My Priests are conspiring against me...

[Snowwolf]

I have just started Nekhen on Hard difficulty, and have laid out a decent city I think.

First at the start I had one Priest and one School, with the Priest set to Educate. This Priest was a workaholic, he spent ALL his time teaching and would never go shopping. Due to his poor time management skills he became so unhappy that I couldn't add more Priests when it came time to build up Healthcare, because the Nobles were chipping their fingernails and protesting.

Once I told him to service All buildings since he liked to work so much, he decides to go shopping, go figure...

After a while he decided conditions might be getting better and I got 2 more Priest in to ease the work load. One set to Educate, One Worship, and the Workaholic on Mortuary duty. All of which is right next door.

I thought I had them under my thumb when ... BAM ... Snowwolf I dies at the age of 41 and Snowwolf II takes over at 13.

I check the mortuary and sure enough it is staffed, so I sit back to watch the funeral. It begins marching to the Mortuary and get within site of it and ... BAM ... I see the Priest leaving to go shopping and the staff slams the doors shut right as Snowwolf I is being carried up the steps.

I am beginning to fear for Snowwolf II's chances, especially when it appeared that his bearers carried him off the cliff into the river where his Father's mastabas was.

Maybe Priests need more help, add an acolyte to their house to do shopping or something.

For Snowwolf II's life I beg for it.

Snowwolf

[sitearm]

* snif * This is really excellent! * sheds a tear for snowwolf *

...This Priest was a workaholic, he spent ALL his time teaching and would never go shopping... I am begining to fear for Snowwolf II's chances, especially when it appeared that his bearers carried him off the cliff into the river where his Father's mastabas was...

[Mayati]

LOL !!

I was having problems similar to this when I added my first priest .. so much work so little time for shopping ... he'd neglect one or the other and someone always ended up getting their feelings hurt and go stomping out of my towns.

So what I started doing instead was to get my shops and bread going ... then put down my first priest with no school, no healthcare facilites, noplace that he had to work and just let him go shopping. He'd go get his bread and his furniture and lordy don't let the man go without his perfume! THEN I'd give him work to do ....

Seems to work better for me .......

Good Luck!

[Maatkaamun]

So what I started doing instead was to get my shops and bread going ...

Yeah, I never start a town without common and luxury shops for the nobles and priest(s). It's possible that on Hard (which I've never played), you need to "force" him to shop, using Mayati's strategy. (If this is true, Hard scares me. :eek: :D )

[Snowwolf]

I did have all the shops going and they even had decent stocks, he just was too good to do his own shopping :)

Other than the allowed number of Educated workers being lower, Hard has not been too hard, but this is only the beginning of my first city so I will reserve judgement on it for now. :D

[Maatkaamun]

Keep us (me) updated. "The inquiring (wuss) mind wants to know." :D

[betti]

LOL !!

I was having problems similar to this when I added my first priest .. so much work so little time for shopping ... he'd neglect one or the other and someone always ended up getting their feelings hurt and go stomping out of my towns.

So what I started doing instead was to get my shops and bread going ... then put down my first priest with no school, no healthcare facilites, noplace that he had to work and just let him go shopping. He'd go get his bread and his furniture and lordy don't let the man go without his perfume! THEN I'd give him work to do ....

Seems to work better for me .......

Good Luck!


what about getting him a servant? would that work? :confused:

Betti/aka chinmom

[Gordon Farrell]

Heh, heh --- great story, Snowwolf! Even more aggravating, though, is a
priest who spends all his time at parties!!

[Jeff Fiske]

I have just started Nekhen on Hard difficulty, and have laid out a decent city I think.

First at the start I had one Priest and one School, with the Priest set to Educate. This Priest was a workaholic, he spent ALL his time teaching and would never go shopping. Due to his poor time management skills he became so unhappy that I couldn't add more Priests when it came time to build up Healthcare, because the Nobles were chipping their fingernails and protesting.

Once I told him to service All buildings since he liked to work so much, he decides to go shopping, go figure...

After a while he decided conditions might be getting better and I got 2 more Priest in to ease the work load. One set to Educate, One Worship, and the Workaholic on Mortuary duty. All of which is right next door.

I thought I had them under my thumb when ... BAM ... Snowwolf I dies at the age of 41 and Snowwolf II takes over at 13.

I check the mortuary and sure enough it is staffed, so I sit back to watch the funeral. It begins marching to the Mortuary and get within site of it and ... BAM ... I see the Priest leaving to go shopping and the staff slams the doors shut right as Snowwolf I is being carried up the steps.

I am beginning to fear for Snowwolf II's chances, especially when it appeared that his bearers carried him off the cliff into the river where his Father's mastabas was.

Maybe Priests need more help, add an acolyte to their house to do shopping or something.

For Snowwolf II's life I beg for it.

Snowwolf
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[Maatkaamun]

what about getting him a servant? would that work? :confused:

Betti/aka chinmom

I'm not sure priests can even have servants... Hey everyone--am I right or wrong?? :confused: :)

[Gordon Farrell]

My understanding is that priests cannot have servants, only royalty and noblitity can.

[Maatkaamun]

My understanding is that priests cannot have servants, only royalty and noblitity can.

I know that luxury shopkeepers can also have servants. What about some of the educated elite? I thought I heard somewhere that overseers can have them?

[Keith]

Right. The royal family, nobles, and luxury shop owners are the only one that can hire or use servants.

[Snowwolf]

Alas poor Snowwolf II did not fair well either. He passed on to the Afterlife at the age of 22, and was succeeded by Snowwolf III who had just turned 19.

Snowwolf II faired no better than his father before him with the priesthood. Once again they turn their back on their Pharaoh, and leave the Mortuary unmanned when he needed them most.

Notice top center, right after the tiled road turns to normal road, you will see the Priest that was tending the Mortuary walking away to get bread as the funeral procession approaches. :eek:

[imhotep3147]

Right. The royal family, nobles, and luxury shop owners are the only one that can hire or use servants.

Scribes don't have servants?! It's weird (or just coincedental [sp?]) that my scribe is horrendously unhappy not to mention his wife is lazy until I have a leftover servant (meaning every noble, luxury shopkeeper, and my royal family has one and I have an extra) I thought all educated elite besides priests could have a servant? *wonders if perhaps one has an overabundance of servants in city* :eek: :D

[imhotep3147]

When my nobles are in need of a funeral the coffin just gets deposited inside the mortuary if the priest isn't there. Then if he arrives within a certain amount of time, it's all good and the funeral carries on; if he doesn't...dissatisfaction occurs and Horus only knows what happens to the body. I am unsure if this happens when it's a Pharaoh that dies, I've always had the good fortune of having my priest in the mortuary at the time (yay me!!).

[Enigmatic_Sphinx]

I had a similar problem once, if I recall properly.

After my first few pharoah deaths I got into the habit of assigning ALL priests in my city to funerary duty when I received a message that he had expired.

I've never had issues with a Pharoah funeral since...*crossing fingers and toes*

[Wicked Mouse]

Alas poor Snowwolf II did not fair well either. He passed on to the Afterlife at the age of 22, and was succeeded by Snowwolf III who had just turned 19.My first pharao of Henen-Nesu became 45 years old! :D He was well fed and had enough luxuries. If I knew he would become that old, I would have started the pyramid much earlier :cool:
I've never had real problems with funerals.

[Gordon Farrell]

*wonders if perhaps one has an overabundance of servants in city* :eek: :D

Chances are you need fewer servant families than you think. I've never built a city that needed more than six.

[Wicked Mouse]

Servants are not only a token of wealth to the nobles, as they will carry the stuff for them, but they're also a shopkeeper's best friend :cool: When the shopkeepers can afford it they can spend more time on crafting and let the servant gather resources :)