Meidum, by schnurbart

City ID = 367
Date Submitted = 2001-05-24

Author's Description:

The key to a succesfull Meidum is building a a big enough city to employ mass workers in the stone quarries and workcamps to complete the project in the most profitable way in my opninion. Importing stone is expensive and slowwwwwww and competes with limited dock space increasing the already intolerable line times inherit in this mission. Using multible docks is not a solution at least right away cuz of the long routes to and from the west side wich is made worse by the chokepoint in the ferry system in the south. By the way i aplaud the scenario desighers for creating so may different types of problems for us in pharoah as a whole to solve. To support a mass population u need food of coarse so i eventualy exploited the entire plain for grain. By the end of the game i had more grain then joseph collected for the hyksos! .lol..just kidding not quite..but i digress...because of this strategy the ferry was all that much more busy making trade even tougher from the west side. So i stuck to one dock through out most of the mission untill the end when i needed to keep my nice neighborhoods on the west side supplied with beer and linen and fish..My papyrus trade was my main source of export income but was eventually dwarfed in importance through massive tax revenues levied allowing me to alternate trade from export in one year to import in the other to help those damed line times..A seneter block of manors(tho poorly set up) made me tons of cash from my snobby scribes..lol..