After finishing Island Abu, the game advanced to Saqqara, reminding me of my dissatisfaction with the Saqqara I built long ago (even given my limited expectations at the time). Now, I see that Saqqara could support a lot of people in style, with a large map and lots of foods and goods available (one way or another), although houses are limited to spacious manors with no libraries.
I downloaded and looked at three examples of fairly large Saqqaras: those by Tryhard, Cfilorvy666, and GovernorSimulus. They were fine cities, but lacked some things I would require: a "city center" (not necessarily in the center of the city, with integrated festival square, palace, mansion, temple complex, and at least one of the best houses), no crummy or unstable houses, and no help from the gods (such as Ra's "trade more" blessing or Bast's "bounty of food and goods" blessing) getting crucial stuff.
I hope some players find my preliminary plan for a "super" Saqqara (in the next two replies) interesting. Anyone is welcome to use any or all of it. I might finish the design and build it some day.
I downloaded and looked at three examples of fairly large Saqqaras: those by Tryhard, Cfilorvy666, and GovernorSimulus. They were fine cities, but lacked some things I would require: a "city center" (not necessarily in the center of the city, with integrated festival square, palace, mansion, temple complex, and at least one of the best houses), no crummy or unstable houses, and no help from the gods (such as Ra's "trade more" blessing or Bast's "bounty of food and goods" blessing) getting crucial stuff.
I hope some players find my preliminary plan for a "super" Saqqara (in the next two replies) interesting. Anyone is welcome to use any or all of it. I might finish the design and build it some day.