04-05 - Emperor - First and Second Erlitou Missions
I think this is the last time you stay on the same map for successive missions...
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This is a transitional tutorial. It starts with a lot of information and even a suggested map of how to plan the city which you’ll see me completely ignore, haha. I definitely tried it their way the very first time I played this map and found it difficult to manage actually. I should try it again sometime now I know things better but I find that it’s hard to build a good Elite Housing block on that hill. I have better luck using it for farms.
Things are pretty straightforward with these missions. I start out planning the space, they are right about the fishing, LOL. I otherwise I focus on making on making sure I can fit my common and elite housing on the main area and fit other things like farms and industry around that. Then it’s just a matter of getting everything up and running.
Since this map only gives me two sources of food, I know I’ll need to import food for the elites. They also need hemp, pottery, and silk. Modest siheyuan’s don not count as elite housing really. If you place an elite house and someone moves in it will become a modest siheyuan no matter what, in order for it to count toward the mission goals or for military matters, it has to evolve into a lavish siheyuan. No one is going to take a noble seriously until they have silk, at least.
Once you have nobles though...you’re gonna end up at war, haha.
we’ve made it so far as a civilization we now have armed conflict! I then have to set up the industries of war, and of course, the bureaucracy of war.
and that brings us through most of the early gameplay stuff. As time progresses there will be technological and cultural developments that build on all of this but this concludes the basic set up of the game.