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This block of 8 palaces follows a U-pattern and has all the entertainment venues within the block. As with all palace blocks, try to keep the granaries and warehouses fairly close to the entrance of the palace district.

[This message has been edited by Eraserhead (edited 05-21-2000).]

Legend

This is a variation on the previous block. 2 more palaces were added while all the venues were replaced with the entertainment schools. There's also an additional market, prefecture and engineer's post. The placement of the reservoirs in this block makes it adaptable to desert provinces. Just place 2 additional fountains on the bare tiles behind the small statues. There's also an option to create a backroad (outside the block) and use the palaces for labor access.

Legend

This is a block of 6 palaces using a d-pattern. There's an extra school building here which you may or may not use (either one provides the necessary walker coverage). The Senate building is also optional. You can use a Governor's Palace instead which doesn't require wokers and has a much higher desirability effect. (The Senate is just a personal preference). In this case, the forum is put in place of one of the schools.

Note: If you're building in desert provinces, just move the existing fountain one tile to the right and place another one behind the barber shop. You might also consider adding another prefecture.

I've re-arranged the markets to provide more efficient coverage.

[This message has been edited by Eraserhead (edited 07-14-2000).]

That's it for now. I have a couple more but it still needs some testing. Btw, my thanks to those who made the glyphy. Really nice layout tool.

One quick question: Is it possible to show the hippodrome glyph vertically?

Eraserhead

Great work eraserhead!!! All of them look great. I especially like the second one!

Ave everyone,
Here it is my design for a 12 palace block. Keep a few things in mind: 1) One of the senates is actually a governor's palace. Glyphy doesn't have the guv's palace tile. 2) It could also use an oracle for looks and an actor's colony could go in there somewhere. 3) Credit goes to Brugle for the initial 6 palace design, and subsequent hints from Grumpus the Tyrant got it up to 12 for me. 4) There are a lot of service buildings needed outside that gatehouse! All of the entertainment training buildings, warehouses, workshops, farms, raw materials centers, reservoirs, aquaducts, etc., etc., etc.! 9) This is hugely expensive to build. I would estimate it would cost over 20000 to get one of these bad boys up and running.

So there it is. I spent alot of time planning and running it through glyphy, then testing it, and I think it looks great. How about you? Any ideas, suggestions, criticisms, etc are welcome so let me have 'em.

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Cheers,