I want to continue my family history, but don't feel like fighting Hyksos chariots, so it's time for Hetepsenusret. (Finishing will leave me with only 3 family history missions unbuilt: Khmun, Byblos, and Rowarty.) Hetepsenusret has lots of space and can produce grain and straw (from floodplain and meadow), fish, game meat (from birds), clay, reeds, and wood. It requires Culture 80, Prosperity 80, Kingdom 75, 12000 people, a grand brick pyramid complex, a large brick pyramid, a mausoleum, and burial goods. Initially, there are no sources of beer, linen, or limestone, which must become available later.
My Hetepsenusret will be humble: not completed quickly, only a little over the required population, the minimum Culture, and no personal funds or debt or "rescue" gift. (It will have Prosperity 100 and probably Kingdom 100, but those are too easy to be a concern.) I will use Cleopatra with many of my typical peaceful mission personal goals, including Very Hard difficulty, all roads (including the rerouted Kingdom road) connected in the final city, and no festivals or blessings.
Beginning the mission will be difficult, with only 850 Db left after opening the Dakhla Oasis route. The wage rate will be at least 30 Db (which I have always observed before, but it hasn't been important until now).
All houses will have physician coverage, so health will end up high--my guess is excellent. The plan is to have a small population (but enough to make money and construct the monuments at a reasonable pace), then grow the population only as needed. I hope there will be less than 12000 people as we approach the end of the mission.
Building Hetepsenusret without future history could be interesting, but I don't feel like doing that either. Instead, I will look at completed Hetepsenusrets to see trade routes and quotas (which will be my only use of future history) and will design the city in advance. This allows another goal: no deleting anything that I build.
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My Hetepsenusret will be humble: not completed quickly, only a little over the required population, the minimum Culture, and no personal funds or debt or "rescue" gift. (It will have Prosperity 100 and probably Kingdom 100, but those are too easy to be a concern.) I will use Cleopatra with many of my typical peaceful mission personal goals, including Very Hard difficulty, all roads (including the rerouted Kingdom road) connected in the final city, and no festivals or blessings.
Beginning the mission will be difficult, with only 850 Db left after opening the Dakhla Oasis route. The wage rate will be at least 30 Db (which I have always observed before, but it hasn't been important until now).
All houses will have physician coverage, so health will end up high--my guess is excellent. The plan is to have a small population (but enough to make money and construct the monuments at a reasonable pace), then grow the population only as needed. I hope there will be less than 12000 people as we approach the end of the mission.
Building Hetepsenusret without future history could be interesting, but I don't feel like doing that either. Instead, I will look at completed Hetepsenusrets to see trade routes and quotas (which will be my only use of future history) and will design the city in advance. This allows another goal: no deleting anything that I build.