The Three Hour Tour

[thegrad]

Spend a day with Pharaoh Aha on his yacht. You will want to read and follow all tips in this game. Hope you enjoy this parody.;)

[Tinkerbell]

There was a bit of a problem with an early win screen, however this 2nd one is with all stated or implied goals met, Grad! On to Amrah... :D

[Tinkerbell]

Here is Amrah, Grad. This city was a bit tougher. :D

Oh, I also had a bit of a problem with my Palace. ;)

On to Merimde... :)

[Sheshong]

Thanks Grad for this wonderful and fun campaign:) :) :)
Loved the theme of this game and I think we can all relate to it.:D
Had a grand time on the tour.

[thegrad]

Thanks Grad for this wonderful and fun campaign:) :) :)
Loved the theme of this game and I think we can all relate to it.:D
Had a grand time on the tour.

Sheshong; I am so glad you enjoyed the theme of the game. I am now searching for a new theme for my next one, anyone have a suggestion?

[Tinkerbell]

Here is Merimde, Grad! Thank you for your campaign! :)

For some reason, none of the images of the donkey with the 3000 wheat insurance payoff came out. :o

Anyway, since I had not built any pyramids in The Three Hour Tour, I needed to built one for you on Continue Play. This is where the fun part comes in, cuz I broke most of the rules. :cool:

I set 3 Overseers on construct. Placed a VSP across the Nile from my city, regular limestone quarry & DOP with fine limestone. No barges. Dropped the cedar reserve & barges began to be built. I then added 3 more landings to the west on the pyramid side of the Nile & a new DOP for fine limestone next to the pyramid

Did you all know that barges consider placed but unbuilt landings as real? :D Yep, blocks were delivered to unbuilt landings & they caused a lot of pathing grief to the laborers doing the hauling. They unloaded to the center one, hauled to the right-most & abandoned their blocks. (Image #2)

Blocks were also abandoned everywhere. However the pyramid was completed. (Images #3 & #4).

Next I placed another VSP. Did they use the abandoned blocks? Nope. Not that many new abandoned this time, but I got a grounded barge! :D This pyramid never completed. Missing one regular block. (Image #5). I tried to delete the landing, but it didn't make the barge go back to the river. (Image #6)

Soooo ~ Here's a pyramid just for you, Grad! :D

Disclaimer ~ Do NOT try this at home. It is best left to professionals... ;)

[John-SJ]

LOL! Reminds me of something I did in another scenario. I needed statues which were across the nile, had everything in place, but it seemed to take forever for the haulers to get to the job of hauling a statue to the barge landing. I decided it must be that the landing was not placed in deep water and started construction on another. As the second one finished I destroyed the first. A second or two later along comes a statue being hauled by 4 laborers, and they were dragging it to the original site.

I watched to see what would happen, and got a real surprise, as well as a good laugh. They dragged the statue right to the old (now destroyed) landing and didn't even slow down. They kept on dragging it, underwater, all the way to the barge landing a ways up(?) river and across the nile.

I knew laborers needed to be in good shape but this is ridiculous! ;)

[thegrad]

Here is Merimde, Grad! Thank you for your campaign! :)

For some reason, none of the images of the donkey with the 3000 wheat insurance payoff came out. :o

Anyway, since I had not built any pyramids in The Three Hour Tour, I needed to built one for you on Continue Play. This is where the fun part comes in, cuz I broke most of the rules. :cool:

I set 3 Overseers on construct. Placed a VSP across the Nile from my city, regular limestone quarry & DOP with fine limestone. No barges. Dropped the cedar reserve & barges began to be built. I then added 3 more landings to the west on the pyramid side of the Nile & a new DOP for fine limestone next to the pyramid

Did you all know that barges consider placed but unbuilt landings as real? :D Yep, blocks were delivered to unbuilt landings & they caused a lot of pathing grief to the laborers doing the hauling. They unloaded to the center one, hauled to the right-most & abandoned their blocks. (Image #2)

Blocks were also abandoned everywhere. However the pyramid was completed. (Images #3 & #4).

Next I placed another VSP. Did they use the abandoned blocks? Nope. Not that many new abandoned this time, but I got a grounded barge! :D This pyramid never completed. Missing one regular block. (Image #5). I tried to delete the landing, but it didn't make the barge go back to the river. (Image #6)

Soooo ~ Here's a pyramid just for you, Grad! :D

Disclaimer ~ Do NOT try this at home. It is best left to professionals... ;)

Tinkerbell, I thank you for the pyramid:) . I know you must have waved your magic wand to make your laborers hull limestone from an unfinished dock:eek: .
Thanks again for the pics:D

[Tinkerbell]

LOL !!! ~ You crack me up, Grad! :D

John, I could tell you horror stories about US COTN 1.0. I have downloaded some very interesting saves over the years. ;)

[Miut]

Grad I had the Your palace is on fire message - but nothing happened at all to it... I was insured, though. ;)

[Miut]

Problems with 3rd scenario - Merimde. The Byblos trader has gotten stuck at the exit point on the other side of the Nile - 3 instances of him. :( I tried closing trade and reopening but no good. Byblos hasn't gotten any limestone and I haven't gotten any wood, but I got the prestige for establishing trade...

Went back to a slightly earlier save but I still had one instance of the stuck trader & donkey.
Any advice? Just keep on with it or start again? I seem to have a nack for stuck traders at that same exit point every time!

[thegrad]

Miut; I really hate that there is a problem with your scenario. Since I have not heard of other problems, I am wondering if is where you placed your city on the map. I know that makes a difference on the 1st scenario. I hope you will start this scenario over, because you will need Byblos. Sorry, I thought I had all the bugs out the game.

[Miut]

OK finally finished all 3 and loved em, Grad! I got 2 deliveries of cedar and made I think 3 private craft plus barge, was able to open the 2 sites linked by the need of wood then emeralds and promptly closed em immediately as I didn't have the wood to get them. But I got my Win!

I did restart the 3rd scenario and once again got the stuck trader. If you drop me a line here I can send you all the saves to your email addy if you like, so you can look at all 3 games to see what I did.

Just realized I didn't Save much for the first scenario so have to replay it to get to the Win screen cos it didn't save. :( Bah!
However, here are some nice shots of the other 2. :)

As you can see, I sited the last city, with the Biblios trader problem, by the limestone quarry. This was the 2nd attempt and my city was a little closer to the quarry this time, and more spread out to utilize the resources for Lux shops

[Miut]

Went back to finish Elephantine Island to find that why I had no Win screen etc was... for me, somehow, the game gave me a Win without me completing the goals.
I had only 8 townhouses and had only built 1 cult temple and put up a few Grand Obelisks... so another bug there?

So sorry, Grad... I always said I was a grand Beta Tester - I can break anything in ways no one could foresee!
However, I thoroughly enjoyed the campaign.

Here are the pix for you - and I will now go off to complete it properly. Again, if you want my Saved Games, mail me here. :)

[thegrad]

Miut; That will be so great, Can't wait for the new pics. Thanks again for playing.

[Miut]

Well, here they are. 4 giant seated Pharaohs, 5 yachts, 5 grand obelisks, and 16 lux houses. :)

I really had fun with this, Grad. I stayed a bit longer to finish my Pharonic Tombs - I chose to build mastabas as most pharaohs were not buried in pyramids. :)

Thanks again for a great game where I could just concentrate on building. :)

[thegrad]

Miut; Great Pics. Can't wait to see the rest. Thanks again for playing the game.