I am hoping for some guidance on how to play Sawu, since I am having a lot of trouble with it even on Very Easy. The fundamental problem is that it is taking forever to get goods moved around, to the point where as of Sep 1782, storage yards in the east (largest region) have never managed to fetch any linen from where it is manufactured in the west, and have had a terrible time importing beer from the west, also.
My main strategic problem seems to be that I’ve taken this long to import enough sandstone to start the mausoleum. Theoretically Dunqul Oasis can deliver 40 loads per year, so 240 to get started might take 6 years, but Jan 1800 was over 18 years ago, which seems excessive. My workers are aging out to the point where at 8400 population I don’t have enough of them to keep all my industries running at the capacity needed to supply all the housing blocks (not to mention the demands from the rest of Egypt for beer).
I think I know what I did wrong, but before restarting I’d appreciate some feedback on whether my thinking is correct.
I think the main thing I need to do to get goods from east to west or vice versa (in case I put the dock in the east instead of the west) is to have storage yards specialize in getting one type of good; I think I made a mistake in trying to have one yard fetch 1/4 capacity of 4 goods, the approximate amount a single housing block would need (though that has always worked for me in earlier scenarios, which didn’t have the need to traverse 2 ferries). They’d still have to get stuff one load at a time, but I could be getting smaller amounts of each good but all 4 in parallel.
I didn’t watch carefully, but I think my problem with slow sandstone arrival is that traders left sandstone in the one yard to the east, but I didn’t have enough space to store it all there so had to slowly, one load at a time, have storage yards in the north get the sandstone, which I think meant the eastern yard filled up and traders had no place to leave the goods. I am contemplating reducing the number of housing blocks in the east from 3 to 2 to leave room for the mausoleum and 8 storage blocks for the sandstone.
I also got surprised by a Bedouin invasion from the northwest, but that probably never made it into the walkthrough because the writer likely finished a lot earlier than I did.
My main strategic problem seems to be that I’ve taken this long to import enough sandstone to start the mausoleum. Theoretically Dunqul Oasis can deliver 40 loads per year, so 240 to get started might take 6 years, but Jan 1800 was over 18 years ago, which seems excessive. My workers are aging out to the point where at 8400 population I don’t have enough of them to keep all my industries running at the capacity needed to supply all the housing blocks (not to mention the demands from the rest of Egypt for beer).
I think I know what I did wrong, but before restarting I’d appreciate some feedback on whether my thinking is correct.
I think the main thing I need to do to get goods from east to west or vice versa (in case I put the dock in the east instead of the west) is to have storage yards specialize in getting one type of good; I think I made a mistake in trying to have one yard fetch 1/4 capacity of 4 goods, the approximate amount a single housing block would need (though that has always worked for me in earlier scenarios, which didn’t have the need to traverse 2 ferries). They’d still have to get stuff one load at a time, but I could be getting smaller amounts of each good but all 4 in parallel.
I didn’t watch carefully, but I think my problem with slow sandstone arrival is that traders left sandstone in the one yard to the east, but I didn’t have enough space to store it all there so had to slowly, one load at a time, have storage yards in the north get the sandstone, which I think meant the eastern yard filled up and traders had no place to leave the goods. I am contemplating reducing the number of housing blocks in the east from 3 to 2 to leave room for the mausoleum and 8 storage blocks for the sandstone.
I also got surprised by a Bedouin invasion from the northwest, but that probably never made it into the walkthrough because the writer likely finished a lot earlier than I did.