Health, Taxes & Entertainment
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(1) I have disease all over my city and people
are dying right and left, what can I do?
(2) How do I place the
entertainment stages?
(3) What's the best
way to place a Juggling Booth?
(4) Why are my citizens
complaining about a 9% tax rate?
(5) My tax collectors
keep gettin robbed!
(1)
I have disease all over my city and people are dying right and left, what can I do?
Egyptians were pretty picky about their health care. Areas
close by the reed gathering areas are prone to malaria and must be provided with
Apothecaries. All housing will benefit from regular access by a Physician, and will not
evolve past Spacious Homestead without it. Additionally, Dentists are needed to evolve
past Spacious Residences and Morticians (with a supply of linen) are needed to evolve
houses past the Spacious Manor level. (Remember all those "Spacious" words and
you will be fine). Your best bet is to provide water and food to all of your houses and
check your overlays for trouble spots.
 Plague can break out in the city due to
overall city health and it is not a pretty sight. You can see plague victims walking
around the city, spreading the disease on the Risks: Disease Overlay. Every house he
passes will become infected and the residents die. Wandering Plague Victims can be
confined by deleting road tiles in their path, or by encountering an Apothecary walker,
but the best course is prevention. The houses will remain vacant for a while, and then new
residents will move in and use the food and goods left behind.
Plagues break out when a city's overall health is poor. The
two main contributors to good health are access to plenty of food and to a physician.
Providing these two things to all (or just about all) of your citizens should prevent
plague from breaking out. You can find out which areas of your city might be lacking in
physician coverage by using the Physician overlay.
Mortuaries also contribute to the good health of a city, as
does providing your citizens with more than one food type. Dentists don't affect city
health at all, but they do count for Culture points.
(2) How do I place the
entertainment stages?
All entertainment stages will fit on t-intersections. You
will know if they fit because they will turn green. You can create a t-intersection in the
middle of a housing block by adding to the road.
Entertainment is a part of your cultural rating and allows
your housing to upgrade to the next level provided it has the right goods and food for the
next level. Variety is the key to happy people so try to provide you people with as many
types of entertainment as you can.
(3) What's the best way to
place a Juggling Booth?
By definition, a Juggler's Booth must be
placed on a "T" or an intersection, but most building blocks are designed to
avoid "T"'s or intersections. So, how can one put a Juggler's Booth in a
building block?
Soon after the Demo came out, our own Angel
Reckless Rodent came up with a nifty way of getting this done. See pictures of how this
looks at Grumpus'
fansite.
(4) Why are
my citizens complaining about a 9% tax rate?
Taxation can have a negative effect, even at
the default 9% rate, if tax coverage is very unequal. People will complain about taxes
when you're collecting from roughly 50% of the populace. For a quick fix, lower taxes to
5% for a month or two...but for a long-term solution, build more Tax Collectors to ensure
that your collection rate remains comfortably above 50%.
(5) My tax
collectors keep getting robbed!
 You are probably spawning criminals from
several of your houses. Check your Crime Overlay. You are
going to have to supply police coverage to one or more of your housing areas.
Crime is usually a result of unemployment and people
generally unhappy because of taxes, no food, no festivals, etc...If your crime is really
intermittment, you may have to wait a while for your crime risk columns to lower. It is
likely that you are missing a police station or a courthouse in one of your blocks or in
an industrial housing area.
 
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