Basic Elite Housing Block

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You can use a Boulevard down the middle instead of avenue. Also stick a horse ranch and theater down by the storehouse.
The storehouse should bet set to get 8 each of fleece, olive oil, armor and wine.

For some reason I cannot open the legends. I get an "cannot find the page" eror message. Any suggestions?

The legend URL http://zeus.heavengames.com/misc/tiles/legend.shtmlis working ok for me now, hopefully it was just a short term glitch for you.

Here's the housing block I currently use:

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The positions of the culture buildings and tax office can be swapped for any of the house on the outer row. Same for the maintenance office and fountain, but I prefer to keep them near the infirmary. The road leading out of the block can be placed anywhere around the cirle too. There are no drama schools or colleges in the block, since the philisophers and actors ignore roadblocks when going to theaters and podiums, and it gives me more room in the block for houses. Where necessary, I replce the hedges with monuments for appeal.

I use this for my elite housing:

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Four of them will max out my military forces. I connect them to the housing blocks so the actors and philoshophers will go to the theaters and podiums in the worker blocks, and the provide the elites with culture as they go down the street as well.

I finally got tired of it and did what I should have done a long time ago -- glyphyfied Nightwolf's common block. I needed a clearer printout, and might as well share it.

You'll need this playing many of his custom adventures, because he never gives you avenues, not in the first episode, so you need a common block with good appeal without them.

North is the top LEFT of the glyph, not the usual top right.

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[This message has been edited by Kluelos (edited 02-20-2003 @ 02:03 PM).]

Originally posted by a Poster with an inappropriate name

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Quoted from Poster with an inappropriate name:

Hi All , I am quite New to Zeus and have been trying the Trial and Error Method to Learn this Fascinating Game .I noticed in some of your City Block Models that Drama Schools seem to be Missing . I was under the Impression that if you Build a Theater you also must have a Drama School nearby .I guess this is not the Case ? Also , it seems very hard to Conquer Troy even with a Large Army . It has taken me 4 Invasions of Troy sometimes before they are Defeated . This I have only done in the Open Sandbox Economic Mode .I also have Problems in the other Adventures with Fires Destroying my Buildings even with Plenty of Maintainence Offices nearby . I Love Zeus , but it very Time consuming and sometimes Frustrating to complete some of the Harder Adventures . Any Tips on how to ease my Pain are Welcome lol . Thanks.... meinherr

Hi meinherr and welcome to Zeus Heaven.

Drama schools are required in order to produce actors, but the school can be a long way from the theatre. One drama school can produce enough actors to support multiple theatres, and many people place a theatre inside the housing blocks that need them, and put a single drama school somewhere in the centre of the city.

You can see how strong a city's military by counting the shields next to it's name on the world map. One shield is very week, five shields is very strong. Six shields means the city is unconquerable, you will have to wait until you get a message saying there has been a "military decline" in the city.

Just having a maintenance office near a building is not enough to prevent it catching fire. The inspector walker from the maintenance office must walk past the building before the risk of fire is reduced. Try to design your city so that the inspector has no choice but to pass the buildings you want him to protect. This can be done by limiting the number of intersections, or using roadblocks.

We seem to have strayed a long way from the subject of this thread (housing blocks). It would probably be better if you had started a new thread (or threads) for the second two questions. That would make it easier for people with the same problem as you to find an answer.

Thank You for your informative comments Nero Would . I will take your Advice . LONG LIVE HELOS ! lol

Hi, guys! How can I get the pics so I can make my own favourite blocks?
Your help would be much appreciated.

Wow! Cool. there's a lot of idea's! I should post mine sometime soon. This can help me on my cities

But there are so many of them, which one is the best?

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Hey I have a question. When I try to recreate one of these housing blocks it says my houses font have acces to greece and then they destory themselves whats wrong? Thanks.

New to the board. having problems finding the legend for housing block designs.

Any suggestions?

Hi Buffster and welcome to Zeus Heaven.

Usually, you can hover your mouse over a glyph to get a description of it. If that doesn't help, try taking a look at this Glyph Legend

Ravenn's 37 House Block for Poseidon

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I modified SenetEr's 40 House Block on page 1 to work better with Poseidon. It will evolve into Townhouses (depending on the surroundings, a couple extra aesthetics wouldn't be amiss - salt to taste), yielding a population of 2220. The two corner gazebos could be replaced with housing, as long as there's external roads to it. I took out one house and added the extra fountain because my water bearers are all twits. Really.

The benches could also be replaced with columns, and the house on the upper inner right corner will still fully evolve.

In order to make it make sense with Poseidon, let me give you the legend for the Culture stuff (translated into Science Stuff, since there's no Poseidon glyphs).
Elite House = Laboratory
College = University (gee, how funny!)
Drama School = Inventor's Workshop
Podium = Bibliotheke
Theater = Observatory

Let me add that I'm not showing either the University OR the Inventor's Workshop here. I put those right outside the city (usually along the top road, along with a granary and two storehouses (one for olive oil only, one for fleece only).

Errr...I don't know if this still applies, Wotan, since it's so late.

If your housing blocks are self destructing, make sure both your entry and your exit points are connected (if it's islands, for example, make sure you have water crossings to connect).

Enough off topic. I'm off to make my elite housing block.

Ravenn's 19 Elite House Block

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This one I like to use with Aphrodite's Haven (in Poseidon). Because it's six wide, I can also put the Museum in this, and it'll fully evolve. (The Museum is the 6x6 worth of pillars; the Haven is the series of gardens above the benches). The Haven can be substituted for a Sanctuary to Hermes or to Dionysus (they're both 6 across). You could also stick the palace in there.

I use four common agoras to make sure everyone is stocked up. I had to move the infirmary to its horrible location because the elite house it was next to refused to evolve. And then the maintenance office to ITS horrible spot because the Museum and the infirmary kept collapsing, because of the bottom left maintenance refused to hit either one (don't know why).

Within spitting distance, I set up one horse ranch and two chariot factories, and got everyone all up to speed (four chariots per house). For faster charioteering, add more.

Again, University and Inventor's Workshop are up next to one granary and four storehouses (one each for oil, wine, fleece, and armor). I also put one granary and four storehouses at the other end as well. That gives a population of 380.

The fishpond on the left side is representative of the Laboratory, and the theater is the Observatory. The elites kept shrieking about lack of science every other month, so the Lab helped out there.

[This message has been edited by Ravenn (edited 07-15-2004 @ 09:28 PM).]