#Poseidon master of atlantis hippodrome upgrade#
#Poseidon master of atlantis hippodrome series#

Next comes the elite housing, from which you'll get your warrior class - hoplites and horsemen. You've also got to add parks and amenities to improve the appeal of housing areas, otherwise some will refuse to upgrade. Other aspects of city development include building a palace so you can raise soldiers and taxes, and building infirmaries to prevent plague. At times, if you haven't put enough food away in storehouses, you can find your houses being downgraded so running a half-decent city certainly keeps you moving. Aside from fish and cheese, food is produced on a yearly harvesting cycle, which means you need to harvest it quickly or lose it. To get olive oil, you need to plant olive trees, build a grower's shed, a press and an oil vendor on the local agora.

#Poseidon master of atlantis hippodrome upgrade#

Each housing upgrade holds many more people so there's no need to build houses all over the map - it's much more efficient to upgrade. To upgrade to tenements you have to provide them with fleece by herding sheep and to upgrade to apartments, you'll need to give them olive oil. Add some cultural diversions such as a philosophy college, podium and gymnasium and they'll upgrade to hovels or homesteads. Shacks A BunchДЄs soon as huts have a food supply, they automatically upgrade to shacks. It's quite fascinating watching them go about their business. The food vendor then comes along with a few workers and takes the food to the agora. Now you can sit back and watch the wheat being harvested and carted off to the granary.

But to get it to the people themselves you need to build an agora or marketplace and add a food vendor. Once the wheat is harvested, you'll need a granary in which to store it and possibly a storehouse to aid distribution. Other options include carrot and onion farms as well as goat herding for cheese.ДЇarms have to be built on meadows that are relatively scarce, so some intelligent decision-making is required at the outset. The type of food available depends on the adventure, but typically includes fish and wheat. Initially the people will teed themselves by foraging, but to advance you'll need to start farming. They'll need water, so you add fountains and maintenance offices at regular intervals to keep them going.

Soon the beautifully animated citizens will start to move in.

Each building must be connected to a road so the first thing to do is build a road loop and add several huts. However, there are also eight basic and eight advanced tutorials, which could take you hours to wade through.ДЇirst things first, though. The main disappointment is that there are no random maps, which reduces long-term playability. Three of the adventures are open with set goals other than to become the most powerful city in the known world, either by conquest or building colonies. These give you various goals to achieve and many are divided into anywhere from five to eight episodes.

#Poseidon master of atlantis hippodrome series#

Zeus is purely a single-player game based on a series of ten different adventures. In Zeus you don't have to balance dozens of irritating statistics to maintain an efficient city - your citizens will do most of the work for you as long as you put up the right buildings. The building and resource management side has been streamlined to remove many of the tedious micro-management elements. It's an intricate yet hugely playable micro-management-cum-building game that lets you simulate the start-up of a city in Ancient Greece, complete with random natural disasters and visitations from the old Greek gods, villains and heroes thrown in to keep you on your toes.ДЄnyone familiar with the other Impressions titles will be right at home with Zeus but the game has a much broader appeal. Impressions has been up there for quite a while with historical management games such as Pharaoh and Caesar 3 and now they've weighed in with a third title, Zeus: Master Of Olympus. Just look at the current chart success ot The Sims, if you don't believe me. So-called 'god games' might have started way back in the '80s with the classic, Sim City, but that certainly doesn't mean that the genre is past its sell-by date.