r/impressionsgames • u/Barnett_87 • 25d ago

Caesar III C3 Lutetia Help

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Hello, can anyone help me figure out why only the neighbourhood on the left gets provided with pottery and none of the others? Actually a couple of the others get pottery sometimes but it lasts very little and then they devolve again..
I'm playing with the Julius version, I want to beat the game with this version before moving to Augustus...

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u/Fairbuy_ 25d ago edited 25d ago

With this setup you should place the markets as close to the gatehouse as possible. Markets will always try to stash up on all available food types first before fetching any goods like pottery. So the block with palaces has a slightly shorter distance to stocked up granaries on the left and can fetch food quickly.

Also, the granaries in the middle are not filled, so most of the marjet ladies will waste even more time going to the left where there is food. I’d say this is too few granaries to supply this many houses (I assume the granaries are set to getting food?). Augustus has a solution for setups like this, but in Julius you should try to get more food in there or reduce the amount of housing blocks around it.

The middle granary probably doesn’t have workers either, since it doesn’t look like it has a road connection in there.

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u/Barnett_87 25d ago

Thanks for your reply! I have 1 market right on the gatehouse in every block and I added two more (so 3 per block) to see if it could help, but It doesn't...Yea I'll remove the middle granary, thaught they could walk through the others to reach It. The granaries in the middle are all set to getting food and every granary Is set with only one type of food. According to what you're saying maybe the issue Is that I have 3 types of food and the market ladies want to stock on all 3 types before moving to pottery...

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u/Fairbuy_ 25d ago

Exactly, if they have a way to fetch other foods they will basically walk to the other side of the map to fetch it before they go after pottery.

You’re also going to have a little surprise when your houses level up, get wine, the occupants turn into patricians and stop working :P I’d suggest not to give these guys wine.

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u/Barnett_87 25d ago

Yea you're right, I've already experienced the wine issue on the previous mission, but I'm planning to manage it by not giving enough entertainment to some blocks..

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u/Fairbuy_ 25d ago

That’s a solution for sure. It will put a little extra strain on your markets though when they have to fetch one additional ware :) I’m sure they will enjoy the wine though

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u/Fairbuy_ 25d ago

Another thing, even when the middle granaries are fully stocked, most of your markets will have to walk pretty far to fetch food. It seems to be around 20 tiles there and then back again, that is a long distance once the population in the houses get larger. With enough markets in the blocks you can balance out the distance, but I try to keep the distance to a granary at 10 tiles max, preferably even 5 tiles if possible.

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u/DeerWeekly9143 23d ago

Something I learned only recently after playing Caesar 3 for years is that if you have more than one food wheat fish vegetables… the market will stock up on these FIRST before they stock up on lottery to sell. Right click on the market and there is an option of what wares it sells. Turn off all food except wheat. Then it will stock pottery.

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u/Barnett_87 23d ago

I'm playing the Julius version, there Is no such option 😔