November 14, 1999 16:56 EST
Waiting for Godot
ll of the United States seems to be waiting for the scenario editor, while all of Europe and the rest of the world are waiting for the game itself to hit a shop near home.

The Senet House is honouring Bastet and started discussing cats again.
There is also a thread that started discussing the Egyptian names that you can see in the game. Innovandora has been spotted as a scantily clad dancer and rumour has it Angel Reckless Rodent can be found amongst those that want to lay waste to your beautiful cities...if you find him, could you mail me a screenshot of Angel Reck in action?

Then there is more on the art of building a mastaba and mining disasters.

Tomorrow will see Egypt in the capable hands of Angel Reckless Rodent as I will be flying back to Rome.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 13, 1999 16:58 EST
Brand new demo to download
id the many problems with the demo put you off? Were you worried about the "Freeze?" Are you still not sure Pharaoh can take the place of your current favourite game?
If so, you can give it another go, with the brand-new, revamped Pharaoh demo, which you can download from the IGN site. Careful though, as it weighs in at approximately 27.1 Mbytes and comes with a couple of extensions, one audio (19.7 Mbytes) and one video (17.8 Mbytes).

The Download section received it's first Giza experiment in sphinx building today and three more cities.

The Game Help forum has information on Abu, importing food , and smuggling.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 12, 1999 16:18 EST
Another busy day in the forums
ome of the current topics in the Game Help forum are: Missing overseers, industrial layouts, more about the gods moods and the little ankhs, and Dragon's police defense maze.

The Senet house is having fun with Wendoolicus' quiz, which managed to get to it's second incarnation, Babelfish translations of the Sierra sites and the first confessions of people that think Pharaoh has taken over their life.

And of course you can still post your signature in the Signature Showcase.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 11, 1999 14:57 EST
Welcome to the Senet House
change of name, but not of purpose. What used to be known as the Community forum has now been aptly renamed to the Senet House.
We also see the arrival of a new forum. The  Announcements forum. This forum is there for the angels and cherubs to have a place where they can announce new additions to the site, in a way a bit more hands-on than updating the news page.
It will also help people that don't even bother reading the news.

We have some interesting threads on the Game Help forum. They concern Invisible obstructions, feeding your population without granaries and more on Meidum, Abu and Senet walkers.

Angel Draco added another handful of cities to the download forum. We now offer you: Abu, Abedju, Behdet, North and South Dashur, Meidum, Men-nefer and Saqarra.

Then we had some more moves and additions, courtesy of Angel Reckless Rodent. He's been busy as ever on the Strategy pages. Files have been added, the Gods have been moved and he's added the Hot Keys sent to him by MRed to a web page.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 10, 1999 14:23 EST
More cities ready for download
ot only did Angel Draco upload a handful of cities, he also added a number of background images.
Please note, that you can send in your cities to Angel Draco, but remember to tell him:

• Your Name & E-Mail Address
• City Name
• Kingdom (Old, Middle or New)
• A Description, If Any Saved In Notepad (.txt)
• Your Score

Wendoolicus has a nifty, little quiz running in the Community forum. The questions are clever and challenging. You can try your luck here.

Last but not least Angel Zen pointed out a very interesting picture. I added a link in the community forum.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 9, 1999 14:57 EST
We apologise for the loss of signal
t seems the news page went missing for several hours. It's back and we'll try not to let it happen again. So what's going on today?

Angel Reckless Rodent, yes, him again, he seems to be a tad bored in Germany, found us some more reviews. The nice thing about these is that you can add a review yourself.

In the game help forum we have a spot of wild life trouble. Hyenas eating gold-bearers, crocodiles eating policemen and hippos squashing reed gatherers. If you have any ideas on how to handle them, tell us here.

Another of our Angels, Draco has added a temporary download section. Why temporary, you might ask? Well, we've been promised the most wonderful download pages in Heaven. It may take a while for them to be up, so that's why we opened a temporary one.

You can find more on the theories of pyramid planning and building over here.

Angel Jahakemhotep

November 8, 1999 14:57 EST
Bits and pieces
emeber the news bit we ran a couple of weeks ago, where we we're looking for an Artful Cherub?
Of course you do.
Well, we found some computer graphical talents among the people already associated with the site, which means we will not be appointing a new cherub soon.
However, we will keep the applications on file and they will be used for future reference.

Angel Reckless Rodent added another review to the review pages, so if you're still wondering whether or not to buy the game.

In the Game Help forum people are zooming through the levels. Places like Abu, Abedju, Saqarra, Serabit Khadim, Dashur, Bedhet, Men-nefer. All of these begin to become as familiar to us as once, Caesarea, Lugdunum and Mediolanum were.
Some people aren't quite zooming and would like some tips

It seems the Intermediate goals are a bit misleading to some people. I remember waiting for things to happen while I thought let's not produce beer just yet, and failing miserably because the scenario was waiting for beer.
Take it from me and from the messages posted on the Sierra forum: As long as the message is there, the scenario is still waiting for you to reach the stated goal.
The quicker you get there the more time you have for the rest of the scenario.

All that rests is to say "Hi" to Robert Davies, who turned out to be our 50,000th visitor.

Angel Jahakemhotep