Because of my crazy goal of building so many luxury palaces (which were going to take up the bulk of the space), combined with the lack of food placing a "large tent" cap on my worker areas, meant I had a lot more bother than usual with regards to the placement of these worker areas (tent cities). My key tactic to overcome this difficulty was to export NOTHING. No export income whatsoever!

The population history graph looks *nothing* like the way I've played every other level up to now. Basically I thought that since this was the last level, I might as well spend freely with the 6 digit personal savings I've amassed up to this point. Consequently, half of it disappeared in the initial building frenzy (about 2 years) and  trickled out while I waited, with no export income, for my food production to come up to speed so that I could fatten up my future patricians.

I was really unsure how far the food was going to go on this level, even for feeding the patricians only, so I'm really glad that it turned out I could even spare some fish for my workers. The great distance between farmlands/fishing grounds, meant that gaps sometimes occured in the supply chain, and as a result some of my palaces were a bit "unstable" (ie. kept evolving/devolving) and this necessitated tricky juggling of the workforce (because unemployment figures jumped around all over the place). But I kid you not, at one stage I had 40 luxury palaces, most of which were near capacity (200 people each) and my total population was still only 80-something thousand! I think 90% of the population were living in luxury palaces. Now that's what I call prosperity! :-)