workers and citizens. In this way, you will build a powerful capital city and empire.
You tell your people what occupations you would like them to take up by designating specific kinds of <houses,link=26>. Each household engages in a single occupation, so each type of house corresponds to a specific occupation.
People are always trying to improve their lives by moving into better occupations, so they <migrate,link=279> from one home to another as opportunities present themselves. For example, when a new jewelry shop opens, a potter's family might move into it and take up jewelry making, because it is more lucrative and prestigious than the pottery business. The now-vacant pottery shop presents an attractive opportunity for a farmer to advance into the middle class. The empty farmhouse, in turn, attracts a villager who wants to join your civilization. As people improve their own lives, your society advances.
Of course, nobody can become an <educated worker,link=150> without receiving an <education,link=151>, so only <graduates,link=165> can take on careers as priests, commanders, scribes, and overseers. These professionals, being in your government's employ, will take specific work <orders,link=178> from you.
<Noblemen,link=21> don't have occupations in the traditional sense. Rather, they manage the farming <estates,link=153> that you grant them. Regardless of whether this duty is as onerous as the nobles claim, the end result is to maximize food production, which is in everybody's best interest. If your <prestige,link=84> is high and your city's nobility is not <dissatisfied,link=83>, noble families immigrate from other nomes to occupy new townhouses.
"
50584 "Options"
50585 " Click the options button to save your game for later, load a previously saved game, change the video performance or sound preference settings, or quit and go to bed:
<img=12>
You might not need much sleep, but your people do. They'll be waiting for you tomorrow.
"
50586 "Orders"
50587 " Give specific instructions to an <educated worker,link=150> to focus his efforts on particular role or task within his given profession. If you don't give such instructions, by default he will work at all facilities or work sites appropriate to his occupation, starting with those nearest his home.
To issue specific orders to a <priest,link=18>, <overseer,link=17>, <scribe,link=19> or <commander,link=11>, right-click on his home.
You can also give specific instructions for other buildings and people by right-clicking on:
<cult temples,link=65>, <temples,link=71> and <shrines,link=72> - to dedicate them to a specific <god,link=140>
<cargo drop-off points,link=59> - to dedicate them to a specific world level site
<townhouses,link=21> - to tell the resident nobleman what crop to grow for taxes
<barracks,link=74> - to give the soldiers who live there a troop type assignment
<weapons workshop,link=39> - to tell the weapon smith what type of military equipment to produce
<shops,link=264> - to tell the shopkeeper what type of ware to produce and sell, and therefore change the shop type
"
50588 "Pausing the Game"
50589 " To halt the passage of time in the game, click the pause button:
<img=14>
In its place, you now see the unpause button:
<img=13>
"
50590 "People Report"
50591 " Click the top white gem to view the People Report. The button looks like this:
<img=29>
You'll find the button here:
<img=22>
Everybody in the city is included in one of the occupational groups listed on the People Report. The numbers following the names show how many people are actively working in that <occupation,link=176>, out of how many <houses,link=26> - both built and awaiting construction - exist for each occupation. Put the mouse pointer over these numbers to see more information. Put the pointer over the occupation name to discover the breakdown of instructions among your priests, overseers, commanders and scribes. Click on the name to select all of the homes belonging to that category (including villagers' hovels and vagrants' mats). The selected item frame will point to the appropriate houses:
<img=49>
The color inside of this frame shows each household's level of <dissatisfaction,link=83>, ranging from green (fully satisfied) through red (strongly dissatisfied) along this spectrum:
The colored square to the left of each occupation's name shows the collective level of dissatisfaction for that group, using the same color scale as above. Group dissatisfaction can only be remedied by improving the lot of the component households. If dissatisfaction becomes too widespread, people might try to overthrow you. Before things get to that point, they will make their complaints obvious.
The 'Max Farms' number at the top right of the People Report shows the total number of farming families that all of your city's <noblemen,link=21>, plus your <palace,link=16> staff, can manage. You can exceed this number of <farmhouses,link=14>, but no more than this can be occupied.
The number of <graduates,link=165> awaiting careers as <educated workers,link=150> is also shown here. Click the word to select all homes in which a graduate lives. If graduates are not setting out into the working world, verify that you placed homes for these professions, that the homes were actually built, that occupational dissatisfaction (remember the colored box to the left of the occupation's name?) isn't preventing migration, and that your <prestige,link=84> limit has not been reached.
<Envoys,link=88> are needed for various <world-level,link=317> missions.
You can think of <villagers,link=24> as your reservoir of potential citizens. The number shows how many would like to become <peasants,link=80> if new houses were available.
You might also think of <vagrants,link=23> as potential citizens, except that unlike villagers, vagrants fell from roles in your society (often as shopkeepers). These unfortunates, who are still your people, would love to return to productive urban living.
"
50592 "Personal Names"
50593 " Everybody has a first name and a surname. Homes carry the family's surname. You can see these names when a person or his home is selected. Click on this to change either his personal name or his surname. If you change a surname, everybody in the family gets the new name. Rename people to help you keep track of particular individuals, to put your family members and friends in the game, or just for the fun of it.
"
50594 "Pharaoh and Dynasty"
50595 " Time is long, and life is short. Your dynasty will go on forever, heedless of the years. The chief concern of any one pharaoh is to enhance his dynasty's <prestige,link=84>, so that his line will endure and his name forever be spoken. There has always been a royal family in the <palace,link=16>, and your reign will help ensure that it continues. As your <birthdays,link=138> pass by and your children grow up, plan and build your <tomb,link=196> with confidence, for you are a strong link in the unbroken chain of being.
"
50596 "Plaza"
50597 " Plazas are decorative ground coverings. They cost nothing and don't affect traffic moving over them, or their surroundings. Use them freely to adorn your city's roads. Plazas are found on the Infrastructure build button:
<img=5>
"
50598 "Production"
50599 " People's appetite for <household wares,link=43> and other finished goods underlies much of the city's activity. A great deal of your citizens' time and effort is spent getting raw materials and transforming them in shops. All of your people's basic commodity needs are met without any input from you or your government. Some exotic luxuries - incense, furs, and (of course!) monkeys all come to mind - can only be obtained from <trading,link=56> with <merchants,link=280>. Although shopkeepers and craftsmen all harvest their own basic resources, precious raw materials like gold and emeralds must be either imported or <mined,link=42> by the government if luxury shopkeepers are to make their most expensive items. Your government is not involved in their production decisions, either. They make a full range of goods based on all of the materials available to them, whether gathered or obtained through the <Exchange,link=60>, and their customers buy the best that they can afford."
50600 "Propaganda"
50601 " Even the most astonishing accomplishments won't bring you much benefit unless people know about them. Magnify your <prestige,link=84> by building <obelisks and stele,link=79>. Go to the <world level,link=317> to see what you can achieve that's worth commemorating. The amount of prestige you receive depends upon the monument's value and the impact of the event you're commemorating. You might choose to erect the more modest stele for a quick boost at a low cost, or you might prefer to invest the time and effort in an obelisk, or even a grand obelisk to obtain the greater reward. However, you can only memorialize an event once. You can't replace a stele with an obelisk, or an obelisk with a grand obelisk later on to receive more prestige."
50602 "Reserving Resources"
50603 " To make sure the necessary resources are on hand for foreign <traders,link=56> and <cargo,link=143> movers, set a reserve amount for any government resource by selecting it on the <Resources Report,link=188>:
<img=27>
This prevents city residents from using the given resource if your stocks are below the set amount. Reserving resources ensures that <world-level,link=317> Egyptian settlements have access to vital resources needed for their upkeep, and that foreign traders can fulfill their import quotas, so that they may deliver their full export quotas to you in return.
If you <reserve,link=186> a quantity of <granite,link=224> or <basalt,link=207>, only the types that you need for world-level obligations are set aside. For example, if a world-level site needs grand obelisks, and your city has both grand obelisks and obelisks stored, the quantity that you order reserved applies only to the grand obelisks. If both types of obelisk are in demand, both types will be reserved (up to the total number that you define). You cannot reserve each type separately.
"
50604 "Myrrh"
50605 " Myrrh is a raw material used to make expensive perfumes. It is available locally, and is collected by <perfumers,link=52> or their children. <Elite citizens,link=80> just love to smell good.
HISTORY: <Myrrh,link=367>
"
50606 "Resources Report"
50607 " Click on the bottom white gem to view the Resources Report:
<img=27>
GENERAL INFORMATION
You can see two important numbers without even opening the panel. The number of bricks stored in the city's <brickworks,link=33> and <storage areas,link=61> gives you a good idea how many new government buildings you can place with the expectation that they will be constructed. The total food stored in government facilities (<bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30>) is a measure both of your government's wealth, and your ability to feed your workers.
<img=25>
The left portion of the open panel tells you how much food your <government workers,link=164> need each year. <Tax,link=91> coverage shows how much farm production will go into your government's stores. The flood prediction and fertility description give you an idea how productive those fields will be.
FOOD LEDGER
The middle portion of the panel is a simple ledger that shows your government's food income on the top three lines, and where the food is going on the bottom three lines.
RESOURCE LIST
The four columns of icons show all of the resources and finished goods that your government owns in <storage areas,link=61>, brickworks and weapons workshops.
SELECT A RESOURCE & SETTING RESERVES
When you click on anything in the Resource List, the Food Ledger is replaced with a panel showing more specific information on the selected resource. This is where you can <set reserve quantities,link=186>.
"
50608 "Roads and Paths"
50609 " A well-planned network of paths and roads is easy on people's feet, and lends an appearance of neatness and order to the city. Nobody has to walk on roads, but all prefer a smooth, clean route to walking overland. There are no functional differences between paths, roads, and <plazas,link=183>. To build roads, hold down the left mouse button and drag them where you want them to go, then release the button when you are ready to build.
Use the remove roads button to get rid of roads:
<img=19>
"
50610 "Rotating Buildings"
50611 " When a building <attached to your pointer,link=25> displays a green footprint, click the left mouse button and hold it down. As soon as you activate this rotation mode, an arrow in the center of the building appears to show you which wall has the <doorway,link=149>. Move the mouse to rotate the building. When the building faces the way you want, release the mouse button. If it didn't turn out the way you wanted, no harm is done: just click the undo button and try again:
<img=32>
If its doorway is obstructed, the building can't be occupied. Doorways do not have to face roads - just make sure they aren't blocked.
"
50612 "Security"
50613 "<img=125>
Crime, animal attacks - even <raiders,link=89> - can strike anyone. There is no building that people can visit to restore feelings of security, other than courts of law under limited circumstances. <Dissatisfaction,link=83> with security begins when danger directly affects a member of someone's own household. <City walls,link=76> are the first line of defense against raiders. <Commanders,link=11> assigned to <guard posts,link=66> reduce criminal acts somewhat, and drive off any raiders who enter the city. Your military forces can permanently disable <hostile sites,link=167> where threats breed. Nobles occasionally have to visit <courts of law,link=64> to settle legal disputes peacefully. Perils make people anxious, and can increase their need to worship, especially <Ma'at,link=261>.
"
50614 "Selecting Things"
50615 " You can select a single item in the game, be it a person, building, plant or whatnot, by clicking on it. You can select multiple items by clicking and dragging, to form a rectangle. Anything contained within the rectangle when you release the mouse button will be selected. Sometimes it is easier to select individual people this way, especially when they are moving.
When something is selected, you'll see an indicator above it (giving some information, and showing you who or what is selected) while more detailed information about the selected item is shown in the lower right corner of the screen, referred to as the 'selected item area':
<img=33>
SELECTION INDICATORS
The indicator above a selected person shows what he or she is doing, or intending to do. For homes, you'll see a satisfaction indicator whose color shows how satisfied the resident family is. This ranges from green (fully satisfied) through red (strongly dissatisfied) along this spectrum:
And if the household does not belong to Egyptian society (and therefore their satisfaction is of no concern to you), you'll see this:
<img=148>
For government service buildings, the indicator shows whether the facility is currently operational:
<img=150> or not:<img=151>
Structures that neither house anybody nor require workers (like barge landings and cargo drop-off areas) have an indicator shaped like the ones above, but their gray color means that neither satisfaction nor activation are relevant.
If multiple homes or service buildings are selected, the indicators will look slightly different:
<img=49> <img=155>
Selected resources use the same frame pictured above, but filled with the same neutral gray that means you don't need to think about satisfaction or activation.
SELECTED ITEM AREA
Everything you need to know about the selected item appears at the lower right of the screen.
You'll see the item's name or person's occupation. Arrows let you cycle through other items of the same type. The <camera controls,link=141> let you conveniently manipulate your view of the item.
Service buildings show whether they are operational, and give some usage history.
People show what they're carrying.
Shops show how many wares they have for sale, how much raw material they have on hand, and what they're producing. Don't forget that shops are somebody's home, too.
Houses show:
<img=57> The amount of food stored there;
<img=56> How many common household wares are on hand
<img=59> How many luxury wares are tucked away.
Hold the mouse pointer an icon to see a breakdown of exactly what the family has.
If any <graduates,link=165> are still living off their parents while they wait for a career opportunity, they're shown here as well.
The <family tracking windows,link=156> let you see what each member of the household is up to at any moment.
When you select a person or home, the colored indicator under the family history button shows you the household's satisfaction, using the same color scheme as the selection indicator:
<img=40> <img=39>
The specific past causes of any <dissatisfaction,link=83> are shown to the right of this:
<img=34>
Just above the satisfaction indicator is the <family history,link=15> button, which lets you follow the family's fortunes through the years.
In addition to the information displayed for all homes, <townhouses,link=21> show the estate's size and what its farmers are growing. <Educated worker,link=150> homes show their owners' current <instructions,link=178>.
"
50616 "Setting"
50617 " The area that you see the most is called the city level. It exists within the context of the <world level,link=317>. The world level includes all of Egypt and most of the known world. When you leave the city to view the world level, time in the city ceases to pass. The entirety of the city level is called a 'nome,' which you can think of as a county or province. Nomes vary in size.
The most obvious feature of a nome is the Nile and its bordering <land,link=170>. You'll quickly notice a scattering of <village hovels,link=24>, and probably some villagers <foraging,link=35> food. Look more carefully, and you can often spot <prey animals,link=124> and <predators,link=123>. <Resources,link=27> of <many kinds,link=270> await only someone to put them to use. Often, the nucleus of an Egyptian city dominates the landscape.
This is the stage that your leadership will transform. Different areas are suited to different uses. One corner of the nome may be rocky, and rich in minerals awaiting <mining,link=42> or <quarrying,link=41>. Another region might have a large <floodplain,link=37> that begs to be <farmed,link=28>. Yet another might be flat and barren, appropriate for the creation of <monuments,link=78>. You are <Pharaoh,link=182> because you see these possibilities, and make them real.
In the corner of the screen, a clock and calendar show time passing. The year is divided into three seasons, each approximately four months long (seasons are based on the flood, which varies from year to year). There are only three days in a year.
-Akhet brings the <Inundation,link=37> that renews the land.
-Peret is the season of emergence, when farmers plant their crops.
-Shemu is the dry time, when the harvest takes place.
People are most active during the day. For most, the night is for rest, although the <elite,link=80> enjoy their <feasts,link=82> in the evenings. Because so little happens at night, the passage of time is accelerated.
HISTORY: <Time,link=376>
"
50618 "Snapshot"
50619 " You're going to see strange and magnificent sights on the city streets. To preserve them for posterity, or to share them with your friends, click the snapshot button:
<img=38>
You might want to <pause,link=179> time for your snapshot. Click the large scarab beetle below the <mini map,link=173> to hide the interface and take a full-screen picture by using the F9 key. Your pictures are placed in a 'Snapshots' folder in the game's 'Master' folder as numbered jpeg files (CotN001.jpg, for example). Just double-click the file to view it.
"
50620 "Tariffs"
50621 " <Elite citizens,link=80> are fond of their luxury <household wares,link=43> - so fond, in fact, that they love to buy exotic items that <merchants,link=280> bring from the <world level,link=317>. This commerce takes place without any attention from you, but you are entitled to claim tariffs on all such transactions. <Merchant centers,link=57> make collection easy. Order a <scribe,link=19> who lives nearby to collect tariffs from a merchant center. Tariffs are always paid in food, which is deposited in city <bakeries,link=29>, or <granaries,link=30> if there's no room in the bakeries. If the granaries are all full, the tariff cannot be collected.
"
50622 "Tombs"
50623 " You will die soon. We inhabit this weak flesh only briefly, but the afterlife is eternal. Not even Pharaoh is above this iron law. Without a tomb, where would your ka receive its nourishment? Where would your ba go during the daytime? All the parts of your soul depend upon your mummy lying undisturbed in your tomb, so that you can live as a shining akh. The comfort provided by a suitable tomb cannot be overstated. So dire are the consequences of dying without one, in fact, that you should always have at least a modest one ready, in case disease or accident takes you before your proper tomb is finished.
All Egyptian royals and nobles deserve a suitable afterlife, and tombs alleviate <dissatisfaction,link=83> among these citizens. Every new tomb also brings you some <prestige,link=84> upon completion. This base prestige is magnified when someone is interred there. The higher a person's social rank, the greater the resulting prestige. It's always smart to bury the highest-ranking decedent in the most prestigious tomb. Consult the <Administration Report,link=136> to see how much prestige the city's tombs convey upon you.
Right-click on an unoccupied tomb to define who may occupy it. Available choices are:
- Pharaoh only: The tomb is exclusively for your own use, and no one else's.
- Royal family only: When death strikes your family, a member of your household will be interred here. Royals do not share tombs, and royal tombs are never reused. You need one for each member of your family.
- Nobles only: Non-royal noble families need one tomb per household.
- Anyone: This tomb may be used by any noble or royal, including yourself. Nobody under the rank of noble is ever entombed.
<Townhouse,link=21> nobles buy a family tomb as soon as they can afford it, assuming that you have built one and it has not been reserved for royalty. Upkeep on family tombs is not free, so nobles prefer the affordable tomb with the lowest prestige value, leaving the higher-value tombs for royal family members. When a young noble moves into a new townhouse and forms a new household, he can no longer be laid to rest in his parents' tomb. He needs to buy his own.
When you die without a waiting tomb, or if you lose a member of your family before a tomb has been reserved for a royal, the most prestigious empty tomb that is not reserved for 'nobles only' is used. If the unthinkable happens, and you are not entombed upon death, your dynasty's prestige suffers greatly.
When you select a tomb, the indicator above it shows if the tomb is available:
<img=153>
Or if it has already been taken:
<img=154>
If the tomb is owned by a family, a button also appears in the <Selected Item,link=192> area. Clicking the button takes you to the family home:
<img=132>
A thriving city should always have suitable tombs under construction. To build one, click the Monuments <build button,link=25>:
<img=6>
Pick the desired tomb from the list. As with any other building, the monument's footprint attaches to your mouse pointer. You might have to zoom way out to see the whole thing. Sweep the pointer over the nome until you find a suitably large, flat area. When the whole footprint is green, click to place the tomb. <Mastabas,link=197> are built by <bricklayers,link=12>. <Pyramids,link=211> are more ambitious, requiring <overseers,link=17>, <laborers,link=15>, and <stone carvers,link=22>. With all of the support such an effort takes, a pyramid construction site often becomes a small city unto itself.
HISTORY: <The Afterlife,link=336>
HISTORY: <Tombs,link=377>
"
50624 "Mastabas"
50625 " Mastabas are the most modest <tombs,link=196> you can build. Your government builds them primarily to serve the <funerary,link=87> needs of the city's <noblemen,link=21>, preventing a potential cause of serious <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility. There are three sizes of mastaba, all of which are built from <bricks,link=139> by <bricklayers,link=12>. As with all tombs, mastabas award <prestige,link=84> based on their size, as well as the importance of the person interred there. Unused tombs, especially humble mastabas, yield little prestige. Once a noble family acquires a family tomb, no other family can use it.
The prestige section of the <Administration Report,link=136> tells you how much prestige you enjoy from all the city's tombs.
HISTORY: <Tombs,link=377>
"
50626 "Learning to Play"
50627 " Children of the Nile comes with a manual that serves as the best starting point. If you don't have a paper copy, consult the .PDF version on your game CD. You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (R) to view this file. Pay special attention to the <gameplay summary,link=267>, or take a few minutes to read it here.
Armed with this background knowledge, start up the game and choose the Learn to Play option. There you will find three learning scenarios. Play through them in order to learn how to become a successful leader. Almost everything in the game displays more information when you put the mouse pointer over it for a moment. <Selected Items,link=192> include a question mark button on their information panel that leads to contextual help, as you have probably already discovered. Colored words within the help text are links to related entries.
The city view always displays a question mark button in the lower right corner of the screen:
<img=10>
This button opens the Game Help Table of Contents, which presents all of the help content organized by topic. You can also reach an alphabetical index, read some <Hints and Tips on Playing,link=281>, or specific <troubleshooting tips,link=3>, and even browse historical entries from this panel.
If all of this information leaves you bewildered, or if we somehow overlooked that one key fact that you're after, visit the Children of the Nile forums at http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/ . There you will find expert players brimming with helpful advice, as well as links to related Web sites. You might even run into the game's creators.
"
50628 "Undoing Actions"
50629 " For a short time after you build something, you can change your mind. To take it back, just click the Undo Button:
<img=32>
The button goes away when nothing can be undone. Once <bricks,link=139> are added to a structure, you can no longer undo its placement.
"
50630 "Upkeep of Egyptian Settlements"
50631 " Other <Egyptian settlements,link=152> rely on your capital city for regular upkeep. Maintaining these Egyptian sites gives your capital city access to resources that aren't available locally. Some types of sites can increase your <prestige,link=84> as well. <Cargo,link=143> movers from these places visit your city to claim what they need, and deliver those resources, if any, that the settlement gives you in return. If movers can't get the upkeep that you promised, the settlement runs the risk of collapse. To make sure the necessary resources are on hand, you can <set a reserve amount,link=186> for any government resource by selecting it on the Resources Report:
<img=27>
This prevents city residents from using the given resource if your stocks are below the set amount.
You can specify where you want movers to deposit deliveries by placing <cargo drop-off points,link=59>. You can leave them as generic <drop-off points,link=59>, or dedicate them to specific sites.
"
50632 "World-Level Game Help Topics"
50633 "
<MAIN INDEX,link=85>
<TABLE OF CONTENTS,link=1>
<PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS,link=3>
<HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA,link=2>
<CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,link=68>
WORLD-LEVEL HELP TOPICS (Alphabetical)
<Achievements,link=135>
<Capital City,link=142>
<Cargo,link=143>
<Cedar,link=126>
<Combat,link=144>
<Cult Center,link=146>
<Dispatching,link=148>
<Egyptian Settlements,link=152>
<Envoy,link=88>
<Exploration,link=154>
<Foreign Settlements,link=159>
<Foreign Traders,link=282>
<Hostile Sites,link=167>
<Merchant Sites,link=168>
<Merchants,link=280>
<Monuments,link=174>
<Propaganda,link=185>
<Raiders,link=89>
<Reserving Resources,link=186>
<Tariffs,link=195>
<Trade,link=56>
<Tribute,link=265>
<Upkeep,link=200>
<User Interface,link=175>
<World Level Overview,link=317>
"
50634 "Worship"
50635 "<img=126>
Citizens feel compelled to visit <shrines,link=72>, <temples,link=71> and <cult temples,link=65> for a number of reasons. Most professions have a patron <god,link=140> to whom their members routinely want to pay homage. Many cities are dedicated to a patron god, and residents expect to give thanks to their patron periodically in a cult temple. To discover your city's patron, if any, hover your mouse pointer over the city's name. Annual festivals instill a desire to honor particular gods at predictable intervals, such as the Festival of <Osiris,link=250> every planting season (Peret). Almost every kind of threat or disturbance, from disease to crime to poor floods, can make people turn to religion for comfort. If they cannot find consolation in their chosen gods, they become <dissatisfied,link=83> with your government.
Gods are not interchangeable, and nobody ever feels a general urge to worship just any god. People not only need to worship a specific god, but also expect to do so in a facility of suitable capacity or grandeur. Sometimes people can be partially satisfied by access to a different god or an inferior building. Noblemen are generally more pious than peasants (or maybe they just have more free time), and tend to want to worship more frequently. Those who live in a city with a cult temple, and can afford the upgrade, like to add a family shrine to their <townhouses,link=21>. This gives them the same benefit as if it were a public shrine, and lets them worship without leaving home.
Order a priest to dedicate his efforts to providing worship services by right-clicking on his home and selecting 'Tend Gods' from the list. Sometimes you can reduce the workload of local <priests,link=18> by establishing a <world-level cult center,link=146>.
50637 " <Elite citizens,link=80> prize exotic animal products as a luxury household ware. Furs are available only from <merchants,link=280> as imports."
50638 "Animals"
50639 " Egypt's local wildlife can be divided into <predators,link=123> and <prey,link=124>. Peasants hunt prey animals as a source of <foraged,link=35> food, while <noblemen,link=21> hunt predators for <leisure,link=82>. <Elite citizens,link=80> buy <monkeys,link=51> from <merchants,link=280> as imports."
50640 "Armor"
50641 " The <weapon smith,link=289> can produce armor at his weapons workshop. <Soldiers,link=74>, including city <guards,link=66>, suffer lighter casualties when they wear <leather,link=230> armor.
"
50642 "Barley"
50643 " Two types of grain, <wheat,link=248> and barley, are both suitable for baking <bread,link=210>. Since wheat is the most efficient thing to grow, and therefore produces more revenue than a barley field, why grow barley? Because barley bread that doesn't have to be eaten can be made into <beer,link=209>. Families who can't drink beer will get by on river water, but that is not good for their health. One measure of barley makes two servings of beer.
HISTORY: <Beer,link=340>
"
50644 "Basalt"
50645 " <Sculptors,link=55> use this fine-grained, dark-colored rock for some of their better creations. They don't collect it themselves, but buy rough statues from an <Exchange,link=60> or <storage area,link=61> after it is <quarried,link=41> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>. Its hard surface takes a shine nicely, and <sculpture,link=241> made from basalt is worth more than the humble <clay,link=34> variety. Small rough basalt statues are used to make god statues for <temples,link=71>. The god statue in a <cult temple,link=65> requires a large rough basalt statue.
If you <reserve,link=186> a quantity of basalt, only the types that you need to meet <world level,link=317> obligations are set aside. For example, if a world-level site wants small blocks, and your city has both large and small blocks stored, the quantity that you order reserved applies only to the small blocks. If both sizes are in demand, both will be reserved (up to the total number that you define). "
50646 "Baskets"
50647 " It's hard to imagine that people ever did without the common <household wares,link=43> that are taken for granted by most Egyptians. The basket maker's <husband,link=99> and <child,link=95> collect <papyrus reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> that fuel the output of her <basket shop,link=45>. Baskets are a common household ware, and are therefore not traded in any way.
HISTORY: <Baskets,link=339>"
50648 "Beer"
50649 " What's not to love about cloudy, warm, gritty Egyptian beer? With a little honey or fruit to temper its natural sourness, beer is the beverage of choice for pleasure and for health. Farmers grow <barley,link=206> specifically so that people can make a <bread,link=210> suitable for beer. People eat <wheat,link=248> bread first. If there is enough wheat bread to satisfy their hunger, barley bread can be made into beer. Otherwise, it has to be eaten, because the need for bread comes first. Beer is never stored or bartered, since barley bread serves those roles.
HISTORY: <Beer,link=340>"
50650 "Bread"
50651 " Raw grain isn't eaten, stored or bartered, but is instead made into bread once it enters a <bakery,link=29> or home. Regardless of whether it was made from <wheat,link=248> or <barley,link=206>, bread is one <food,link=158> type - the food of choice, in fact. People grow quickly <dissatisfied,link=83> without bread at every meal.
HISTORY: <Bakery,link=338>
"
50652 "Pyramids"
50653 " Is there a more recognizable and durable symbol of Egypt than the grandest <tombs,link=196>? Simple brick <mastabas,link=197> are fine repositories for <noble,link=21> mummies, but Pharaoh deserves a far better eternal home. Only a pyramid can convey the kind of <prestige,link=84> worthy of a king.
You can build five different sizes of pyramid, ranging from very small to great. Prestige rises with size. So, of course, does the investment of time and resources. Some favored nobles might merit the smaller pyramids, but you will almost surely reserve the largest ones for yourself. Mere <brick,link=139> is no suitable material for a pyramid. To undertake such a project, you must order <overseers,link=17> to <quarry,link=41> large amounts of <limestone,link=232> for the core, and a lesser quantity of <fine limestone,link=219> sheathing. Both materials are necessary, and construction will stall if either type of stone is in short supply.
Beside the material needs, you'll want large numbers of <laborers,link=15> at the quarry sites to extract the stone, and at the construction site to haul it. You need <stone carvers,link=22> to finish the facing blocks. And you need to provide all of the food and wares that these workers will require. Entire towns often grow up around pyramid construction sites.
"
50654 "Chariots"
50655 " The <weapon smith,link=289> can produce chariots at his weapons workshop. Chariots are made from the precious <cedar,link=126> that must be imported from <outside the city,link=317>. Nothing strikes fear in the enemies of Egypt like the sight of Egyptian charioteers raging like a dust storm across the landscape.
HISTORY: <Chariots,link=343>
"
50656 "Copper"
50657 " Copper is <mined,link=42> by <laborers,link=15>, under the direction of <overseers,link=17>, and distributed through the city's <Exchange,link=60> or <storage areas,link=61>. It might sometimes be available by import from the <world level,link=317>. Copper is used in the most expensive <cosmetics,link=214>. When combined with <tin,link=244> to make bronze, copper goes into <sculptures,link=241>, and the high-quality <khopeshes,link=229> that improve soldiers' combat abilities. "
50658 "Cosmetics"
50659 " <Elite citizens,link=80> have to look their best. The luxury <household wares,link=43> made by <cosmeticians,link=291> make that possible. The <kohl,link=130> and <henna,link=129> that their <children,link=106> and <servants,link=20> gather make the most common cosmetics. Those beautiful greens that are so popular can only be obtained from government-supplied <copper,link=213>.
HISTORY: <Cosmetics,link=346>"
50660 "Dates"
50661 " <Gardeners,link=32> raise the fruit trees that <noblemen,link=21> transplant at their townhouses when they decide to add a grove enhancement. When nobles can make wine from the grapes, dates and pomegranates that grow in their groves, the family no longer needs to make <beer,link=209> to drink."
;50662 "Ebony"
;50663 "xxxRemoved <img=67> <Ebony,link=216> xxx"
50664 "Emeralds"
50665 " <Jewelers,link=48> use these clear, deep green crystals for some of their best creations. They don't collect emeralds themselves, but buy rough crystals from an <Exchange,link=60> or <storage area,link=61> after they are <mined,link=42> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>. The rich green luster conveys the gems' powers of life and renewal, and <jewelry,link=228> made with emeralds is highly prized."
;50666 "Figs"
;50667 "xxxRemoved <img=69> <Figs,link=218> xxx"
50668 "Fine Limestone"
50669 " The brilliance with which this pure white stone reflects Ra's light suits it ideally to finishing <pyramids,link=211>. It is <quarried,link=41> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>, then hauled to the construction site by other laborers under the command of an overseer there. <Stone carvers,link=22> put this finishing touch on new pyramids."
50670 "Fish"
50671 " You can often see peasants in <reed boats,link=90> out fishing on the Nile. Fish are a popular source of <foraged food,link=35> among those who, like <villagers,link=24>, live off the land. "
50672 "Fowl"
50673 " You can often see peasants out stalking the large birds who live near the Nile. Fowl are a popular source of <foraged food,link=35> among those who, like <villagers,link=24>, live off the land. "
50674 "Furniture"
50675 " <Elite citizens,link=80> can't squat on their heels like peasants. The luxury <household wares,link=43> made by <furnishers,link=292> ensure that they don't have to sit in the dirt. The <reeds,link=237> and <acacia,link=125> that their <children,link=106> and <servants,link=20> gather make the most mundane furniture. Those large, elegant furnishings that are so impressive can only be made from government-supplied <cedar,link=126>.
HISTORY: <Furniture,link=354>"
50676 "Gold"
50677 " <Jewelers,link=48> use the malleable, glistening skin of Ra in most of their creations. They don't mine gold themselves, but buy the ore from an <Exchange,link=60> or <storage area,link=61> after it is <mined,link=42> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>, or has been imported by your government. Gold goes into all but the cheapest <jewelry,link=228>."
50678 "Granite"
50679 " The warm beauty of this durable stone suits it ideally to use in <obelisks and stele,link=79>. It is <quarried,link=41> in a single large column by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17> whom you have ordered to do so. Then it is hauled to the construction site by other laborers under the command of an overseer there. <Stone carvers,link=22> add the inscriptions that give <propaganda,link=185> monuments their power.
If you <reserve,link=186> a quantity of granite, only the types that you need for <world-level,link=317> obligations are set aside. For example, if a world-level site needs grand obelisks, and your city has both grand obelisks and obelisks stored, the quantity that you order reserved applies only to the grand obelisks. If both types of obelisk are in demand, both types will be reserved (up to the total number that you define).
"
50680 "Grapes"
50681 " <Gardeners,link=32> raise the grape vines that <noblemen,link=21> transplant at their townhouses when they decide to add a grove enhancement. When nobles can make wine from the grapes, dates and pomegranates that grow in their groves, the family no longer needs to make <beer,link=209> to drink."
50682 "Incense"
50683 " <Elite citizens,link=80> covet the strange, intoxicating scents of far-off lands as a luxury <household ware,link=43>. Incense comes only from <merchants,link=280> as imports."
;50684 "Ivory"
;50685 "xxxRemoved from TOC and index <img=79> <Ivory,link=227> xxx"
50686 "Jewelry"
50687 " <Elite citizens,link=80> have a special appreciation for rare items of great beauty. The luxury <household wares,link=43> made by <jewelers,link=293> appeal to that fine esthetic sense. The <quartz,link=133> that their <children,link=108> and <servants,link=20> gather goes into simple faience pieces for everyday wear. They buy the <gold,link=223>, <emeralds,link=217> and <turquoise,link=245> that comprise special-occasion jewelry from government <Exchanges,link=60> and <storage areas,link=61>.
HISTORY: <Jewelry,link=360>"
50688 "Khopesh"
50689 " After they get their primary weapon from a <weapons workshop,link=39>, all types of <soldiers,link=74> seek a curved sword especially suited to close-up fighting. <Weapon smiths,link=289> need <copper,link=213> and <tin,link=244> from government <storage areas,link=61> or an <Exchange,link=60> in order to make khopeshes. Troops armed with khopeshes fight better than those who go into combat without these swords.
HISTORY: <Khopesh,link=362>"
50690 "Leather"
50691 " <Sandal makers,link=295> use leather to make the better-quality footwear that <elite citizens,link=80> admire as luxury <household wares,link=43>. Their <children,link=110> and <servants,link=20> get leather from local <animals,link=204> that have the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. "
50692 "Lettuce"
50693 " <Onions,link=235> and lettuce are both examples of one <food,link=158> type, called vegetables. People want a serving of vegetables after they've enjoyed their daily <bread,link=210>. Their health suffers if they can't get this second food type. Vegetables are the least productive - or most expensive, if you prefer - type of food <grown,link=28>."
50694 "Limestone"
50695 " Softer than <basalt,link=207> and easier to work than <granite,link=224>, Egypt's plentiful limestone forms the core of <pyramids,link=211>. It is not a particularly attractive or uniform type of rock, unlike the <fine limestone,link=219> that is used as cladding. Limestone is <quarried,link=41> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>, then hauled to the construction site by other laborers under the command of an overseer there. It can also be imported by your government."
50696 "Linen"
50697 " Linen is the clothing material of choice. Everyone desires this inexpensive common <household ware,link=43> - at least, everyone who doesn't want to go around naked (not that there's anything wrong with that). <Weavers,link=287> make the fine cloth in <linen shops,link=49>, using <flax,link=38> that their <husbands,link=100> and <children,link=96> gather from the wild. Linen is a common household ware, and is therefore not traded in any way.
HISTORY: <Clothing and Linen,link=345>"
50698 "Mats"
50699 " If new shopkeepers will heed one word of advice, that word might well be 'mats.' Every home in Egypt has at least one door, a floor, and probably some windows. All of these need mat coverings. <Mat makers,link=285> weave these common <household wares,link=43> from <papyrus reeds,link=237> and <rushes,link=134> that their <husbands,link=98> and <children,link=94> bring back to their home <mat shops,link=50>. Mats are a common household ware, and are therefore not traded in any way.
HISTORY: <Mats,link=363>"
50700 "Onions"
50701 " Onions and <lettuce,link=231> are both examples of one <food,link=158> type, called vegetables. People want a serving of vegetables after they've enjoyed their daily <bread,link=210>. Their health suffers if they can't get this second food type. Vegetables are the least productive - or most expensive, if you prefer - type of food <grown,link=28>."
50702 "Papyrus"
50703 " There is no question that Egyptian papyrus is the best writing material in the world. Indeed, papyrus <cargoes,link=143> are often sought after on the <world level,link=317>. Government-employed <papyrus makers,link=290> create long, thin sheets of papyrus, using an ancient and secret process, from special <reeds,link=237> that grow only in the marshes of the Nile. <Priests,link=18> can use papyrus from local <mills,link=40> to <educate,link=151> the city's <students,link=70> more quickly. <Scribes,link=19> can assess farm <fields,link=157> and speed up transactions at the <Exchange,link=60> when they have papyrus, improving your government's <tax,link=91> and <tariff,link=195> income."
50704 "Papyrus Reeds"
50705 " These fibrous plants, which grow only in Nile marshes, are the foundation of the important <papyrus,link=236> industry. <Papyrus makers,link=290> and their <children,link=105> bring the reeds to their home <papyrus mills,link=40>. There, the reeds are transformed by a secret method into the fine writing material that aids <scribes,link=19> and <priests,link=18>. <Brick makers,link=288> need either reeds or <rushes,link=134> to stiffen <bricks,link=139>."
50706 "Perfume"
50707 " Egypt's hot weather often makes even the most fastidious noble perspire. <Elite citizens,link=80> can't endure smelling like peasants, especially at nice <feasts,link=82>. Luxury <household wares,link=43> made by <perfumers,link=294> ensure that their noses are delighted, rather than offended, at important social gatherings. The <flowers,link=128>, <henna,link=129>, <myrrh,link=187> and <oil,link=131> that perfumers' <children,link=109> and <servants,link=20> gather are transformed into a surprising variety of pleasant scents.
HISTORY: <Perfume,link=369> "
50708 "Pottery"
50709 " It's hard to imagine that people ever did without the common <household wares,link=43> that we take for granted today. The potter's <husband,link=97> and <child,link=93> collect the <clay,link=34> that fuels the output of her <pottery shop,link=53>, enabling us to store and transport pretty much anything that a <basket,link=208> won't hold. Pottery is a common household ware, and is therefore not traded in any way.
HISTORY: <Pottery,link=371>"
50710 "Sandals"
50711 " <Sandal makers,link=295> use <rushes,link=134> for everyday footwear, and <leather,link=230> to make the better-quality shoes that <elite citizens,link=80> like to show off at the more fashionable <feasts,link=82>. Persons of lower quality don't think twice about going around barefoot, so sandals are a luxury <household ware,link=43>.
HISTORY: <Sandals,link=373>"
50712 "Sculpture"
50713 " Despite the religious importance of sculpture, only <elite citizens,link=80> can afford to keep the <sculptor's,link=296> handiwork in their homes. <Sculpture shops,link=55> make the simplest of these luxury <household wares,link=43> from <clay,link=34>. More permanent pieces come from <basalt,link=207>, while the most stunning statuary is crafted from <copper,link=213> and <tin,link=244>.
HISTORY: <Sculpture,link=374>"
50714 "Spices"
50715 " <Elite citizens,link=80> say that spices add pleasing variety to ordinary foods, and value them as a luxury <household ware,link=43>. Spices are available only as imports from <merchants,link=280>."
;50716 "Straw"
;50717 "xxx"
50718 "Tin"
50719 " Tin is mixed with <copper,link=213> to make the alloy called bronze. It is used commercially to make high-end <sculpture,link=241> and industrially in <weapons workshops,link=39> to make <khopeshes,link=229> and <chariots,link=212>. Tin is <mined,link=42> by <laborers,link=15>, provided any <overseers,link=17> have orders to do that, and distributed through the city's <Exchange,link=60> or <storage areas,link=61>. It might sometimes be available by import from the <world level,link=317>."
50720 "Turquoise"
50721 " <Jewelers,link=48> use these brilliant blue stones for some of their better creations. They don't collect turquoise themselves, but buy it from an <Exchange,link=60> or <storage area,link=61> after it is <mined,link=42> by local <laborers,link=15> who were set to the task by an <overseer,link=17>. Turquoise can be imported. Perhaps mindful of the story about the magician Zazamankh parting the waters to recover the lost turquoise <jewelry,link=228> of Good King Snefru's maiden, <elite citizens,link=80> maintain an inordinate fondness for this staple of <jewelry shops,link=48> everywhere."
50722 "Vegetables"
50723 " <Onions,link=235> and <lettuce,link=231> are both examples of one <food,link=158> type, called vegetables. People want a serving of vegetables after they've enjoyed their daily <bread,link=210>. Their health suffers if they can't get this second food type. Vegetables are the least productive - or most expensive, if you prefer - type of food <grows,link=28>."
50724 "Weapons"
50725 " Without the arms that are the chief tools of their trade, <soldiers,link=74> might as well go into battle naked. Regardless of whether their basic weapon is a bow, a club, a spear or a <chariot,link=212>, all soldiers want a <khopesh,link=229> as well, for close combat. <Weapon smiths,link=289> make all of these deadly devices in <weapons workshops,link=39>.
HISTORY: <Chariots,link=343>
HISTORY: <Khopesh,link=362>"
50726 "Wheat"
50727 " Two types of grain, wheat and <barley,link=206>, are both suitable for baking <bread,link=210>. Wheat is the most efficient <food,link=158> grown. In fact, if maximizing <tax,link=91> income were your sole concern, you would only ever want <nobles,link=21> to plant wheat <fields,link=157> on their <estates,link=153>. Of course, the people's health ranks high among your priorities, so you allow <farmers,link=14> to <grow,link=28> barley for <beer,link=209> and <vegetables,link=246> for balanced nutrition."
50728 "Wine"
50729 " <Noblemen,link=21> who achieve a certain status add groves to their townhouses. <Nurseries,link=32> supply the <grape vines,link=225>, <date palms,link=215> and <pomegranate trees,link=132> whose fruits can be made into delicious wines. Noble families who have wine no longer need to make <beer,link=209> to drink."
50731 " Osiris, the lord of the underworld, he who gave Egypt agriculture, is loved or feared by all citizens. Large numbers of people want to worship him during his annual planting season festival every <Peret,link=193>. People are likely to become <dissatisfied,link=83> if they cannot implore Osiris to guide a newly-deceased <pharaoh,link=182> in the afterlife. Most cities should establish places to worship Osiris early in their development. Thinis and Djedu call Osiris their patron.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50732 "Isis"
50733 " In the event of epidemic <disease,link=166> people look to Isis for protection, and <elite,link=80> women claim her as their guardian. In fact, all women feel an affinity for Isis, so every household in the city will eventually grow <dissatisfied,link=83> if they cannot show this important goddess the proper respect. The city of Abu is dedicated to Isis.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50734 "Horus"
50735 " Adults want to celebrate every fifth anniversary of <Pharaoh's birth,link=138> by praising Horus. <Elite,link=80> men and children revere this prince of gods; to ensure their happiness, all cities need to honor Horus. The people of Nekhen and Pi-Ramesse recognize Horus as their patron.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50736 "Ra"
50737 " Every morning, some adults wish to greet the rising sun in a shrine or temple to Ra, the father of all things. <Overseers,link=17> and <laborers,link=15> who build Egypt's <monuments,link=78> revere Ra, and the city of Iunu is dedicated to him. All cities should dedicate <worship,link=202> facilities to Ra before they grow very large, particularly if they will undertake monumental projects.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50738 "Hathor"
50739 " Every <Shemu,link=193> some people want to worship Hathor as part of the annual harvest festival. <Entertainers,link=13> often look to her for inspiration, and dedicate their work to her. She is the patron of Iunet and Itjtawy. All cities of any size should dedicate shrines and temples to support Hathor's annual festival.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50740 "Amun"
50741 " The cities of Waset and Henen-Nesu, and <peasants,link=80> everywhere, call Amun their patron. Dedicate more <worship,link=202> facilities to Amun as your population of <farmers,link=14>, <laborers,link=15>, and <servants,link=20> swells.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50742 "Ptah"
50743 " Middle-class <shopkeepers,link=264> and <craftsmen,link=301> revere Ptah, who is also the patron of Men-nefer. Cities with a lot of commercial and industrial activity should dedicate some <worship,link=202> facilities to Ptah.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50744 "Thoth"
50745 " The patron of <scribes,link=19>, Thoth is especially beloved in the city of Khmun.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50746 "Anubis"
50747 " <Elite citizens,link=80> feel a particular need to worship Anubis whenever one of their own embarks on the journey to the afterlife. Any city with a large necropolis had better show proper respect to Anubis. The people of Asyut claim Anubis as their patron.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50748 "Bast"
50749 " Parents and prospective parents want to petition Bast, the protector of women, children, cats and secrets, for healthy children. She is the patron of Bubastis. Although Bast is widely beloved, her followers rarely feel urgent needs to honor her.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50750 "Sobek"
50751 " Sobek protects Pharaoh from dark magic and lends him strength, speed and ferocity. <City guards,link=66> and <commanders,link=11> want to worship the crocodile god as their patron, and he is revered in Shedyet (which the foreigners call Crocodilopolis) in the Faiyum. Cities with large guard forces are the most likely to want to worship Sobek.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50752 "Ma'at"
50753 " When <crime,link=66> stalks the city, or <raiders,link=89> threaten the streets, people beseech Ma'at for justice and order. Ma'at is widely beloved throughout Egypt. She is not the patron of any particular profession or city, but upholding the principle of Ma'at is Pharaoh's chief duty to his people. During calm times, people are content to let Pharaoh see to Ma'at, and don't feel much need to worship her themselves.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50754 "Set"
50755 " <Soldiers,link=74> and <commanders,link=11> often want to worship Set, the god of discord and strife. If your army wins a battle, many citizens will feel moved to give thanks to the god. The people of Nubt have made Set their patron, and honor him frequently there... more for his power and his earliest deeds than for his disposition. Set is an important god in militaristic cities, but less so elsewhere.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
50756 "Hapi"
50757 " People give thanks to Hapi after an especially good <Inundation,link=37>, and also turn to him in those dire years when the flood fails entirely. Since the rhythm of the Nile's waters affects everyone's life, Hapi is known and worshiped throughout Egypt. However, Hapi has no particular cult centers and is not one of the more prominent gods.
HISTORY: <Gods,link=355>"
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50758 "Shops and Shopping"
50759 " All members of Egyptian society desire <household wares,link=43> to make their lives more comfortable. Common and luxury household wares are produced and sold by the city's commercial shopkeepers from their homes, which are called shops.
When you designate a new common or luxury shop, you can let the family that moves in decide what they'll produce there, or right-click on it to make that decision yourself. In the same manner, you can order any family to produce something different at any time. If the family's business is profitable, they can happily go on running it forever. If there just aren't enough customers, or if resources are too far away to permit enough production, the family will <migrate,link=279> out of their unprofitable shop to tackle some new endeavor, and a new family will move into the building to try their hand at something else there. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'common shops' or 'luxury shops' to see a breakdown of the different types of shops in the city.
If a family is missing its primary shopper, the woman of the house, it can have problems acquiring wares. Check the <Family Tracking Windows,link=156> to see if there is a woman of the house. If not, it will be difficult for the man of the house to see to all the family's needs. He will likely be remarried soon enough, though in small cities this can take some time, particularly if he is a nobleman and there are few other noble families in the city. Priest and soldier households are all male, and so cannot afford to spend any more time than necessary shopping.
If the lady of the house is present, she may need some help. It's tough for noblewomen to see to all the extravagant needs of their families by themselves. <Servants,link=20> are important in assisting noblewomen with their shopping. Also make sure the woman and/or man of the house is not wasting a lot of time seeing to other needs, such as visiting <service,link=62> facilities or traveling to work, or they won't be able to see to the family's shopping needs.
Everyone needs all four types of common household wares. These are cheap and easy to produce because they're made from a single, freely available resource that the shopkeeper's family gathers as needed. Men and children harvest the material while the woman of the home does the actual manufacturing. Because the woman must also spend time shopping for the family, common shops are not a ticket to great wealth.
Only <elite,link=80> citizens buy luxury household wares. The men who make luxuries (or their children and servants) can harvest some basic raw materials, but they usually need to get other resources from the city's <Exchange,link=60> or <storage areas,link=61>. The most precious luxuries - incense, spices, monkeys and furs - are only available from foreign <merchants,link=56>. The women in luxury shop families have both more money to spend and more time to shop, which gives them a higher standard of living. Children in luxury shopkeeping families can attend <school,link=70> if freed from their harvesting duties. Very prosperous luxury shopkeepers can move into vacant townhouses and join the elite as nobles.
The price of a ware reflects the raw materials, time and skill that went into it, plus the producer's profit margin. Only farmed food (not <foraged,link=35>) can ever be used to purchase anything. Cheaper items satisfy a the need for a type just as effectively as expensive ones do - a cheap faience bracelet fulfills the same need for one luxury ware as an emerald brooch will do. But that emerald will satisfy somebody for a longer time than the quartz. The longer something lasts, the less often one has to buy replacements. More expensive wares therefore reduce the time that people have to spend <shopping,link=264>. People naturally want to buy the best wares that they can afford. As long as the better raw materials are available to your city's shopkeepers, they'll make the whole range of wares to satisfy all of their customers' tastes.
HISTORY: <Economics,link=347>
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50760 "Tribute"
50761 " Some of the Egyptian and foreign settlements that you find on the <world level,link=317> might pay you tribute once you establish relations. Tribute is a regular shipment of <cargo,link=143> given to you freely, without expecting anything in return, purely in recognition of your power and greatness.
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50762 "User Interface"
50763 "
BUILDING
Click on each <Build Button,link=25> to see lists of everything that you can place. Put your mouse pointer over each name to see a short description. You can <rotate buildings,link=190> before you place them. Many structures allow you to <give orders,link=178> to their eventual occupants by right-clicking on them.
<img=2> Private Citizens' Homes
Give people a place to live, and create private work opportunities for them. None of these homes cost you anything to build, and you won't have to pay or feed the people who live there.
<img=3> Government Workers' Homes
Give people a place to live, and create a government job for them. Most of these homes cost you some <bricks,link=139> to build, and the families who move into them will need <food,link=158> from your government.
<img=4> Government Facilities
Place structures where <elite,link=80> citizens work in various service careers. Most of them cost you some bricks. Nobody lives in these.
<img=5> Infrastructure Buildings
Paths, roads and plazas cost nothing to build, and give your city some order and definition. <Granaries,link=30>, <barge landings,link=58> and <cargo drop-off points,link=59> let you control where food and raw materials are stored. No one lives or works at these structures.
<img=6> Monuments
When a substantial number of your people are satisfied with their stable lives, put them to work building the <tombs,link=196>, <propaganda,link=185> structures and colossal <statues,link=302> for which Egypt is renowned.
<img=8> <Clear Land,link=147>
Click this button then use the mouse pointer to demolish buildings and remove some trees. Be careful with this one! Right-click to get the normal ankh pointer back.
<img=19> <Removing Roads,link=189>
Click this button then use the mouse pointer to remove <roads,link=189> and plazas you no longer want. You can click singly to remove one section at a time, or click and drag to erase whole lengths. Right-click to get the normal ankh pointer back.
<img=32> <Undoing Actions,link=199>
When this button is visible, you can take back the last thing that you built.
MAIN INDICATORS
The <City Satisfaction Indicator,link=272> shows you the level of dissatisfaction for entire groups of people at one time. Green squares gradually change toward red as problems develop in particular areas:
<img=23>
Hold your mouse pointer above the iconic representation of citywide satisfaction, for more information.
The <Prestige Indicator,link=273> shows how many <educated workers,link=150> are serving you right now, out of how many are willing to serve you based on your <prestige,link=84>:
<img=24>
Hold your mouse pointer above the iconic representation of your prestige to find out your prestige level.
The <Food and Bricks Indicator,link=274> shows you how much of these two important resources your government owns:
<img=25>
REPORTS
Click the white gem next to the Prestige Indicator to open the <Administration Report,link=136>, which contains detailed information about your prestige and the city's various <services,link=62>:
<img=26>
Click the white gem next to the City Satisfaction Indicator to open the <People Report,link=180>, which contains detailed information about the people's satisfaction and availability for work:
<img=29>
Click the white gem next to the Food and Bricks Indicator to open the <Resources Report,link=188>, which contains detailed information about the city's food production and consumption, and all of the resources that you own. This is where you can <Reserve Resources,link=186>, too:
<img=27>
NAVIGATION
These three <Camera Control,link=141> buttons let you customize your viewpoint in various ways:
<img=7> <img=35> <img=36>
The <Mini Map,link=173> gives you an aerial eye view of the entire city, and lets you jump quickly from one place to another:
<img=28>
If you find yourself lost, click the arrow-shaped white gem at the top of the mini map to restore the viewpoint to a comfortable angle and distance:
<img=15>
Click this button to <pause the game,link=179>:
<img=14>
When time is frozen, the button looks like this. Click it again to restart the flow of time:
<img=13>
You'll see the <Date and Time,link=193> display advance while time advances normally. You can also adjust <Game Speed,link=161>, <Scrolling,link=141> and <Zooming,link=141> characteristics.
SELECTING THINGS
Whenever you click on a person or thing, or click and drag to draw a box around it, the item becomes selected. An indicator such as this appears above the selected item:
<img=142> <img=150>
More detailed information on appears in the Selected Item area:
<img=33>
See <Selecting Things,link=192> for more information.
For homes, besides seeing a wealth of practical information, you can click the <Family History,link=155> scroll to see how the selected household has fared over the years:
<img=9>
The <Family Tracking Windows,link=156> let you easily follow the exploits of each family member at any moment:
<img=223>
If the family of the selected home has purchased a tomb, this button allows you to visit it:
<img=133>
Similarly, if a tomb is selected, a button allows you visit the home of the family that owns it:
<img=132>
If a noble has attempted to evade paying taxes, you'll see this icon in the Selected Object area when his townhouse is selected:
<img=131>
MISCELLANEOUS
You might use these other interface components less frequently than the ones listed above, but they are no less important. Just click these links to learn about each.
<Visit the World Level,link=317> to interact with the world outside of your city:
<img=17>
Intervene in routine government administration by issuing <Edicts,link=86>:
<img=18>
Not sure what to do with your growing city? Try re-reading the <Scenario Information,link=162>:
<img=16>
When you see something particularly interesting, you can take a <Snapshot,link=194>:
<img=38>
The <Options,link=177> button lets you change <Game Settings,link=160> and <Save or Load a game,link=179>:
<img=12>
To review <Messages,link=172>,click the tablets button:
<img=11>
Click on the large scarab beetle to hide the user interface.
If you've read this far, you might also have questions about the <World Level interface,link=175>. If you haven't already done so, we recommend that you play the <Learning Scenarios,link=198>.
"
50764 "Gameplay Summary"
50765 "
GOALS AND ROLES
In Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, you are the Pharaoh of Egypt, building a glorious capital city and the nation in which it resides. A large and efficient government emerges specifically to realize your goals, while a prosperous private sector supports this government.
CITY AND WORLD
The game is played on two levels:
-City Level
-World level
While you are visiting the world level, play on the city level pauses.
PHARAOH
In building a single capital city, you may often go through several Pharaoh incarnations as your dynasty progresses. Building a suitable tomb for yourself ensures stability as power changes hands from one ruler to the next.
PEOPLE AND THE HOME
The city and its surrounding area (the 'nome') is generally populated by large numbers of simple villagers, whom you, their powerful and charismatic leader, will organize into a society comprised of dozens of specialized types of workers and citizens. This is the only way you can build a powerful capital city and empire.
You tell your people what occupations you would like them to take up by building specific kinds of houses. Each household engages in a single occupation, so each type of house corresponds to a specific occupation.
People always strive to improve their lives by taking on better occupations, so they move from home to home, and immigrate to the city.
NEEDS AND SATISFACTION
Households can become dissatisfied if their needs are not met. Needs include:
-Bread
-Household wares
-Services
Mistreatment by you can also cause dissatisfaction.
Expectations vary by social class, and needs for various services are dynamic and somewhat unpredictable. People don't have a general need for 'healthcare,' for example, but they do specifically need to visit a hospital if they are sick or injured.
Widespread dissatisfaction can lead to outbursts of rebellious behavior, such as tax evasion, desertion in the military, or labor strikes on the part of individuals or groups. These let you know that trouble is mounting.
FOOD AND DRINK
Food is both eaten and used as (the only) currency in the city. Citizens always satisfy their hunger before using food to purchase things. There are different types of food and drink - some types can be consumed in multiple ways. Lack of bread at meals contributes to dissatisfaction, while a varied diet promotes good health.
Food is grown on vast private farming estates, worked by peasant farming families managed by noblemen. These estates support your government by yielding half of their annual crop in taxes. To grow more food, you have to persuade more noblemen to manage more farmers. You do this by granting new estates, encouraging new noble families to immigrate, and giving those who already live in your city a variety of enticing luxuries and home improvements to buy. Food production is also limited by available farmland, and is affected by variations in the annual flood.
The noblemen who run the city's estates, and the farmers who work the fields, take their share of food directly from the harvest. Self-employed shopkeepers earn food as payment for the wares that they make and sell. At harvest time, tax food is deposited into government bakeries and granaries. However, since noblemen only pay taxes on crops that you know about, you employ scribes to monitor farm fields throughout the year.
HOUSEHOLD WARES
Housewives shop for necessary household wares at privately owned commercial shops. Proximity to shops reduces the time that working women (such as members of farming and common shopkeeper families) have to spend shopping, and gives them more time to work. Convenient shopping lets elite women purchase more, keeping them satisfied and fueling the economy. Noblemen will enlarge their estates to keep up with the costly demands of their lavish lifestyles. In the process, they increase the amount of tax they pay to you.
SERVICES
Summary
Citizens expect access to various services when the need strikes them. These are:
-Healthcare
-Funerary
-Worship
-Security
-Leisure
-Education
Poor access to services has various consequences, some of them dire. For example, citizens might become dissatisfied due to poor security or limited worship opportunities, but they can actually die without healthcare. Lack of education prevents you from teaching students to serve as priests, scribes, overseers and military commanders, which means that those vital roles will go unfilled. Time spent traveling to distant service facilities is time that could be better used for shopping, work, and other productive pursuits.
Health and Healthcare
Citizens can grow ill due to lifestyle factors (such as nutrition), and conditions within the city. Good access to apothecaries and hospitals reduces the potential impact of injury and disease, and helps prevent new problems from arising or spreading.
Funerary Services
When elite citizens die, grieving family members expect mortuary services and a decent tomb for their loved one, and become understandably distraught if they aren't available. As Pharaoh, you and members of your royal family also need proper funerals, especially suitable tombs.
Worship
People want to worship the various gods of Egypt for a whole host of reasons. Sometimes upsetting events instill a need for prayer. Other times, people want to give thanks because times are good. If citizens can't worship the proper god at the appropriate time, they will often be partially satisfied by a substitute.
Security
Crime, foreign raiders, and legal disputes requiring court settlement all threaten people's sense of security. Local criminals come from the city's vagrant population, who can be kept in check by soldiers and commanders serving as city guards. Your army and navy can end raids by crushing the invaders' foreign cities or encampments.
Leisure
Entertainment and recreation are both leisure activities. Elite citizens enjoy feasts thrown by noblemen, who hire professional entertainers to perform at their townhouses. Entertainment is the only service that isn't provided by the government. For recreation, nobles enjoy hunting and yachting.
Education
Elite children who complete school become graduates, who can then begin careers serving as your government's overseers, scribes, commanders and priests.
TOWNHOUSES
Townhouses are the lavish urban dwellings of landowning nobles. Nobles fill the government's bakeries and granaries by paying a portion of the crops grown on their estates as taxes. Noblemen expect lots of food, household wares and services, and love to enhance their townhouses with such additions as family shrines, pools and boundary walls. The expense of purchasing and maintaining these home improvements motivates them to grow more food on their estates, resulting in increased tax revenue for the government.
Most students - your future educated workforce - are the children of noblemen.
PRODUCTION
Government craftsmen and private commercial shopkeepers turn raw materials into finished goods in their workshops. Large government labor operations provide the finer raw materials, while the craftsmen and shopkeepers harvest the more basic materials themselves. Shopkeepers can buy government-harvested resources at the city's Exchanges.
Private shops make the household wares that people consume at home. Government shops (like the bakery and brickworks) create the things that directly support your government and its workers.
CONSTRUCTION
Most buildings are built from bricks. Large special buildings (including most monuments) are built from stone. Your government has to provide these bricks or stones for government buildings, while the private sector sees to its own needs. Government bricks are made by brick makers at brickworks, and laid in place by government bricklayers. The construction of stone buildings involves teams of overseers and laborers, as well as stone carvers. Overseers and laborers also quarry stone.
EDUCATED WORKERS
Educated professionals who work exclusively for your government are one of the most important resources you manage. The number of educated workers you can lead is determined by your prestige.
-Scribes collect revenue for your government, from taxes on farming estates, tariffs on household wares trade, and fees for procurement of fine raw materials by private craftsmen.
-Priests provide social services (healthcare, education, worship, and funerary).
-Overseers supervise the teams of laborers who harvest specific resources and construct monuments.
-Military commanders oversee external security (via the army and navy), and internal security (via city guards). Commanders train and lead soldiers and guards in these pursuits.
GOVERNMENT
Prestige
Prestige expresses the fame and notoriety you have earned from your various accomplishments, and determines how many educated workers you can lead. Monument construction, military victories and many world-level accomplishments all contribute to prestige. Propaganda can be used to magnify your deeds, giving you even more prestige.
The Palace
The palace is the seat of your government, as well as the residence of Pharaoh and the royal family. Envoys, who may be dispatched on special world-level missions, are trained at the palace. A magnificent palace also enhances your prestige.
BEYOND THE CITY
World Level
The world level offers many opportunities to increase your prestige and acquire resources that you can't get at home. The first step is usually to send some personnel (often envoys) and resources to a site that has something you want. Egyptian settlements might incur ongoing upkeep costs. Foreign trade partners swap items with your government on a pro-rata basis, while merchants buy and sell luxury goods directly to your citizenry. Your army and navy sometimes need to call upon hostile world-level sites to quell raids at their source.
Trade
Trade provides raw materials and finished goods that aren't available in your own nome. Those resources that are harvested exclusively by the government (like metals, gems and stones) or manufactured exclusively by the government (like bricks, weapons and papyrus) are likewise traded exclusively by the government. Luxury household wares are exchanged only in private transactions between merchants and your citizens. A merchant center lets your scribes monitor such transactions, the better to collect tariffs on them, but the real point of trading in exotic wares is to stimulate the private economy, not to collect revenue for the government. "
50766 "People List"
50767 "
PRIVATE CITIZENS
Unemployed Peasants
<Vagrant,link=23>
<Villager,link=24>
Peasants (Lower Class)
<Farmer Children,link=118>
<Farmer,link=14>
<Farmer's Wife,link=117>
<Servant,link=20>
<Servant (female),link=120>
Middle Class
<Basket Maker,link=286>
<Basket Maker's Child,link=95>
<Basket Maker's Husband,link=99>
<Cosmetician,link=291>
<Cosmetician's Child,link=106>
<Entertainers,link=13>
<Furnisher,link=292>
<Furnisher's Child,link=107>
<Jeweler,link=293>
<Jeweler's Child,link=108>
<Luxury Shopkeeper's Wife,link=112>
<Mat Maker,link=285>
<Mat Maker's Child,link=94>
<Mat Maker's Husband,link=98>
<Perfumer,link=294>
<Perfumer's Child,link=109>
<Potter,link=284>
<Potter's Child,link=93>
<Potter's Husband,link=97>
<Sandal Maker,link=295>
<Sandal Maker's Child,link=110>
<Sculptor,link=296>
<Sculptor's Child,link=111>
<Weaver,link=287>
<Weaver's Child,link=96>
<Weaver's Husband,link=100>
Elite (Upper Class)
<Nobleman,link=21>
<Noblewoman,link=116>
<Young Noble,link=115>
GOVERNMENT WORKERS
Peasants (Lower Class)
<Laborer,link=15>
<Laborer's Wife,link=119>
<Peasant Child,link=121>
<Soldiers,link=74>
Craftsmen (Middle Class)
<Baker,link=297>
<Baker's wife,link=300>
<Brick Maker,link=288>
<Brick Maker's Child,link=101>
<Bricklayer,link=12>
<Gardener,link=299>
<Government Craftsman's Child,link=103>
<Government Craftsman's Wife,link=104>
<Papyrus Maker,link=290>
<Papyrus Maker's Child,link=105>
<Shipwright,link=298>
<Stone carver,link=22>
<Weapon Smith,link=289>
<Weapon Smith's Child,link=102>
Educated Elite (Upper Class)
<Commander,link=11>
<Elite Citizen's Wife,link=114>
<Elite Child,link=113>
<Overseer,link=17>
<Priest,link=18>
<Scribe,link=19>
Palace
<Envoy,link=88>
<Royal Family,link=16>
FOREIGNERS
<Merchant,link=280>
<Raiders,link=89>
"
50768 "Building List"
50769 "
PRIVATE CITIZENS' HOMES
Unemployed Peasants
<Vagrant's Mat,link=23>
<Villager's Hovel,link=24>
Peasants (Lower Class)
<Farmhouse,link=14>
<Servant's Shack and Servants' Quarters,link=20>
Middle Class
<Basket Shop,link=45>
<Cosmetics Shop,link=46>
<Entertainer's House,link=13>
<Furniture Shop,link=47>
<Jewelry Shop,link=48>
<Linen Shop,link=49>
<Mat Shop,link=50>
<Perfume Shop,link=52>
<Pottery Shop,link=53>
<Sandal Shop,link=54>
<Sculpture Shop,link=55>
Elite (Upper Class)
<Townhouse,link=21>
GOVERNMENT WORKERS' HOMES
Peasants (Lower Class)
<Barracks,link=74>
<Laborer's Hut,link=15>
Craftsmen (Middle Class)
<Bakery,link=29>
<Bricklayer's House,link=12>
<Brickworks (Brick Maker's House),link=33>
<Military Equipment Factory,link=39>
<Nursery,link=32>
<Stone Carver's House,link=22>
<Shipyard,link=44>
<Papyrus Mill,link=40>
Educated Elite (Upper Class)
<Commander's Quarters,link=11>
<Overseer's Quarters,link=17>
<Priest Apartments,link=18>
<Scribe's House,link=19>
Royal Family
<Palace,link=16>
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES
Priest Workplaces
<Apothecary,link=63>
<Cult temple,link=65>
<Hospital,link=67>
<Mortuary,link=69>
<School,link=70>
<Shrine,link=72>
<Temple,link=71>
Scribe Workplaces
<Exchange,link=60>
<Merchant Center (Quay) and Merchant's Stall,link=57>
Military Commander Workplaces
<Guard post,link=66>
<Training Ground,link=75>
Royal Family Workplaces
<Court of Law,link=64>
INFRASTRUCTURE
Roads and Plazas
<Roads and Paths,link=189>
<Plaza,link=183>
Storage & Transport
<Granary,link=30>
<Barge Landing,link=58>
<Cargo Drop-off Point,link=59>
Security
<Walls,link=76>
MONUMENTS
Tombs
<Pyramids,link=211>
<Mastabas,link=197>
Propaganda
<Obelisks and Stele,link=79>
Statues
<Colossal Statues,link=302>
"
50770 "Resource List"
50771 "
CONSUMABLES
Foods
<img=61> <Barley,link=206>
<img=102> <Bread,link=210>
<img=66> <Dates,link=215>
<img=71> <Fish,link=220>
<img=74> <Fowl,link=221>
<img=77> <Grapes,link=225>
<img=82> <Lettuce,link=231>
<img=86> <Onions,link=235>
<img=88> <Pomegranates,link=132>
<img=119> <Vegetables,link=246>
<img=95> <Wheat,link=248>
BASIC RAW MATERIALS
Plants and plant byproducts
<img=128> <Acacia,link=125>
<img=72> <Flax,link=38>
<img=73> <Flowers,link=128>
<img=78> <Henna,link=129>
<img=84> <Myrrh,link=187>
<img=85> <Oil,link=131>
<img=87> <Papyrus Reeds,link=237>
<img=90> <Rushes,link=134>
Minerals
<img=64> <Clay,link=34>
<img=80> <Kohl,link=130>
<img=89> <Quartz,link=133>
Animal byproducts
<img=81> <Leather,link=230>
FINE RAW MATERIALS
Metals
<img=65> <Copper,link=213>
<img=75> <Gold,link=223>
<img=93> <Tin,link=244>
Gems
<img=68> <Emeralds,link=217>
<img=94> <Turquoise,link=245>
Imported
<img=129> <Cedar,link=126>
Stone
<img=62> <Basalt,link=207>
<img=70> <Fine Limestone,link=219>
<img=76> <Granite,link=224>
<img=83> <Limestone,link=232>
FINISHED GOODS
Common Household Wares
<img=100> <Baskets,link=208>
<img=109> <Linen,link=233>
<img=110> <Mats,link=234>
<img=114> <Pottery,link=239>
Luxury Household Wares, Local
<img=105> <Cosmetics,link=214>
<img=106> <Furniture,link=222>
<img=108> <Jewelry,link=228>
<img=113> <Perfume,link=238>
<img=115> <Sandals,link=240>
<img=116> <Sculpture,link=241>
Luxury Household Wares, Exotic
<img=97> <Furs,link=203>
<img=107> <Incense,link=226>
<img=98> <Monkeys,link=51>
<img=118> <Spices,link=242>
Military Equipment
<img=99> <Armor,link=205>
<img=104> <Chariots,link=212>
<img=127> <Khopeshes,link=229>
<img=120> <Weapons,link=247>
Miscellaneous
<img=103> <Bricks,link=139>
<img=112> <Papyrus,link=236>"
50772 "Gods"
50773 "
<Amun,link=255>
<Anubis,link=258>
<Bast,link=259>
<Hapi,link=263>
<Hathor,link=254>
<Horus,link=252>
<Isis,link=251>
<Ma'at,link=261>
<Osiris,link=250>
<Ptah,link=256>
<Ra,link=253>
<Set,link=262>
<Sobek,link=260>
<Thoth,link=257>
"
50774 "City Satisfaction Indicator"
50775 " You can judge the city's overall level of <satisfaction,link=83> with your government by simply glancing at the City Satisfaction Indicator:
<img=23>
Hold the mouse pointer over the iconic representation of citywide satisfaction for more information. To see the satisfaction of each group at a glance, consult the small grid. When the grid is all green, all groups are satisfied. As problems arise, other colors creep in, ranging from yellow to red. Put the mouse pointer over a colored box to discover which <occupation's,link=176> members are becoming dissatisfied.
Click the white gem to open the <People Report,link=180> and pinpoint any problems. Don't wait until you see a lot of red before you investigate. People who have widespread complaints will make your reign unpleasant, and might even depose you.
"
50776 "Prestige Indicator"
50777 " You can see how many <educated workers,link=150> are serving you at the moment, and how many are willing to serve you, by simply glancing at the Prestige Indicator:
<img=24>
Put your mouse pointer over the left portion of this indicator for a description of your <prestige,link=84>. Click the indicator to open the <Administration Report,link=136>, which gives more details about prestige and educated workers."
50778 "Food and Bricks Indicator"
50779 " You can see how many <bricks,link=139> are available for <construction,link=145> projects, and how much <food,link=158> is stored in your government's <bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30>, by simply glancing at the Food and Bricks Indicator:
<img=25>.
These two numbers are quite important. You need bricks to build most government structures, and food both to pay <government workers,link=164> and to achieve most <world-level,link=317> goals. Click the indicator to open the <Resources Report,link=188>, which gives you detailed information about food and other resources.
"
50780 "Family Satisfaction Information"
50781 " When a <Selected Item,link=192> is somebody's house, the very top of the information panel contains details about the family's level of <satisfaction,link=83>:
<img=34>
The left side of this area holds the family satisfaction indicator. The colored area under the scroll button represents the household's overall level of dissatisfaction, ranging from green (completely satisfied) to red (highly dissatisfied):
<img=39> <img=40>
The right side displays up to eight icons, in various colors, that explain why the household is dissatisfied. The redder the icon, the more recently the problem occurred, and the greater the family's feeling of dissatisfaction. These icons tend back toward green, and eventually disappear entirely, as people forget - or at least forgive - their complaints. Dissatisfaction is always about something that already happened, regardless of whether the problem still persists. You might see an 'Insufficient Bread' indicator at the same time that the household has a decent supply of bread on hand. That means that they ran out of bread when they needed a meal, not that they are out of bread right now.
Put your mouse pointer over one of these problem indicators to see exactly what caused the problem:
<img=41> Insufficient Bread
<img=42> Difficulty Obtaining Household Wares
<img=43> Insufficient Healthcare
<img=44> Insufficient Access to Worship
<img=45> Insufficient Funerary Services
<img=46> Insufficient Security
<img=47> Insufficient Leisure
<img=48> Mistreatment by Government
"
50782 "Natural Resource Sites"
50783 " Materials found in such sites is free for the taking. Although some people spend their days working very hard to gather it, no coordinated labor is required, as in <mining,link=42> or <quarrying,link=41>. "
50784 "Winning"
50785 " Accomplish the scenario's <Goals,link=162> to win the game:
<img=16>
"
50786 "Losing"
50787 " Widespread <dissatisfaction,link=83> can lead to attempts to overthrow your government. If you're deposed, the game is over. The <City Satisfaction Indicator,link=272> lets you keep an eye on how sentiments are running in the city."
50788 "Migration"
50789 " Individuals and <families,link=81> eager for a better life continually move from <occupation,link=176> to occupation, and thus from <home,link=26> to home. The prospect of a new job in a higher <social class,link=80> can entice people to move into a new home, whereas excessive <dissatisfaction,link=83> can drive them to leave their homes. If too many members of any occupation become dissatisfied, no new people will move into empty houses (and open jobs) of that type.
Don't place large numbers of new homes all at once, as sudden surges of migration can be disruptive. Remember, new residents always come from someplace else. A new shopping district will immediately attract peasants to these welcome middle-class opportunities, opening up their former positions as <farmers,link=14>, <laborers,link=15>, <soldiers,link=74> and <servants,link=20>. Although they're glad to take these now-vacant occupations, <villagers,link=24> need a little time to move in.
MIGRATION AND FORMING NEW FAMILIES
To occupy a new house, an existing family might vacate its current position, opening its old house up for another family to take. Otherwise, a man and a woman can come together from separate households to form a new family. Mothers, fathers and first children have particular responsibilities that contribute to the family's well-being. Second children help out, but third children are always a burden. Families with three children are just as eager to expel their eldest to form a new household as the child is to leave. In fact, third children won't tolerate crowding indefinitely. If they can't migrate upward, or at least stay in their parents' social class, they will eventually move down the social ladder in order to form a household.
Young nobles cannot move into a new townhouse without bringing a good supply of food for the pantry. Noble parents who can afford it willingly bestow this generous gift to send their child out into the world - establishing a new estate is a significant expense, after all. These children can't carry on the family's noble tradition unless their parents can part with a proper dowry.
A child who leaves the nest becomes a desirable bachelor, who immediately attracts a wife from some other overcrowded residence. If no suitable child is ready to form a new household, the new husband instead takes a bride from a <villager's hovel,link=24>. New households, therefore, are always comprised of a husband and wife capable of supporting up to three children...and families with three children always seek to send one out to form a new household, provided they can afford the parting gift of food.
RETIREMENT
Educated workers don't expect to die in harness like common laborers. They look forward to retiring after a number of years of loyal service. If there is an unoccupied <townhouse,link=21> in the city, and <dissatisfaction,link=83> among the nobility doesn't prevent <migration,link=279>, the retiree and his entire family will move in, bringing all of their food and wares with them. If there is no suitable retirement estate, the family leaves your city to find one elsewhere in Egypt. An eager young graduate can move into the retired worker's now-vacant home and begin a new life of service - again, assuming that dissatisfaction doesn't keep people out of that occupation.
MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CLASSES
Families don't normally leapfrog social classes, especially on the way up - Villagers become working peasants, who can in turn move on to the middle class. Children of some middle-class luxury shopkeepers can attend <school,link=70> and join the elite as <educated workers,link=150>. Particularly prosperous luxury shopkeeping families can occupy vacant <townhouses,link=21>, becoming elite nobles.
When a person or family leaves a home due to dissatisfaction with their current life, they look first for an opportunity at the next highest rung on the social ladder. If they can't move up, they seek a position comparable to the one they're about to leave. If they can move neither up nor laterally, they will move down to a humbler position, and if THAT doesn't work out, they'll become <vagrants,link=23>. Shopkeepers are especially prone to vagrancy when their businesses fail.
IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION
Nobles, by reason of wealth and education, are more likely to consider themselves citizens of Egypt, and thus to migrate from one city to another. When your own nobles are satisfied with the city, its reputation as an attractive place to live draws new elite citizens to inhabit townhouses and increase your tax base, or to work as educated professionals. If conditions in your city deteriorate, though, the elite might move away to some city with better prospects, and you certainly won't attract new residents. More population movement among the elite comes from immigration and emigration than from promotion from the lower classes."
50790 "Merchants"
50791 " <Merchants,link=280> come from <faraway lands,link=168> by ship or by caravan, bringing exotic luxury <household wares,link=43> that Egyptians could not otherwise obtain, and buying luxuries from local <shopkeepers,link=264> in exchange for food. Upon arrival, a merchant looks for an open stall in a <merchant center,link=57>. If he can't find one, he just sets up shop near his customers or suppliers. He conducts as much business as he can, then returns home. Merchants continue to come and go periodically, buying and selling all that they can on each trip.
"
50792 "Information, Hints and Tips"
50793 "
INTERFACE
-Use the buttons in the upper left corner of the screen to construct <homes,link=26>, government facilities, and <monuments,link=78>.
-The reports to the right of the <mini map,link=173> give information on different aspects of the city.
-Right click on <shops,link=264>, <townhouses,link=21>, <barracks,link=74>, <priests' apartments,link=18>, <overseers' quarters,link=17>, <commanders' quarters,link=11> and <scribes' houses,link=19> to tell their occupants what to do.
-Information about a <selected building or figure,link=192> is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen.
HOME & FAMILY
-Many buildings are homes. Each houses one <family,link=81> of a certain <occupation,link=176>, ranging from <peasant,link=80> farmers to noble elite.
-A family has a father, mother and children. Each family member has a specific role in the household.
-Priest apartments and soldiers' barracks house only men, not whole families.
-All households need <food,link=158>, both to eat and to buy <household wares,link=43> from shops.
DEVELOPING THE CITY
-Many buildings require <bricks,link=139> (produced by a <brick maker,link=288> at a <brickworks,link=33>) for <construction,link=145>.
-<Brick layers,link=12> construct the buildings that require bricks.
-The native <villagers,link=24> of this region will move into lower class (peasant) homes that you build.
-Peasants will in turn move into middle class (shopkeeper, <craftsman,link=301>, and <entertainer,link=13>) homes you build.
-Nobles migrate to the city to live in townhouses, and <graduates,link=165> become the government-employed <educated elite workers,link=150>.
SATISFACTION
-People become <dissatisfied,link=83> if they do not have enough wheat and barley bread and household wares.
-Lack of adequate <healthcare,link=166>, <worship,link=202>, <funerary,link=87>, <leisure,link=82> or <security,link=191> can also lead to dissatisfaction.
-Dissatisfied people will protest and eventually leave their jobs and homes.
-If too many people of the same occupational group are dissatisfied, no new people will migrate to that group.
-Widespread dissatisfaction can lead to attempts to overthrow your government, which ends the game in defeat.
FOOD & FARMING
-<Farmers,link=14> live in farmhouses and automatically plant and harvest crops on the <floodplain,link=37>.
-Nobles live in townhouses and manage farming estates - without nobles, farmers won't work many fields.
-Nobles and farmers retain a portion of their crop for themselves.
-Nobles expand their estate if they have plenty of luxury wares to buy, and have opportunities to enhance their home. Nobles with larger estates can manage more farmers, increasing both the noble's wealth and your tax income.
-The rest of the crop goes to government <bakeries,link=29> and <granaries,link=30>, as <tax,link=91>, to feed <government workers,link=164> or export.
-Prepare for a poor flood year by storing extra food in granaries.
-With insufficient food, families are forced to <forage,link=35> instead of doing productive work.
TAXATION
-Right click on townhouses to tell the nobleman what to grow for taxes.
-Order <scribes,link=19> to assess and collect taxes.
-Government workers can't eat unless there is food in a bakery for them.
MARKETPLACE
-Shops make and sell household wares to all types of customers in exchange for food.
-Right click on shops to tell them what kind of wares to sell.
-Townhouse noble families use (and require) a lot of common and luxury household wares.
-At the <Exchange,link=60> building, shopkeepers trade food for fine raw materials harvested or imported by your government. A scribe must be working at the Exchange for this to occur.
-<Servants,link=20> work for the elite, and as helpers at luxury shops. They assist elite households with shopping, and harvest raw materials for luxury shopkeepers.
-Entertainers perform at townhouse feasts, helping to fulfill nobles' need for leisure.
PRESTIGE
-Your <prestige,link=84> determines how many priests, overseers, scribes, and commanders are willing to work for you.
-Increase your prestige by building impressive buildings and monuments, such as a stele, statues, obelisks, and pyramids.
-<Propaganda,link=185> can only be gained once per world level accomplishment. Build the best monument you can to maximize the effect.
-Enhancing your palace, as well as performing certain world level actions, also increase your prestige.
-You get more prestige the first time you build any type of monument than from building subsequent monuments of the same type.
-If pharaoh dies without a tomb, your prestige could greatly decline. Even the smallest mastaba is better than nothing, though bigger and better tombs are best for your prestige.
-The ramp for a pyramid is at the front of the structure. Position the ramp near your laborers and limestone supplies to facilitate construction.
EDUCATION
-Only graduates may become educated workers (scribes, priests, overseers, and commanders).
-The children of nobles visit <schools,link=70>, where they are educated by priests.
-After long years of service, educated workers retire from their jobs and must be replaces. Education is a continuing need.
EDUCATED WORKERS
-Scribes monitor farms to ensure taxes are paid, collect <tariffs,link=195> at merchant centers, and also manage the distribution of fine raw materials at Exchanges.
-Priests teach at schools, and attend to the needs of the people by providing healthcare at <hospitals,link=67> and <apothecaries,link=63>, by keeping places of worship ready for people to attend, and by embalming the dead at <mortuaries,link=69>.
-Overseers supervise <laborers,link=15>, who <mine,link=42> and <quarry,link=41> metals, gems and stones, transport construction materials and build monuments.
-Commanders train and lead the soldiers of the army, navy, and city guard.
WORLD LEVEL
-Select a site to see what it will provide your city, what it will expect in return, and what is needed to initiate contact with the site.
-<Dispatch,link=148> an expedition to a selected site to receive its benefits or to see what exploring it reveals, after a short delay.
-Be sure to have the required yearly upkeep for Egyptian sites available in storage (upkeep is removed automatically).
-Government <cargo,link=143> is dropped off at cargo drop-off points, and picked up from government workshops and storage areas.
-Private merchants sell exotic luxury wares in merchant centers, and buy local luxury wares directly from the city's shops. Nobles are always glad to have exotic luxury wares.
-Don't hesitate to suspend relations with a site if you no longer require what they are offering. This may save resources better spent elsewhere.
-Khopeshes and armor help your soldiers survive battles. Well outfitted soldiers live to fight another day."
50794 "Foreign Traders"
50795 " Traders from <foreign governments,link=159> with whom you have opened relations visit your city at regular intervals in their own ships or caravans to deliver their <cargo,link=143>, and to pick up some of yours in return, from government <storage areas,link=61> or workshops (such as <papyrus mills,link=40> and <brickworks,link=33>).
A foreign trader who delivers a full cargo expects to return home with a full cargo, too. If you can't provide everything that you agreed, the trader will scale back his delivery on his next trip by the amount that you came up short. Only when he can load up properly will he resume full deliveries. You can specify where you want traders to deposit their deliveries by placing <cargo drop-off points,link=59>. To make sure the necessary resources are on hand, you can <set a reserve amount,link=186> for any government resource by selecting it on the Resources Report:
<img=27>
This prevents city residents from using the given resource if your stocks fall below the set amount.
"
50796 "Crime"
50797 " Sufficiently desperate <vagrants,link=23> turn to crime, which makes law-abiding citizens anxious... and anxious people tend to like visiting worship facilities. Vagrants find courage in their numbers - the more of them there are, the more likely some will turn to crime. Criminals will mug anyone carrying <food,link=158> or <household wares,link=43>, but they won't bother <villagers,link=24>, merchants or other vagrants, and are afraid of <soldiers,link=73> and <commanders,link=11>. The successful mugger gets everything that the victim was carrying. Most muggings take place after dark.
Those who are emboldened by mugging might progress to robbery. Robbers enter the wealthiest home nearby to steal as much as they can carry off. Their recklessness often destroys some of what they can't haul away. The most heinous and random crime is murder. Nobody knows what drives a man to this extreme."
50798 "Potter"
50799 " The potter makes her common wares in her home <pottery shop,link=53>. Her <husband,link=97> and <child,link=93> dig <clay,link=34> for her. When she is not actually throwing pots, the potter shops for <household wares,link=43> for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more work she can get done.
Potters are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50800 "Mat Maker"
50801 " The mat maker weaves her common wares in her home <mat shop,link=50>, while her <husband,link=98> and <child,link=94> collect <papyrus reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> for her to use. When she is not actually making mats, the mat maker shops for <household wares,link=43> for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more time she can spend creating wares to sell in the family shop.
Mat makers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50802 "Basket Maker"
50803 " The basket maker manufactures her common wares in her home <basket shop,link=45>, while her <husband,link=99> and <child,link=95> collect the <papyrus reeds,link=237> or <rushes,link=134> that she needs. The basket maker also needs to shop for <household wares,link=43> for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more baskets she can make.
Basket makers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50804 "Weaver"
50805 " The weaver makes her common wares in her home <linen shop,link=49>, while her <husband,link=100> and <children,link=96> collect the <flax,link=38> that she uses. When she is not actually weaving cloth, she shops for <household wares,link=43> for her family. The less time she has to spend shopping, the more weaving she can get done.
Weavers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50806 "Brick Maker"
50807 " The brick maker produces <bricks,link=139> in his home workshop, known as a <brickworks,link=33>. His <child,link=101> can collect raw materials for him to use, while his <wife,link=104> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Brick makers are <government employees,link=164>. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50808 "Weapon Smith"
50809 " The weapon smith produces <basic weapons,link=247>, <armor,link=205>, <chariots,link=212> or <khopeshes,link=229> in his home forge, known as a <weapons workshop,link=39>, depending on the <orders,link=178> you give him. His <child,link=102> can collect raw materials for him to use, while his <wife,link=104> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping. Weapon smiths are <government employees,link=164>. They are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
HISTORY: <Chariots,link=343>
HISTORY: <Khopesh,link=362>
"
50810 "Papyrus Maker"
50811 " The papyrus maker creates <papyrus,link=236>, a valuable writing material, in his home workshop, known as a <papyrus mill,link=40>. His <child,link=105> can collect <papyrus reeds,link=237> for him to use, while his <wife,link=104> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Papyrus makers are <government employees,link=164>. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation.
"
50812 "Cosmetician"
50813 " The cosmetician produces his luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <cosmetics shop,link=46>. His <child,link=106> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Cosmeticians are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful cosmetician who has enough food in the pantry can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself.
"
50814 "Furnisher"
50815 " The furnisher produces elegant, functional luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <furniture shop,link=47>. His <child,link=107> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Furnishers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful furnisher who has enough food in the pantry can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself."
50816 "Jeweler"
50817 " The jeweler produces stunning luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <jewelry shop,link=48>. His <child,link=108> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Jewelers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful jeweler who has enough food in the pantry can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself."
50818 "Perfumer"
50819 " The perfumer produces his enticing luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <perfume shop,link=52>. His <child,link=109> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Perfumers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful perfumer who has enough food in the pantry can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself."
50820 "Sandal Maker"
50821 " The sandal maker produces his sensible luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <sandal shop,link=54>. His <child,link=110> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Sandal makers are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful sandal maker who has enough food in the pantry can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself."
50822 "Sculptor"
50823 " The sculptor produces his decorative luxury wares, for sale to <elite citizens,link=80>, in the family <sculpture shop,link=55>. His <child,link=111> can collect <raw materials,link=27> for him to use, and he might employ a <servant,link=20> to help gather resources as well. His <wife,link=112> does the <household wares,link=43> shopping.
Sculptors are members of the middle class. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation. An especially successful sculptor who has enough food on hand can move his family into a vacant <townhouse,link=21> and become a noble, able at last to enjoy life's luxuries himself."
50824 "Baker"
50825 " At his family <bakery,link=29>, the baker turns raw wheat and barley into bread for <government workers,link=164>. He also prepares vegetables and other foodstuffs. The baker is himself a middle-class employee of your government. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation."
50826 "Shipwright"
50827 " At his <shipyard,link=44>, this middle-class <government worker,link=164> builds river transport <barges,link=58>, oceangoing <military ships,link=77> and <private yachts,link=21>. Neither <reed boats,link=90> nor cargo barges are made by the shipwright. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation."
50828 "Gardener"
50829 " The gardener lives and works at a government-owned <nursery,link=32>, raising pomegranate trees, date palms, and grape vines. The young plants are sold to nobles to enhance their <townhouses,link=21> with gardens and groves. Check the <family's history,link=155> to see if they arose from the peasant class, or changed careers from some other middle-class occupation."
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50830 "Baker's wife"
50831 " The baker's wife handles the household shopping and other chores so that her husband can concentrate on food preparation at the family <bakery,link=29>. If their own bakery happens to run out of food, she will trek to a better-stocked bakery to collect her family's salary. "
50832 "Craftsmen"
50833 " Craftsmen are the middle-class government employees that toil in home workshops, such as <bakeries,link=29>, <brickworks,link=33>, <papyrus mills,link=40>, <shipyards,link=44> and <weapons workshops,link=39>, producing finished goods from raw materials. Craftsmen also perform outdoor <construction,link=145> work as <stone carvers,link=22> or <bricklayers,link=12>, or raise trees at <nurseries,link=32>. On the <People Report,link=180>, hold the mouse pointer over the entry for 'craftsmen' to see a breakdown of all the craftsmen households in your city.
"
50834 "Statues"
50835 " Through their sheer beauty and grandeur, colossal statues inspire faith and confidence in your leadership and in the strength of the people and the Egyptian civilization. The prestige section of the <Administration Report,link=136> tells you how much prestige is being imparted by all the statues in the city.
Once you place a statue base, it must be constructed by <bricklayers,link=12>. The rough statue is <quarried,link=41> by <laborers,link=15>, under the supervision of an <overseer,link=17> ordered to the task, or it can be imported. It is then hauled into place by laborers under the supervision of an overseer ordered to supervise construction, after which a <stone carver,link=22> applies the finishing touches.
HISTORY: <Sculpture,link=374>
"
50836 "1. Villagers, Farmers and Nobles"
50837 "<Next Lesson,link=304>
<Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Nobles manage private farming estates that you tax for food. Farmers typically come from the local village population, eager for a better life as part of Egyptian society.
ESTATES
To grow food, you need farming families, and nobles to manage them. Designate townhouses for noblemen by clicking on the Private Citizens build button and selecting 'noble':
<img=2>
Right-click on the townhouses to indicate what type of crops you want grown for taxes. Soon villagers or existing farmers will construct the townhouses and noblemen will move into them, happy to take charge of the bountiful new estates you've granted them.
Invite some villagers to become farmers by clicking on the Private Citizens build button again, and selecting 'farmer.' Soon villager families will construct and move into these homes, to start their new lives as members of Egyptian society!
TIPS
Estate Management
- If you donÆt have enough estates to manage your farmers, some farmers will eventually leave their homes
- The People Report shows existing vs. occupied homes, and how many farm families can be managed by current estates:
<img=22>
- With more opportunities to spend, nobles enlarge their estates to support more farms and grow more food
- Farmers plant fields and harvest them on their own, according to the season
- It doesn't cost any resources to designate townhouses and farmhouses
The Game World
- To move around the play area, move the pointer to the edges of the screen
- Use the mouse wheel or bracket keys to zoom in and out
- Click on people and buildings for specific information about them:
<img=33>
- Hold the pointer over text, numbers, buttons and icons for more information
- If you get lost, use the mini-map to ascertain your location:
<img=28>
- Click on the mini map to jump to another location
- Pause and unpause the game by clicking on the play/pause button:
<img=14> <img=13>
- Click on the diskette for options like load, save and quit:
<img=12>
- Speed up and slow down the game with the plus '+ and minus '-' keys
- The Scenario Information screen gives information on the specific scenario you are playing. To view this, click the Eye of Horus at the bottom of the screen:
<img=20>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
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50838 "2. Shopkeepers, Entertainers & Servants"
50839 "<Previous Lesson,link=303>
<Next Lesson,link=305>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Commercial shops produce household wares that people purchase with food. Shopkeepers are middle-class citizens who have risen from the peasantry. If a family cannot obtain all of the food and wares it wants, its members will become dissatisfied and eventually either become unemployed vagrants or return to the life of villagers.
COMMERCE
To ensure your growing population can acquire the wares it wants, designate common shops by clicking the Private Citizens build button and selecting 'common shopkeeper':
<img=2>
Shopkeepers will choose something to make and sell, but you can also right-click on shops to ensure that there is one of each type (mat, pottery, linen, and basket). Persons of higher social class also desire more expensive wares. To keep them satisfied, designate luxury shops (ideally one of each type) near the city's townhouses.
Nobles hire servants to assist with shopping and other menial jobs. Luxury shopkeepers hire servants to harvest raw materials for them. When freed from this duty, the children of luxury shopkeepers might have enough time to attend school and eventually become educated workers. Place several servant shacks near the city's townhouses and luxury shops.
Finally, build some entertainers' houses so your nobles can really enjoy their feasts!
<img=2>
TIPS
Shops, Shopping & Families
- Shoppers won't travel to a shop located more than half a dayÆs walk away, so they have time to get home before nightfall
- Only food from a farm can be used to purchase things from shops
- Shopkeeper men and children gather raw materials themselves and return them to the home shop
- Luxury shopkeepers' children freed from their harvesting work can get an education, and join the elite class
- In common shops the women produce wares, while in luxury shops the men perform this task
- Shops don't cost anything to build, but if you designate too many at once you may find yourself temporarily short of farmers
- Women take care of most of the shopping. Make sure shops are conveniently located
- Shopkeepers will forage for wild foods if they can't support themselves from the sales of their wares
- Select any person or home to see if they're having trouble acquiring wares:
<img=34>
- To rename an individual or family, select a person or home and click on the personal name
- Click on the Family History button to see the family's prior occupations:
<img=9>
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50840 "3. Bakers, Brick Makers & Bricklayers"
50841 "<Previous Lesson,link=304>
<Next Lesson,link=306>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
To build government worker housing and other government buildings you need a steady supply of bricks, and bricklayers to lay them. Government bakers prepare bread and other foods which you use to pay your workers.
BRICKS AND FOOD
Build brick makers's homes (known as 'brickworks') and bricklayers' homes by clicking on the Government Workers build button and selecting 'brick maker' and 'bricklayer' respectively:
<img=3>
Bricklayers collect bricks from brickworks, and use the to construct government buildings.
All government employees get their food from bakeries, while granaries store any surplus food. Food is automatically distributed to bakeries and granaries after the harvest. Place bakeries by clicking on the Government Workers build button and selecting 'baker.'
The Food and Bricks indicators show your current stocks of these vital resources:
<img=25>
TIPS
Building
- To rotate a building when placing it, hold down the left mouse button, move the pointer around, release the button when the building is oriented the way you want
- Make sure doorways are not blocked by other buildings
- Build within your means. If bricks and bricklayers are spread too thin, construction will be slow
- Use the clear land button to get rid of buildings and trees you don't want:
<img=8>
- Use the undo button (when available) to cancel a recent action:
<img=32>
- Click on any foundation or building under construction to see its construction status and any construction problems
Roads
- People donÆt need roads to get around, but they do prefer them
- Roads can also help you plan your city
- It doesn't cost you anything to lay roads
- Use the Infrastructure build button to lay roads and paths:
<img=5>
- Use this button to remove roads:
<img=19>
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50842 "4. Priests"
50843 "<Previous Lesson,link=305>
<Next Lesson,link=307>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Education is the bridge between mere existence and true civilization, and it all starts with your first priest teaching at a school, which produces graduates who can become new educated workers such as scribes, overseers and priests. Priests also tend the gods, provide healthcare and funerary services at various facilities. If citizens cannot visit these facilities when they need to, they become dissatisfied.
EDUCATION
Nobles send their children to school to receive an education from a priest. Your first priest is usually a particularly gifted noble youth, or the child of a luxury shopkeeper, who takes up residence in the new priest's apartment that you build for him. Place priest apartments by clicking on the Government Workers build button and selecting 'priest':
<img=3>
Right click on it and tell the priest to 'Educate Students', and the resident priest will work only at schools.
WORSHIP, HEALTHCARE AND FUNERARY SERVICES
Citizens seek treatment for medical conditions at hospitals. Temples and shrines give your people a place to worship and let them know that you are tending the gods. Nobles purchase mastabas or even pyramids to serve as the family tomb, while priests embalm deceased elite citizens at mortuaries.
Construct any of these service facilities by clicking on the Government Facilities build button:
<img=4>
Dedicate any worship facility to a specific god by right-clicking on it.
TIPS
- A priest won't serve at a facility that is more than half a day's travel from his apartment, so he can get home before nightfall
- Adequate quality food (from a farm), and a variety of foods helps individuals, families, and the entire city stay healthy
-The People Report shows you how many graduates you have available:
<img=22>
- The Satisfaction Indicator, and accompanying People Report, show the overall satisfaction of different groups within the city:
<img=23>
- Papyrus (which you'll learn about later) helps priests educate students more efficiently
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50844 "5. Scribes"
50845 "<Previous Lesson,link=306>
<Next Lesson,link=308>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Scribes monitor estate fields to make sure nobles pay what you're due in taxes. Scribes are educated workers, so only graduates or existing educated workers can become scribes.
TAXES AND PAPYRUS
Place scribes' houses by clicking on the Government Workers build button and selecting 'scribe':
<img=3>
Right-click on a scribe's house to instruct the resident scribe to 'Assess Taxes.' After bricklayers build the home, a graduate will move in and begin his working life as a scribe.
Papyrus helps scribes (and priests) perform their tasks more efficiently. Build papyrus mills by clicking on the Government Workers build button and selecting 'papyrus maker':
<img=3>
To store excess food, build a granary by using the Infrastructure build button:
<img=5>
FRUIT TREES
Use the Government Workers button again to build nurseries to raise fruit trees for nobles to acquire for their townhouse groves.
TIPS
Camera Control
- Follow a selected person by clicking on one of the tracking buttons:
<img=7> <img=35> <img=36>
- Use the F2 key to select different camera modes
- Hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse to rotate and tilt the view
- Return to the standard camera orientation by clicking on the blue arrow above the mini map:
<img=15>
- Record images of your city with the snapshot button:
<img=38>
Images (.bmp files) are created in the MASTER folder, as CotN[number].bmp
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50846 "6. Overseers & Laborers"
50847 "<Previous Lesson,link=307>
<Next Lesson,link=309>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Overseers supervise laborers as they carry out large-scale government construction and harvesting operations. Because mining, quarrying and monument construction areas are typically located in remote areas, you'll often need to set up separate infrastructure facilities and shops to support these labor camps. Overseers are educated workers. Laborers are peasants, like farmers, and primarily come from the local village population.
MINING & QUARRYING
Because labor camps are large and somewhat isolated from your core city, you need to develop them camp in two stages. First, build infrastructure buildings that will support the overseers and laborers. If this step is skipped, or rushed, the construction of the labor camp will rely too much on the distant city. Initial infrastructure buildings include bakeries, brickworks and bricklayers' homes.
Right-click on any overseer's home to instruct the resident overseer to harvest a specific metal, stone, or gem.
So shopkeepers can have easy access to the mined metals and quarried stones, build an Exchange:
<img=4>
Right-click on any scribe's houses to instruct the resident scribe to 'Serve at Exchange.'
With government-harvested raw materials, private shopkeepers such as jewelers can make more valuable wares and have more time to work in their shops.
TIPS
- Click on the bottom white gem to see the Resources Report:
<img=27>
- Private shopkeepers must pay for materials at the Exchange, while government craftsmen can take them for free
- More valuable luxury wares keep noble and other elites satisfied for longer than simpler ones made from more common materials
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50848 "7. Pharaoh & the Royal Family"
50849 "<Previous Lesson,link=308>
<Next Lesson,link=310>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Prestige is a measure of your notoriety and fame. Educated workers must have great respect for their leader, and therefore your prestige limits how many of them are willing to serve you. Prestige is gained from monuments (such as pyramids), your palace, temples, propaganda, and accomplishments abroad, but it gradually wanes over time.
LEADERSHIP
Once your capital city has taken shape, you'll need to start looking to the future. Your pyramid tomb requires a large force of laborers and a few overseers, so your prestige will have to be fairly high in order to undertake a major tomb. The Prestige Indicator shows how many educated workers will follow you:
<img=24>
To gain more prestige, enhance your palace by right-clicking on it and selecting one of the available options. As your prestige rises, more graduates will take up jobs as educated workers.
To begin work on your tomb, designate one by clicking on the Monuments build button:
<img=6>
Right-click on the tomb base and assign it to 'Pharaoh', to ensure that only you can be interred there.
Once you have established a good source for stone (if you're building a pyramid) or bricks (if a mastaba), right-click on overseers' homes and order the overseers to 'Construction.' Overseers will direct the efforts of laborers to build your tomb.
Finally, if you're building a pyramid, build some stone carvers' houses:
<img=3>
JUSTICE
Pharaoh and members of the royal family mete out justice to plaintiffs at the court of law. Build a court of law near the palace to serve your nobles.
TIPS
Your Dynasty
- Click the Administration Report button to see information on prestige and citywide services:
<img=26>
- Issue edicts to adapt to changing circumstances within the city:
<img=18>
- Pay attention to Pharaoh's birthday announcements to be prepared for your passing
- Access the message log to read prior messages you've received:
<img=11>
- Rename your dynasty by selecting the palace and clicking on your family name
- Your palace supports its own estate, providing additional food for government usage
Tombs
- Tombs provide prestige based on their size and who is buried there.
- Right-click on tombs to restrict who can be buried there
- Reserve large tombs for you, the Pharaoh, and more modest tombs for the royal family
- Use humble mastabas to keep the nobility satisfied
Dissatisfaction
- If current members of a group are dissatisfied, other citizens will be less likely to take up their occupation
- If nobles living in your city are dissatisfied, new noble families will not immigrate
- If many groups in the city are severely dissatisfied, they may attempt to overthrow you!
<Next Lesson,link=310>
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50850 "8. Envoys, Exploration & Expansion"
50851 "<Previous Lesson,link=309>
<Next Lesson,link=311>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
To build a strong and lasting civilization you must reach beyond your capital city, bringing other Egyptian settlements under your authority and establishing outposts. This gives your city access to exotic luxury wares and raw materials not available locally. Your exploits also provide you prestige and opportunities to glorify your reign through propaganda.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Click on the world level button to view the world map:
<img=17>
You'll see what each requires in order for you to make initial contact, as well as what the site will provide, and what it will need, should you establish relations.
Click the 'dispatch' button to send envoys (trained at the palace), and whatever additional items may be required to establish or make contact with the selected site.
<img=30>
After a short while you'll start receiving resources from the site. Sites can also reveal additional sites, or award prestige.
PROPAGANDA
Erect obelisks and stele to commemorate your world level accomplishments by clicking on the Monuments build button:
<img=6>
TIPS
- Some of your world-level sites may require periodic upkeep, which are taken from the city automatically
- Cult centers offset local worship needs, alleviating the burden on your priests
- Overseers and laborers begin quarrying obelisks, stele and statues only after you order their construction by placing the base of the object, and ordered an overseer to quarry it
- Growing wheat for taxes is most cost-effective, but a single food diet is not healthy for your workers. Balance townhouse crop orders to produce a high yield for world-level spending needs while ensuring a varied diet for your workers.
- Stockpile a government resource for world-level use by clicking on it on the Resources report
- Suspend and later reactivate relations with any site by clicking the Suspend button:
<img=31>
- Click on the Map Labels button to hide and reveal text labels on the world map:
Merchants visit your city to buy and sell luxury wares, which are valuable to nobles and other elites, keeping them satisfied longer. You can employ scribes to collect a healthy tariff on merchant transactions. Foreign traders and government cargo movers transport government resources in and out of the city. Some other cities pay regular tribute to your government.
CARGO AND EXOTIC WARES
Waterborne cargo movers from abroad make landfall at barge landings in the city. To specify where land and waterborne deliveries are to be deposited, place cargo drop-off points near, using the Infrastructure build button:
<img=5>
Right-click on drop-off points to dedicate them to specific world level sites.
Egyptian cargo movers and foreign traders visit the city, desposit their trade goods, and take gold or other resources in exchange.
Merchant centers provide a convenient marketplace for merchants, dealing in exotic luxury wares, and allow you to collect tariffs on their transactions. Use the Infrastructure build button to build merchant centers. A merchant center built on the water's edge will sport a quay.
Right-click on nearby scribes' houses to instruct the scribes to 'Collect Tariffs', and they'll focus their efforts on monitoring merchant centers.
TIPS
- On the world-level control panel, click on the worldwide trade report label to toggle between 'Total cargo traffic' and 'Total merchant transactions'
Government Cargo Disbursement
- Waterborne cargo movers use their own barges to move government resources in and out of the city
- Cargo drop-off points can be dedicated to a specific site, or shared
- Without drop-off points, cargo will be deposited where convenient for movers and traders
Merchant Transactions
- Merchant centers can also be placed inland, but these will not serve waterborne merchants
- Merchants buy luxury wares from the city's shops, with food
- Merchants sell luxury wares for food (like shops)
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50854 "10. Commanders & Soldiers"
50855 "<Previous Lesson,link=311>
<City-building Guide Index,link=313>
INTRODUCTION
Your military fights crime within the city and engages in actions abroad. Educated commanders lead soldiers, and train them at the training ground. Weapon smiths (government craftsmen) produce military equipment.
CRIME AND CONQUEST
Order commanders to army, navy or city guard duty by right-clicking on their quarters. Order soldiers to serve as city guards, or a specific type of army troop type (infantry, archer, charioteer), by right-clicking on barracks.
Commanders ordered to army duty train soldiers at a training ground, built via the the Government Facilities build button. Weapon smiths produce military equipment at weapons workshops. Build weapons workshops using the Government Workers build button. Right-click on weapons workshops to tell the resident craftsman what type of equipment to make.
Commanders ordered to navy service captain military ships, produced by a shipwright, for campaigns abroad.
TIPS
- Your army (infantry, charioteers, archers) will not fight crime within the city - that's what city guards are for
- Criminals come from the vagrant population; the People Report shows how many vagrants are in the city:
<img=29>
- Build walls to protect areas of your city from hostile raiders
- Only graduates or existing educated workers can become commanders
- Soldiers are peasants, often drawn from the local village population
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50856 "Step by Step Guide"
50857 "<RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS,link=1>
For a hands-on learning experience, we recommend you play through the Children of the Nile learning scenarios. But if you'd rather just read up on the subject then dive in, or if you want a quick refresher or overview, this is the place. Click on the lessons below to proceed:
<LESSON 1.,link=303> - Villagers, Farmers and Nobles
Learn the basics of building, farming, and how to move around the game world.
Learn about trade with merchants, foreign governments and Egyptian settlements.
<LESSON 10.,link=312> - Commanders & Soldiers
Learn about crime, security & military engagements abroad.
For information on the specific scenario you are playing, click the Eye of Horus at the bottom of the screen:
<img=21>
"
50858 "Household wares and shopping problems"
50859 " Many different challenges confront a family trying to acquire all the household wares it wants. Sometimes one challenge exacerbates another, but, on the other hand, certain efficiencies can offset multiple challenges. Household operations are rarely perfect, so just do your best to ensure each family can overcome as many shopping-related challenges as possible.
If the household is dissatisfied from lack of bread AND lack of household wares, the former is likely causing the latter.
So if you see this:
<img=41>
AND this:
<img=42>
The problem is almost certainly that the families lacks farmed food (bread or vegetables) with which to purchase wares. Hold the mouse pointer over the food icon to see what types of food are in the home:
<img=57>
THE HOME LACKS FARMED FOOD
See Problems and Solutions: <Food Problems,link=9>
THE HOME HAS A GOOD AMOUNT OF FARMED FOOD
Make sure your city has shops, they have wares to sell, and are located close to the families that depend on them.
I DON'T HAVE ANY SHOPS
Designate some using the Private Citizens build button:
<img=2>
Right-click on them to set what type of wares will be sold there. Try to maintain a good mix of all types of shops. Select the home having problems, and hold your mouse pointer over the common and luxury wares icons in the <Selected Item area, to see what specific wares are in the home:
<img=56> <img=59>
SHOPS AREN'T CLOSE TO HOMES
Families experiencing shopping problems may live too far from shops. Shoppers won't travel more than half a day's journey to reach their destination, ensuring that they can be home before nightfall. Because even the humblest of your citizens desires all four common wares, while elites desire all ten common and luxury wares, make sure no home in the city is too far from a shop.
SHOPS DON'T HAVE WARES TO SELL
If shops are where they need to be, select them to make sure they have wares for sale. If not, make sure you have enough <shops,link=264> to meet demand, and that shopkeepers have access to the <raw materials,link=27> they need. Also make sure the member of the family that produces wares is present. Select the shop and look at the <Family Tracking Windows,link=156>. If a common shop is missing the woman of the house, or a luxury shop is missing the man of the house, no wares will be produced until the lone adult remarries, and this can take some time, particularly in small cities.
If the shopkeepers themselves are having trouble seeing to their own shopping needs, or visiting service buildings, they will have less time to produce wares.
SHOPS ARE CLOSE TO HOMES, AND HAVE WARES TO SELL
If this is the case, make sure the family in question has food to spend. If not, see Problems and Solutions: <Food problems,link=9>
No woman of the house
If the family has food to spend, and well-stocked shops are nearby, it is likely the family is missing its primary shopper, the woman of the house. Check the <Family Tracking Windows,link=156> to see if there is a woman of the house. If not, it will be difficult for the man of the house to see to all the family's needs. He will likely be remarried soon enough, though in small cities this can take some time, particularly if he is a noblemen and there are few other noble families in the city. Priest and soldier households are all male, and so cannot afford to spend any more time than necessary seeing to their shopping needs.
No servant
If the lady of the house is present, she may need some help. It's tough for noble women to see to all the extravagant needs of their families by themselves. <Servants,link=20> are important in assisting noble women with their shopping.
Not enough time left to shop
If all of the above challenges have been met, and the family is still having problems acquiring all the wares it needs, it is likely the woman and/or man of the house are wasting a lot of time seeing to other needs, such as visiting <service,link=62> facilities, or traveling to work.
"
50860 "Service problems"
50861 " Service-related problems primarily occur when citizens are unable to visit the facilities they want. Hold the mouse pointer over the specific service-related dissatisfaction icon, to see what facility the family wished to visit:
<img=34>
This will tell you want specific god the family member wanted to worship, what healthcare facility he wanted to visit, and so on. If these facilities are completely absent, that is a problem...
I NEED MORE SERVICE FACILITIES
Build more using the Government Facilities build button:
<img=4>
If you have designated enough service facilities, but they're not being built, see: Problems and Solutions: <Buildings aren't being built,link=7>.
I HAVE SERVICE FACILITIES, BUT THEY'RE NOT FUNCTIONAL
Most service facilities are run by <priests,link=18>. Make sure you have enough of them, and that they don't live too far from the facilities at which they are supposed to work. To designate more priest apartments, use the Government Workers build button:
<img=3>
If you have designated priest apartments, but they're not being built, see: Problems and Solutions: <Buildings aren't being built,link=7>. If you have enough apartments, but no on is moving in, see Problems and Solutions: <People don't move into houses,link=8>
SERVICE BUILDINGS ARE FUNCTIONAL, BUT NO ONE IS VISITING THEM
Make sure citizens don't have to travel too far to reach service facilities, and that they aren't wasting a lot of their time traveling to other locations, such as shops. One service facility being located too far away can result in problems visiting other facilities in the same day.
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50862 "Keyboard Controls (Hotkeys) "
50863 "
F1 or ? - Open main Help index
F2 - Cycle through <camera view modes,link=141>
F4 - Quick save (creates a unique save file)
Shift + F4 - Load your most recent quick save
Ctrl + F4 - Load your most recent autosave
Alt + F4 - Exit to your Windows (R) desktop
F9 - Take a <snapshot,link=194>
Shift + F9 - Take a snapshot without the interface
F10 or Esc - Open the <game options menu,link=177>
F11 - Cycle through assorted reports about time
Print Screen - Take a snapshot
Pause, p, or (spacebar) - <Pause or resume passage of time,link=179>
(Tab) - Go from city level to <world level,link=317> and back
[ - Zoom out
] - Zoom in
(numerical minus sign) - Decrease game speed
(numerical plus sign) - Increase game speed
NOTE: the plus and minus on the number row also control game speed
a - Open the <Administration Report,link=136>
e - Open the <Edicts,link=86> panel
m - Open the <Messages,link=172> list
q - Open the <People Report,link=180>
r - <Rotate building,link=190> attached to pointer
s - Open the <Scenario information,link=162> panel
x - Close open panel
z - Open the <Resources Report,link=188>
Ctrl + g - Show or hide grid lines
, - Set camera to follow selected person
. - Center camera over selected person
/ - Center camera over selected person and zoom in
Home - Return camera to default orientation
Delete - Destroy all selected buildings
Page Up - Open a window with previous game messages
(Arrow keys) - Move the camera in the indicated direction
Ctrl + (number) - Create a group of selected objects
(number) - Select the group you created
(number) (number) - Select the group and center the camera over it
Alt + (number) - Select the group and center the camera over it
~ (tilde) + (arrow keys) - rotate the camera around the center of the screen
"
50864 "The World Level"
50865 " Any competent vizier can manage a single city. Some underlings even exhibit talents for planning and building. But Pharaoh must never lose sight of the city's larger context, however much urban affairs occupy your time. All of Egypt looks to you for guidance and support. Visit the world map periodically to discover what the rest of the world wants from you, and what it can offer you in turn:
<img=17>
Click the City button to return to the city:
<img=159>
On the world map you will find representations of all known areas of interest. Place your pointer over these icons for a brief description of their nature. When you select an object on the world map, the panel on the left displays detailed information.
There are eight different types of world-level places:
1. EGYPTIAN SETTLEMENT - A mine, fort, city, etc. that belongs to Pharaoh. They look like this:
<img=181> <img=182> <img=183> <img=184> <img=185>
2. MONUMENT - Pyramids, obelisks, monumental statues, stele, other magnificent structures, also belonging to you. Examples are:
<img=187> <img=190> <img=193> <img=198> <img=200>
3. ACHIEVEMENT - More than an actual site, an achievement is a goal for you to attain. Look for these symbols:
<img=160> <img=161> <img=162> <img=163> <img=164>
4. FOREIGN SETTLEMENT - A fort, city, town, etc. that is loyal to some foreign prince. For example:
<img=203> <img=206> <img=208> <img=209> <img=210>
5. ENEMY SITE - A hostile location that dares to defy Pharaoh. <Raiders,link=89> hail from places like this:
<img=215> <img=216> <img=217> <img=218>
6. MERCHANT - A non-government entity that would trade with the people of your city:
<img=214> <img=213>
7. FORMER CAPITAL - If you previously ruled from another city, it is shown here:
<img=219>
8. PAST ACCOMPLISHMENT - Some noteworthy event or location from your past may also be shown.
Most world-level sites require some initial dispatch of resources and/or personnel to become active. Sites you own typically require periodic upkeep to remain operational.
Sites can provide resources, wealth, prestige, even worship benefits. All of this is shown on the information panel. You trade not to earn profits, but to get resources or wares that your city could not otherwise obtain. The rest of the world hungers for Egyptian food, gold and papyrus, and will exchange all sorts of valuables for them.
Sites with which your city interacts may be Egyptian settlements, foreign trade partners, or private merchants. Egyptian settlements and foreign trade partners deal only in non-household wares (<'cargo',link=143>), while private merchants deal exclusively in <household wares,link=43>. Government-owned sites provide resources for free, although they might require some periodic upkeep. Government trade partners might sometimes send you tribute, but they normally expect payment for their resources. Private merchants are out to earn a profit and don't send free wares.
You can suspend relations with an active site, but some might refuse to resume trade if they think you're unreliable or there isn't enough profit in it for them:
<img=31>
Finally, you may choose to hide map labels:
<img=37>
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;<STEP BY STEP CITY-BUILDING GUIDE,link=313>
50996 "Game Help Index"
50997 "<TABLE OF CONTENTS,link=1>
<WORLD-LEVEL HELP TOPICS,link=201>
<PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS,link=3>
<HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA,link=2>
<CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,link=68>
<Acacia,link=125>
<Achievements - World Level,link=135>
<Administration Report,link=136>
<Amun,link=255>
<Animals,link=204>
<Anubis,link=258>
<Apothecary,link=63>
<Armor,link=205>
<Armor Workshop,link=39>
<Baker,link=297>
<Baker's wife,link=300>
<Bakery,link=29>
<Barge Landing,link=58>
<Barley,link=206>
<Barracks and Soldiers,link=74>
<Basalt,link=207>
<Basket Maker,link=286>
<Basket Maker's Child,link=95>
<Basket Maker's Husband,link=99>
<Basket Shop,link=45>
<Baskets,link=208>
<Bast,link=259>
<Beautification,link=137>
<Beer,link=209>
<Birthday (Pharaoh),link=138>
<Bread,link=210>
<Brick Maker,link=288>
<Bricklayers,link=12>
<Brickworks,link=33>
<Brick Maker's Child,link=101>
<Bricks,link=139>
<Bricks and Food Indicator,link=274>
<Build Buttons,link=25>
<Building List,link=269>
<Camera Controls,link=141>
<Capital City - World Level,link=142>
<Cargo,link=143>
<Cats,link=122>
<Cedar,link=126>
<Challenge Level Settings,link=169>
<Chariot Factory,link=39>
<Chariots,link=212>
<Clay,link=34>
<Colossal Statues,link=302>
Combat, see <Military Engagements - World Level,link=144>
<Commanders,link=11>
<Common Wares,link=43>
<Construction,link=145>
<Copper,link=213>
<Cosmetician,link=291>
<Cosmetics,link=214>
<Cosmetics Shop,link=46>
<Cosmetician's Child,link=106>
<Court of Law,link=64>
<Craftsmen,link=301>
<Crime,link=283>
<Cult Centers - World Level,link=146>
<Cult Temple,link=65>
<Date,link=193>
<Dates,link=215>
<Decoration,link=36>
<Destroying Buildings,link=147>
<Dispatching Personnel and Resources - World Level,link=148>
<Dissatisfaction,link=83>
<Doorways,link=149>
<Drop-off Point,link=59>
<Dynasty,link=182>
<Edicts,link=86>
<Educated workers,link=150>
<Education,link=151>
<Egyptian Settlements - World Level,link=152>
Elite, see <Social Classes,link=80>
<Elite Child,link=113>
<Elite Citizen's Wife,link=114>
<Emeralds,link=217>
<Entertainers,link=13>
<Envoys,link=88>
<Estates,link=153>
<Exchange,link=60>
<Exploration - World Level,link=154>
<Families and Households,link=81>
<Family History,link=155>
<Family Tracking Windows,link=156>
<Farm Child,link=118>
<Farmers,link=14>
<Farmer's Wife,link=117>
Feast, see <Leisure,link=82>
Festival, see <Worship,link=202>
<Fields,link=157>
<Fine Limestone,link=219>
<Fish,link=220>
<Flax,link=38>
<Flood and Floodplain,link=37>
<Flowers,link=128>
<Food and Bricks Indicator,link=274>
<Food and Drink,link=158>
<Food Production,link=28>
<Foraging,link=35>
<Foreign Settlements - World Level,link=159>
<Foreign Traders,link=282>
<Forts - World Level,link=152>
<Fowl,link=221>
Fruit, see <Nursery,link=32>
<Furnisher,link=292>
<Furnisher's Child,link=107>
<Furniture,link=222>
<Furniture Shop,link=47>
<Furs,link=203>
<Game Settings,link=160>
<Game Speed,link=161>
<Gameplay Summary,link=267>
<Gardener,link=299>
Gems, see <Mining,link=42>
<Goals,link=162>
<Gods,link=140>
<Gods List,link=271>
<Gold,link=223>
<Government,link=163>
<Government Craftsman's Child,link=103>
<Government Craftsman's Wife,link=104>
<Government Workers,link=164>
<Graduates,link=165>
<Granary,link=30>
<Granite,link=224>
<Grapes,link=225>
<Guard Post,link=66>
<Hapi,link=263>
<Hathor,link=254>
<Health and Healthcare,link=166>
<Henna,link=129>
<Hints and Tips,link=281>
Holiday, see <Edicts,link=86>
<Horus,link=252>
<Hospital,link=67>
<Hostile Sites - World Level,link=167>
<Hotkeys,link=316>
<Houses,link=26>
<Household Wares,link=43>
Hunting, see <Leisure,link=82>
<Immigration,link=279>
<Incense,link=226>
<Information and Tips,link=281>
<Inundation and Floodplain,link=37>
<Isis,link=251>
<Jeweler,link=293>
<Jeweler's Child,link=108>
<Jewelry,link=228>
<Jewelry Shop,link=48>
Justice, see <Court of Law,link=64>
<Keyboard controls,link=316>
<Kohl,link=130>
<Khopeshes,link=229>
<Laborers,link=15>
<Laborer's Wife,link=119>
<Land,link=170>
<Learning to Play,link=198>
<Leather,link=230>
<Leisure,link=82>
<Lettuce,link=231>
<Limestone,link=232>
<Linen,link=233>
<Linen Shop and Weaver,link=49>
<Losing,link=278>
Luxuries, see <Household Wares,link=43>
<Luxury Shopkeepers' Wives,link=112>
<Maintenance,link=171>
<Ma'at,link=261>
<Marriage,link=81>
<Mastabas,link=197>
<Mat Shop,link=50>
<Mat Maker,link=285>
<Mat Maker's Child,link=94>
<Mat Maker's Husband,link=98>
<Mats,link=234>
Max Farms, see <People Report,link=180> and <Estates,link=153>
<Merchant Center (Quay) and Merchant's Stall,link=57>
<Merchant Sites - World Level,link=168>
<Merchants,link=280>
<Messages,link=172>
Metals, see <Mining,link=42>
Middle Class, see <Social Classes,link=80>
<Migration,link=279>
<Military,link=73>
<Military Engagements - World Level,link=144>
<Military Equipment Factory,link=39>
<Mining,link=42>
<Mines and Quarries - World Level,link=152>
<Mini Map,link=173>
<Monkeys,link=51>
Morale, see <Military,link=73>
<Mortuary,link=69>
<Monuments,link=78>
<Monuments - World Level,link=174>
<Myrrh,link=187>
<Natural Resource Sites,link=276>
Navigation, see <Camera Controls,link=141>
<Needs,link=83>
<Noblemen,link=21>
<Noblewoman,link=116>
<Nursery,link=32>
<Names,link=181>
<Obelisks,link=79>
<Occupations,link=176>
<Oil,link=131>
<Onions,link=235>
<Options,link=177>
<Orders,link=178>
<Osiris,link=250>
<Overseers,link=17>
<Palace,link=16>
<Papyrus,link=236>
<Papyrus Mill,link=40>
<Papyrus Maker,link=290>
<Papyrus Maker's Child,link=105>
<Papyrus Reeds,link=237>
<Pausing the Game,link=179>
<Peasant Children,link=121>
Peasants, see <Social Classes,link=80>
<People List,link=268>
<People Report,link=180>
<Perfume,link=238>
<Perfume Shop,link=52>
<Perfumer,link=294>
<Perfumer's Child,link=109>
<Personal Names,link=181>
<Pharaoh,link=182>
<Plaza,link=183>
<Pomegranates,link=132>
Popularity, see <Needs & Dissatisfaction,link=83>
<Potter,link=284>
<Pottery,link=239>
<Pottery Shop and Potter,link=53>
<Potter's Child,link=93>
<Potter's Husband,link=97>
<Predator,link=123>
<Prestige,link=84>
<Prestige Indicator,link=273>
<Prey Animal,link=124>
<Priests,link=18>
Prince or Princess, see <Palace and Royal Family,link=16>
<Production,link=184>
<Propaganda,link=185>
<Ptah,link=256>
<Pyramids,link=211>
<Quarries and Mines - World Level,link=152>
<Quarrying,link=41>
<Quartz,link=133>
<Quay,link=57>
<Ra,link=253>
<Raiders,link=89>
<Reed Boat,link=90>
<Reserving Resources,link=186>
<Resource List,link=270>
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51003 " Egyptians believed that the soul was comprised of several different parts which join with the physical body at birth. Mummification and funerary rites kept all these aspects of the soul together.
Ba represented the personality, or self, of the deceased. The Ba was represented as a human-headed bird. It fluttered around during the day and could come and go freely in the tomb, bringing air and food to the deceased. At night, it traveled with Ra.
The Ka was an exact replica of the person, created at birth by the god Khnum and locked within the beating heart until death. The Ka could never leave the tomb and would die if the body wasn't preserved, although in a pinch the Ka could dwell inside a picture of the body on the tomb wall. It could not survive without the food, drink and clothing supplied by relatives. The Ka could wander while a person slept, and could appear to other people. Today, we would think of the Ka as the spirit.
The Akh, also depicted as a bird, was the portion of the soul that made the journey to the underworld. This was the immortal part of the soul that would eventually take its place in the afterlife. It was created ritualistically after death to ensure that one could never die a final death.
Beside these aspects of the soul, one's name and one's shadow were also properties of the self. The name lived as long as it was spoken, and the shadow as long as the body endured.
If a person survived Osiris' judgment of the soul, and the various parts of the soul survived assorted perils of the underworld, one had multiple afterlives in different realms. "
51004 "Army"
51005 " Until the Asiatic Hyksos invaded between the Middle and New Kingdoms, Egypt was isolated by its desert boundaries to the east and west, the cataracts of the Nile to the south, and the Mediterranean to the north. The danger of dying abroad and being denied the necessary and elaborate funeral preparations dissuaded the Egyptians from becoming invaders. With no fear of invasion or any desire to conquer anybody else, they needed at most a part-time army raised by noblemen during times of civil unrest. In the Old Kingdom, they relied on mercenaries. The few regular soldiers of the Middle Kingdom worked as palace guards, border police and trade ship escorts.
Conservatism kept their weaponry primitive and unchanging over long periods of time. Clubs and stone-headed maces and axes endured as late as the Middle Kingdom, and hammered copper was their best metal for daggers and spearheads. Bronze eventually caught on, and was still favored well into the iron age. The first shields were turtle shells.
Obviously, Menes could not have united the two lands without an army, but his force need not have been too formidable. Egyptian kings after Menes were considered to be acting on behalf of Set and other gods to restore order from the chaos inflicted by Egypt's enemies. Pharaohs are frequently depicted at the forefront of the army, and some records credit the king with winning the battle himself.
The Hyksos changed all that. By the middle of the 18th Dynasty Egypt had a professional army with up-to-date weaponry, including the horse and the chariot, new styles of bronze daggers and swords like the khopesh and compound bows. With military power, Egypt expanded its territory and became the first empire in the region. By the New Kingdom, support from the navy allowed the Egyptians to become downright aggressive.
During peacetime, the army was split into Upper and Lower Egyptian corps, each led by a lieutenant commander and stationed in frontier forts. These commanders reported to a single general, who in turn reported directly to the pharaoh. The king really did lead the army himself in major engagements. The army was organized into infantry and chariot divisions. Most of the manpower was conscripted. Each infantry division, named for a god, had 5,000 men from 20 companies of 250. Companies were subdivided into five platoons of 50 men.
The adventures of the New Kingdom made military service rewarding. A conquering army collects booty and seizes land, both of which make fine incentives for enlistment, and records show that Egyptian soldiers and their officers were well enough compensated to overcome their worries about proper burial. Pharaohs let their men pillage the enemy camp, but expected them to surrender the booty. The king then gave a portion of the loot to temple priests, and another share to deserving soldiers. Foreign mercenaries remained an important component of the army in the New Kingdom. Enemy survivors became prisoners of war, or were enslaved, or drafted into the Egyptian army. Enemy leaders with the sense to surrender had the option to accept the pharaoh as their overlord, and continue to rule.
When an enemy retreated to their fortifications, the Egyptian army laid a patient seige to starve them out. When they decided the enemy was sufficiently weakened, they broke down the gates and scaled the walls. They would tell their enemies which day they planned to attack, and offered to reschedule if that was inconvenient. "
51006 "Bakery"
51007 " Egyptian bread was made from coarse emmer wheat, or from barley, or from a millet grain called durah. Women did most of the grinding to make coarse grain, then men pounded that into a very fine flour. The separated bran was fed to animals. Filtering was crude, so the dough had a lot of sand and fine shards from the grindstone, making it very tough on the teeth. Since most Egyptians ate a lot of bread, they had terrible teeth, and dental diseases often contributed to early death.
Bread dough consisted of flour and water, with some sour dough for leavening. Yeast wasn't used until quite late in Egypt's history. Those who could afford such things mixed oil, herbs, sesame seeds, honey, fruits and other ingredients into the dough to produce quite a few delicious flavors and textures, but the poor got by on plain old flour and water. Dough was left to rise in warm molds, then baked on a covered clay disk in closed ovens. In a pinch, bread could be baked directly on the hot desert sand. Everybody normally made their own bread at home, so large ovens suitable for baking multiple loaves at once weren't developed until the New Kingdom. "
51008 "Baskets"
51009 " Basketry dates to at least 5000 BC in Egypt. Coiled baskets were common through 3000 BC, at which time more refined techniques, like weaving and twining, came into play. Plaiting appeared around 300 BC. Palm leaf and grasses were the most common basket materials. Wooden storage chests were rare and expensive, and houses had no cupboards, so Egyptians who needed someplace to put their possessions used baskets. Their light weight made them ideal for transporting things; peasants carried grain in them, servants used them for bread, and craftsmen filled them with all sorts of raw materials. Pretty much everything dry was carried around in baskets. Most of them were plain, simple and disposable, although some were made durable and attractive with elaborate plaiting, colored materials, handles and reinforcements."
51010 "Beer"
51011 " Traditionally, historians thought that Egyptian beer was made from crumbled barley bread mixed with water, allowed to ferment in the sun, and then mixed with date juice or honey. When archeologists sought clues to its composition based on pottery remnants, they deduced a more complicated process involving malt and emmer wheat, but no evidence of flavorings. They brewed some using their recipe, and got a naturally sweet beverage. Then the Japanese brewer Kirin made up a batch based on instructions painted on a tomb's walls. Theirs turned out dark brown, flat, highly alcoholic and very sour tasting. If Kirin got it right, it must have been an acquired taste. Whatever it was like, all Egyptian beer was microbrewed, and probably as varied as modern craft brews are from one another. Without hops, none of it would have had the bitterness that characterizes almost all modern beers."
51012 "Bricks"
51013 " It's a good thing the Egyptian climate has always been dry, or the mud used for common structures would gradually melt away. While you can make mud bricks that resist weathering, the ancients had little use for sealants, stabilizers or any fancy ingredients or processes. Their bricks were just clay-like mud, mixed with straw or other plant matter in molds, and dried in the sun. With a little upkeep, mudbrick homes could stand for generations. Thick earthen walls eliminated temperature extremes and absorbed sound, resulting in comfortable, quiet interiors. Small, high windows let heat escape during the day and caught cool breezes at night.
Bricks were sometimes fired for additional hardness, but the scarcity of fuel made red baked bricks uncommon. Although we think of adobe brick houses being a bland tan color, many homeowners whitewashed their walls with lime, and those who could afford it painted their walls. Brick sizes were standardized during the Middle Kingdom and manufacturers sometimes pressed their Pharaoh's cartouche into the wet mud, helping archeologists date construction very precisely. "
51014 "Cats"
51015 " The Egyptians may have been the first people to domesticate cats, at least methodically. Dogs took up with us much earlier in the human career, while we were still hunters and gatherers. Cats waited until we settled down and developed agriculture, which incidentally attracted vermin. Early farmers surely noticed the effect of these yellow-and-gray-striped desert cats on rats and mice, and encouraged them to stick around. This probably began around 4000 BC, and was complete 2,000 years later. The cat dozing on your front porch could very likely trace Egyptian ancestors, if it could be bothered to make the effort.
We associate cats with the goddess Bast, but because they threw in their lot with humans comparatively late, cats only acquired religious significance slowly. Egyptians didn't see firm lines between humans, animals and gods, and one can easily imagine divinity in a cat's intense stare. Whatever the details, when the city of Bubastis rose to prominance around 900 BC, its lioness-headed goddess Bastet (who was simply named for the city) gained popularity. It was a small leap from a lioness to a housecat's image, and the contrast between ferocity and playfulness must have intrigued people. Before long, temples to Bast were breeding cats and selling cat mummies as tokens of Bast worship. By the time of the New Kingdom, cats were extremely popular companions, protected from harm by law and custom."
51016 "Chariots"
51017 " The Hyksos invaders introduced chariots to Egypt with great effect. Partly because of the scarcity of quality wood, Egyptian chariots were small and lightweight. The driver stood directly over the axle, giving good balance. Metal sheathing on the axle made the wheels turn easier and more quietly. The lightweight, fast vehicles were well suited to open terrain warfare. Egypt's chariot force was comprised of squads of 25 chariots each, with two men per chariot. One drove, the other fought, armed with a bow and arrows, a shield, a sword and a javelin. Chariot service was initially an elite duty reserved for men from the upper classes, but as the chariot force grew into the thousands, the service opened up somewhat. Egyptian horses, obtained on foreign buying trips and captured from enemies, were too small and weak to support riders, but finely adapted for pulling chariots. Ramesses II experimented with mounted cavalry, but it didn't catch on until much later."
51018 "Clay"
51019 " This soft, easily-molded mineral substance is usually associated with rivers, but can actually be found wherever very find sediment collects. People have used clay since prehistoric times, and it's still found in a surprising variety of applications. Apart from its obvious role in crockery, clay is a major component of most paints and the ceramic components found in all electronic devices - including your computer. Humans and other animals sometimes swallow a variety called kaolin to absorb intestinal water and stop diarrhea."
51020 "Clothing and Linen"
51021 " Cotton, for which Egypt is famous today, was not introduced until Roman times. Ancient Egyptians sometimes wore wool, but their clothes were made from linen at least as early as 5000 BC, and by 3000 BC very high-quality cloths were available. Clothing manufacture was women's work. Egyptian fashions stayed pretty much the same for centuries at a time; men wore a short loincloth something like a kilt, while women wore dresses with shoulder straps. Some unknown fashion designer in the Middle Kingdom lowered hemlines and added a sleeveless shirt or long robe, which was held in place with a belt. The Egyptians weren't very big on sewing.
Wealthy Egyptians cared greatly about their appearance and took great pains to keep their fine white linen garments clean. Laundry day meant washing garments with a castor-oil and saltpeter lye in the river or a canal, beating them dry and bleaching them in the sun, then pleating them with a grooved wooden board. Crocodiles took an interest in laundering, so better-off Egyptians eventually established indoor wash-houses with boilers.
All linen garments were somewhat translucent; the better the cloth, the more transparent were the clothes. Wealthy Egyptians wore the same styles as their poorer counterparts, but with much sheerer material. The poor couldn't afford linen at all, and wore only loincloths. They dressed for comfort, not modesty, and the climate was hot. Children routinely went naked, and servants and slaves wore only rudimentary garments."
51022 "Cosmetics"
51023 " Men, women and children all rimmed their eyes, painted their eyebrows and darkened their lashes with kohl, a black powder derived from a lead ore called galena, mixed with oil and applied with a stick. Green malachite ore, mined for copper, provided another popular eye color. Eye makeup was credited with magical powers and considered important to good health. The dark color reduced solar glare, and the mineral content might have helped fight eye infections. Ochre, a type of clay, provided a reddish blush for the cheeks, and henna dyed their nails and hair a yellow-orange color. Everyone owned a polished silver or copper mirror to aid in applying makeup.
Wigs made from sheep's wool or human hair were worn to parties and official functions as decorative accessories, and as protection from the sun. When Egyptians really wanted to blow out, they wore curly wigs. Both genders kept their real hair pretty short. Young girls wore pigtails, while boys shaved their heads except for a long braided sidelock."
51024 "Economics"
51025 " Common Egyptians had very basic needs: grain for bread and beer, dried fish and vegetables for health, a little linen for clothing and some mud bricks to build shelter. Surpluses could buy a few simple luxuries. What they couldn't obtain directly, they bartered. Grain and oil were the main media of exchange. Using food for money made sense in a land where famines were frequent - you could just eat your savings.
Spoilage was the main problem with stashing one's wealth as food - think of savings always earning negative interest. In fact, people could deposit their grain in government warehouses, then write withdrawal orders to pay their obligations just like bank cheques, but their deposits were charged 10 percent per year to cover wastage. To accumulate any wealth, you needed your own storage facilities. You couldn't hide it or carry it around with you, and measurement was not very exact. With enough trade going on, the relative prices of things were fairly standard, but could be hard to remember. Eventually, it made sense to come up with an abstract accounting method. People still swapped goods directly, but they valued the bartered items in units called deben and kits that stood for standard amounts of copper, silver and gold.
As far back as the Old Kingdom, pharaohs used metal rings of standard weight as currency, but the general populace held very little metal, precious or base. Over time substantial amounts pharaonic gold and silver were entombed with the kings. By the New Kingdom, much of this treasure had been looted and circulated, but not as currency.
Egyptians first started using imported coins in the fifth century BC, and even then the coins were used more as a reference point of standard weight than as a direct means of exchange. Not until Greek mercenaries demanded monetary payment in the fourth century BC did the Eyptians start making coins. Barter didn't really yield to money until the Roman concept of interest payments made it necessary."
51026 "Education"
51027 " Young boys learned a trade or craft from their fathers, or were apprenticed to artisans. Mothers trained their daughters in the home. There's no evidence of formal schools until the Middle Kingdom. Beginning at age 7, boys could learn religion, arithmetic and literacy in formal schools. Girls were schooled only at home, but there was no stigma associated with learning, and determined girls could achieve high social and professional standing. Callings were generally hereditary, but a child didn't inherit his father's profession without working for it.
A collection of ancient documents known as the Books of Instruction show that education went beyond career training to socialize children in ethics, religion and behavioral norms. Justice, folk wisdom, truth, prudence, obedience and humility were all valued not as abstract ideals, but more as practical ways to succeed in society. Virtue would be rewarded with health, long life, prosperity and respect. "
51028 "Entertainment"
51029 " Tomb walls illustrate lots of small-scale, informal recreational activities, many of them centering on the Nile. Fishing, swimming and boating were all popular, and the Egyptians enjoyed a game in which two teams in boats used long poles to push each other into the water. The more adventurous men sometimes hunted hippos and crocodiles.
Although temples held public dramatizations, the Egyptians didn't have large-scale performances like plays and concerts. Mainly, they liked to party. The wealthy often threw bashes for their friends with abundant beer, wine and food and hired singers, acrobats, dancers and musicians to amuse their guests. Egyptian dancers weren't much different from acrobats, being often portrayed in athletic poses like handstands and cartwheels. Servants put an unguent cone of scented grease on partygoers' heads. This gave off a pleasant aroma as it slowly melted and ran down their faces with a cooling effect. Board games like Senet and Hounds & Jackals show that the Egyptians were avid gamers. For more athletic recreation, nobles organized desert hunting expeditions in pursuit of foxes, hares and hyenas.
Priests marked public holidays by carrying a statue of their honored god through the streets. Some more democratic gods, like Bes, let the people lead the celebrations. Most holidays were festive occasions characterized by laughter, chanting, clapping, dancing and lots of food and drink.
The Egyptians were the first great culture with a rich tradition of music and dance. Favorite instruments included the lyre, harp, lute, clappers, drums, cymbals and other percussion devices. Some rhythmic manual labor may have been performed in time to singing and drumming. "
51030 "Families"
51031 " Egyptian families consisted of a husband, who headed the household, a wife, and any number of children. Although they were expected to defer to their fathers and husbands, women could own property, enter business deals and represent themselves legally. Despite being something less than equal to men, wives and mothers were accorded high respect, and women could achieve great power and influence, although they usually had to exercise it through their husbands. They routinely ran family farms and businesses when male members were absent, but more typically worked as entertainers, maids, mourners and perfumers. Noblewomen could become priestesses.
Egyptians treasured children. Those who had difficulty conceiving prayed for help, asked their dead ancestors for intercession, and sought magical help. If all of that failed, they could adopt. Poor women raised kids directly, but better-off families left day-to-day child care to slaves and servants.
Marriages were usually arranged just as children started to enter puberty. Pre-nuptial agreements granted wives an allowance from their husbands, and gave women the right to keep their own property if the marriage ended. Divorce was possible, but rare, and only happened after arbitration failed. Wives got custody of any children, and were free to remarry. Normally, boys inherited their parents' land and girls got the household goods, but families without sons passed everything to the daughters."
51032 "Flax"
51033 " Egyptians rarely used wool, and cotton was unknown in ancient times, which made flax their most important fiber. Flax is a long-stemmed plant resembling a grass with small leaves and blue flowers, standing about two feet high. The first recorded cultivation of flax was in Babylon around 3000 BC, and we know that the Egyptians were using wild flax as early as 5000 BC. Young plants have the best fiber, and men pulled them from the ground whole, before the wheat harvest. Overripe stems were used for mats and rope. Perhaps half the plants were allowed to mature for their seeds, which not only ensured the next generation, but also provided linseed oil for medicines. After the stalks were soaked, beaten apart and dried, women spun flax fiber into the thread that was then woven into linen. "
51034 "Food and Drink"
51035 " Culinary practices are important to every culture, and we know something about the Egyptian diet from funerary goods and tomb paintings. All manner of utensils and vessels have been found in grave sites. Commoners used clay pottery, while the wealthy had dishes made from bronze, silver and gold. Food was cooked in clay ovens and over open fires, using scarce wood for fuel.
Bread was the foundation of the Egyptian diet. Dried barley was baked into bread that could then be broken into pieces and mixed with raw grain in a big jug of water that was left to ferment in the sun. The resulting beer was cloudy with sediment, warm, of uneven quality and immensely popular. Wheat bread was often flavored with sesame seeds, herbs, honey or fruits. Wine, made from all types of fermented fruit, was usually found only at the tables of the wealthy. "
51036 "Fort"
51037 " All of Egypt's temples were built defensibly, if only for the aesthetic. The earliest outright fortifications were city walls. Eventually frontier forts echoing traditional temple designs came to be constructed. They featured simple, massive walls of mudbrick too high to scale easily with a ladder.
In the Old Kingdom, fortifications matched Egypt's natural frontiers: The western desert, the Sinai to the east, the first Nile cataract to the south, and the Mediterranean coast in the north. Walls were laid out with narrow passages, forced changes in direction and open courtyards to maximize attackers' exposure to arrows raining down from on high. By the time of the Middle Kingdom, these same boundaries were more heavily fortified and manned against invaders. The Egyptians expanded southward into Nubia, and built forts down to the Second Cataract. These were used more as offensive bases than defensive barriers, since it was easy enough to skirt them by going a little ways into the desert.
The New Kingdom saw Egyptian expansion into Asia. Not much is known about Egypt's forward fortifications, except that they remained fairly simple at first. The Egyptians didn't encounter elaborate forts until they met the Canaanites, with their stone construction, towers and watery moats. After that, they started building sophisticated designs based on Libyan and other examples."
51038 "Furniture"
51039 " Egyptian furniture was highly prized in ancient times, and fine examples were frequently sent as gifts to neighboring rulers. People slept on beds with wooden frames as early as 3100 BC, although those were sometimes as simple as two tree branches lashed together and covered with mats. By the time of the Old Kingdom, carving and carpentry were both recognizable art forms. Wooden boxes were popular for storing cosmetics and scribes' tools. Huge boxes with carrying poles served as early delivery vans. Tables and chairs of all sizes and shapes still survive, some of them elaborately inlaid with ivory and exotic woods. Round, three-legged stools became ubiquitous in New Kingdom workshops. Typical homes were furnished with a stool or two, boxes full of jewelry and makeup, clothing chests, pottery jars and oil lamps."
51040 "Gods"
51041 " There were several different versions of the origin of Egypt's cosmology. The people of Heliopolis worshiped Amun, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. The people of Hermopolis believed in the paired gods Nun and Naunet, Heh and Hehet, Kek and Keket and Amun and Amunet. When Egypt was united in Memphis, a new creation legend merged the older traditions into a new pantheon. Over the millenia, Egyptians worshiped many scores of gods, among them:
AMUN: The Hidden One, father to the gods, creator of the world, Amun was called by many names and revered as the protector of the poor and the weak. In the Middle Kingdom he was recognized as equivalent to Ra, another creator god, and worshiped as Amun-Ra. By the time of the New Kingdom, he became the one supreme deity, of whom all others were but aspects. He was represented physically as the sun or as a man, but differed from other gods in having a hidden, abstract nature, more of a pure holy essence than a real being. Theoretically, Amen-Ra was the pharaoh's physical father, and the king's power derived from Amun-Ra. In reality, the priesthood of Amun-Ra rivaled and threatened the pharaoh's power. This political struggle was behind Akenaten's famous ill-fated heretical attempt to overthrow Egypt's religious structure.
ANUBIS: The original Lord of the Dead, Anubis embalmed the slain Osiris so that he could live again, and then handed over his throne when the reborn god could not return to the land of the living. It was Anubis who created the Ritual of Life and taught us the Opening of the Mouth, and it is Anubis' face that our priests wear while they prepare the dead for the afterlife. It is Anubis who weighs the heart of the departed on Ma'at's Scales of Truth. It is Anubis who feeds the wicked to the Devourer of Souls and who leads the righteous to the throne of Osiris, which was once his own. And it is Anubis' sacred jackals that prowl the necropolis in the nighttime.
BAST: The daughter of Ra, Bast (or Bastet, as she is often called) protects cats, women and children, and guards secrets. We usually associate her with the friendly domestic cat and look forward to her festival day, but in olden times her vicious, avenging nature was foremost, and people pictured her having a lion's head. Whether from fear of the fiercely protective Bast or from love of the warm and playful Bast, few people would ever think of harming a cat.
The festival of Bast is a really wild time. Party boats covered with flowers carry thousands of drunken men and women (no children allowed!) - singing and clapping, making music and dancing - down the Nile in a flotilla of eroticism. When they near a city, the boats draw near the shore while their heavily perfumed female occupants shout lewd remarks and flash the crowds who turn out for the show. They say more wine gets drunk on the Festival of Bast than during all the rest of the year, and a surprising number of Egyptians are born nine months after the festival.
GEB: The earth god, brother and husband of the sky-god Nut, beneath whom he lives forever. Geb, whose sign is the goose, was the first king of Kemet, the Black Land. The earth itself forms Geb's body, which is why we call it the 'House of Geb'. Earthquakes are his laughter, and the mountains his bones.
HAPI: The river god Hapi was known from prehistoric times in both Upper and Lower Egypt. His name came from the syllable 'hap,' which was probably the name of the Nile itself in deep antiquity. 'The Lord of the Fishes and Birds of the Marshes' provided these animals along with the very river that sustained Egypt. As a fertility god, Hapi was portrayed androgynously as a blue or green figure with a fat belly and a woman's breasts, who wore the false beard of a Pharaoh. Hapi came to Egypt each year with the flood waters. People greeted him with sacrifices, offerings and amulets at sacred places along the Nile. No temples were dedicated specifically to Hapi, but he was so universally revered û at least equal to the sun god Ra - that even the heretic king Akhenaton could not banish his worship.
HATHOR: The cow-headed goddess was sent by Ra to purge the land of disbelievers. When her bloody task was complete, Hathor asked to be released, and became the goddess of love, women and fertility. There are many myths surrounding the goddess Hathor.
HORUS: Born of Isis and Osiris, falcon-headed Horus is the god of the sky. The sun and the moon are his eyes. In olden times Horus ruled Lower Egypt. Before he slew Osiris and fell from grace, Set ruled the Upper Kingdom. After 80 years of battle, Horus finally prevailed over Set and avenged his father's death, clearing the way for the unification of the Two Lands. Pharaoh, who today rules the united Egypt, is the incarnation of Horus. It is his eye that we paint onto our faces as a token of power.
ISIS: Represented by the Ankh, Isis was the wife of Osiris, sister of Nephthys and mother of Horus. The queen of heaven tricked Ra into giving her all of his magical powers, whereupon Isis became the divine sorceress. For her role in resurrecting Osiris, Isis was also the divine mourner.
MA'AT: Eventually, we all enter the Hall of Ma'at, goddess of truth, order and balance. There your heart is weighed against the ostrich feather that Ma'at wears on her head. If you heart is lighter, Horus leads you to meet Osiris, and your eternal life begins. If, on the other hand, your heart is heavy with evil and lies, prepare to meet fearsome Ammut, devourer of souls. Although she is personified as the daughter of Ra and husband of Thoth, Ma'at is mainly a force or principle underlying all reality. This sense of underlying harmony standing against chaos was her most important aspect.
NUT: Arching her body over the earth to form the sky, Nut (or Nuit) was the sister and wife of Geb, the earth god. They were separated when Shu, the god of air, raised Nut up. Every morning Nut gave birth to Ra, the sun god, and every evening she swallowed him up. Nut wore a blue dress spangled with stars.
OSIRIS: The powerful and popular ancient king traveled the land spreading law and order and teaching people to farm. His jealous brother Seth lured him into a coffin, sealed it with lead and sent it down the Nile. When she learned of Osiris' death, Isis, his wife and sister, found her brother's body and brought it back from Lebanon. Before she could give it a proper burial, Seth chopped Osiris into pieces that he scattered throughout Egypt. Isis set about retrieving them, and preserved them with linen bandages. When the body was complete, Osiris arose as a god-king and chose to rule the underworld. This story led to mummification and the Egyptian notion of rebirth. In addition to the dead and the underworld, Osiris was identified with fertility, agriculture, the Nile floods and the rising and setting of the sun.
PTAH: Ptah - the first god, who was never created, but simply is - Ptah brought all things into being just by speaking their names. Builders, architects, sculptors and artists recognize Ptah as their patron. He builds the boats that the souls of the dead use in the afterlife, and he devised the Opening of the Mouth that allows us to live forever.
RA: A living god during daytime who died each night, the sun god Ra or Re was a creator similar to Horus and Amen, and he would in fact eventually merge with those other gods. All life on earth was born from the tears that Ra shed for the beauty of his creation. While Ra ruled the heavens, the pharaoh ruled the earth, making them counterparts. Sun temples honored Ra, to whom no cult statues were erected; rather, his alter was at an obelisk over which the sun rose.
SET: The god of wind and storms, brother of Osiris and Isis, Set (or Seth) was once the Lord of Upper Egypt, counterpart to Horus, who ruled Lower Egypt. When Set's cult lost favor during the human struggle for unification, Set acquired notoriety as the evil god of desert storms, drought and destruction. Red-haired and crimson-eyed, pale-skinned Set is blamed for ending the golden age when Isis and Osiris lived among men and ruled over Egypt.
Set got Osiris drunk and killed him, then stole his throne and Isis, his queen. War and chaos prevailed until Isis retrieved the body of her dead husband, magically resuscitated his soul, and conceived the child Horus. After a convoluted series of events, Horus beat Set in combat, cast him into the underworld and took the throne. Horus still watches over the living in the person of Pharaoh, while his father Osiris takes care of the dead in the next world. All the while, Set battles Horus for revenge, sowing pain and discord through the land whenever he gets the upper hand. In the end days, Horus and Set will battle one last time. Horus will banish Set forever, Osiris will return to the earth, and all the dead will emerge from their tombs to rejoin the living.
SOBEK: Followers of the ancient crocodile god admire Sobek's strength, speed and ferocity - qualities that Pharaoh himself calls upon to overcome adversity. They say that he Sobek created the Nile itself and brings fertility to the land and its people. His worshipers keep tamed, bejeweled crocodiles in temple pools. People understandably have mixed feelings about crocodiles, and many reject Sobek as a dark god, son of Set. These detractors kill his sacred crocodiles, which they believe to be messengers of Set. Sobek bestows sight and senses upon the newly dead. He protects the righteous dead or delivers evil souls to the predations of Set.
THOTH: The ibis-headed god of the moon is the wisest of the gods, and their scribe. He created our reality based upon the sacred geometry. Thoth taught men all of the arts of civilization, from writing to music to astronomy and the calendar. The god of balance and harmony, Thoth figures in all of the most important stories about the gods, and always on the side of goodness and justice. The hidden Book of Thoth contains all the secrets of the gods. This unimaginably powerful source of all magic will bring grief to any human who dares to read it...or maybe make him the most powerful magician the world has ever known. Before the dead can enter the afterlife, their hearts are weighed against a feather of truth. Thoth records the results of these judgments. "
51042 "Government"
51043 " The Nile River Valley was settled over 5,000 years ago, before history began. Gradually, various groups came together under separate governments called the Upper Kingdom and the Lower Kingdom. About 3100 BC, Menes (a.k.a. Narmer), the ruler of Upper Egypt, conquered Lower Egypt, united the kingdoms, built the capital of Memphis and established the first of 30 dynasties that would rule over Egypt. So began the Old Kingdom, which would endure until 2263 BC.
Egypt's king, later called Pharaoh, was the living embodiment of the gods on earth, possessor of the secrets of heaven and earth. Pharaoh's power was absolute and he was completely responsible for all aspects of Egyptian life, from the coming of the annual Inundation to the conduct of trade and diplomacy. The pharaoh owned and controlled all the wealth of the land, which was the basis of his unlimited power. The separation of religion from politics would have been incomprehensible to Egyptians - how could you divide the pharaoh?
This being rather a tall order for one man, Pharaoh appointed a vizier known as the Chief Overseer to put the royal will into effect. This he did by appointing a number of governors, each responsible for one nome. Governors, in turn, relied upon scribes and overseers to supervise and record all the important aspects of common people's daily lives and to settle legal disputes. Egyptian law derived from pharaonic decree and the study of precedent, guided by the concept of ma'at, which meant natural truth, balance, order and justice. Everyone was equal under the law, and peasants' complaints were taken seriously. People in a society without lawyers pleaded their own case. There was no official judiciary system set apart from the rest of government - any official could be called upon to settle a dispute. Sometimes divine oracles had the last word.
Criminal law was a different matter. Minor personal theft was punished by making restitution. Sometimes canings and brandings were meted out. The most severe cases might go to Pharaoh himself, and life sentences to hard labor were common. One of the most heinous crimes, tomb robbing, could result in amputations or even death by impalement, drowning, decapitation or burning alive. When someone committed a crime, the whole family was sometimes exiled or imprisoned. "
51044 "Henna"
51045 " Archeological evidence shows henna being used as a pigment at least 7,000 years ago. The first written confirmation that it was used to decorate people's bodies comes from Persia in 2100 BC. It probably had medicinal, healing and spiritual uses beyond simple adornment. Unlike tattoos, henna decorations are painted onto the surface of the skin, which absorbs the dye deeply enough to make a stain that usually lasts for about a month. The natural color ranges from bright red to pure yellow, but henna is often mixed with other substances to get colors ranging from black to greens and blues. "
51046 "Houses"
51047 " Homes were built from sun-dried mud bricks covered with plaster, like adobe. In a land where rain never falls, this material was very durable without being fired or treated in any way, although it eventually crumbled from age. New homes were built on the hillocks formed by the old. Commoners lived in two- to three-storey townhouses. The first floor usually housed a business, with living space on the floors above. The rooms had small windows near the ceiling and stayed cool most of the time. In the hottest weather, people often slept on their roofs to catch the night breeze. They cooked on the roof, too. Egyptians had no plumbing or sanitation systems, so sewage was dumped into a pit, into the river, or just into the street.
Noblemen's houses had a reception area for entertaining, a hall, and the private quarters. The first floor was the working area where business was conducted and servants lived. The main living quarters were on the second and third floors. Mats covered windows and doors to keep out flies, dust and heat. Floors were usually tiled, and the walls were decorated with tasteful leather wall hangings. Sometimes nobles adapted the common practice of sleeping on the roof by adding a room with only three walls and no ceiling."
51048 "The Inundation"
51049 " The fertile strip of floodplain was called 'The Black Land.' The desert on the fringes of the floodplain, where the Egyptians made their homes, was known as 'The Red Land.'"
51050 "Jewelry"
51051 " All Egyptians, rich and poor, male and female, wore rings, necklaces and ear studs - not just for decoration, but for the practical need to ward off evil spirits and protect themselves from injury. Most people added arm bands, bracelets and anklets as well. Wealthy citizens were distinguished by their gold, silver or electrum (a gold/silver alloy) jewelry with turquoise, carnelian and lapis lazuli stones. Commoners contented themselves with brightly colored beads most of the time, but even they wore copper or faience (made from powdered quartz) on occasion."
51052 "Kohl"
51053 " One instantly recognizable characteristic of ancient Egyptians is their exaggerated eye makeup, which is drawn on with a black substance called kohl. The style with the long line extending past the corner of the eye was actually used to depict gods and kings during the Old Kingdom, and wasn't a popular affectation. Egyptian women used kohl to make their eyes appear larger, and to make the whites look brighter, but all Egyptians used eye makeup for various health benefits, not the least of which was moisturizing the delicate skin around the eyes.
It's somewhat ironic that kohl was used to promote health, since it's made from galena (lead ore), but its protective action probably outweighed the more subtle effects of lead poisoning. Egyptians kept theirs in small, ornate boxes and applied it daily with a moistened stick. The kohl used today is usually made from powdered antimony or various types of soot, although genuine lead kohl can still be found."
51054 "Khopesh"
51055 " Resembling a cross between a sword and a farmer's sickle, the base of a khopesh blade is straight near the handle for the strength you want in a charging thrust, then curves through most of its length to maximize the edge available for better slashing. Putting most of the blade's weight in its forward extremity increases the momentum in each slash and enhances follow-through. There is simply no better all-around killing tool than the Egyptian khopesh. "
51056 "Mats"
51057 " Ancient Egyptians sat on compacted clay floors most of the time, so mats to sit upon were invented very early. Mats of leather or cloth were stretched between frames to make beds. Windows and doors were covered with mats that could be rolled up. Fancy plaiting techniques and colored strands made some mats into works of art that were hung on walls for decoration. Papyrus mats were even used as sails for ships. Mats even factored into early funeral practices, when corpses were laid upon or wrapped in them. "
51058 "Medicine"
51059 " Egyptian funerary practices bestowed a good understanding of anatomy. Egyptian physicians were aware of the circulatory system, although they considered nerves and tendons to be outgrowths of the heart. They knew that the brain controls the body, and healed skulls attest to patients surviving brain surgery as early as 3000 BC. Doctors listened to patients' complaints, examined bodily discharges, and performed other diagnostic methods that would be familiar to doctors today. Injuries and parasitic afflictions were pretty straightforward, but infectious agents were mysterious and disease was blamed on occult forces, which had to be identified and addressed before any physical cure could take place. Wearing amulets featured prominently in this effort. Overall, though, their medicine was much more practical than that of primitive cultures. Average life expectancy was around 35 years.
A number of surviving papyri give us insight into hundreds of ancient Egyptian surgical procedures, skin treatments, digestive remedies, headache cures, gynecological knowledge (including contraception and pregnancy aids) and magical spells for preventing evil influences. Their knowledge of medication was sufficiently advanced that some linguists think the word 'chemistry' derives from 'Kesmet', an ancient name for Egypt. Herbal medicines included myrrh, coriander, fennel, thyme, henna, cumin, juniper, aloe, willow leaves, linseed and castor oil. Onions and garlic were considered health foods and consumed in great quantities. Opium, cannabis, frankincense and imported hashish were used as painkillers.
Sand gets into everything, and wears down teeth. Dental problems were widespread and often contributed to early death. Sugar was practically unknown, though, so those whose enamel didn't abrade away were pretty safe from cavities. A few mummies with false teeth have been found.
Physicians, called sunu, were appointed by the government. Many of them were scribes and priests who could read medical scrolls. Most specialized in particular organs or diseases. Magical physicians called sau coexisted harmoniously with sunu. All doctors were organized and regulated by a bureaucracy headed by the Overseer of Physicians. One outstanding physician named Imhotep was deified as the god of healing. Doctors were trained at houses of life, which were medical libraries attached to temples. Doctors followed a code of ethics, and health care was granted to every citizen. Sick leaves were allowed, and disabled workers could claim a pension. The workday was broken into four morning hours and four afternoon hours, with a meal and nap in between to prevent sunstroke. "
51060 "Monkeys"
51061 " Tribute and trade with other regions in Africa brought a lot of monkeys into Egypt. People found them amusing, and kept them as pets. Monkeys were frequently mummified upon death, although not with the same level of care that was given to human bodies. Thoth, the god of handwriting, was sometimes represented as a monkey, and a variety of baboon called Hamadryus was sacred to him. The most common monkeys found in Egypt were olive baboons. Vervets and tailless barbary macaques were also imported."
51062 "Mummification"
51063 " It took about 70 days to properly prepare a body for the afterlife. If the process was done incorrectly or not at all, the soul died, because some parts of the soul could not survive without the physical body. The head priest that oversaw the ritual wore the mask of Anubis, who prevented the priests from making any errors that might condemn the deceased to wander the world forever.
The first incision was made with a flint knife. The intestines, lungs, liver and stomach were removed and stored in canopic jars, normally carved from alabaster and covered with inscriptions. The brain was thrown away and the head filled with resin. The heart had to be left in the body for Anubis to weigh. All body parts were preserved with spices and dried with a salt mixture called natron. When everything was properly processed, the body was wrapped with linen. Protective amulets were inserted, and a death mask was placed on the head."
51064 "Myrrh"
51065 " What was once a precious luxury is commonly available today. Myrrh is just dried tree sap from Somalia and Ethiopia, ground up and made into incense. The harvester cuts the bark of a particular species of tree or bush and lets it bleed. The sap is allowed to harden right on the tree's bark, which doesn't take long in the dry climate. Along with the closely-related substance frankincense, myrrh has long enjoyed a mystical association with physical and spiritual health. In reality, there is some weak evidence that it might help prevent gingivitis and cure the parasitic disease schistosomiasis, but no real support for claims of efficacy against canker sores, the common cold and various other conditions. "
51066 "Navy"
51067 " The navy's main mission was transporting troops and supplies over long distances and serving as mobile operations bases. A large transport could carry as many as 250 soldiers. Naval warfare was rare. The army and navy were seen as the same force. Pharaoh Sahure built the first real, sea-going Egyptian navy in 2450 BC using good cedar timbers and Phoenician know-how. In fact, most ships were built in Byblos as that city's annual tribute. The main Egyptian naval base was at Memphis. They built coastal bases as they conquered Phoenician harbors, using the rersources of each to support the invasion of the next.
Around 1200 BC, a wave of invasions from the eastern Mediterranean prompted additional nautical redesigns. Depictions of ships from Ramesses III's time show that Egyptian craft were now designed primarily for war. With elevated fore and aft decks for archers and spearmen, raised bulwarks for crew protection and a ram projecting above the waterline, they looked much the same as the vessels of other regional civilizations. Maneuverability also improved. In fact, the need to maneuver the comparatively tight confines of the Nile gave Egyptian sailors a competitive advantage in open waters as well.
Sailors had a rougher life than other soldiers, and enjoyed some compensations for that. Besides getting a share of the booty, they were exempted from taxes and could earn rewards of gold for bravery."
51068 "Perfume"
51069 " The Egyptians did not use perfume to mask body odors resulting from poor hygiene; daily bathing was so important to them that wealthy Egyptians devoted a room in their homes to the practice. Servants poured jugs of water over the bathers to rinse off a creamy soap made from oil, lime and perfume; waste water drained through a pipe into the household garden. Common people bathed in the river or from a basin at home.
Oil or fat was mixed in a pot with flowers and aromatic woods and left to absorb their scents. After bathing, people oiled themselves to keep their skin moist. Myrrh, one rare odorant, is a dried tree resin indigenous to present-day Somalia. It was highly prized in the ancient world. Flowers from the henna plant, better known for the dye made from its leaves, also made a sweet-smelling perfume."
51070 "Police"
51071 " Egyptian police were not part of the army or navy. They were guardians of law-abiding communities, enforcing the will of the gods and protecting the weak from the strong. They banished troublemakers and enforced tax collection. Nonpayment brought a good, thorough beating by the police. Police patrols on desert frontiers used trained dogs to track down nomads and escaped prisoners. Eventually, most cops were drawn from Nubian nomads called the Medjay."
51072 "Pottery"
51073 " Simple pottery dates way back before the building of the first pyramids. Just as baskets were used to carry everything dry, so was pottery used to transport every type of liquid. Simple, unadorned red or yellow clay, sometimes polished and sometimes not, was the disposable bottle of the ancient world. Women made most of it, and contemporary accounts tell us that it was hot, dirty work. Potter's wheels enabled production to increase during the Old Kingdom, when kilns also became more refined. Amphorae ranged in size from three-inch oil or perfume jars to four-foot containers for water, wine, oil or grain. Cellars contained an immense cask that the Greeks called pithos; used for storing meats and similar provisions, it could be up to six feet in diameter.
By 2000 BC, the Egyptians had developed the art of covering their pottery with hard enamel, which adds not just a refined appearance, but great durability. Such glazed vessels were often decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings. So stable are enameled pieces that artifacts dating back 3,000 years still retain their original, deep colors. Enamelled bits of pottery were used as tile inlays. Egyptian potters especially liked to work in blues and white.
Pottery was as important to Egyptians in death as it was during their lives. Canopic jars that stored the deceased's internal organs were usually made of stone, but could be of pottery. Burial goods were commonly stored in pottery vessels painted with hieroglyphic legends - in fact, there's so much standardization between tombs that potters probably kept certain styles in stock for this purpose. Cones of pottery built into tomb walls were inscribed with the name of the deceased and details of his life.
Much of what we know of Egyptian history, and especially regional differences and trade patterns, comes from studying pottery and shards."
51074 "Priests and Temples"
51075 " Priests in ancient Egypt were respected professionals, integral to the daily functioning of mainstream society. Most were born to their positions or appointed directly by the pharaoh, who was, after all, a god himself. Most were male, but some cults favored priestesses. As time went on, Egypt's temples accumulated, and its priestly class grew to number in the thousands.
Such a large class required an elaborate organizational hierarchy. Priests rotated from one position to another, and into and out of the general populace, on regular schedules. High priests, generally elderly, advised the pharaoh and oversaw all of their temple's rites and ceremonies. The specialized time-keepers and astrologers who reported to the high priest decided when crops were planted, when the Inundation would come and the daily routine of the temple itself.
Beneath these temple officials were the lay priests who provided healing, magical spells and talismans and practical advice to the common people. These magicians all belonged to a large, non-denominational temple called The House of Life. Although this facility was accessible to all, its inner mysteries were closely guarded secrets. Their powerful magic posed great potential danger to the priesthood, the pharaoh and Egypt itself. The importance of writing such scrolls, records, rites and decrees conveyed great status on scribes, who passed with equal ease among the temple and palace elites.
Priests kept fastidiously clean to remain pure enough to clothe and feed their god, washing several times a day in sacred pools and plucking all of their body hair, often going wigless. Leather sandals and woolen garments were forbidden to priests. They didn't eat fish, which was considered peasant food.
Temples themselves were more than mere houses of worship. Their focus was primarily inward, on caring for the god who dwelled within, and only secondarily on projecting the god's influence out into the population as modern churches do. Access to the inner sanctuary was strictly controlled. Mortuary temples tended the needs of a dead king, and other specialized temples filled all sorts of social functions. Often large and imposing, they served as defensive positions, government offices and royal retreats. They owned land and livestock and received large donations to support large numbers of priests and workers."
51076 "Sandals"
51077 " People usually went barefoot and carried their sandals, wearing them only when needed or on ceremonial occasions. The sandals were usually made of palm fiber or braided papyrus. Around 300 BC, more comfortable pleated sandals became all the rage. Leather footwear was also common. Among King Tutankhamen's 93 pairs of shoes were some wooden ones with his enemies painted on the soles, so that he trod upon them with every step. Golden pairs were found, too. King Tut must have been happy to kick those off at the end of the day."
51078 "Sculpture"
51079 " As with other aspects of Egyptian culture, sculpture changed only slowly over vast spans of time. Early conventions show influences from such prehistoric traditions as African fertility fetishes and animal figures. The art of the predynastic period and into the Old Kingdom was rigid, unnatural, squared-off and lacking in detail. As time passed, sculpture gradually became more delicate, detailed and graceful. Although we often see Egyptian statues as dull, they were typically painted in many rich colors.
Statuary was always made with a religious purpose in mind, usually by men, and usually for display in a temple or tomb. Figures were meant to demonstrate power and order rather than realism or aesthetic beauty, although sculptors did try to capture a person's likeness in an idealized way. These were always made from hard stones, intended to last for eternity. Limestone, which is comparatively soft but hardens with exposure to air, was a favorite material. Statues of Pharaoh were always larger than life. Scribes and other educated officials were life-sized, while peasants were smaller and were always shown working.
Sculptures of kings are always posed either sitting or walking. They are always young, with perfectly proportioned bodies. The object was not to depict the pharaoh's likeness, but rather to project his divine essence. Lesser government officials lacked divinity; the same sculptural conventions applied to them, but some personal characteristics like body type and age could be worked into their statues, so that they became rudimentary likenesses.
Sculptors also created small figurines from more easily worked materials like wood, ivory, metals and semi-precious stones. Cats were a favorite subject. Most homes had a statue in which their household god lived.
New sculptures went through a ritual process, after which they were imbued with life, and could stand in for a living person. Small statues called ushabti, found in huge numbers, represented servants who were supposed to server their masters in the afterlife. The ka of the dead could dwell in a statue, enabling the departed to enjoy food offerings left by the living even if their mummy was damaged."
51080 "Ships and shipbuilding"
51081 " The placid, wide Nile motivated prehistoric river peoples to build papyrus reed boats back in the Paleolithic era, or Old Stone Age. Fragile, simple reed rafts gradually led to substantial, sickle-shaped hulls with masts and even deckhouses. Egyptians are credited with building the world's first plank boats, remains of which have been found in Old Kingdom tombs.
Since the river current ran south to north, and the wind usually blew north to south, travel in either direction was pretty easy. Wooden barges, rowed or towed, carried heavy stone blocks long distances. The Roman historian Pliny wrote that obelisks, which could weigh hundreds of tons, were moved using two boats connected side-by-side with poles. They weighed the ships down with blocks of granite to lower the hulls, then floated the catamaran-like configuration under the obelisk. When they removed the granite blocks, one by one, the hulls rose under the obelisk and floated it free.
Pleasure yachts had multiple decks with lounges, kitchens, dining rooms and private cabins.
Ships weren't built in the modern way, with a skin attached to an underlying frame. Instead, the hull was built from the outside in. Hull planks were cut from the brittle local acacia wood into short, irregular shapes that fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. Each plank had shallow, V-shaped holes called mortises cut into its inner surface (these holes didn't go all the way through). The hull planks to be thick enough to carve these holes without penetrating to the outside, and that made them them hard to bend into shape. Instead of pegs or metal fasteners, ropes threaded through the mortises held the whole ship together, and reeds were used to caulk the joints. After the hull was built, ribs and crossbeams were added to reinforce the shape, and then tension from ropes made the whole assembly rigid.
Pharaoh Sahure built the first real, sea-going Egyptian navy in 2450 BC using good cedar timbers and Phoenician know-how. Crews on both warships and merchant ships were large, as rowing was the primary propulsion. With no keel for attachment, masts could not be made strong enough to support more than a single square sail, and ancient ships couldn't tack into the wind. Wind was only an auxilliary power source.
By the time of Hatshepsut, 1,000 years later, Egyptian ships were faster, more graceful, stronger and more easily built. They grew in size to 90 feet long. Voyages grew longer and cargoes heavier as seagoing trade with Punt, Cyprus and Asia Minor reached great volume. "
51082 "Time"
51083 " The Egyptians were not big on dates. They had a 365-day calendar based on the appearance of Sirius that apparently began in 4236 BC, and their grasp of astronomy was at least as good as any other ancient people's. Their lives, though, were ruled by the pulse of the Nile, and their calendar revolved around the Inundation. They divided the year into three seasons of four months each: akhet, from June 21 to October 21, brought the flood; peret, from October 21 to February 21, was for planting and growing; shemu, from February through June, was harvest time. This cycle governed Egyptian life.
For administrative purposes, the year was broken into 12 months of 30 days each, with a 5-day holiday period at the end. They dealt with the leap year problem by instituting three overlapping calendars. The civil calendar was just allowed to drift over time, lagging the solar calendar by one day every four years. Just as a broken clock shows the right time twice a day, Egypt's government calendar came back into sync every 1,460 years - when your civilization is as old as Egypt's, you can wait; they called this span of time a 'Sothis Period'. A separate calendar based on the rising of the star Sirius (Sothis) governed the agricultural seasons, and some religious cults followed a lunar calendar. They didn't adopt our modern leap year gimmick until Caesar Augustus reformed their calendar in 30 BC.
With a cyclical year and remarkably little change over time, the Egyptians didn't have a strong sense of time's linear passage, or see much reason to number the years sequentially, which is ironic given the long duration of their culture. Years were identified according to a biennial census of cattle, and the ruler's name - 'the fourth counting of Ramses', for example. Egyptian history is broken into dynasties based upon ruling families, which are grouped into eras based on grand historical events. There is plenty of disagreement about specific years, and the dates given below are a compromise among several sources.
5000-3100 BC Predynastic
3100-2950 BC Late Predynastic
2950-2575 BC Early Dynastic
1st-3rd Dynasties
2575-2250 BC Old Kingdom
4th-8th Dynasties
2250-2060 BC 1st Intermediate Period
9th-11th Dynasties
2060-1780 BC Middle Kingdom
11th-14th Dynasties
1780-1550 BC 2nd Intermediate Period
15th-17th Dynasties
1550-1075 BC New Kingdom
18th-20th Dynasties
1075- 700 BC 3rd Intermediate Period
21st-25th Dynasties
700 - 332 BC Late Period
20th-30th Dynasties "
51084 "Tombs"
51085 " A simple hole in the sand was fine for common people without hope of eternal life, but Egyptians of stature needed more. Their mummy had to remain safe through the ages if the ka portion of the soul was to survive, and of course the akh needed a good supply of funerary goods in the afterlife.
'Mastaba', the Arabic word for 'bench' describes the appearance of the earliest tombs - rectangular brick buildings with a flat roof and sloping sides, not unlike a common Egyptian house. The first mastabas, from around 3500 BC (dating is imprecise), were simple heaps of brick built over a shaft, at the bottom of which was the tomb. Eventually mastabas included shrines, courtyards and offeratory tables for the dead. Nobles continued to be interred in mastabas long after the pharaohs had progressed to pyramids. The inside walls were adorned with carvings and paintings depicting the everyday life of the deceased, along with ritualistic images that would serve him in the afterlife. There are thousands of mastabas scattered around Egypt.
Imhotep, the royal physician-priest who would become a god, convinced Pharaoh Djoser around 2750 BC that only a mastaba of stone, rather than brick, would suit the king's greatness. Djoser obviously agreed that his magnificence justified the considerable logistical challenge of assembling that much stone, to the probable chagrin of the people of Saqqara. The underground burial chamber mimicked Djoser's palace. The structural strength of stone let Imhotep pile one mastaba atop another. After six levels, he achieved the shape that Egyptians recognized as the mound of creation. The first stepped pyramid was faced with limestone, which made an impression like no previous tomb as it shone in the sun.
Djoser's stepped pyramid inspired all of the royal tombs that would follow in the ensuing 1,000 years, although very few ever used the stepped design again. Snefru built the first true pyramid at Medum by filling in the ledges of a stepped pyramid with stone, then encasing the whole edifice in limestone. At Bahshur, a pyramid that was planned with smooth sides, but structural considerations changed the angle of incline about halfway up, resulting in the 'bent pyramid.' Another great pyramid, at Dashur, got a squat appearance from too-shallow angles. All of these tombs look wrong to the modern eye.
Only 150 years after Djoser, Snefru's son King Khufu commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, the ultimate expression of Egypt's monumental tomb architecture. Its 2.3 million stone blocks weigh up to 15 tons apiece. Egyptians told Heroditus in the 5th century BC that 100,000 men worked three months a year for 20 years to build this pyramid, but they were probably just trying to impress the Greek historian. After all, the pyramid was already over 2,500 years old by then. Scholars today figure it was more like 20-30,000 men working for nearly 30 years. Most of them were unskilled farmers working, without coercion, during the Inundation for generous rations, the glory of Egypt and a shot at immortality, under the direction of skilled professionals who worked year-round. There is no evidence that slaves were used to any extent.
Nobody after Khufu could muster such resources again, and later Old Kingdom pyramids got smaller and less elaborate. During the Middle Kingdom, most pyramids reverted to mud brick, which didn't survive very well. The inside designs became more complex again to deter tomb robbers. Nothing advertises the presence of a chamber full of riches quite like an enormous pyramid, and the impossibility of keeping away thieves explains why Egyptian kings came to prefer secret tombs cut into rock cliffs. By the New Kingdom, only some small pyramids continued to be built atop funeral chapels.
Pyramids were the centerpieces of building complexes that included temples, causeways, chapels, lesser tombs and other structures. Wives and servants who died after a king were buried near him."
51086 "Trade"
51087 " Everyone lived close to the Nile, and most of Egypt's traffic moved upon its surface. Markets were usually set up at quays. Farm families sold raw foods like grain, vegetables, birds and cattle, as well as processed goods like beer, oil, linen, bread and wine. Sailors would stock up on abundant or underpriced items and sell them in other cities for a profit.
Royal emissaries arranged foreign trade. Seagoing vessels couldn't carry huge cargoes, and packaging was quite bulky. "
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;51090 "Obelisks"
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;51092 "Scribes"
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<CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,link=68>
1. <People don't move into houses,link=8>
2. <Buildings aren't being built,link=7>
3. <Food problems,link=9>
4. <Prestige problems,link=10>
5. <Satisfaction problems,link=379>
6. <Household wares and shopping problems,link=314>
7. <Service problems,link=315>
"
52002 "Buildings aren't being built"
52003 " <Private homes,link=26> such as farmhouses, servants' shacks, townhouses, and shops are not built by bricklayers, and do not require government bricks. They are constructed by their future occupants - if these homes aren't being built, it's because there is no one to move into them. See Problems and Solutions: <People don't move into houses,link=8>
CHECK BRICKS
Most government buildings, however, are made of brick (hold the mouse over any building button to see how many bricks it requires). For these buildings, first check the <Bricks Indicator,link=274> near the bottom of the screen to see if you have enough bricks:
<img=274>
I HAVE BRICKS
If you have a fair amount of bricks, make sure you have <bricklayers,link=12> to transport and lay the bricks to construct the building. If you don't have enough, make more houses for them, preferably near the construction site.
I DON'T HAVE BRICKS
If you don't have enough bricks, you need more <brick makers,link=33>. Build some homes for them, known as 'brickworks', preferably near construction sites, but not too far from a source of <clay,link=34> and <rushes,link=134> or <papyrus reeds,link=237>. Homes for brick makers and bricklayers do not themselves require bricks to construct.
I HAVE BRICKS AND BRICKLAYERS
If you have a lot of bricks AND a lot of bricklayers, make sure the bricks (and preferably the bricklayers too) are near the intended construction site(s). Even with both bricks and bricklayers, construction takes time, especially if you've placed a lot of buildings and brickmakers need to transport bricks over a large distance. More brick makers and bricklayers (located appropriately) will speed things up, if your city has enough food to support them (see <There isn't enough food,link=9>). Select any appropriate construction site to see if any bricks have been transported there by bricklayers."
52004 "People don't move into houses"
52005 " If government homes are not being constructed, see Problems and Solutions: <Buildings aren't being built,link=7>. For private homes, and government homes that are already constructed, however, this is the place.
There are four main reasons a newly-designated home will not be occupied:
- There is no one available to move in
- You cannot support any more members of that occupational group
- Existing members of the occupational group are very dissatisfied
- Migration takes time
Select the construction site and consult the <Selected Item,link=192> area to see what the problem is. Hold the mouse pointer over any text you see there to get more detailed information.
NO ONE AVAILABLE TO MOVE IN
People only move up the social ladder one rung at a time.
-The native <villagers,link=24> of the area, and <vagrants,link=23> can only move into <peasant,link=80> homes
-Only peasants (<farmers,link=14>, <servants,link=20>, <laborers,link=15> and <soldiers,link=74>) move into middle-class homes (<household wares shops,link=264>, <entertainers' homes,link=13> and <government craftsmen's homes,link=301>)
-Only elite immigrants can move into <townhouses,link=21>
-Only <graduates,link=70> or existing <educated workers,link=150> can move into the homes of <priests,link=18>, <scribes,link=19>, <overseers,link=17> and <commanders,link=11>
When you begin a city, for example, your shops will go unbuilt and unoccupied until you have some peasants (usually farmers or servants) to move into them.
OCCUPATIONAL LIMITS
Farmhouses and Estates
If your new farmhouses are not getting built and occupied, it's probably because your current <estates,link=153> cannot support any more farmers. Farmers must be managed by nobles, who run private from their townhouses. The <People Report,link=180> shows the maximum number of farmers that can be managed by your current estates. If you've reached your current limit, the easiest way to remedy this is to grant some more estates, but designating some <townhouses,link=21>. As nobles enhance their townhouses, their estates will grow, allowing them to support even more farming families. Your <palace,link=16> also supports some farms on its estate.
Prestige and Educated Workers
Your <prestige,link=84> limits how many educated workers respect your leadership sufficiently to serve you. Check the <Prestige Indicator,link=273> to see where you stand:
<img=24>
DISSATISFACTION PREVENTS OCCUPANCY
If existing members of an occupational group (including noblemen) are <dissatisfied,link=83> with their lives, others may not wish to join them. The <People Report,link=180> shows you how each group is feeling. Hold your pointer over the colored indicator for more detailed information. Meet people's needs for bread, wares and such services as healthcare and the ability to worship to prevent dissatisfaction from bringing city growth to a halt.
BE PATIENT
It takes time for families to choose a new house, pack up their things and move - especially if they're immigrating from outside the city. This is particularly true with noblemen, who often must travel long distances to reach the new townhouses you've designated for them. Maybe you just need to give people time to <relocate,link=279>."
52006 "Food Problems"
52007 " Farmers and nobles get their food directly from the harvest, while <shopkeepers,link=264> earn theirs by selling their wares to other people. Your government <taxes,link=91> noblemen for its food stores, which are used to pay all your workers, giving them food to eat, and to spend.
First check the <Food Indicator,link=274> to see how much food you have.
I HAVE FOOD, BUT MY WORKERS AREN'T GETTING IT
The <Food Indicator,link=274> shows you how much food is stored in your <granaries,link=30> and <bakeries,link=29>. Government workers can only get food from bakeries, however, and not from granaries. If you have enough food, but it's not getting to your workers, you probably need more bakeries. Make sure they are located near the homes of those who will acquire food from them.
I DON'T HAVE FOOD
If you don't have enough food, you need to grow more food, do a better job of collecting taxes, or both. Check <threshing areas,link=31> after the harvest to see if a lot of food is being harvested. Also consult the <Food Ledger,link=188> to see how much food has been harvested. If food production is low, you need to grow more food.
FOOD PRODUCTION IS LOW
A big city needs a lot of <farmers,link=14> to feed everyone, and <estates,link=153> to manage the farmers. Make sure you have a lot of farmers, and <townhouses,link=21> to house the nobles who support them. Some farmers are managed by royals in the <palace,link=16>. Look at the <People Report,link=180> to see how many farming families can be managed by your current estates. Designate more townhouses, more farmhouses, or both. If/when you are producing enough food, you still may need better tax collection.
FOOD PRODUCTION IS OK - I NEED BETTER TAX COLLECTION
Without <scribes,link=19> to monitor the crops and collect <taxes,link=91> little gets paid into your bakeries. Tax food is automatically distributed among bakeries after harvest. Consult the <Resources Report,link=180> to see if your scribes are able to adequately monitor estate fields. Maybe you've got more priests than you need, but too few scribes.
If you've done everything right, be patient. Crops are only <harvested,link=28> once a year, just before the flood comes in."
52008 "Prestige problems"
52009 " Having a nice <palace,link=16> is one way to gain respect. Impressive <monuments,link=78> also raise your status. Usually, only the first building of each type impresses people - a second colossal statue of yourself isn't as impressive as the first one.
What have you achieved in the <world,link=317> lately? Your prestige declines naturally as the years go by, when your accomplishments are no longer as fresh in people's minds. Some sites, and <cultural achievements,link=135> outside of your city raise your prestige. These vary from one scenario to the next - consult your world map to see what you can do. Often, you reap rewards for sending an expedition on a special mission. Sometimes, you can commemorate an accomplishment by spreading <propaganda,link=185> by building an obelisk or stele. Your prestige rises over time as news of your accomplishment spreads."
52010 "Satisfaction problems"
52011 " If the <City Satisfaction Indicator,link=272> is getting you down, and it seems impossible to keep all your people happy all the time, solve <satisfaction,link=83> problems one household at a time. Open the <People Report,link=180>. Choose the <occupation,link=176> with the reddest indicator. Click on the name of that occupation to select all of the homes in the city that belong to it. They all have one of these above them:
<img=49>
Find one of the houses with the reddest flag, and click on it. The top portion of the <Selected Item,link=192> display shows up to eight icons representing problems that this household experienced in the recent past. The brighter the icon, the more recently their complaint occurred, the worse the complaint was - or both! This <Family Satisfaction,link=275> information lets you set about correcting each household's complaints, one at a time, and get rid of those angry red indicators.
For fixing specific satisfaction problems, see:
<food problems,link=9>
<household wares and shopping problems,link=314>
<service problems,link=315>
"
;52998 "xxx"
;52999 "xxx"
;53000 "xxx"
;53001 "xxx"
;********************************************60001- 60015 WORSHIP AND GODS TO WORSHIP********************************
60001 "Worship"
60002 "Hathor"
60003 "Anubis"
60004 "Thoth"
60005 "Amun"
60006 "Hapi"
60007 "Set"
60008 "Ptah"
60009 "Bast"
60010 "Osiris"
60011 "Isis"
60012 "Sobek"
60013 "Horus"
60014 "Ma'at"
60015 "Ra"
;70000's Roman Numerals
70000 "0"
70001 "I"
70002 "II"
70003 "III"
70004 "IV"
70005 "V"
70006 "VI"
70007 "VII"
70008 "VIII"
70009 "IX"
70010 "X"
70011 "XI"
70012 "XII"
70013 "XIII"
70014 "XIV"
70015 "XV"
70016 "XVI"
70017 "XVII"
70018 "XVIII"
70019 "XIX"
70020 "XX"
70021 "XXI"
70022 "XXII"
70023 "XXIII"
70024 "XXIV"
70025 "XXV"
70026 "XXVI"
70027 "XXVII"
70028 "XXVIII"
70029 "XXIX"
70030 "XXX"
70031 "XXXI"
70032 "XXXII"
70033 "XXXIII"
70034 "XXXIV"
70035 "XXXV"
70036 "XXXVI"
70037 "XXXVII"
70038 "XXXVIII"
70039 "XXXIX"
70040 "XL"
70041 "XLI"
70042 "XLII"
70043 "XLIII"
70044 "XLIV"
70045 "XLV"
70046 "XLVI"
70047 "XLVII"
70048 "XLVIII"
70049 "XLIX"
70050 "L"
70051 "LI"
70052 "LII"
70053 "LIII"
70054 "LIV"
70055 "LV"
70056 "LVI"
70057 "LVII"
70058 "LVIII"
70059 "LIX"
70060 "LX"
70061 "LXI"
70062 "LXII"
70063 "LXIII"
70064 "LXIV"
70065 "LXV"
70066 "LXVI"
70067 "LXVII"
70068 "LXVIII"
70069 "LXIX"
70070 "LXX"
70071 "LXXI"
70072 "LXXII"
70073 "LXXIII"
70074 "LXXIV"
70075 "LXXV"
70076 "LXXVI"
70077 "LXXVII"
70078 "LXXVIII"
70079 "LXXIX"
70080 "LXXX"
70081 "LXXXI"
70082 "LXXXII"
70083 "LXXXIII"
70084 "LXXXIV"
70085 "LXXXV"
70086 "LXXXVI"
70087 "LXXXVII"
70088 "LXXXVIII"
70089 "LXXXIX"
70090 "XC"
70091 "XCI"
70092 "XCII"
70093 "XCIII"
70094 "XCIV"
70095 "XCV"
70096 "XCVI"
70097 "XCVII"
70098 "XCVIII"
70099 "XCIX"
70100 "C"
;=== 80000 - 90000 Proper names & Family History
80000 "family"
80001 "New first name:"
80002 "New surname:"
80003 "Accept"
80004 "Cancel"
80005 "Rename this family"
80006 "house"
80007 "Family history"
80008 "OK"
80009 "AD"
80010 "BC"
80011 "Rename this person"
80012 "New family name:"
80013 "Accept and close window"
80014 "Cancel (don't change name)"
80015 "Hide family history"
80016 "abode"
80017 "xxx"
80018 "xxx"
80019 "xxx"
80020 "xxx"
80021 "xxx"
80022 "xxx"
80023 "xxx"
80024 "xxx"
80025 "xxx"
80026 "xxx"
;*************80101 to 80600 500 PROPER NAMES - SURNAMES
80101 "Ankhamem"
80102 "Ankhderep"
80103 "Ankhamun"
80104 "Ankhaten"
80105 "Ankhhetset"
80106 "Ankhhotep"
80107 "Ankhkaru"
80108 "Ankhkhens"
80109 "Ankhma'at"
80110 "Ankhkeri"
80111 "Ankhn'sheni"
80112 "Ankhn'djem"
80113 "Ankhuputi"
80114 "Ankhresut"
80115 "Ankhsep"
80116 "Ankhsobek"
80117 "Ankhihy"
80118 "Ankhtefen"
80119 "Ankhruwt"
80120 "Ankh"
80121 "Bahamem"
80122 "Bahderep"
80123 "Bahamun"
80124 "Bahaten"
80125 "Bahhetset"
80126 "Bahhotep"
80127 "Bahkaru"
80128 "Bahkhens"
80129 "Bahma'at"
80130 "Bahkeri"
80131 "Bahn'sheni"
80132 "Bahn'djem"
80133 "Bahuputi"
80134 "Bahresut"
80135 "Bahsep"
80136 "Bahsobek"
80137 "Bahihy"
80138 "Bahtefen"
80139 "Bahruwt"
80140 "Bah"
80141 "Djedamem"
80142 "Djedderep"
80143 "Djedamun"
80144 "Djedaten"
80145 "Djedhetset"
80146 "Djedhotep"
80147 "Djedkaru"
80148 "Djedkhens"
80149 "Djedma'at"
80150 "Djedkeri"
80151 "Djedn'sheni"
80152 "Djedn'djem"
80153 "Djeduputi"
80154 "Djedresut"
80155 "Djedsep"
80156 "Djedsobek"
80157 "Djedihy"
80158 "Djedtefen"
80159 "Djedruwt"
80160 "Djed"
80161 "Gemihamem"
80162 "Gemihderep"
80163 "Gemihamun"
80164 "Gemihaten"
80165 "Gemihhetset"
80166 "Gemihhotep"
80167 "Gemihkaru"
80168 "Gemihkhens"
80169 "Gemihma'at"
80170 "Gemihkeri"
80171 "Gemihn'sheni"
80172 "Gemihn'djem"
80173 "Gemihuputi"
80174 "Gemihresut"
80175 "Gemihsep"
80176 "Gemihsobek"
80177 "Gemihihy"
80178 "Gemihtefen"
80179 "Gemihruwt"
80180 "Gemih"
80181 "Horamem"
80182 "Horderep"
80183 "Horamun"
80184 "Horaten"
80185 "Horhetset"
80186 "Horhotep"
80187 "Horkaru"
80188 "Horkhens"
80189 "Horma'at"
80190 "Horkeri"
80191 "Horn'sheni"
80192 "Horn'djem"
80193 "Horuputi"
80194 "Horresut"
80195 "Horsep"
80196 "Horsobek"
80197 "Horihy"
80198 "Hortefen"
80199 "Horruwt"
80200 "Hor"
80201 "Ikiramem"
80202 "Ikirderep"
80203 "Ikiramun"
80204 "Ikiraten"
80205 "Ikirhetset"
80206 "Ikirhotep"
80207 "Ikirkaru"
80208 "Ikirkhens"
80209 "Ikirma'at"
80210 "Ikirkeri"
80211 "Ikirn'sheni"
80212 "Ikirn'djem"
80213 "Ikiruputi"
80214 "Ikirresut"
80215 "Ikirsep"
80216 "Ikirsobek"
80217 "Ikirihy"
80218 "Ikirtefen"
80219 "Ikirruwt"
80220 "Ikir"
80221 "Kheruamem"
80222 "Kheruderep"
80223 "Kheruamun"
80224 "Kheruaten"
80225 "Kheruhetset"
80226 "Kheruhotep"
80227 "Kherukaru"
80228 "Kherukhens"
80229 "Kheruma'at"
80230 "Kherukeri"
80231 "Kherun'sheni"
80232 "Kherun'djem"
80233 "Kheruuputi"
80234 "Kheruresut"
80235 "Kherusep"
80236 "Kherusobek"
80237 "Kheruihy"
80238 "Kherutefen"
80239 "Kheruruwt"
80240 "Kheru"
80241 "Menuamem"
80242 "Menuderep"
80243 "Menuamun"
80244 "Menuaten"
80245 "Menuhetset"
80246 "Menuhotep"
80247 "Menukaru"
80248 "Menukhens"
80249 "Menuma'at"
80250 "Menukeri"
80251 "Menun'sheni"
80252 "Menun'djem"
80253 "Menuuputi"
80254 "Menuresut"
80255 "Menusep"
80256 "Menusobek"
80257 "Menuihy"
80258 "Menutefen"
80259 "Menuruwt"
80260 "Menu"
80261 "Mutamem"
80262 "Mutderep"
80263 "Mutamun"
80264 "Mutaten"
80265 "Muthetset"
80266 "Muthotep"
80267 "Mutkaru"
80268 "Mutkhens"
80269 "Mutma'at"
80270 "Mutkeri"
80271 "Mutn'sheni"
80272 "Mutn'djem"
80273 "Mutuputi"
80274 "Mutresut"
80275 "Mutsep"
80276 "Mutsobek"
80277 "Mutihy"
80278 "Muttefen"
80279 "Mutruwt"
80280 "Mut"
80281 "Heriamem"
80282 "Heriderep"
80283 "Heriamun"
80284 "Heriaten"
80285 "Herihetset"
80286 "Herihotep"
80287 "Herikaru"
80288 "Herikhens"
80289 "Herima'at"
80290 "Herikeri"
80291 "Herin'sheni"
80292 "Herin'djem"
80293 "Heriuputi"
80294 "Heriresut"
80295 "Herisep"
80296 "Herisobek"
80297 "Heriihy"
80298 "Heritefen"
80299 "Heriruwt"
80300 "Heri"
80301 "Neferamem"
80302 "Neferderep"
80303 "Neferamun"
80304 "Neferaten"
80305 "Neferhetset"
80306 "Neferhotep"
80307 "Neferkaru"
80308 "Neferkhens"
80309 "Neferma'at"
80310 "Neferkeri"
80311 "Nefern'sheni"
80312 "Nefern'djem"
80313 "Neferuputi"
80314 "Neferresut"
80315 "Nefersep"
80316 "Nefersobek"
80317 "Neferihy"
80318 "Nefertefen"
80319 "Neferruwt"
80320 "Nefer"
80321 "Tahetamem"
80322 "Tahetderep"
80323 "Tahetamun"
80324 "Tahetaten"
80325 "Tahethetset"
80326 "Tahethotep"
80327 "Tahetkaru"
80328 "Tahetkhens"
80329 "Tahetma'at"
80330 "Tahetkeri"
80331 "Tahetn'sheni"
80332 "Tahetn'djem"
80333 "Tahetuputi"
80334 "Tahetresut"
80335 "Tahetsep"
80336 "Tahetsobek"
80337 "Tahetihy"
80338 "Tahettefen"
80339 "Tahetruwt"
80340 "Tahet"
80341 "Obenamem"
80342 "Obenderep"
80343 "Obenamun"
80344 "Obenaten"
80345 "Obenhetset"
80346 "Obenhotep"
80347 "Obenkaru"
80348 "Obenkhens"
80349 "Obenma'at"
80350 "Obenkeri"
80351 "Obenn'sheni"
80352 "Obenn'djem"
80353 "Obenuputi"
80354 "Obenresut"
80355 "Obensep"
80356 "Obensobek"
80357 "Obenihy"
80358 "Obentefen"
80359 "Obenruwt"
80360 "Oben"
80361 "Ptahamem"
80362 "Ptahderep"
80363 "Ptahamun"
80364 "Ptahaten"
80365 "Ptahhetset"
80366 "Ptahhotep"
80367 "Ptahkaru"
80368 "Ptahkhens"
80369 "Ptahma'at"
80370 "Ptahkeri"
80371 "Ptahn'sheni"
80372 "Ptahn'djem"
80373 "Ptahuputi"
80374 "Ptahresut"
80375 "Ptahsep"
80376 "Ptahsobek"
80377 "Ptahihy"
80378 "Ptahtefen"
80379 "Ptahruwt"
80380 "Ptah"
80381 "Rekhamem"
80382 "Rekhderep"
80383 "Rekhamun"
80384 "Rekhaten"
80385 "Rekhhetset"
80386 "Rekhhotep"
80387 "Rekhkaru"
80388 "Rekhkhens"
80389 "Rekhma'at"
80390 "Rekhkeri"
80391 "Rekhn'sheni"
80392 "Rekhn'djem"
80393 "Rekhuputi"
80394 "Rekhresut"
80395 "Rekhsep"
80396 "Rekhsobek"
80397 "Rekhihy"
80398 "Rekhtefen"
80399 "Rekhruwt"
80400 "Rekh"
80401 "Sebaamem"
80402 "Sebaderep"
80403 "Sebaamun"
80404 "Sebaaten"
80405 "Sebahetset"
80406 "Sebahotep"
80407 "Sebakaru"
80408 "Sebakhens"
80409 "Sebama'at"
80410 "Sebakeri"
80411 "Seban'sheni"
80412 "Seban'djem"
80413 "Sebauputi"
80414 "Sebaresut"
80415 "Sebasep"
80416 "Sebasobek"
80417 "Sebaihy"
80418 "Sebatefen"
80419 "Sebaruwt"
80420 "Seba"
80421 "Shepsamem"
80422 "Shepsderep"
80423 "Shepsamun"
80424 "Shepsaten"
80425 "Shepshetset"
80426 "Shepshotep"
80427 "Shepskaru"
80428 "Shepskhens"
80429 "Shepsma'at"
80430 "Shepskeri"
80431 "Shepsn'sheni"
80432 "Shepsn'djem"
80433 "Shepsuputi"
80434 "Shepsresut"
80435 "Shepssep"
80436 "Shepssobek"
80437 "Shepsihy"
80438 "Shepstefen"
80439 "Shepsruwt"
80440 "Sheps"
80441 "Udjaamem"
80442 "Udjaderep"
80443 "Udjaamun"
80444 "Udjaaten"
80445 "Udjahetset"
80446 "Udjahotep"
80447 "Udjakaru"
80448 "Udjakhens"
80449 "Udjama'at"
80450 "Udjakeri"
80451 "Udjan'sheni"
80452 "Udjan'djem"
80453 "Udjauputi"
80454 "Udjaresut"
80455 "Udjasep"
80456 "Udjasobek"
80457 "Udjaihy"
80458 "Udjatefen"
80459 "Udjaruwt"
80460 "Udja"
80461 "Wasamem"
80462 "Wasderep"
80463 "Wasamun"
80464 "Wasaten"
80465 "Washetset"
80466 "Washotep"
80467 "Waskaru"
80468 "Waskhens"
80469 "Wasma'at"
80470 "Waskeri"
80471 "Wasn'sheni"
80472 "Wasn'djem"
80473 "Wasuputi"
80474 "Wasresut"
80475 "Wassep"
80476 "Wassobek"
80477 "Wasihy"
80478 "Wastefen"
80479 "Wasruwt"
80480 "Was"
80481 "Yutamem"
80482 "Yutderep"
80483 "Yutamun"
80484 "Yutaten"
80485 "Yuthetset"
80486 "Yuthotep"
80487 "Yutkaru"
80488 "Yutkhens"
80489 "Yutma'at"
80490 "Yutkeri"
80491 "Yutn'sheni"
80492 "Yutn'djem"
80493 "Yutuputi"
80494 "Yutresut"
80495 "Yutsep"
80496 "Yutsobek"
80497 "Yutihy"
80498 "Yuttefen"
80499 "Yutruwt"
80500 "Yut"
;**********UNIQUE SURNAMES GO HERE
80501 "Washotep"
80502 "Ankhmenoo"
80503 "Wosret"
80504 "Ammurit"
80505 "Nefermenu"
80506 "Nebhotep"
80507 "Isetemkheb"
80508 "Renofret"
80509 "Ptenisnet"
80510 "Khepheru"
80511 "Pnew "
80512 "Hamut"
80513 "Methen"
80514 "Nakht"
80515 "Paankhntof"
80516 "Pen-un-heb"
80517 "Peser"
80518 "Phatres"
80519 "Rekhmire"
80520 "Semdi"
80521 "Weren"
80522 "Zazamankh"
80523 "Hunero"
80524 "Nefret"
80525 "Shepseskare"
80526 "Menekhet"
80527 "Mery-en-Moot"
80528 "Hemhemet"
80529 "Khependjed"
80530 "Shemakhet"
80531 "Kenybah"
80532 "Djedootemet"
80533 "Remikhered"
80534 "Ashakheru"
80535 "Nedjembah"
80536 "Teremun"
80537 "Nasb"
80538 "Maghara"
80539 "Bahariya"
80540 "Begrawiya"
80541 "Nynetjer"
80542 "Amenakht"
80543 "Bakennefi"
80544 "Djhutmose"
80545 "Hunefer"
80546 "Meketre"
80547 "Meryptah"
80548 "Nebnetjeru"
80549 "Nefermenu"
80550 "Ahfenrefer"
80551 "Djefeskh"
80552 "Pentaweret"
80553 "Rahotep"
80554 "Besenmut"
80555 "Djehuty"
80556 "Khnumhotep"
80557 "Menkheperre"
80558 "Djeserkare"
80559 "Haremakhet"
80560 "Kanakht"
80561 "Kenamun"
80562 "Merenkhons"
80563 "Montemhet"
80564 "Neferti"
80565 "Sanehet"
80566 "Wadjmose"
80567 "Ramose"
80568 "Tepemkau"
80569 "Wahankh"
80570 "Pedibastet "
80571 "Ahmose"
80572 "Menmaatre"
80573 "Mesedsure"
80574 "Akenaten"
80575 "Bheahtris"
80576 "Bebefenedj"
80577 "Khareheru"
80578 "Iusebi"
80579 "Bar'edons"
80580 "Feneskhloo"
80581 "Djeremya"
80582 "Gingrekh"
80583 "Harphay"
80584 "Hosherty"
80585 "Khaandjor"
80586 "Tunileeret"
80587 "Malonaten"
80588 "Khenperkha"
80589 "Marshabet"
80590 "Pehsefiri"
80591 "Reh'shels"
80592 "Denesroset"
80593 "Gebshepat"
80594 "Ansrodjer"
80595 "Somesdaht"
80596 "Solomon"
80597 "Djefersomen"
80598 "Sorensamun"
80599 "Sukesamet"
80600 "Mat'wolahms"
80601 "Ma'atzemiti"
80602 "Zizzahotep"
80603 "T'anhk-pahm"
80604 "Petolmiri"
80605 "Djaanpitor"
80606 "Ra-aganabab"
80607 "Taamwil-amun"
;81001 to 81100 100 PROPER NAMES - FIRST NAMES
81001 "Ain"
81002 "Abasi"
81003 "Anat"
81004 "Abubakar"
81005 "Adeben"
81006 "Astarte"
81007 "Adofo"
81008 "Aziza"
81009 "Bahiti"
81010 "Bast"
81011 "Akiiki"
81012 "Bennu"
81013 "Chione"
81014 "Akins"
81015 "Echidna"
81016 "Edjo"
81017 "Eshe"
81018 "Femi"
81019 "Anpu"
81020 "Habiba"
81021 "Hafsah"
81022 "Anzety"
81023 "Halima"
81024 "Apis"
81025 "Aswad"
81026 "Atemu"
81027 "Atsu"
81028 "Jamila"
81029 "Jendayi"
81030 "Azibo"
81031 "Kakra"
81032 "Kamilah"
81033 "Baal"
81034 "Kanika"
81035 "Keket"
81036 "Badru"
81037 "Kesi"
81038 "Khepri"
81039 "Baruti"
81040 "Beb"
81041 "Maibe"
81042 "Chatha"
81043 "Mandisa"
81044 "Masika"
81045 "Mesi"
81046 "Monifa"
81047 "Chike"
81048 "Chuma"
81049 "Dakarai"
81050 "Moswen"
81051 "Donkor"
81052 "Ebo"
81053 "Mut"
81054 "Naunet"
81055 "Fadil"
81056 "Nebt"
81057 "Fenuku"
81058 "Neema"
81059 "Nabirye"
81060 "Gyasi"
81061 "Geb"
81062 "Hapu"
81063 "Hehet"
81064 "Heru"
81065 "Ode"
81066 "Olabisi"
81067 "Olufemi"
81068 "Oni"
81069 "Hu"
81070 "Oseye"
81071 "Rabiah"
81072 "Jababi"
81073 "Rehema"
81074 "Jumoke"
81075 "Sabah"
81076 "Keket"
81077 "Khafra"
81078 "Sanura"
81079 "Sechet"
81080 "Tabia"
81081 "Kosey"
81082 "Uatchit"
81083 "Mbizi"
81084 "Menes"
81085 "Urbi"
81086 "Walidah"
81087 "Qeb"
81088 "Ramses"
81089 "Rashidi"
81090 "Seb"
81091 "Sethos"
81092 "Shu"
81093 "Snefery"
81094 "Thutmose"
81095 "Tum"
81096 "Unika"
81097 "Usi"
81098 "Yazid"
81099 "Zuka"
81100 "Umm"
;90000-90100 palace texts
; Enhancements (format for food/cost)
90000 "Fountain: %02d food %02d bricks"
90001 "Garden: %02d food %02d bricks"
90002 "Wall: %02d food %02d bricks"
90003 "Menagerie: %02d food %02d bricks"
90004 "Statues: %02d food %02d bricks"
90005 "Granary: %02d food %02d bricks"
90006 "Murals: %02d food %02d bricks"
; Palace levels
90010 "Modest residence"
90011 "Comfortable residence"
90012 "Lavish residence"
90013 "Glorious residence"
; Enhancement Object names
90015 "Fountain"
90016 "Garden"
90017 "Wall"
90018 "Menagerie"
90019 "Statues"
90020 "Granary"
90021 "Murals"
90098 "Currently constructing %s enhancement"
90099 "%s %d%% complete"
90100 "Only one palace may be built"
;90101-90200 healthcare event dissatisfaction cause strings
90101 "-Eye injury: hospital needed"
90102 "-Broken arm: hospital needed"
90103 "-Severe gash: hospital needed"
90104 "-Needed extensive dental work in a hospital"
90105 "-Arthritis flared up: apothecary needed"
90106 "-Missed a checkup at any medical building"
90107 "-Scorpion bite was ignored: apothecary needed"
90108 "-A cold wasn't treated at any medical building"
90109 "-Chronic cough went untreated at any medical building"
90110 "-Barely survived bubonic plague with no medical care"
90111 "-Bilharziasis went untreated at any medical building"
90112 "-Malaria went untreated at any medical building"
90113 "-Couldn't be treated for measles at any medical building"
90114 "-Went without prosthetic foot: apothecary needed"
90115 "-Haunted by ancestral spirit: apothecary needed"
90127 "-Lacerations left unsightly scars: hospital needed"
90128 "-Fever-induced delirium untreated at any medical building"
90129 "-Gangrene almost needed amputation at any medical building"
;90200 - 90250 Funeral Strings
90200 "This tomb is full"
90201 "This tomb is in use"
90202 "%s family tomb"
90203 "A Pharaoh is buried here"
90204 "A Royal Family Member is buried here"
;90251-90399 I am currently doing X string X because of an event going on
90251 "Attending a funeral due to a death in the family"
90252 "Celebrating the holiday that our Pharaoh decreed"
90253 "Seeking resolution of a disputed property boundary"
90254 "Seeking judgment against my adulterous spouse!"
90255 "Seeking settlement of a broken contract"
90256 "Joining the religious holiday that Pharaoh decreed"
90257 "Seeking a family tomb"
90258 "Doing some recreational hunting"
90259 "Observing the Peret festival to Osiris"
90260 "Going to ask Osiris to guide Pharaoh's soul"
90261 "worshiping Osiris, who is the patron of this city"
90262 "worshiping Osiris, who is the patron of this city"
90263 "Asking Isis for protection against disease epidemic "
90264 "worshiping Isis, the patron of elite women"
90265 "worshiping Isis, the patron of housewives"
90266 "worshiping Isis, who is the patron of my city"
90267 "Celebrating Pharaoh's birthday!"
90268 "Thanking Horus for watching over elite men"
90269 "worshiping Horus, who is the patron of my city"
90270 "worshiping Ra, because morning is the proper time for it"
90271 "worshiping Ra, the patron of my profession"
90272 "worshiping Ra, to whom our city is dedicated"
90273 "Celebrating the harvest because it's the Shemu festival"
90274 "Seeking inspiration from Hathor, patron of entertainers"
90275 "worshiping Hathor, who watches over our city"
90276 "Praising Amun, who guides and protects the peasants"
90277 "worshiping Amun, to whom this city is dedicated"
90278 "worshiping Ptah, the patron of my profession"
90279 "worshiping Ptah, whose city we inhabit"
90280 "Admiring Thoth, the scribe of the gods"
90281 "worshiping Thoth, to whom this city is dedicated"
90282 "Seeking the comfort of Anubis after a prominent citizen died"
90283 "worshiping Anubis, because there's been a death"
90284 "Acknowledging the patronage of great Anubis"
90285 "Praying for the health of the children"
90286 "worshiping Bast, who is the patron of this city"
90287 "Seeking the strength of Sobek, patron of city guards"
90288 "Admiring the ferocity of Sobek, patron of all commanders"
90289 "Placating the fierce Sobek, our city's patron god"
90290 "Begging Ma'at to end this frightening wave of crime"
90291 "Asking Ma'at for the peace disturbed by the recent raids"
90292 "Paying homage to Set, the patron of soldiers"
90293 "Drawing strength from Set, the patron of commanders"
90294 "Thanking Set for our great victory!"
90295 "Showing Set the respect due to the patron of our city"
90296 "Imploring Hapi not to withhold the flood waters again"
90297 "Asking Hapi why the last Inundation was so high"
90298 "worshiping Isis, who is the patron of my city"
90299 "worshiping Horus, in whose city we live"
90300 "worshiping Ra, in whose city we live"
90301 "worshiping Hathor, the god who watches over our city"
90302 "worshiping Amun, the god who watches over our city"
90303 "worshiping Ptah, the god who crafted our city"
90304 "worshiping Thoth, the patron god of this city"
90305 "worshiping Anubis, the god who guides our city"
90306 "worshiping Bast, to whom our city is dedicated"
90307 "worshiping Sobek, to whom our city is dedicated"
90308 "Showing respect for Set, this city's patron god"
90309 "Imploring Hapi not to withhold the flood waters again"
90310 "Asking Hapi why the last Inundation was so high"
90311 "Seeking care for an abcessed tooth"
90312 "Hoping for relief of arthritis"
90313 "Seeking the meaning of bad dreams"
90314 "Trying to stop children's nightmares"
90315 "Seeking treatment for bilharziasis"
90316 "Going to have a broken arm set"
90317 "Going to have a broken finger set"
90318 "Seeking to be cured of bubonic plague"
90319 "Seeking a health checkup"
90320 "Seeking a cure for the common cold"
90321 "Seeking treatment for a compound fracture"
90322 "Seeking to have broken ribs mended"
90323 "Seeking relief of cuts and bruises"
90324 "Hoping to dispel the phantom voices and visions"
90325 "Seeking extensive dental work"
90326 "Hoping for some help with depression"
90327 "Seeking treatment for an injured eye"
90328 "Looking for relief of a fever"
90329 "Hoping to save a gangrenous limb"
90330 "Seeking bandages for lacerations"
90331 "Seeking a cure for malaria"
90332 "Seeking a cure for the measles"
90333 "Seeking a minor prosthetic"
90334 "Looking for relief of a pulled muscle"
90335 "Seeking help for a scorpion bite"
90336 "Seeking to have a severe gash bandaged"
90337 "Seeking treatment of a shattered wrist"
90338 "Seeking relief from a severe, persistent cough"
90339 "Hoping to soothe swollen gums"
90340 "Seeking redress after being defrauded"
90341 "xx Seeking comfort because Pharaoh has no tomb"
90342 "Seeking reassurance about royal tombs"
90343 "Going to visit the family tomb"
90344 "Honoring the city's patron, Isis."
90345 "Honoring the city's patron, Horus."
90346 "Honoring the city's patron, Ra."
90347 "Honoring the city's patron, Hathor."
90348 "Honoring the city's patron, Amun."
90349 "Honoring the city's patron, Ptah."
90350 "Honoring the city's patron, Thoth."
90351 "Honoring the city's patron, Anubis."
90352 "Honoring the city's patron, Bast."
90353 "Honoring the city's patron, Sobek."
90354 "Honoring the city's patron, Set."
90355 "Honoring the city's patron, Osiris."
90356 "Sailing on my yacht"
90357 "Attending an entertaining feast"
90358 "Honoring Osiris, Pharaoh of the gods"
90359 "worshiping Isis, Queen of the gods"
90360 "Beseeching Sobek for strength and protection"
90361 "Ra! Ra! Ra!"
90362 "Praising Horus, patron of Pharaohs"
90363 "Seeking medical care for battle wounds"
;**************PRESTIGE CHANGE MESSAGES, FULL VERSIONS********************************************************************
;**************90400-90419 are increase strings (90400 is rise from level 0 to 1, 90401 is 1 to 2, etc., up to level 10)**
;**************See 41373-41393 for prestige level names*******************************************************************
90400 "Your accomplishments have been noticed. Educated men remark that you are no longer deficient in prestige."
90401 "Your prestige just rose. No one calls you insignificant anymore. People of learning take note of your leadership qualities."
90402 "Your prestige has risen - you are no longer considered a meager leader. Educated men think you might be a competent employer."
90403 "You have proven your competence, and your prestige has gone up. Learned workers have expressed interest in serving you."
90404 "Your accomplishments demonstrate your worth. Your prestige just increased, drawing more attention from educated workers."
90405 "Nobody can doubt your importance. Your prestige has risen! More educated workers would be willing to devote their efforts to your regime."
90406 "All the world is most impressed by your record. Your enhanced prestige prompts more men of learning to consider careers in your service."
90407 "Let everyone take note: Pharaoh's prestige is growing! The number of educated workers who will follow you just increased."
90408 "Your rising prestige reflects your extraordinary talent for rulership, as well as your increasing status among educated citizens."
90409 "You are truly a memorable leader, and your growing prestige demonstrates the appeal of a career in your government to increasing numbers of educated workers."
90410 "Your recent accomplishments are quite remarkable. Your prestige rises, and with it the size of the educated workforce that you can lead!"
90411 "Your rising prestige reflects your truly outstanding abilities. You could command a large number of educated workers now."
90412 "Only an exceptional leader like yourself could boast such prestige, and earn the devoted service of so many men of learning!"
90413 "Your prestige dazzles the world, O Illustrious Leader! Willingness to follow you is becoming a measure of wisdom among the educated elite."
90414 "With so much prestige, your magnificence can never be diminished. More and more educated men can see that their future lies in your shadow."
90415 "Lesser leaders are blinded by your glorious accomplishments. Your prestige grows! Can you sense the eagerness of Egypt's educated workers to serve your cause?"
90416 "Your prestige rises, and you have become an exalted leader! The ranks of educated workers who clamor to fill your government have increased again."
90417 "You are now considered superhuman in the eyes of the world! Children go to school dreaming that you will give them a chance to serve you when they graduate."
90418 "You are almost viewed as a god because of your accomplishments! Almost every educated man in Egypt is eager to serve and obey you."
90419 "You have become a god! There are no superlatives left for you!"
;*************90420-90439 are decrease stings (90420 is drop from level 1 to 0; 90421 is drop from 2 to 1, etc.)*********
90420 "Pharaoh, the people call you deficient. Unless you do something to change their minds, you will never lead enough educated workers to achieve anything. "
90421 "Isn't it remarkable that any men of learning will obey an insignificant authority like yourself? The longer you continue to neglect your prestige, the more remarkable it becomes."
90422 "That even such a meager authority as yourself can lead educated people speaks more of their loyalty than of your power. Unless you raise your prestige, they might all find work elsewhere. "
90423 "A mediocre leader like yourself should be unsurprised by his inability to inspire more followers. Your prestige fades gradually into legend, and yet you do nothing to raise it."
90424 "Some educated workers are still content to work for a competent manager, luckily for you. If you wish to keep them from drifting away, do something prestigious!"
90425 "Not as many men of learning think that you are worthy of their devotion. Your prestige erodes naturally while you do nothing to change their opinions of you. "
90426 "Fewer educated men consider you important enough to serve. Those who remain interested in working for you wonder why you're letting your reputation degrade like this. "
90427 "The educated workers still in your employ insist that you remain an impressive leader, even as their colleagues seek more prestigious employment elsewhere."
90428 "Those learned workers who will serve you, although less numerous than in the past, consider you noteworthy despite your waning esteem."
90429 "Perhaps you are not as prestigious as you once were. Perhaps fewer men of learning will follow you. Some still call you extraordinary, and stand by your reign."
90430 "There are worse things than being called memorable. Sure, some learned men are drifting away from ambitions of government service. But others loyally anticipate your restored prominence."
90431 "A lot of older people still swap memories of your remarkable rule. Maybe it's harder than it used to be to entice elite workers to serve you...but what do the young know, anyway?"
90432 "More educated workers are looking elsewhere for their livelihoods as your former eminence slips into old stories. No matter - some still believe you're an outstanding leader."
90433 "Good men of learning still cherish careers in your service, even as your exceptional reputation is sung by fewer lips with each passing day."
90434 "Despite your ebbing prestige, many learned citizens still find serving you an illustrious calling. Remind the others why you are the Lord of the Two Lands. "
90435 "So many educated people still wish to serve your magnificent personage! Fewer than before, it is true. Maybe they need reminders of your prestige."
90436 "Educated Egyptians agree: Yours is a glorious reign, O Pharaoh...but you are not quite the exalted one that they once thought. Some are considering ambitions other than your service."
90437 "Although you remain exalted, your reputation dims along with people's memories of your accomplishments, and not as many educated people clamor to serve you. "
90438 "Lacking any recent reminders of your greatness, people still agree that you're superhuman, but they'll no longer go so far as to say 'godlike.' Fewer elite workers are willing to serve you."
90439 "Even a deity must awe his followers now and again. Some who once thought you divine are less sure about that, and have rethought their desire to devote themselves to your service."
