kw88
Pleb
posted 05-15-09 06:04 ET (US)
Hello all.
I've just started playing the game and is at the stage of building 10 cottages. I cannot find the roadblock button anywhere? It's suppose to be at the municipal button rite?
Without a roadblock my houses cannot evolve because the walkers are not walking past them.
Thanks.
Fire Axe
Pleb
posted 05-15-09 06:07
ET (US)
1 / 8
Roadblocks aren't available in the first few missions. It's annoying, but you have to live with it.
joshofet
Pleb
posted 05-15-09 06:09
ET (US)
2 / 8
Delete some road tiles and place new roads so walkers will pass the houses. The first missions are meant (also) as a tutorial, roadblocks will be introduced later and are available in all further career missions afterwards.
Henipatra
Pleb
posted 06-18-09 00:16
ET (US)
3 / 8
IMHO the best way to deal with the no roadblocks situation in levels 1 and 2 (Nubt and Thinis) is to put all your buildings on your own roads, separate from the Kingdom Road. That way, labor recruiters and others won't walk off into "never-never land". In level 3 (Perwadjwt) it's more difficult.
There is no requirement you be connected at all to the Kingdom Road except for land caravans which start later in level 5 (Men-nefer). Housing will "stagnate" if it's inaccessible, which means if it's on the opposite side of the Nile from the Kingdom Road, on an island (where of course there's no Kingdom Road), or if a housing site is more than 2 spaces away from any road. For the first two cases, a ferry (or bridge?) connection will keep the housing from stagnating, even if it's a nonworking ferry, and in all cases, you have lots of time to respond to the problem.
Another strategy is to decide where a workplace (or group of workplaces) will be, and build a house on either side of the place (or group). Let the houses become occupied, then build the workplace(s). The labor recruiters will then have no choice but to walk past occupied housing, and if there's some unemployment in the city, they will find workers BEFORE they have a chance to wander off.
Warm regards,
Henipatra (back after a fairly long hiatus)