>They don't destoy trading posts? Can anyone confirm that?
Each of the 11 gods has a set of buildings associated with it. Athena has olive presses and carding sheds, Poseidon has fishing warfs, urchin gatherers and trading piers, etc. Their monsters kill all cart pushers they meet, and destroy buildings of their god's type. (Zeus is the uber-god, with all buildings under being his domain. I forget who his pet monster is now...)
When a god is happy, they bless all buildings they like of that type. When a god is annoyed or attacking a city, they'll destroy the same buildings.
I've had success hiding food from Demieter in trading piers (water trade route) and trading posts (land based trade route) when she was out to destroy all farms, grainaries and angoras that carried food stalls. I probably could have hidden the wheat in warehouses as well, but trading houses/piers accept 60 wheat, and they were what I had handy at the time.
I want to say Mercury has trading posts under his domain making them safe from attacks by other gods, but that was C3...
Interesting, a suggestion made by someone from Greece that Poseiden boosts not just fisheries but also horse ranches because Poseiden is also the god of horses (the sound of waves can sound like horses hooves) made it into the game. Poseiden is a difficult god to build a city to utilize his blessings from, however, and his temple is just enormous, being ranked god #2 after Zeus. By the time you build his sanctuary, the scenario's generally over.
Maybe there'll be some later scenarios where Poseiden's sanctuary is already built on the map and we have to build a city around it.
[This message has been edited by Innovandora (edited 10-31-2000).]