NAFTA (Alena) Map Tips
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First, you pretty much need to use a somewhat decent housing block, I mean efficient in terms of people it can hold per space required, if it’s inefficient you will be wasting a lot of space and run into your problem;
Forget about the meadows for farming on this map, that’s useful space for what you need most which is houses, just stick to the floodplains for farms;
Since the blocks you have to use need to be very efficient as people per space, you will have tons of unemployment during all of the mission (maybe even 70-80%), probably all you need during all the mission will require maybe 10.000 people at most, even considering you fill everything with industries, maximum quarries for the monument, max gold mines, max everything, you will still have high unemployment especially at the population goal.
Probably temples are the most useful thing to dump unemployment on, and even so it will still be a problem. But, unemployment is only a problem if you tax your working people, you don’t really need to tax anybody here, not even palatial estates though it’s their only purpose. Otherwise 70-80% unemployment does not influence migration and city sentiment in any way, so you can ignore it as long as you don’t tax most of the general population (or lower them, or 0);
You can play this mission the “easy” way or the “hard” way; easy way would be to abuse the fact that you can import everything for free and just import tons of everything, beer papyrus, etc. and produce some on the side, food you’ll have to produce cause I don’t think imports will be enough; the hard way would be to import only stuff that you can’t produce, sandstone and gems, and produce everything else on your own, you can totally do this too, it also helps with unemployment; if you import everything you don’t really have a reason to produce much stuff and you just increase unemployment, which again, not a big problem; or a mix between the 2, you produce how much stuff you can, and also import, you can do whatever;
A slight problem since you kinda have to give up on the meadows, you have to really find a sweet spot of the farms on the floodplain and their number for each, I mean between grain, barley, flax, you may produce too much grain and not enough beer, linen, etc. but importing will help compensate for what you’re missing;
Don’t forget the temple complexes have bonuses so you can switch to whichever you need most at that point. probably the most useful are: Ptah while building the pyramids, it will speed up most industries and monument stuff, as you’re finishing with that and start really increasing the population, probably Bast would be the most helpful, it will make houses consume less provisions (assuming the bonus works).
Here are some screenshots from one of my playthrough of this mission, I’m not saying you should copy that exactly, but it should look somewhat similar, depending on the block you come up with and just spam that over and over again all over the map. Also, if you can see, I wasted a ton of space for 32 palatial estates, you don’t have to do that, you have room for more people if you keep as many as you can in fancy residences, estates are twice as inefficient as number of people per tile. It’s just to show there really is enough space, even if you waste a bit.
Also, here I went for a trick, only jugglers and senet house for the 2×2 houses, that’s all they need to become fancy residences, so no pavilion (so no intersection), no conservatories, dance schools. It doesn’t help much, you don’t have to do it this way, I was just having fun, you may save a bit of space just make sure you have tons of beer.
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