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Hand Of Bast Contest
Feb 5, Prosperity 100, Kingdom Rating 62, Population 4108
This was not my entry for the contest. This is my hindsight run through, based on information that the winners shared with us and then throwing my own spin in on the mission. Rather than build two main housing blocks I built just one large block to save resources. (Holds just over 4000 residents if you don't upgrade any sections to manors.)
To achieve an accelerated prosperity, I went for a large fancy resident block (90 prosperity). This meant that prosperity could begin to rise fairly high before the manors were developed. Then in year 4, (after the land based luxury goods were available again) I upgraded one side of the main housing blocks to Spacious manors to pick the prosperity up to 100 by Jan 5. Kingdom rating went over 60 in Feb. Although 8 manors are not required to achieve the desired prosperity, they help quite abit with the employment issues.
Building just one main block significantly reduces overall expenditures. Did not have to resort to any heavy handed taxation to achieve this result. Of course papyrus was the main export but pottery was second. I did not produce bricks because they were only worth 5 more Db per 100 over pottery and would have required the straw retrieval. Never did export linen which permitted immediate response to the linen request.
Just supplying some food for thought for those that like to look at the variety of solutions at our disposal. :)
Cheers
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