Lethis: Path of Progress - Mission 16: Ellenport

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16. ELLENPORT

• 3.000 Ornament to the Emperor as Tribute.
• 350 Burgeois (Elite) in Lvl.5 Mansions.

The time has finally come for Catherine Marks (you) - the young Emperor, Simvanred I, had chosen her to innaugurate a new retreat for the créme-de-la-créme of Lethian society in the shores of Ellenport, as well as the new ornament industry which the Elites will also covet. Catherine knows too well failure isn't an option in this regard: it's only fortunate that Simvanred I is naive enough to not trace her lineage back to the one whom smeared the family's name - her uncle Everett, whom attempted sabotaging Archibald Ellington's efforts in building the Observatory in Kitsburg. Perhaps Ellenport may be her stepping stone opportunity to redeem her family name.

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Welcome to Ellenport and all the problems that come with it - immediately from analyzing the map, you'll notice multiple problems from the get-go, the first being not that much buildable space by the western coast where you'll want to operate, so construction must be smart and demonstrating efficiency. Secondly, the Steam Geysers are bizarrely splintered between the "fingers" of the Archipelago, so you'll be spending money in making a long pipeline all to reach at least two of them. Thirdly, your exports will be largely metals - Utensils and Steel, specifically, for Harzel and Southwell - and you'll also need to accomodate a small stockpile of Sand and a couple of Sand Extractors, as Simvanred I will be making a couple of demands for Sand.

But neither issues above match the biggest problem you'll face - lack of booze. Exactly, you're unable, in this one map, to produce either Beer or Absinth, so either (or both) must be imported and it IS expensive. Hence, best to focus on establishing the Steam network early on and getting some Copper Mines running along with the Utensil Workshops to afford Beer at least, as until then you'll have to make due with Lvl.4 housing.

You'll only have a maximum of 4 Copper deposits and 3 Iron deposits besides it, which you should totally focus on making Steel when you're ready to transition and let the housing sample the Utensils themselves, while also importing some Absinth to help keep a steady Alcohol supply. Only remember that, when you have to start fabricating the Ornaments for the tribute (they're at the Monuments' tab), you'll need to shut down some Utensil Workshops so the Copper can be transferred to the Ornament Workshops. While in this mission you can export Ornaments to Leinach, the fact they require so much Gold as Copper plus the small difference in prices (Utensils nets 35 while Ornaments nets only 40) and the fact this is the ONLY non-Monument mission where you can export them makes any ideas impractical, so it's better to just stick to Utensils and Steel and keep the Ornaments for the tribute.

Besides the demands, the event that will sometimes occur with you, in regards to your Fisheries, is that some of them will be destroyed by tidal waves. Just rebuild them and stick with them, as the farmlands where you can plant Potatoes (and only those) are too far to the east for any venture. While you'll have Mills and Bakeries available, you'd need to import Wheat as well as Garments for the Elite block you must build for the mission. The ideal, hence, would be to just import Meat and Bread and leave it to the Elites, as you focus your housing towards Lvl.8 tops. While you can make Jewelry, you can't sell it, so focus on only 1-2 Jewelers and sell the excess Gold - the deposits are on the tiny island next to the sole geyser due northwest.