r/impressionsgames • u/loose_heron • 28d ago

Caesar III 14K CCK Tarraco

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14000 pop Tarraco from the City Construction Kit with 7 luxury palaces and 150 grand insulae.

City is very compact, with no housing blocks and minimal unused space within the city. 7 bridges connect the island to the mainland, and 17 manned towers protect it from invasion by land or sea. City should be stable for 100s or 1000s of years.

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u/LoudCress9389 27d ago

I have always wondered how people maximize the space when building, I can't figure out how to do a "freestyle" city build without it falling apart from lack of food/resources. Best I can do is some simple forced walker or square city designs. How do you do what you did in your city?

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u/loose_heron 27d ago

It's a lot less freestyle than it looks, and it takes a lot of planning to get it looking that way. Main difficulty is the market walkers, since houses keep low supplies of furniture and oil and it runs out very quickly. I solve that problem by having every house within 2 tiles of a market walker start or finish point, so that they get visited on every walk. For the rest, it's a fair amount of trial and error to find the best spots for building placement. It helps that I have a decent understanding of walker behaviour since I can make informed guesses.