This entry was posted in Game and tagged Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Game on by nevetshd. Basically, as long as you keep the sum of your width and length equal to 27, then your the total walking distance of this block will be 58.īelow is a picture using 3024 layout in the real game (shang dynasty, stage 5): As we can see, there are many variation of this cyclic layout, we need to adjust the width and length according to the terrain. The graph below shows a possible layout: In this layout, the maximum citizen number is 2457 when all buildings are upgrading to maximum level they can reach under this circumstance.However, in the layout below, we are able to reach higher population: In this layout, we move the market to outside to increase the population. 62 = 30 + 32, therefore when the doctor uses up his walking quota, he will find the remaining path (32 steps) is longer than where he comes from (30 steps), then he will turn around and walk back to his house: which results in half of unvisited buildings.Now we can build all necessary buildings around this circle. What if we increase the length to some number above 58? Let’s say 62 for example. When the doctor used up his step quota, which is 30 steps, he will find the length of the remaining path (28 steps) is shorter than what he has walked through (30 steps), therefore he will continue his direction and finish a trip. Why 58? This is because 58 = 30 + 28, and the minimum walking steps in the game is 30 steps, which comes from doctors (both herb and zhen jiu doctors). At this point, you may have an idea in your mind: the most stable layout should be built around a cyclic path! Therefore, to reduce the randomness, we need to reduce the crossings. After the walking quota is used up, he will choose the shortest path to return back to his house.
If he meets a cross, he will choose a random direction. In the game, a walker will go along the path until he uses up his walking steps. To answer this question, we need to check the minimum steps a walker will do.
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Then the problem becomes: how to make a layout that could be fully covered by all kinds of walkers. If the layout of the city is not stable, it’s possible that at some point your population suddenly becomes half (citizens arrive gradually, but leave suddenly), then your industry, agriculture will suffer severely. For example, if a house do not have sufficient water (haven’t been visited by water deliver for a long time), it will degrade to the most basic hut no matter what’s the level of the house. When some houses cannot be visited by some specific walkers for a long time, it will degrade. Since population affects industry efficiency (where we make money and achieve the stage target), a stable yet efficient layout is what we want to achieve.įirst let’s see why a city will face a degradation. In Emperor, building layout is very important since it affects the population directly.