  Dakhla Oasis
It's trees, trees, trees again as you help the longest-lived pharaoh build his
funerary complex.
Requirements:
Events:
Hints:
Pharaoh will demand that you
provide bricks for his pyramid and grain.
Your first export will
probably be wood. When you're planning your city, don't forget to keep at least some
of the trees standing. That said, many will have to be felled in order to make room
for housing. As the scenario progresses, you should aim to export your excess
pottery, beer, and papyrus. You can also set up a profitable linen industry if you
need to soak up some unemployment.
Cash is very much desired
here - importing 100 blocks of granite to make your Small Obelisk isn't cheap.
Although you can build a
recruiter, a military academy, and archer company forts, I faced no military threats while
I was governor there. It wouldn't hurt to have a few forts running though, just in
case.
Here
are Dragon2's thoughts (forum
thread here):
Whenever
I do an oasis scenario I end up with lots of money and lots of unemployment. In Dakhla
oasis, with higher culture and prosperity requirements than usual, I solved the
unemployment problem by building a large block of 3x3 houses. The scribes who live in
these don't work and so can't be unemployed.
The
results:
Difficulty hard
Time 165 months
Culture 50 (linen for mortuaries again the problem)
Prosperity 85 (in spite of some low-grade housing)
Kingdom 69
Funds 17434
Population 5001 (the last requirement met)
Score 6953
I
began by extending a 4 x 30 service block out into the desert and building houses around
it (the usual concentric-circle design. This provided enough workers for thriving export
industries in wood, papyrus, and pottery.
Once
money was rolling in, I built a 3 x 24 housing block next to a Temple complex, with two
rows of houses and one of gardens, and supplied all the necessities. Entertainers had to
walk past the houses to get from their schools to their performance venues. Once these
houses evolved to manors, I suddenly had a worker shortage and had to build a second 4xN
block of modest housing. In the meantime I imported all the granite needed for the
obelisk.
As
soon as I imported luxury goods, all my luxury housing evolved to 3x3 and tax income went
through the roof.
In
principle this level should get done as soon as the obelisk in finished, but I misread the
population requirement and took a few years extra.
If
you know how to build luxury housing block, don't even consider playing this at less than
hard difficulty!
In
retrospect I wish I had built the luxury housing more gradually to exercise finer control
over unemployment.
MRed94 made
this spreadsheet detailing the requests.
Upon the death of Pharaoh,
Egypt collapses. You must throw your family's hat in with the fortunes of 1 of the
rival dynasties jostling for power - Thinis or Waset (Thebes) will be your next destination. |
