#Caesar iv scenarios manual
#Caesar iv scenarios series

There really should have been a dynamic radius showing the areas each building will effect when deciding on the placement. Unfortunately, the only way to tell is to actually place the building, check the overlays to see how much area the building covered, then hit the undo button (if it's still available, sometimes it simply doesn't work) and try it again until you get it right. The bigger trick is simply knowing what that radius is when placing a building. Providing for the middle and upper class can be a bit trickier thanks to needs that require bigger buildings, but most of the buildings have enough of an active radius that with simple planning it's easy to push your town into happiness and riches.

#Caesar iv scenarios manual

The plebs that do your most important manual labor are incredibly easy to keep happy and bunch together in such close proximity that it's very easy to create a little community with all their needs. As long as you have basic markets, water, heath, and religion next to your workers they'll be happy. Buildings will always function properly as long as they have the maximum number of workers. Workers simply appear at the correct buildings in Caesar IV and are industrious automatically. In Tilted Mill's previous title Children of the Nile, citizens actually had to travel to work so it was a good idea to place homes next to work areas. While it's good that the range of your citizens is much larger, it also seems like there should be limits. You don't even have to connect the road back to the city. This means you can set up a little marble mining operation dedicated to trade off the beaten path. Now, as long as you have the right number of the right class in your city, all of the jobs will be filled, regardless of how close they are to any sort of housing as long as a building has a road next to it. The other really important changes are in the range of your citizens and the way walkers work in general. It also depicts Roman life a bit more realistically than previous titles. This way, it's stuck, allows you to target the correct number of workers for the different industries correctly, and provide the right number of goods for each of your populations. This makes a lot more sense than the previous way of doing things since plebs didn't exactly have much hope of raising in the ranks without some very special circumstances. Instead of any housing raising up to a new level of wealth and prosperity, the city housing is divided by class for plebs (lower class), equites (middle class), and patricians (upper class). One of the first noticeable ones is the change to different housing for different classes.

#Caesar iv scenarios series

There have been plenty of changes to the series in this latest. Unfortunately there aren't any shortcuts to place structures with the interface hidden. There's even a feature that hides the ridiculously large interface from view to get a better look at the city. It's really too bad because the game is a pleasure to look at when everything is turned up. It's not like the game is unplayable with a bad framerate - it is just a city builder afterall - but it's not always fun. The issue is more that those players without great computers are going to be in for some framerate issues. Check out the comparison pictures below for a better idea of what the game will look like after the options are turned down. Thankfully the effects and options can be turned down for a much better, but not perfect, framerate and the game will still look decent. When the heavy rain effects come pouring down on the city it's frustrating as hell to play the game at all. It can take three or four clicks on a building option to get the game to recognize the selection. The slowdown can cause enough delay that the game won't recognize mouse clicks either. It seems like a 3GHz processor 2GB of RAM and a GeForce 7800 (not the best computer, but not a chump either) would be enough to run the game at a decent framerate with settings on high and 1280x960 resolution.

Unfortunately, that pretty pop comes with a hefty price. Plenty of effects like bloom make the world pop in 3D like these games used to when they were sprite based. Buildings are colorful and factories are lively with animations when active and idle. Tilted Mill has done a wonderful job making the visuals lovely as well.