Poor Lutetia

[latent sundial]

Career Lutetia. City stable. 18 Large Pallace, 78 GI (pop 9972, build a lot on the empty lot to win the game)
Only monuments are Colosseum and Caravanserai (thus the poor in the name)
No global labour pool!
Every building upgraded!
People love me!

It occurred to me that it might be possible to create an 'eternal' city by keeping venus pumping blessings just by having more venus temples. But as the coding is right now it isn't easy. It's possible, but it depends a bit on luck, or on a bigger population to start with.

Some of the incremental saves included.
First one has the layout of the entire city sketched.
Final save is the final city just waiting to fill up.
FinalFinal is all filled up.

[stoic haven]

Those rows of large palaces look very nice. It’s that shadow the buildings cast on the SE corner. 🙂

Your entertainment points is 75 correct? So enough to control the palace evolution.
I’ve had to rely on desirability when I would build these on vanilla/Julius.

[latent sundial]

70 actually. 30 from colisseum, 15 amphi, 15 tavern, 10 theater. I had problems with desirability in fact and had to move a few buildings around because I prematurely placed the triumphal arch. so the 3rd pallace from the bottom on the most eastern row required those 2 oracles unfortunately

[stoic haven]

I thought the colosseum provided 5 bonus points city-wide?

[latent sundial]

yes! IMO large pallaces are more beautiful than luxury pallaces (not that this was the reason for me to use them, I just didn't want to wait 10years to build a hippodrome)

[stoic haven]

Ah yes, Lutetia just has 15 marble imports sadly.

[latent sundial]

yes. 5 global plus 15 or 25 depending on shows

[stoic haven]

Oh right, I got confused a bit by the table here http://mmxl.wz.cz/c3a/other.html

[latent sundial]

yes, that part of the page is a bit misleading/confusing

but it makes sense tho, otherwise colosseum would give as much entertainment as hippodrome

[stoic haven]

Was just checking something at the site again, and one thing I just realized is that a triumphal arch’s desirability increases with distance!

[stoic haven]

Anyway, I was looking at the spot you’re talking about, on the eastern row with the 2 oracles.
Hmm, are you aware you're able to rebuild triumphal archs? 🙂
Coz some tinkering could be done I’m sure to maybe get the original building placements.

[latent sundial]

wtf

more than 20years in this game

and I never bothered to try this

[stoic haven]

QOL improvement on one of the Augustus builds.

[latent sundial]

stable like so. even without the oracles. I did lose the arches road function tho

[latent sundial]

oh good. I feel better that it is only in augustus😅