User Manual

Hygiene
Hygiene was rather undervalued in the Middle Ages and epidemics were common. If you want to
reduce the fear of epidemics and thus improve the happiness of the citizens, build hospitals and
paved roads.
City Defence
The bigger the city, the greater the fear of attacks by intruders. You can only do something about
the defence of a city if you’ve been elected mayor. You could, for instance, train more guards to
defend your city.
The more buildings that are outside the protective city walls, the more the happiness of the
citizens will drop. Extending the city walls will help them gain confidence.
The Construction of Buildings
The Construction Menu
As soon as you own a trading office in a city, you can build
additional buildings. But there are certain restrictions: You
need quite a bit of money (the money lender could help you
out), and you have to accept geographic facts – there’s no
way you can build a mine in the middle of nowhere. Note
that you have no influence on public buildings, such as the
church, the town hall, or the tavern.
Select an option from the construction menu and take a look at the buildings you can construct.
Choose the building you want and then study the information you are given: the construction
costs, the time it will take to build, and the materials required. You will be told what materials
you have at your disposal (at your office and aboard the ships you have at anchor). If your
materials are insufficient, you are told whether the remaining materials are available in the city,
as well as their cost.
If it is currently impossible to construct the building you have selected – either because the
required materials are unavailable or because you don’t have enough money – a message will be
displayed at the bottom of the selection window.
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