Hi all!

You people have posted some fine ideas for different house blocks. Now I was just wondering, has anyone ever tried long and narrow house blocks? Well, here's one I'm tempted to try.
As you can see, it has only ancestral access, and no acupunctrurist nor acrobats (so this is a bronze-age block).
Would this kind of block have a useful purpose? I suppose there may be some maps, where you can build only on a narrow patch of land, but I think it would be limited to something like that.

This loop is 56 tiles long.

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[This message has been edited by aaglo (edited 08-10-2004 @ 05:11 AM).]

Well, this is not a housing block, but a farm block.
Some time ago I did some tests in the farming habits of the farmers. They don't really have the time to take care of the whole field they have their hands at. And that's why I overlap the farms. A lot. Even, if the farms have more than one crop to work with.
Here's the layout I use most commonly (this time with three different crops). And the same goes for hemp farms.

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Inspired by the Administrative City-centred block on the first page, I created this Palace Block:

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What do you think? I think the jutting-out bit at the bottom is a waste of space, but it does look excellent when you "frame" a statue this way...

[This message has been edited by wolf_mage (edited 01-31-2005 @ 08:25 PM).]

hi je poste en Francais parce que mon anglais est trop approximatif .... Je ne comprends pas comment marche votre programme , est ce que ça permet pour une mission de l'optimiser au maximum ?

Quelle programme, chris85? Les 'glyphs'? C'est un mode qu'on peut montrer les blocs de maisons qu'on utilise pendant le jeu. Je ne sais pas comment il marche moi-même, mais si vous voulez l'utiliser, je trouverais quelqu'un qui peut vous aider. (Excusez, s'il vous plaît, mon français exécrable)

(Translation, so I'm not breaking any rules: Which programme, chris85? The glyphs? It's a method of demonstrating the housing blocks that you use during the game. I don't know how it works myself, but if you want to use it, I'll find someone who can help you.)

good your French ...c'est juste pour montrer une sitaation alors ? je pensais que ça pouvais servir pour optimiser des missions de concours comme le programme exell dans C3

Oui, juste pour montrer. On ne peut pas le transférer dans le jeu

Cependant, ce n'est pas tellement difficile de recopier les images dans le jeu; il faudrait imprimer l'image ou quelque chose, bien sûr, mais c'est assez simple. J'ai déjà utilisé plusieurs de ces blocs...

[This message has been edited by wolf_mage (edited 02-04-2005 @ 08:40 PM).]

It's possible I'm hallucinating, wolf-mage, but it doesn't look like your palace is receiving coverage from an inspector, so it will eventually burn down. The administrative city in the famous administrative city block is covered when the inspector turns the corner on each side, coming within two tiles. In your block, the inspector is always more than two tiles away. You should be able to fix it by eliminating the flowering trees inside the loop, shifting two houses on each side up or down a tile, and adjusting the roads.

Also, the houses in the top corners are not in direct contact with a road, so they won't be settled - this isn't Caesar III or Pharaoh. You'll have to replace them with decorations or shift things around a bit.

Hi pagh,

Firstly, to ensure that the palace didn't collapse, I set one of those two gates to allowing inspectors. (Because the tower was evolved, the coverage was still good enough to keep the block stable.)

However, your suggestion is virtually identical to the change I implemented on the next map (which I'll edit in later): I moved the road on the bottom outer sides in by one, slightly altering the layout of the houses.
EDIT: See below.

Also, I'm not sure why those houses are there in the corners. Either they were meant to be statues, or I put the Grand Ways in wrong. *shrugs*

By the way... That AC block is not stable, because it is 58 tiles long. (The block occasionally has Acupuncturist/Herbalist problems.) I normally simply shorten it a bit... what about you?

The New, Improved Palace Block:

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[This message has been edited by wolf_mage (edited 02-11-2005 @ 10:47 PM).]

Hmmm, it seems that not the entire set of glyphs is visible in the post. The Imperial way to the right of the page is missing although the column width is exactly 50.

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[This message has been edited by Hwr chtwy (edited 02-24-2005 @ 06:52 PM).]

I always do something similar to this...

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The other services go around in any way they can fit with also a mill and warehouse on each side. After all that, roadblocks are placed leading our of the entire area and another round can be placed around the WHOLE THING, i.e. another round of houses and then services. It makes a giant squared of 6x6 or so of elite houses. You can do the same with ordinary houses for many many more packed into it.