Caesar IV FAQ Version 0.25 Made By: AAChaoshand --------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents * Legal I. Introduction II. Starting Out III. Resources IV. Money(Denari) V. Trading VI. City Setup --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- * Legal This FAQ is entirely my work. The information provided here is from various sources such as the internet, the game itself, and the instruction manual. None of this work has been directly copied and everything is original. This FAQ is not for distribution or sale and may only be used on GameFAQS and Gamespot. Please respect other peoples work and don't steal their hard work! This FAQ has been copy righted by me AAChaoshand a GameFAQS user in good standing. Until this FAQ is finished it will remain a decimal version. You may reach my by emailing me at [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction Caesar IV is another installment of the Caesar game series, this game is all about building a city for Rome and Caesar. Easy you might say right? Well, as the saying goes "easier said than done". Caesar IV brings you the challenge to build a thriving city while thwarting the ones that would want to see that all ruined. Not only must you master resource allocation, production, trading, storage but you must also manage your money from taxes and trades. This all sounds quite interesting and to make it even better Caesar IV brings you military strategy as well. Will you fight off the enemy with bows, light soldiers, heavy soldiers, or cavalry? Are you going to use walls and towers or would you rather just buy the enemy off and live to fight another day? The choice is yours in this game, it is definitely a challenging city simulation! --------------------------------------------------------------- II. Starting Out Caesar IV lets you either jump straight into the Republic campaign or start off in the Kingdom campaign which is a tutorial on how to have a basic city running smoothly. They do this by taking you through several levels each introducing something new while maintaining what you have learned. The kingdom campaign is a good recommendation for players not accustomed to the Caesar series, simulation games, or just someone who wants a refresher on what does what in the city. The Republic campaign begins the early Roman empire and ends after Rome sacked Carthage while the Empire campaign is much harder and continues on after Carthage and the missions are even harder than the Republic campaign. --------------------------------------------------------------- III. Resources Resources in Caesar IV is what makes your city grow. Without these your city will amount to little or nothing at all and you must know what each resource is and how it affects your city. Each resource has a specific use in the game whether it be for housing improvements or for military use you need to know what they are! Resources have 4 classifications for home improvements and they are: -Food -Basic Goods -Luxury Goods -Exotic Goods -The Food Class- The food class contains anything your citizens can eat, no specific citizen will deny any type of food given to them. There are three types of food that can be fed to your citizens and they are: -Wheat -Vegetables -Meat Wheat seems to be the easiest to produce and is one of the first types of food available to you in the campaigns. None of these types of food is preferred over the other but having more than one type of food can really help you keep your people happy and their health up. Another thing you must consider is what type of citizen you are providing food for. There are three types of citizens and 1 of them doesn't work but pay high taxes instead. Plebians and Equites are generally happy with one type of food but providing them more makes them happier and helps evolve their housing. Patricians are generally happy with two or more types of food until their housing evolves. Keep in mind that if your housing evolves then so do the citizens' food needs. -Wheat- Wheat is produced by means of grain fields. These fields are found under the sickle option on the building panel. These fields can only be placed on areas with green grass and flowers because they require fertile land. Note that the field does not have to be completely on the fertile land, just enough of it so that the majority of the field is on the fertile land. This goes for any fields you put down on the map. At this point you have placed grain fields but who is going to harvest them? To benefit from the field you just placed you must also build a farm. Note that your fields do not need road access but your farms do. Each farm type can support 2 of the fields of that type. So 1 wheat farm and support 2 fields of wheat and 2 wheat farms can support 4 wheat fields and so forth. -Vegetables- Vegetables are another type of food that can be produced, vegetables are produced from vegetables fields found in the same place the wheat fields were found. Vegetables require a vegetable farm which also supports 2 fields a peice. -Meat- Meat is a little different than your other two food types because it can be used for more than just food and is also a bigger field. The cattle pasture is what produces meat and the cattle farm is what is used for the pasture. The same rule applies as before, 2 pastures is covered by one farm. Meat is also used for training animals which we will get into later. -The Granary- So we have covered all three types of food so far but what good is food if it just sits at the farm all day? We need to store this food somewhere and no, not the storage yard! We need a granary to hold our foods for us so that the farms can keep on producing more and more food. Granaries are found under the storage button on the panel. The neat thing about granaries is that you can adjust how much food is put in there and what types! Granaries are manned by plebs and must be next to a road, make sure that it is a road near the farms or housing or it will take forever for your people to get the food they deserve. -The Food Market- The food market is another essential item to feeding your people. The food market is what distributes the food to the housing. Without this building your people will go hungry because they will not go to the granary. -Basic Goods- Basic Goods entail alot of different buildings to make them, usually a raw material building, a production building, a warehouse to store the item, and a basic goods market to distribute them. -Raw Material- Raw material is what is mined from the map. This material is what is used in the production buildings to make basic goods. For example, you need olives to make olive oil and clay to make pottery. The following is a list of raw materials: -Olives* -Grapes -Wool* -Timber -Clay* -Sand* -Iron -Gold -Marble Note that not all of these materials are used in the production of basic goods and only the ones with an * next to them are the basic goods raw materials. Below is a list of what each material produces in a production building: Olives - Olive Oil Wool - Clothing Clay - Pottery Sand - Glass Usually having one of these types of basic goods is enough to make your pleb housing evolve one level. -Olives and the Oil- Olive fields are under the same category that wheat and vegetable fields were under because they are placed on fertile land. The only difference is that you do not eat olives but produce them to make olive oil as a basic good. Olive fields require an olive farm and as you may have guessed, each farm covers 2 fields. To actually make the olive oil once you have produced the olives you must make an olive oil factory found in the industry button on the panel. -Wool is Baaad- Just kidding, wool is what is used to make clothing and is produced from a sheep pasture. Sheep pastures do not make food and are only used for wool production and also require a fertile area of land. Once wool has been produced and stored at the local warehouse you can then turn that into clothing wit ha clothing factory found in the same place that the olive oil factory was found. -Clay in a pit- Clay is one resource you may not have access to in some levels because it is only found in a clay pit which can not be built. Clay pits are the orange dirt piles on the map. Clay is produced through the means of a clay digging camp. This building does not have to be anywhere near the clay pit as long as the workers can get to the pit on foot. So if a clay pit is on the other side of a river then your going to have to build a bridge to get to it. Clay like all other raw materials is stored at the local warehouse and is used to make pottery. Pottery is produced through a pottery factory found in the industry section. -Sand and the dunes- Sand is another raw material like clay that can not be produced unless there is a sand pit somewhere on the level. Like clay, sand is gathered in a sand collecting camp and is stored at the warehouse. Sand is used to make glass and to make glass you need a glass factory. The same rule applies to sand, if you can't get to the sand pit on foot then you are not going to have any sand! That completed the basic goods explanations. Remember, all basic goods require a basic goods market to be distributed and before the market can get the goods you need a warehouse that the market can pick the goods up at. Distance generally isn't a problem but keep in mind the farther your market carts have to go the more time your housing has to go without a certain type of good being replenished. -Luxury Goods- Luxury goods are goods that not everyone needs access to. Plebians do not need luxury goods nor will they accept them. Equites and patricians are the only two citizen class' that need these goods. Luxury goods are goods that are produced for housing evolution purposes and keeping your middle and upper class citizens happy. The following is a list of luxury goods and what is needed to produce them: Furniture - Timber Jewelry - Gold Utensils - Iron Wine - Grapes Each of these four goods are produced in much the same way that the basic goods where only they use different raw materials. However, lets go into a brief description of them, nothing to lengthy since you already got the idea of how basic goods work. -Timberrrrrr!- Timber is wood, plain and simple, this resource can be gotten from any source of wood in the map, just don't clear trees that you may need. Once you have wood make a furniture factory to put it to good use, also note that weapons and chariots require wood. -Gold- Gold is in the form of gold mines, like clay and sand you need a gold pit to even begin stripping gold from the map. Once harvested, make a jewelery factory to start making those rings! -Iron Man!- Iron is the same as gold, without a iron pit you arn't going to get anything! Weapons and utensils both use iron in this game so you can make either factory to make either item. -Grapes- Grapes are a little different than most raw resources, they are like olives, you need to make a grape vineyard then grape farms. Once you have done this you need to make a warehouse to store them at and no you can not eat them. Once done, make a wine factory then you will start producing wine. -Exotic Goods- Exotic goods are those goods that no one but your rich people the patricians can make any use of. These are required to evolve the patrician housing and later in the game they will need up to six different types of exotic goods to get to a grand mansion level. These are really expansive and you can not make them, you must import them. ----------------------------------------------------------- IV. Money(Denarii) Denarii is what makes your city able to do anything, before you can even start producing items and mining raw materials you need denarii and there is a few things that you need to understand about it before you can use it efficiently. Denarii can either work with you or against you in Caesar IV and we all want it to work with us. Here is what I mean by this. Denarii in the positives is a good thing but if it is to low than your actually hurting yourself, you may think "okay i'm still in the positives in money" but this is actually messing up your economy. Low denarii upsets plebs and equites because they can not get paid. Pleb usually deal with it until it is in the negatives or close to zero and equites start bailing out on first site of possible debt. Suffice it to say, a population of 10000 does not want to see a denarii stash of 2000. This will upset your workers and within a few months they will start leaving. Another thing to note, while being in debt for short periods of time may not damage you all that much in favor to caesar it still hurts and what happens if your under attack a month later and all trade halts until that attack is over? Well you see my point, don't spend denarii if you don't need to until you have a working economy that can hold itself up. Another thing to note about denarii is that you can always donate to your funds from your personal stash, this personal salary has no real purpose other than backup. Sending funds to caesar is a bad idea, you can only send so many gifts before he starts getting upset or just doesn't care, plus it takes away from what you can give to your city in the event of an emergency. Many people ask what an easy way to earn denarii is, my answer is trade. Trade is the only real way of making alot of denarii fast as long as you can produce the goods well enough to keep up with trade. Just make sure you don't sell all your products so quick that you don't notice, you will then assume more denarii is on its way when it really isn't. Finally, taxes and work payment. Taxes are set to a 6% rate as a default normal rate, thus it takes 6% of whatever the resource costs and converts it into city funds. Note that there are two different types of taxes, goods and property. Goods taxes consists of anything that is bought. If your citizens buy it then they pay a tax with it and we all know what happens if we raise taxes. Raising taxes is fine as long as you can level it out with something else. Lower taxes is a good idea only if you got some angry people or just want more people to move into your city faster. Property taxes are only collected from your patricians, these rich guys pay alot of denarii to live in a well laid out area. Patrician taxes alone can pay your workers if done correctly. Paying your workers is another part of the denarii system that you need to understand, underpaid workers get angry and overpaid workers are happy. Underpaid workers deal with it as long as you level it out with something like lots of basic goods or food. Overpaying your workers is only good to keep them in your city or attract more immigrants. ----------------------------------------------------------- V. Trading Ah yes, we started talking about trading earlier and now we can really dive deep into it. Trading is essential to a great city because taxes alone just won't do. ----------------------------------------------------------- VI. City Setup ----------------------------------------------------------- VII. FAQS Can I run this game? I don't know, but here is the specs for the game and what I have as well to help you figure it out: System: 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent RAM: 512 MB Video Memory: 64 MB Hard Drive Space: 2000 MB ----------------- Number of Players: 1 Player DirectX Version: v9.0c Operating System: Windows 2000/XP And my system: Intel Core Duo 1.83ghz (dual core) 2 GB of Ram 128 MB Video card (Nvidia GeForce Go 7400) 90 GB Hard Drive I can run this game on medium/high settings with little to no slowdown except in heavy weather like when it's snowing or a sand storm arrives. ----------------------------------------------------- My buildings are collapsing but I have an engineers post right there! Just because you have an engineers post right there doesn't mean that building is cleared, the bigger your population and the bigger your city the more traveling your engineers have to do, so to help correct this, place engineer posts around key areas and if you have room stick them in other areas as well. ----------------------------------------------------- My game crashes when I open trade routes or trade! This is a known bug and should be fixed in the upcoming 1.2 patch. Speaking of patches the current patch as of 5 Nov 06 is 1.1. To fix your trade crash go to http://caesar4.heavengames.com, there is a forum there with that topic in discussion and people have found ways to fix it. ----------------------------------------------------- I have goods to trade but they arn't selling at the trade depot/dock! One make sure that you allowed selling of your resource at the trade center by clicking on the options on the building and allow trade and two make sure that they haven't already bought the maximum allowed for that year. If they bought the max then you have to wait until January to be able to trade that again. ----------------------------------------------------- My building has no labor but I have plenty of plebs! help! Unfortunately this game isn't like Caesar III and you can't just build tents and expect work to get done. There is 3 different types of citizens in this game, Plebs, Equites, and Patricians. Plebs work all the dirty work like factories, prefects, engineering, markets, docks, etc. and Equites work all the other stuff like entertainment, schools, clinics, religion, water, etc. There is a list of what they do in the labor section in your advisors panel. Patricians just sit there and be fat all their lives paying taxes. ----------------------------------------------------- My Plebs/Equites are mad and I don't know why they have food and water! Well having food and water is fine but what about taxes and payment? If you are under paying them according to Rome's standard salary they might get disgruntled. Check your labor advisor for the standard and make sure that its not lower than that. Also another thing to make sure of is that you are not in debt. If you are in debt or close to it you can not pay your plebs and equites. plebs generally don't get to mad if your almost in debt but equites start dipping out when they even think you might go into debt. A good example is having a population of 10,000 and only having 2000 denarii. This might seem close to debt for equites and they might start leaving after a few months. Make sure that you have plenty of money. Another thing to make sure of is that you haven't taken anything away from your plebs and equites accidentally by allocating labor in other areas. Fountains turning off because of job openings and food not being stored doesn't help any! ----------------------------------------------------------- My Equite housing won't evolve, it says I need city walls? Yes, city walls, and not just one little peice of wall. It has to completely surround the housing without an gaps, gatehouses and towers are okay though. I find the best way to get around this is to build a wall around the entire map when I have money to blow here and there. Note that rocks and trees are not acceptable places to leave gaps in when you make the wall. just be on the safe side and wall everything in. ----------------------------------------------------------- My patricians say they need this and that but it doesn't solve the problem! Patricians are a complete pain in the butt and wine about everything but give those great taxes. For the most part they need access to every building in the game that provides some sort of use that isn?t industrial or dirty. Prefects, engineers, temples, forums, basillica, odeums, theaters, arenas, colleseums, exotic goods, luxury goods, basic goods, foods, bathhouses, schools, libraries, the list goes on. Make sure that everything you build for them has access to all their buildings, I find making a row of patrician housing is easier than doubling up in rows. If they have to walk around to get to something then make it easier and provide an alternate more direct path if you can. Pretty much they need to be in a totally different part of town designed their way or no way. ----------------------------------------------------------- Labor and how it works Labor is something that needs to be watched almost every step of the way because when you start exceeding 150 open jobs because of the lack of people you start getting into a bad situation. That goes for both plebs and equites and remember equites need plebs and patricians needs equites. So make sure that your basic housing for the plebs is at least evolved one level before you go crazy with luxury goods for the equites and patricians. If you lack labor in any one area that you need at its full potential you can adjust it in the labor advisor menu. Remember doing this will take away from other jobs. Your best option is to preplan the city on pause if you are unsure on how you are going to get things running. ----------------------------------------------------------- My (Insert Rating here) is low Ratings are easy to get to where you need them given time and planning. Starting off with security is the easiest one. This goes up by itself provided you have enough prefects to prevent crimes and have jupiter bless you with wiping out any criminals on the street. Favor is something else most people think that they understand totally. Also keep in mind that if your prefects have to fight your battles crime will rise and security will plummet Favor works with you for the most part provided you don't miss alot of requests. Do not send gifts unless your in trouble with caesar because those are limited to three per type, small, medium, and large. Not fulfilling a exotic good request isn't going to hurt you either, it only helps, there?s no way you can provide 50 amber in a year if your trade depot only lets you import 30 a year unless you know about it way before that. As long as you fulfill his requests for the most part there is no reason you can't achieve the rating needed. Prosperity is another HUGE issue with alot of people. Prosperity is based on the level of homes and the amount of homes of that type then they take the total amount of homes and divide by the score you got from the level+type. So it goes like this: Level of Homes score+Amount of that many homes divided by total amount of homes. So having a large amount of Large Domus' and Large Insulaes won't help you much if you only have a few patrician estates or mansions. Mansions provide the best prosperity if you can achieve them on any given level, not all levels let you get a maxed out mansion. Prosperity is also judged by the fact that you have denarii or not. Having a debt reduces your prosperity at a constant rate. Population is the easiest one to get, build housing evolve and then your good to go! Population and prosperity go hand in hand. Not much to say about population. Culture is the last one. This one can be a complete pain sometimes. Pretty much you need to have entertainment and education to raise this rating and you can't just build them anywhere. These buildings have to have good to perfect access by everyone to raise this rating high. Build them in key areas and verify that they are covering the city well by checking the labor advisor and use the entertainment overlay to check what is missing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I get my farms to produce (food name here)? This is a common question someone asks when they first start playing the game without bothering to play the kingdom campaign. Build the field on arable land with the flowers, then build the farm that corresponds with that type of field, each farm can support 2 fields. Once you have done that make a granary to hold the food and your good to go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I make honey or other exotic goods? You can't these are import only and cost alot. The good thing is, is that once you import them you can export them for more than you paid for them to import. These goods serve no purpose other than to evolve patrician housing. Equites and Plebs have no use for them. Make a warehouse and store them, make a exotic market and sell them that?s about it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My goods can't be stored at the warehouse why!? Well a few reasons exist for this. One you accidentally set the limit to how much it can hold lower or its full. A warehouse not having labor with goods stored in it does not stop those goods from being used, remember the warehouse is just a storage point, the buildings that produce and require that good are the ones that have a cart pusher not the warehouse. I need money! Well making denarii is easier said than done sometimes. Taxes can hold up a city without any trading but that is no easy task and if I recall can only be done on some levels. Trade is your key asset here and importing as you might have guessed doesn't help if you are not exporting. Exporting raw materials usually doesn't sell for crap but can be a good start in the beginning or just for extra denarii. Unless a city will accept alot of raw material, which is more than 50 I wouldn't bother with it unless your hurting for cash. Exporting goods that you have made like glass, pottery, weapons, armor, etc. brings in the most money. You can view how much they sell for in the resource advisor by clicking the trade/storage button. Pretty much if you are not trading then what are you doing? Donate to your city if you have alot of denarii there too, you don't use that for anything anyway. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My people say they need (insert need here) Well just because you have an odeum for entertainment doesn't mean that is what the people want. An odeum is only one source of entertainment, theaters, arenas, colleseums, circus's are all more sources and the upper class patricians needs access to all of these, minus the circus, you can achieve a grand mansion without a circus. The same goes for food, they may have grain but no vegetables, they may have rings but no furniture. More than one source is required for advanced housing. Keep this in mind and use the map overlay options to help you figure out what type of entertainment they may need. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status and what they mean A status on any housing tells you exactly what it needs, could do better on, or is maxed out on. There are a few colors to help you distinguish what is what. Red: No access Orange: Reduced White: Normal Green: Maxed Note that a red treasure chest on a home means they are either not getting paid well at all or you are either in or close to debt and can not pay your people. A orange food icon, basic goods, exotic goods, and luxury goods simply means they are unhappy with what they have but will make do. This given time can hurt you in the long run. Green is having either maxed out resources when they don't need it or extremely happy conditions exist. Remember, equites need paid more than plebs do and equites won't tolerate low funds because it can lead to debt. Plebs can last a little longer with reduced pay or no pay but equites dip out on first sight of a depression. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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