MEMORIAPOLIS – Guide to Efficient Gameplay in Antiquity

Quick Guide to Antiquity Gameplay

By Tamtitamti.

Ofcourse it boils down to ones preferred playstyle. But I found the following heuristics lead to the most…efficient, stable and easy playthroughs.

Early Game:

• Build all three production buildings and upgrade City center-> prepare sand and clay eco.
• Build architecture office asap. Always upgrade as soon as you get the chance.
• Build exactly 1 culture building for the Milestone. If you want to get 100 score, preferably economy.
• Focus on building Service buildings, as they givr the most satisfaction per workforce and the architecture office lvl 2. Build production buildings as needed.

(Bonus: Pause some production buildings as soon as you get the necessary materials…for faster progress)

• You probably need to build one more culture building for the maximum health-bonus for faster construction… almost anything will do.

Between turn 300 and 400 you can start building a wonder of your choice that takes only 200 instead of 250 turns (choose Mausoleum, because you don’t have many wanderers yet).

General Tips:

• When you get a new faction don’ttax them until they reach full trust.
• Whenever you run out of food, sell a bunch if wood to waset->you can easily buy 2000+food.
• Whenever possible run the senat-decree of additional immigration for the maximum possible duration for langer workforce.
• Focus the production industry on wood, sell that regularly -> increase building space, safe other resource-deposits.
• Leave Ruins for the middle age.

Middle Game:

Once your first wonder starts construction you are basically set for permanent satisfaction.

It is possible to optimize for maximum blueprint efficiency meaning:

• The very next project should be upgrading the architecture-office to lvl 3.
• Only buying New wonder blueprints after reaching a new influence-milestone…which you should always make sure to reach via direct investment and/or buying-building culture buildings of your choice inbetween.
• But keep doing these basics and the game is almost running itself from that point on and you can’t really influence the outcome in a significant way until the next era comes.
• Just decide on whether or not you want to add further cultural buildings and where .
• Just don’t accept any New faction the last 70 turns of antiquity or so and you should even get 100/100.