Screenshots

28 Nov (early City level 10)





Far left: Agricultural Complex

Here's the far left of the island, showing the cloth toolchain of 3 sheepfarms having two fields each, and 3 spinners, and the cider toolchain of 3 orchards and one ciderpress.  also shown is the goat farm arrangement for milk, and a second stonemason, plus two more lumber huts.  Note the stone roadway connecting the distribution center that handles these businesses.  carts move twice as fast on stone as they do on dirt paths, so the stone path allows the distribution center to keep up with a larger number of production buildings.  since there are no houses over here, there are no markets, churches, etc.  also, this industrial area does not connect via roadways to the harbor or to pioneer village, so the cart from the distribution center here only handles this area.





Middle Left: Pioneer Town

Here's the middle left of the island showing "pioneer town" and the bakery toolchain, having 4 wheat farms (with 2 fields each), two mills and two bakeries.  eventually these will all move to the far left, to make room for more pioneer houses, but right now these are being serviced by a distribution center that is also taking care of the stonemason.  Pioneers require AoE of market, carpenter, and church so they are arranged around a "town center" containing these AoE buildings. There's a big rock in the way at about the 3:30 position, so pioneer town will eventually movre to the left about 10 spaces to allow the full town buildout, whenever the bread toolchain is moved.


Middle Right: Vassal Town

here's the middle right of the island showing the harbor, warehouse, another fishing shack, and "vassal town" where my vassals reside.  unlike peasants, vassals require entertainment (at my current city level) so they get grouped together around the market, carpenter shop, and tavern.  I am trying to maximize the vassal houses in this circle, insuring they are all covered by Area of Effect (AoE) buildings and connected to a road to market as well.  At this screenshot there are 575 vassals living here (and some yet-to-be upgraded pioneers)


Far Right: Protected Wilderness?

here is the far right side of the island, showing two fishing shacks and two lumber mills.


29 Nov (late City level 10)





Far left: Agricultural Complex

Here, I have moved nearly all the agriculture toolchains to this side of the island.  I have tried to keep related toolchains entirely inside their respective areas of effect, so for example all of the bread toolchain of wheat farms, mills, and bakeries are closely positioned so that all bakeries cover every mill, and every mill covers every wheat farm, so they can all draw from a common pool of necessary resources.

Also, I've added a couple additional distribution centers, and done a fair bit of stone road paving, to provide enough carts to keep things moving.

As before, this industrial area is completely separated from the main population centers, having no roads connecting to the harbormaster area.  this helps isolate these carts from anything I might put over in that area, keeping these three distribution centers focused exclusively on moving these agri-chain products around.






Middle Left: Pioneer Town

This is where vassal town was being built out in my previous set of screenshots. At this point, all the agribusiness has been relocated to make room for a complete buildout of pioneer houses around the city center.

I have started to upgrade some houses in this area to vassals as well, and as you can see from the screenshot I am within a few population of making 900 vassals, and upgrading to a level 11 city!


Middle Right: Vassal Town

Here is vassal town, same location as it was in the previous screenshots. All houses covered by the service buildings have been upgraded to vassal. I did relocate the production house and treasury over here from where they were before, just because it will be easier to find them when I need to start production on something in one of these buildings.


Far Right: Protected Wilderness?

Here is the far right side of the island, not much has happened over here. Pictured are two (of my four) lumberjacks and two (of my four) fisheries.

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