Beating the Ancient One's

[bustamente]

I've played the Ancient One's a number of times and have always fell at least 100 units short of the required tonnage of gold/jewelry to be exported. IMHO, it's not efficient to build Jewelry factories as that delays the actual delivery of the product to the docks to be shipped. I've built up to five gold mines around the Archaelogical site with up to 3  fully staffed teamster offices retrieving the gold. Any suggestions as to how to beat this game? Should  I build more than five mines?

[DonaMaria]

From what I remember from playing this one, the five mines are fine - you just have to start out with one at least very early in the game.  Click yes for the offer (even though it will raise the maintenance on your farms)....put in another dock down there by the other one.....and make sure there's housing, church, market and pub right near the mines so they aren't wandering around too much....

[rakovsky]

Try prohibitio. They work faster and that gave me the edge I needed.

[Coconut Kid]

Try prohibitio. ...

What are you talking about? Is that a previously unnamed cheat? If so what does it do?

[s_stabeler]

maybe he means prohibition- the anti-alcohol edict.

[Coconut Kid]

maybe he means prohibition - the anti-alcohol edict.

Oh my word! Smacks forehead really hard!

I was living in my box!

I would not consider using this edict for a mere 10% increase in work productivity. Other than in the very short term, it makes sense only in a religious environment because of the negatives.

I suspect that the "Literacy Program" edict is nearly equally effective in improving productivity - albeit indirectly and with an annual cost.

Interesting that there is a five year gap in reactivating the thread.

[rakovsky]

Coconut,

That was funny.

You are right that prohibitio is usually not worthwhile, and that is a good point about literacy. I would not have used prohibition otherwise, but with all the gold I was able to cover the cost of the extra 2 police stations.

It was also worthwhile because the target you have to make is based on total volume mined, not your treasury. And players were coming up just a bit short by the end, so prohibitio provided the extra push to meet the goal.