Going through 10 points which are basically an FAQ that people always ask me. BONUS POINT: You can click and drag reservoirs to instantly build connected ones without selecting aqueducts. Hope this helps you! Also, join my Discord channel to keep on talking with other city-building enthusiasts or submit your own city for the City-building Doctor series! Here's an invite: discord.gg/GamerZakh Want to buy Caesar 3 (or other games) AND support this channel? Use this GOG referral link! af.gog.com/game/caesar_3?as=1715648857
ua-cam.com/video/WrvL4YJrnhQ/v-deo.html GamerZakh, I don't know how to share this with you directly... but have you considered using Pulover's Macro Creator with older games? I find the lack of hotkeys very cumbersome so old titles like Caesar and Might & Magic I set up macros. Takes only about 10 minutes to set up let me know if you'd like help :). Love your channel, watch it obsessively before bed for efficiency tips.
I dont understand english well, so can you enable subtitles in this video please? This is very informative and useful video for testing and playing the game! *Greetings from Costa Rica!*
If i establish only a home cell that small but has a advanced environment in this game, is it enough? Additionally what are the rules of establishing more home cells? What are the ways of hampering migration while there are so many unemployments?
Jesus this just totally changed the way I play this. I played this 20 years ago when I was 10 years old and I just started playing it again when I’m 30. All of the nostalgia, thank you!
My boyfriend made the mistake of showing me Caesar 3 recently. I've been playing it nearly obsessively since. And after a night of trying, failing, retrying, and restarting Capua for 6 hours I should have been sleeping, we put on one of your Caesar 3 Let's Plays. This video right here will save me so many headaches in my future Roman cities! Thank you!
I´m 17 years old and play this game. My parents were addicted to it and they showed it to me when I was little. I like to play it but I´m pretty bad at it xD so this Video is very helpful for me
You're hitting all the 'mystery points' I've wondered about. Thank you so much for your attention to city-building games. I've been playing and re-playing them for years. I'm so glad to see your enthusiasm and expertise.
I spent so much effort in the newer Caesar 3 series to break those habits of trying to get everything 'perfect' haha. Crazy block designs really helped learn new techniques.
I’m only 15 minutes into the video and had to pause and thank you for posting it. There is so much information packed in here about the underlying mechanics that I didn’t know or couldn’t confirm but will trivialize future games.
another tip, once you've set up a timber yard going beside a forest, you can delete the forest and that yard will keep on working forever. obviously since you've deleted the forest you can't add more timber yards after that point in that area, but if you're in dire need of space, it's a handy tip :)
This was probably the first PC game I have purchased after my parents brought me to live in the United States. That's why it left such a strong imprint in my memory. I remember we didn't have a computer at first so I annoyed our next door old neighbors who had a computer but no one using it so that they'd let me play the game. It was a 486 CPU.
These videos are amazing to watch. I've been playing the Impressions games for over twenty years, and I've learned everything I learned from the forums from people like Brugle, etc. Your method of explaining using video is fantastic (there was no UA-cam when we started :D ). Well done!
I wish I had this tutorial 22 years ago so I made it haha. Have fun playing! There's a new open source port that's modding Caesar 3 now called Julius and a more modded version called Augustus if you're interested.
You don't need to build the Aqueduct and the 2nd reservoir like that at 3:55. You also can just place the first reservoir and pull it towards where the 2nd one should be, keeping the mouse button pressed. ;)
I replay this game after 15 years right now. It is still very good and funny. Back in the days I didn't pass the Mediolanum mission, now I am in Damascus and enjoy every minute. Planning to do the peaceful missions, too. Nice work!
I found the 9x9 block works on desert maps aswell if you place the housing one tile away from the surrounding road. You would be unable to squeeze as many people in as a 7x7 but once they upgrade to Large Insulae there will be alot more space for population. Because only 1 tile of a 2x2 building needs water access for the whole 2x2 building to benefit from it.
my problem is: if you have a 2x4 housing block, i don't know if i will have two 2x2 house or only one(and don"t know if i have a way to control it). so if i do a 9x9 housing block, i have a 50/50 chance that my corner don't have access to water
I know that feeling. I just did a similar video on Pharaoh if you're interested. All things that you wish the game would've just told you haha. Also, something I didn't mention here, you can click and drag reservoirs so you don't have to select aqueducts.
@@GamerZakh Thats the difficulty of those early games, they are really hard and not casual friendly. Nowadays games are produced for the casuals, easy to understand easy to be good in.
I'm not a city builder fan at all but caesar3 (and rollercoaster tycoon) has always been a favourite of mine, although I never managed to beat it, but I'm confident that I can get way farther this time thanks to this tutorial. Those were some awesome tips and greatly explained, very well done!
I've been playing this game since its release so I've known about most of these tips for a long time. But to be honest I don't use a lot of them. I've beaten the game so many times that when I play now it's more about the aesthetic of the city more than anything. The added difficulty of building a city that you have to work a little harder to make work makes it more entertaining. So I don't use gatehouses and the odd shaped roads and 9x9 squares. But I think all your Caesar videos are great. It's good to see that people still love and play this game enough that there is an audience for tutorial videos. Thank you.
I played this game for several years as a kid. I stumbled across your tutorial today and realize I didn't know shit about how the game worked 😂😂. I'm replaying the campaign at 36 years old with your tips, finally time to finish it!
Thanks, this vid helped a ton! I had tried to cram everything in a really tight space with a grid system and it was going well in the beginning, then out of nowhere thieves.. I looked at what my advisor said, high crime rate. I thought thats impossible I have a prefect on every block. Well the game doesn't lie I thought and started deleteing tents, gardens, etc. Just to fit more prefects, and it worked. Until I started expanding again... Now I understand, I totally confused all the prefects in town with my grid system. So much pain just to have a historical looking city :-( Just one of a hundred different problems this vid made me understand. Looking at you market lady! It was very educational and not boring at all, I usually can't stand long tutorial videos but I diden't even realize it was an hour long until I had watched half :-) Now let's watch some more! Sincerely a new subscriber.
That's amazing, I'm happy to help and glad you're enjoying it! Yeah this game is all sorts of misleading because of how puzzle game it is. Took me years to figure all this out.
I first played this game way back like 10 years back and i recently installed it again and simultaneously discovered your channel. And this discovery of this channel was like "why did i not have this back then because some of these problems i faced when i was a child especially the 10th point". I really appreciate your knowledge and work and please keep doing these. :)
The Destination Walkers section at approximately 40 minutes is easily the best thing I've seen from your channel so far! Mastering getting Market ladies to deliver goods without building extra Markets saves a whole 2x2 area and makes room for an entire additional god's temple in your overall city! It is also seen that you only require 1 Temple to evolve a house up to Casa level! Adding this to the information of Wheat Prioritization, we get the following conclusion: Let's assume the Capua Map. The Farmland is all to the south. If you build a small housing block for employees, lets say a 5x7 or 3x5 strip, with a Granary and -no- Market, and 3 or 4 Wheat Farms; Then a little North you build a second housing block, a proper 9x9 block with a Market but -no- Granary, the North Market lady -should supply both Housing sections with all of their goods as she is forced to travel to the Granary near the Farmland to pick up her Wheat? Yo could then repeat this pattern further East on the map, and thus end up with two small Farming Housing Blocks, and two large City Housing blocks, and the entire map could be supplied with only 2 Granaries and 2 Markets! This saves a significant amount of Time, Finances, Employees, and Space! Further, with 4 separate Housing Districts, you could probably get away with placing 1 Temple in each of them, giving your Whole City a coverage of 4 Gods out of 5. From what I recall, Capua does not have a Sea Trade route? You would need to add the 5th God to complete the level I'm sure, and you might have to build a second temple to each God as well.....so it might be better to build 5 small 3x5 districts, each specializing in 1 God, and arranged with the Granaries so that 3 large 9x9 districts' Market ladies pass every house. I was able to fit 6 9x9 districts on Capua when I passed it on luck, stubbornness, and overbuilding, so there should be space for 3 9x9s and 5 3x5s. To supply all 8 with clean Water might be the trickiest part, but that is relatively easy to solve! GamerZakh, does that still sound like overbuilding to you, and how large of a Pottery industry would you recommend to support it?
Overbuilding depends on what you want to achieve. If you are aiming to win the map, if the population requirement is 1000 people building any more than that is overbuilding. If you're trying to play more sandbox style then you can build as much as you want. I've been giving myself special personal objectives in my newest playthrough, so anything is okay really. As for number of things, I rarely count anything in this game. I go off of 'feel' and just visually assessing the system. I don't even count how much food a farm can produce in a year.
ok, I get that there are a lot of numbers to count and most people don't count them all--- but, is there any number you do count? do you know how many houses you use or is that all by feel to? I ask because you seem to be pretty efficient at getting your goals done in a single housing block, and I am still struggling with building extra housing blocks even when I am ''just trying to win'' and not really actually trying to Sandbox it.
Hmm it's hard to say without seeing your city. Maybe you can send me a save file? I could even do a city-building doctor episode to properly explain things. But yeah, I don't really count anything. I just look and see if it's not enough pottery I add more production. If it's too much I remove some. I know I generally have 4 workshops for a full 9x9 block if I want to evolve them to large insulaes, but at lower levels that will be way overproduction. 4 is probably still too many but I like having to s of surplus.
didn't know for the destination-market ladies supplying all goods by passing by, though I have hundreds of hours in this game and knew about the destination walkers. greetings for your tutorial, very well done!
please make more! i dont know if it means anything to you.. but it calms my anixiety so much. i literaly forget my depression for a moment. i dont know what it is, your inteligence, the voice, the rendom laugh... i watched maaany videos of caeser iii, and youre the only one i NEVER skeep through any moment of the video. please make more of caesar iii. i love those so much. would literally wait for thoes most hard epusides than any show i was watching.
Hey I totally understand. I'm glad the videos can help you out ♥ I plan to make more Caesar 3 stuff and with Julius there's going to be way more to explore in the future.
Thanks for this video. I don't remember reading the how the gateway worked in the game itself so that was the most shocking to me. When I was a teenager, I once managed to get patricians to come, but couldn't evolve them further because I was building 3x3 blocks. As I got older, I started building 4x4s and 3x3s mixing them up according to the space I wanted to fill. I once thought about building width-2-er kind of blocks but never got really far on it, so this video is quite the eye-opener for me. Also, when you were talking about warehouses and granaries and population started to emigrated I kept on thinking it was the lack of market (although it was probably because you wanted to make a point first. In the end, I learned a LOT in less than an hour. Thanks. I'll try using these tips next time I play. I usually aim for houses or insulaes for my workforce and would try to go to patricians in 1 place only. I used the population censor and noticed the graphs but I didn't know english enough back then so I was learning by experimentation. Thus, I would usually build a block at a time (except for the 1-2 houses near workshops thing, which would be one or two whole blocks, so yeah, thanks once again, as repetitive as it may be.
Was never much good at this game but I loved it. The access to labour part blew my mind, no more huge farming and industrial slums depressing my prosperity, thank you!
Hi Zakh! Just wanted to give a shoutout - Caesar 3 has always been a huge favourite of mine, and it's something I come back to once every year or so. Watching your channel has really brought the nostalgia back in spades, and I've been so inspired I've been playing again, and I'm really enjoying your walkthroughs...great content and production!! Keep it up!!
I've been playing this game for decades and I knew pretty much everything in your video but I never knew the bit bit about how you only need one house next to a building to supply workers for it. I can't believe I played this game for all these years and never knew that. For that you get a like and a subscribe. I hope the rest of your library is as good and as well informed.
If only you could use gatehouses on truly peaceful maps like capua and tarraco, and i didn't know that warehouses didn't need direct road access to one another, super useful to know!
#Never give choices for workers; Zakh 2017 You play games that had invaded my childhood with joyous and great moments my friend :). I love your channel and im gladly following your new videos. All the best.
I have finished the military campaign on an older version that doesn`t have diff level without using gatehouses, and I am on the peaceful campaign to Valentia, I started to follow you a bit, won Lugdunum with your help, won Tarsus without gatehouses and I repelled 3 attacks of caesar with 3 javelin 3 mounted legion and defensive walls with towers and guards :), man this video is so helpful, ty ; I tried to win Massilia but failed, I struggle with prosperity now........ ty again man :)
someone already sort of mentioned it, but I feel like most players, even some of the best, don't realize you can click and drag reservoirs. put one down, then click on it again and drag the new one where you want it. like Drawing a road. anyway, great video as always!
Great video, I was pleased to see I knew everything already hehe. I also got a tip for everyone who has the problem with old people. On my latest win on Massilia(last map) I accidently ran out of pottery wich made the whole city devolve. But the new people coming in where all young workers and within a couple months of producing pottery my whole city was better than ever.
Something people usually forgets is in the Mediterranean terrain, wheat is growing faster than other crops. But wheat is consumed faster than other crops too (not depending on the terrain)
Informative, demonstrative and direct. This is a great tutorial and explained plenty of things about this game for me, returning to it after possibly 10+ years of nostalgia and buying the game recently. Thanks for the hard work and keep it up!
Definitely having fun, I had trouble starting up again as I was just confused, but almost all these tips helped. I did struggle with the separation of industry and housing, but a few extra markets and storehouses shot me right up in the population.
don't know how i landed on your play through of ceasar 3 from 2012 (i have never played the game myself), but it is funny to see you making a guide about the game 5 years later 😂i guess you became pretty good at it after a while. i wont play ceasar 3 myself but my game theory will be great lol
Yeah I did get pretty good, I redid a playthrough where each mission I had to do a crazy block design or challenge. You might be interested in the final few parts as I did a 'heretic city' where I had constant curses from every god except Venus. Something about that caused a bunch of bugs I've never seen before too haha.
It is the first time that I watch videos about this game after hours and hours. OMG I play so differently, I understand now some issues I had So many tips I didn't know... thank you ! Like gatehouses, I never use them ^^'
Holy Crap! I should have seen this in 1999. IT was so frustrating not passing Praetor rank. My cities frequently overpopulate or underpopulate or starve. THank you
Yes! Prefect does fight off invasion. This was one of my fun challenge back in the day, to stave off invasion/caesar's legon just with bunch of prefects surrounded by towers and sentries. Ahaha, I also did this with gladiators and lions. Dang, what a nostalgia. Time to dig up the old impressions CDs again.
an easier way to measure your block size is to build your houses first, 1 house square costs 10 gold so the houses on side 9x9 cost 180 and houses on side of 7x7 cost 140. easier than manually counting squares.
Man, love this vid. I have played this game since I was a kid and I have learned more ways to optimize city-building. It makes me wanna install and play it over again.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! There's always things about this game to discover. In my second playthrough I did crazy things each mission and I think I discovered bugs that you'd pretty much never encounter ever.
I've just switched over to 8x8 housing blocks. Sure it might need 12 more water employees per block in desert missions, but you can evolve everything to Large/Grand Insulae much more neatly this way to a perfect fit (if things are really stable you might even be able to remove the extra fountains). Because every single of those leftover 1x1 Medium Insulae you'd have otherwise consumes the same amount of pottery/furniture as a 2x2 unit (which can house 4x as many people), so not having those 1x1 houses saves resources (which gives better market stability) and slightly helps with prosperity as well
Question, I have been playing Ceasar III probably since around 2000s. I reached like the fifth level away from Ceasar. Just wanted to leave some thoughts about past success: get a source of income stated right away; debt to ceasar will take you down. Use the spearmen, leagons, and towars/wall guards for the city's defense. When ever possible build farms so that more people can be attracted to your city. Have plenty of temples and festivles (I wish there was a Constintine I version that I could build Churches instead). The Prefects are your friends, they will be like standin solders for any situations.
Mix of myself and asking for help. Play the game enough times trying weird things and you'll start discovering all sorts of glitches and secrets though.
It was laughable finding out the market lady was going miles away for grain but then it blew my mind when you starting to utilise her as a destination walker 🤯
37:26 wow, I thought that the priorities were as follows: 1. Wheat 2.Fruits 3.Meat and so on. Never thought that all type of foods were considered equal except for wheat, because I always saw the market lady going through all the map to get wheat first haha.
Regarding ageing population... never aim for "No Employment Problems". Having between 2% and 6% unemployment absorbs fluctuation in workers.... Further more, if you have a sudden spike in unemployment that your not ready for, An academy take 30 employees and reduces unemployment until you need workers elsewhere. Final point... Worker walkers walk clockwise. brown walkers will start anti-clockwise... if you manage this correctly, you wont need gatehouses
This problem of old populations gave me a ton of troubles, especially for cities like Lutetia, where we have to get 10k people. Really interesting guide there ! :) There are still a couple of points I still cannot understand (I'm gonna take some precise examples) : 1. Imagine you place a prefecture on the corner of a 9x9 bloc, just next to a gatehouse. Sometimes, depending on the angle and the corner, for some reason, the prefect will initially (and consistently) cross the gatehouse on the wrong side and walk as an idiot on an empty road... Dunno if I'm clear 2. I don't understand why sometimes, children running away from schools just do not cover a whole 9x9 house block. After looking at their movements carefully, I noticed they sometimes consider corners as intersections and come back, or sometimes, they just disappear too early in the middle of the block so there is just one or two houses that are not covered. Otherwise, just a comment about prefects: I feel like they are pretty weak against any enemy warrior. I prefer using my own setup where I force a bunch of gladiators and lions to walk through a *very* long road with a ton of corners in front of towers to get to the colosseum. That way they infinitely slow down an entire army while the towers clean them up ^^ Just need a single fort of javelins to deal with the biggest army of Mediolanum/Lindum x)
Muchas gracias por tus consejos, no lograba pasar el nivel de ingeniero, pero gracias a tu video q encontré ayer, hoy pude pasar el nivel con 100% de paz jaja 😘 saludos desde la Ciudad de México
Thank you very much for the Tips! The analogy that you made about the distribuiton center is awesome, it's just like the things are in the real life. With your tips in mind I'll try now to pass through Tarsus!!!
My first Caeser 3 video on youtube and right off the back one of my main preconceptions from playing this game in early 00s has been shattered. I didn't know that you could make lots of little independant road loops. I assumed that every piece of road had too be linked together, all the way to the blue & red flags :D Or maybe that was just how I played, as it made more real life logical sense for a city and it was so ingrained that I thought it was a rule.
Furtheremore I only used 2 Gatehouses (other than those for gaps in walls for soldiers to pass thourough). One gatehouse at either end of the city near the flags to save some time with people walking there unnnecessarily >
Going through 10 points which are basically an FAQ that people always ask me. BONUS POINT: You can click and drag reservoirs to instantly build connected ones without selecting aqueducts. Hope this helps you! Also, join my Discord channel to keep on talking with other city-building enthusiasts or submit your own city for the City-building Doctor series! Here's an invite: discord.gg/GamerZakh Want to buy Caesar 3 (or other games) AND support this channel? Use this GOG referral link! af.gog.com/game/caesar_3?as=1715648857
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GamerZakh, I don't know how to share this with you directly... but have you considered using Pulover's Macro Creator with older games? I find the lack of hotkeys very cumbersome so old titles like Caesar and Might & Magic I set up macros. Takes only about 10 minutes to set up let me know if you'd like help :).
Love your channel, watch it obsessively before bed for efficiency tips.
GamerZakh how to dowloand the game on eindows 7 pls tell me or give me link
GamerZakh I
I dont understand english well, so can you enable subtitles in this video please?
This is very informative and useful video for testing and playing the game!
*Greetings from Costa Rica!*
If i establish only a home cell that small but has a advanced environment in this game, is it enough?
Additionally what are the rules of establishing more home cells?
What are the ways of hampering migration while there are so many unemployments?
Jesus this just totally changed the way I play this.
I played this 20 years ago when I was 10 years old and I just started playing it again when I’m 30. All of the nostalgia, thank you!
Literally the same, very thankful to this man
Ha, we're all doing the same thing I see.
Done any Lords of Magic or other OG games? 🔥
Same, real nostalgia! i see i made a comment 3 years ago on the channel and recently came back to caesar again. Great game.
My boyfriend made the mistake of showing me Caesar 3 recently. I've been playing it nearly obsessively since. And after a night of trying, failing, retrying, and restarting Capua for 6 hours I should have been sleeping, we put on one of your Caesar 3 Let's Plays. This video right here will save me so many headaches in my future Roman cities! Thank you!
I needed this tute 20 years ago lol
TopPun01 me2
Better late than never!
+1
XD
exactly what i thought ^^
1. 9x9 & 7x7 Housing Blocks [02:02]
2. Climate & Prefectures [06:05]
3. Employment & Walkers [09:14]
4. Gatehouses [14:58]
5. Broken Roads [18:52]
6. Getting & Accepting [22:03]
7. Market Ladies & Wheat Priority [33:38] (Starts with Explanation of Granaries and Warehouses)
8. Destination Walker [41:10]
9. Your City is a System [47:21]
10. Ageing Population [49:05]
hail caesar!
The hero we needed.
Jou ma se poes
"It's not kind, but it's efficient." is my new favorite phrase.
Your videos about Caesar 3 are timeless masterpieces that should be preserved for future generations! Keep up the great work.
I´m 17 years old and play this game. My parents were addicted to it and they showed it to me when I was little. I like to play it but I´m pretty bad at it xD so this Video is very helpful for me
I was 17 when i played it too... Im probably your parents age now too hahahah
Enjoy!
Hail our new Caesar
I'm already dead and I still play this game.
an entire 2000 generation
i played it since i was 6 so... 2002? and im still on it.. always trying to improve and beat the desert level
-"We'll let the people burn"
WORST DOCTOR EVER.
How about him suggesting to lower the health of the population to kill off the elderly!
Thats true Caesar 3 wisdom!
@@AleksandarIvanov69 lmao tht was evil :"D
Best Nero ever!
"Don't worry about the fire."
LMAO
You're hitting all the 'mystery points' I've wondered about. Thank you so much for your attention to city-building games. I've been playing and re-playing them for years. I'm so glad to see your enthusiasm and expertise.
"don't let your OCD get to you"- me, overthinking road and layout design for 5 hours befor placing a house. xD
I spent so much effort in the newer Caesar 3 series to break those habits of trying to get everything 'perfect' haha. Crazy block designs really helped learn new techniques.
I’m only 15 minutes into the video and had to pause and thank you for posting it. There is so much information packed in here about the underlying mechanics that I didn’t know or couldn’t confirm but will trivialize future games.
It takes years of fiddling to find out this stuff haha, glad you found some new information!
another tip, once you've set up a timber yard going beside a forest, you can delete the forest and that yard will keep on working forever. obviously since you've deleted the forest you can't add more timber yards after that point in that area, but if you're in dire need of space, it's a handy tip :)
True, but is a big risk, i the build is destroyed for any reason, fire, military attack, ecc.. So I advise to do not that
I really needed to find this video in 1999
I needed it too haha.
This was probably the first PC game I have purchased after my parents brought me to live in the United States. That's why it left such a strong imprint in my memory. I remember we didn't have a computer at first so I annoyed our next door old neighbors who had a computer but no one using it so that they'd let me play the game. It was a 486 CPU.
These videos are amazing to watch. I've been playing the Impressions games for over twenty years, and I've learned everything I learned from the forums from people like Brugle, etc. Your method of explaining using video is fantastic (there was no UA-cam when we started :D ).
Well done!
Thank you! I'm really glad you're enjoying them.
just delete the fountains, everybody moves out. Build the fountain again, young people will move in. Also works in Pharao.
seriously?
Don´t do it at the same time!
wow, thank you!
You're an evil genius 🔥
So odd to see a tutorial for a 22yr old game get so many views... awesome! I loved this game, I guess I will have to download and play it again...
I wish I had this tutorial 22 years ago so I made it haha. Have fun playing! There's a new open source port that's modding Caesar 3 now called Julius and a more modded version called Augustus if you're interested.
"If you wanna break bread, you gotta get that wheat"
- Market Lady, 245 B.C.
Market ladies will be my downfall...
Bravo Zakh. Love you. Please keep doing this for humanity till the end of time.
You don't need to build the Aqueduct and the 2nd reservoir like that at 3:55. You also can just place the first reservoir and pull it towards where the 2nd one should be, keeping the mouse button pressed. ;)
Wow, first time I learned something from a youtube comment.
I just tried it and it actually works. thanks alot :D
amazing how i could play through the game multiple times, and still didnt know most of the tricks you presented.
when zakh was saying dont mind the burning house. i could not stop seeing that meme with the dog in the burning house.
This is fine.
"This is fine"
I replay this game after 15 years right now. It is still very good and funny. Back in the days I didn't pass the Mediolanum mission, now I am in Damascus and enjoy every minute. Planning to do the peaceful missions, too. Nice work!
Same here, back in the day Mediolanum was where I always lost. Glad you're enjoying the videos, thank you!
Can't believed i almost beat the game back in the days without this video.
I found the 9x9 block works on desert maps aswell if you place the housing one tile away from the surrounding road. You would be unable to squeeze as many people in as a 7x7 but once they upgrade to Large Insulae there will be alot more space for population. Because only 1 tile of a 2x2 building needs water access for the whole 2x2 building to benefit from it.
Oh that's a good trick. If I ever do an advanced techniques video I'll include exploiting 2x2 houses so it can expand 3 tiles away.
Thanks alot, again a nice tip :)
shouldnt it work on normal maps aswell, so you can make 10x10 house blocks? @@GamerZakh
@@originalhasky If so, then it'd be 11x11.
my problem is: if you have a 2x4 housing block, i don't know if i will have two 2x2 house or only one(and don"t know if i have a way to control it). so if i do a 9x9 housing block, i have a 50/50 chance that my corner don't have access to water
Excellent! I've been playing this game since it came out and I didn't know HALF of this stuff!
I know that feeling. I just did a similar video on Pharaoh if you're interested. All things that you wish the game would've just told you haha. Also, something I didn't mention here, you can click and drag reservoirs so you don't have to select aqueducts.
@@GamerZakh Thats the difficulty of those early games, they are really hard and not casual friendly.
Nowadays games are produced for the casuals, easy to understand easy to be good in.
I'm not a city builder fan at all but caesar3 (and rollercoaster tycoon) has always been a favourite of mine, although I never managed to beat it, but I'm confident that I can get way farther this time thanks to this tutorial. Those were some awesome tips and greatly explained, very well done!
I've been playing this game since its release so I've known about most of these tips for a long time. But to be honest I don't use a lot of them. I've beaten the game so many times that when I play now it's more about the aesthetic of the city more than anything. The added difficulty of building a city that you have to work a little harder to make work makes it more entertaining. So I don't use gatehouses and the odd shaped roads and 9x9 squares. But I think all your Caesar videos are great. It's good to see that people still love and play this game enough that there is an audience for tutorial videos. Thank you.
I played this game for several years as a kid. I stumbled across your tutorial today and realize I didn't know shit about how the game worked 😂😂. I'm replaying the campaign at 36 years old with your tips, finally time to finish it!
I did the same thing when I started this channel haha. Finally decided to try finish the game but didn't know anything as a kid.
Thanks, this vid helped a ton! I had tried to cram everything in a really tight space with a grid system and it was going well in the beginning, then out of nowhere thieves.. I looked at what my advisor said, high crime rate. I thought thats impossible I have a prefect on every block. Well the game doesn't lie I thought and started deleteing tents, gardens, etc. Just to fit more prefects, and it worked. Until I started expanding again... Now I understand, I totally confused all the prefects in town with my grid system. So much pain just to have a historical looking city :-( Just one of a hundred different problems this vid made me understand. Looking at you market lady! It was very educational and not boring at all, I usually can't stand long tutorial videos but I diden't even realize it was an hour long until I had watched half :-) Now let's watch some more!
Sincerely a new subscriber.
That's amazing, I'm happy to help and glad you're enjoying it! Yeah this game is all sorts of misleading because of how puzzle game it is. Took me years to figure all this out.
I first played this game way back like 10 years back and i recently installed it again and simultaneously discovered your channel.
And this discovery of this channel was like "why did i not have this back then because some of these problems i faced when i was a child especially the 10th point".
I really appreciate your knowledge and work and please keep doing these. :)
Glad I could help! I also played the game back when it first released and had no idea about any of this haha.
GamerZakh And your videos have a nostalgic tinge to them which excites me the most.
The Destination Walkers section at approximately 40 minutes is easily the best thing I've seen from your channel so far! Mastering getting Market ladies to deliver goods without building extra Markets saves a whole 2x2 area and makes room for an entire additional god's temple in your overall city!
It is also seen that you only require 1 Temple to evolve a house up to Casa level!
Adding this to the information of Wheat Prioritization, we get the following conclusion:
Let's assume the Capua Map. The Farmland is all to the south.
If you build a small housing block for employees, lets say a 5x7 or 3x5 strip, with a Granary and -no- Market, and 3 or 4 Wheat Farms;
Then a little North you build a second housing block, a proper 9x9 block with a Market but -no- Granary, the North Market lady -should supply both Housing sections with all of their goods as she is forced to travel to the Granary near the Farmland to pick up her Wheat?
Yo could then repeat this pattern further East on the map, and thus end up with two small Farming Housing Blocks, and two large City Housing blocks, and the entire map could be supplied with only 2 Granaries and 2 Markets!
This saves a significant amount of Time, Finances, Employees, and Space! Further, with 4 separate Housing Districts, you could probably get away with placing 1 Temple in each of them, giving your Whole City a coverage of 4 Gods out of 5. From what I recall, Capua does not have a Sea Trade route?
You would need to add the 5th God to complete the level I'm sure, and you might have to build a second temple to each God as well.....so it might be better to build 5 small 3x5 districts, each specializing in 1 God, and arranged with the Granaries so that 3 large 9x9 districts' Market ladies pass every house. I was able to fit 6 9x9 districts on Capua when I passed it on luck, stubbornness, and overbuilding, so there should be space for 3 9x9s and 5 3x5s.
To supply all 8 with clean Water might be the trickiest part, but that is relatively easy to solve!
GamerZakh, does that still sound like overbuilding to you, and how large of a Pottery industry would you recommend to support it?
Overbuilding depends on what you want to achieve. If you are aiming to win the map, if the population requirement is 1000 people building any more than that is overbuilding. If you're trying to play more sandbox style then you can build as much as you want. I've been giving myself special personal objectives in my newest playthrough, so anything is okay really. As for number of things, I rarely count anything in this game. I go off of 'feel' and just visually assessing the system. I don't even count how much food a farm can produce in a year.
ok, I get that there are a lot of numbers to count and most people don't count them all--- but, is there any number you do count? do you know how many houses you use or is that all by feel to?
I ask because you seem to be pretty efficient at getting your goals done in a single housing block, and I am still struggling with building extra housing blocks even when I am ''just trying to win'' and not really actually trying to Sandbox it.
Hmm it's hard to say without seeing your city. Maybe you can send me a save file? I could even do a city-building doctor episode to properly explain things. But yeah, I don't really count anything. I just look and see if it's not enough pottery I add more production. If it's too much I remove some. I know I generally have 4 workshops for a full 9x9 block if I want to evolve them to large insulaes, but at lower levels that will be way overproduction. 4 is probably still too many but I like having to s of surplus.
didn't know for the destination-market ladies supplying all goods by passing by, though I have hundreds of hours in this game and knew about the destination walkers. greetings for your tutorial, very well done!
Thanks! Glad you found a new tip!
Plz keep doing this even the game is old, I'm replaying it and your videos are entertaining!
Will do. Classic city-builders are my niche on UA-cam haha.
please make more!
i dont know if it means anything to you..
but it calms my anixiety so much. i literaly forget my depression for a moment. i dont know what it is, your inteligence, the voice, the rendom laugh... i watched maaany videos of caeser iii, and youre the only one i NEVER skeep through any moment of the video.
please make more of caesar iii. i love those so much. would literally wait for thoes most hard epusides than any show i was watching.
Hey I totally understand. I'm glad the videos can help you out ♥ I plan to make more Caesar 3 stuff and with Julius there's going to be way more to explore in the future.
Thanks for this video. I don't remember reading the how the gateway worked in the game itself so that was the most shocking to me. When I was a teenager, I once managed to get patricians to come, but couldn't evolve them further because I was building 3x3 blocks. As I got older, I started building 4x4s and 3x3s mixing them up according to the space I wanted to fill. I once thought about building width-2-er kind of blocks but never got really far on it, so this video is quite the eye-opener for me.
Also, when you were talking about warehouses and granaries and population started to emigrated I kept on thinking it was the lack of market (although it was probably because you wanted to make a point first.
In the end, I learned a LOT in less than an hour. Thanks.
I'll try using these tips next time I play. I usually aim for houses or insulaes for my workforce and would try to go to patricians in 1 place only. I used the population censor and noticed the graphs but I didn't know english enough back then so I was learning by experimentation. Thus, I would usually build a block at a time (except for the 1-2 houses near workshops thing, which would be one or two whole blocks, so yeah, thanks once again, as repetitive as it may be.
Like others, I played this 20 years ago. Couldn't get past Quaestor then and couldn't get through it now until this video. Thanks.
This tutorial brought my game to a whole other level
Best city builder youtuber atm
Haha thanks!
Was never much good at this game but I loved it.
The access to labour part blew my mind, no more huge farming and industrial slums depressing my prosperity, thank you!
Can’t believe this is 7-8 years old, I definitely could have needed this then. Thanks!
Hi Zakh! Just wanted to give a shoutout - Caesar 3 has always been a huge favourite of mine, and it's something I come back to once every year or so. Watching your channel has really brought the nostalgia back in spades, and I've been so inspired I've been playing again, and I'm really enjoying your walkthroughs...great content and production!! Keep it up!!
I've been playing this game for decades and I knew pretty much everything in your video but I never knew the bit bit about how you only need one house next to a building to supply workers for it.
I can't believe I played this game for all these years and never knew that.
For that you get a like and a subscribe. I hope the rest of your library is as good and as well informed.
for those not fluent in latin designations of today's cities in the "loading a city" screen: Lugdunum = Lyon (France)
And Tarsus = Tarsus (Turkey)
If only you could use gatehouses on truly peaceful maps like capua and tarraco, and i didn't know that warehouses didn't need direct road access to one another, super useful to know!
Man i remember getting this game when i was 10, it was included with my new pc, and a boy could not be happier !
#Never give choices for workers; Zakh 2017
You play games that had invaded my childhood with joyous and great moments my friend :). I love your channel and im gladly following your new videos.
All the best.
Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos!
I just downloaded this game yesterday. Your page is a treasure!
Thanks! I'm glad you're finding it all useful.
Thanks zack, the aging populations is amazing thats the important point we win this game or other city building dome is 20 years is the key point
Glad I could help!
I have finished the military campaign on an older version that doesn`t have diff level without using gatehouses, and I am on the peaceful campaign to Valentia, I started to follow you a bit, won Lugdunum with your help, won Tarsus without gatehouses and I repelled 3 attacks of caesar with 3 javelin 3 mounted legion and defensive walls with towers and guards :), man this video is so helpful, ty ; I tried to win Massilia but failed, I struggle with prosperity now........ ty again man :)
Amazing...thank you!!! The worker guys tip alone is worth the whole video
Glad you found it useful!
Thanks you! very informative and entertaining tutorial! Wish i had watched this before i wasted days not figuring out the proper method
Glad you found it useful! Don't worry, most people go years without knowing most of this. Took me years to learn it all.
".... Dont mind the fires" - GamerZakh, march 4th, 2017.
Just a little nuisance is all.
someone already sort of mentioned it, but I feel like most players, even some of the best, don't realize you can click and drag reservoirs. put one down, then click on it again and drag the new one where you want it. like Drawing a road. anyway, great video as always!
Great video, I was pleased to see I knew everything already hehe.
I also got a tip for everyone who has the problem with old people. On my latest win on Massilia(last map) I accidently ran out of pottery wich made the whole city devolve. But the new people coming in where all young workers and within a couple months of producing pottery my whole city was better than ever.
Very Nice !!! I played this back in 2000--2001. Your tips are amazing !! Good work.
Glad I could help! This is all the stuff I wish I knew when I first played it.
Eloquent and helpful-Thank you so much!
Thanks! That's very nice of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!
Something people usually forgets is in the Mediterranean terrain, wheat is growing faster than other crops. But wheat is consumed faster than other crops too (not depending on the terrain)
Informative, demonstrative and direct. This is a great tutorial and explained plenty of things about this game for me, returning to it after possibly 10+ years of nostalgia and buying the game recently. Thanks for the hard work and keep it up!
Thanks! Glad you found it useful and have fun with the game!
Definitely having fun, I had trouble starting up again as I was just confused, but almost all these tips helped. I did struggle with the separation of industry and housing, but a few extra markets and storehouses shot me right up in the population.
don't know how i landed on your play through of ceasar 3 from 2012 (i have never played the game myself), but it is funny to see you making a guide about the game 5 years later 😂i guess you became pretty good at it after a while. i wont play ceasar 3 myself but my game theory will be great lol
Yeah I did get pretty good, I redid a playthrough where each mission I had to do a crazy block design or challenge. You might be interested in the final few parts as I did a 'heretic city' where I had constant curses from every god except Venus. Something about that caused a bunch of bugs I've never seen before too haha.
It is the first time that I watch videos about this game after hours and hours. OMG I play so differently, I understand now some issues I had
So many tips I didn't know... thank you !
Like gatehouses, I never use them ^^'
Holy Crap! I should have seen this in 1999. IT was so frustrating not passing Praetor rank. My cities frequently overpopulate or underpopulate or starve. THank you
Thank you! Blows my mind how I knew nothing about Caesar 3 :D
You're genius and thank you so much. I've read a few how-to things but never really get it. Now, I can understand. Bless you!
Thanks! I'm glad I could help out!
Yes! Prefect does fight off invasion. This was one of my fun challenge back in the day, to stave off invasion/caesar's legon just with bunch of prefects surrounded by towers and sentries.
Ahaha, I also did this with gladiators and lions. Dang, what a nostalgia. Time to dig up the old impressions CDs again.
Shit! The memories that flood back when I hear that music!
an easier way to measure your block size is to build your houses first, 1 house square costs 10 gold so the houses on side 9x9 cost 180 and houses on side of 7x7 cost 140. easier than manually counting squares.
Man, love this vid. I have played this game since I was a kid and I have learned more ways to optimize city-building. It makes me wanna install and play it over again.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! There's always things about this game to discover. In my second playthrough I did crazy things each mission and I think I discovered bugs that you'd pretty much never encounter ever.
Damn this game is just timeless
Man, what an awesome video. I never knew about a lot of that stuff. I got the game in 1998 and never knew most of the points.
Glad you found it useful! I also played in 98 and wished I knew all this.
"unhappy people... never-mind"
every politician on earth :D
lmao very true
I've just switched over to 8x8 housing blocks. Sure it might need 12 more water employees per block in desert missions, but you can evolve everything to Large/Grand Insulae much more neatly this way to a perfect fit (if things are really stable you might even be able to remove the extra fountains).
Because every single of those leftover 1x1 Medium Insulae you'd have otherwise consumes the same amount of pottery/furniture as a 2x2 unit (which can house 4x as many people), so not having those 1x1 houses saves resources (which gives better market stability) and slightly helps with prosperity as well
I appreciate how you explain everything. Some of these points I've heard before but it didn't sink in. : ) Love the Caesar III content!
Thanks! Glad the way I put it helped too. Since I was a teacher before I know how just saying facts doesn't always communicate a point haha.
Question, I have been playing Ceasar III probably since around 2000s. I reached like the fifth level away from Ceasar. Just wanted to leave some thoughts about past success: get a source of income stated right away; debt to ceasar will take you down. Use the spearmen, leagons, and towars/wall guards for the city's defense. When ever possible build farms so that more people can be attracted to your city. Have plenty of temples and festivles (I wish there was a Constintine I version that I could build Churches instead). The Prefects are your friends, they will be like standin solders for any situations.
Very helpful! It is great that a game so old still holds so much interest and remains fun to play.
you really make this game much more interesting. haha great job bro!
Thanks! Glad you're liking it!
Wow! The market trickes is game changer! Thanks so much, I was gettting crazy 😁
This has blown my mind
You figured out all these by yourself? Well you are a smart man! Thank you!
Mix of myself and asking for help. Play the game enough times trying weird things and you'll start discovering all sorts of glitches and secrets though.
This is just what I needed. Thanks GamerZakh! Subbed.
Glad you found it useful!
It was laughable finding out the market lady was going miles away for grain but then it blew my mind when you starting to utilise her as a destination walker 🤯
Thank you so much for a great informative video. I just tried playing today and was having such a hard time. Thank you!!!🙏
Happy to help! It is really hard learning all this especially since the game doesn't explain things properly.
37:26 wow, I thought that the priorities were as follows: 1. Wheat 2.Fruits 3.Meat and so on. Never thought that all type of foods were considered equal except for wheat, because I always saw the market lady going through all the map to get wheat first haha.
Dear god thank you man you brought back core memories
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome, thank you. I m going to play straight away
Have fun!
Regarding ageing population... never aim for "No Employment Problems". Having between 2% and 6% unemployment absorbs fluctuation in workers....
Further more, if you have a sudden spike in unemployment that your not ready for, An academy take 30 employees and reduces unemployment until you need workers elsewhere.
Final point... Worker walkers walk clockwise. brown walkers will start anti-clockwise... if you manage this correctly, you wont need gatehouses
Really helpful stuff ! Thanks so much for the video! Been playing this game since the mid 90's, I learned so much from one video.
Glad you found it useful! I played C3 back then as well and I could've used this video too haha.
The age census is an interesting point. Thanks
Yeah it's not really explained properly in the game, glad I could help
This problem of old populations gave me a ton of troubles, especially for cities like Lutetia, where we have to get 10k people. Really interesting guide there ! :)
There are still a couple of points I still cannot understand (I'm gonna take some precise examples) :
1. Imagine you place a prefecture on the corner of a 9x9 bloc, just next to a gatehouse. Sometimes, depending on the angle and the corner, for some reason, the prefect will initially (and consistently) cross the gatehouse on the wrong side and walk as an idiot on an empty road... Dunno if I'm clear
2. I don't understand why sometimes, children running away from schools just do not cover a whole 9x9 house block. After looking at their movements carefully, I noticed they sometimes consider corners as intersections and come back, or sometimes, they just disappear too early in the middle of the block so there is just one or two houses that are not covered.
Otherwise, just a comment about prefects: I feel like they are pretty weak against any enemy warrior.
I prefer using my own setup where I force a bunch of gladiators and lions to walk through a *very* long road with a ton of corners in front of towers to get to the colosseum. That way they infinitely slow down an entire army while the towers clean them up ^^
Just need a single fort of javelins to deal with the biggest army of Mediolanum/Lindum x)
Muchas gracias por tus consejos, no lograba pasar el nivel de ingeniero, pero gracias a tu video q encontré ayer, hoy pude pasar el nivel con 100% de paz jaja 😘 saludos desde la Ciudad de México
Also, your videos help me with my english haha
fantastic!!
I'm going to enjoy the tips and enjoy the nostalgia for an incredible game, although old. Congratulations, the video is very good.
You totally blew my mind when you showed that warehouse getting furniture with NO ROAD CONNECTION!
It blew my mind the first time I saw it too.
Thank you very much for the Tips! The analogy that you made about the distribuiton center is awesome, it's just like the things are in the real life. With your tips in mind I'll try now to pass through Tarsus!!!
Glad I could help! Good luck beating Tarsus!
My first Caeser 3 video on youtube and right off the back one of my main preconceptions from playing this game in early 00s has been shattered. I didn't know that you could make lots of little independant road loops. I assumed that every piece of road had too be linked together, all the way to the blue & red flags :D Or maybe that was just how I played, as it made more real life logical sense for a city and it was so ingrained that I thought it was a rule.
Furtheremore I only used 2 Gatehouses (other than those for gaps in walls for soldiers to pass thourough). One gatehouse at either end of the city near the flags to save some time with people walking there unnnecessarily >
You are sooo the best teacher ever!
Thank you! I'm glad you found it useful.
You should do more of these! love it, at least once a week. Keep up the good work.
That destination walker thing blew my mind.
Great content! Gladly subbed, thanks for uploading. Used to play caesar 3 a lot. Now I'm excited to get back in it.
Hey that's awesome! And thanks so much for the sub, I appreciate it. Have fun playing!
Thanks mate! Your guide is a gamechanger for my play