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Pharaoh: A New Era is an isometric city building game that takes you back in time to build your own ancient Egypt. At the start of every mission, you’ll need to build your city from scratch. 

If you have built a city before, you’ll know that there are certain buildings and infrastructures that are non-negotiable. Planning and designing your city usually takes a few attempts before you get the hang of things.

Your population will have its own needs that must be met, housing and access to water are extremely important. Residents need houses to live in and with that comes the demand for a water supply, so you’ll need to build houses around a water well.

An important aspect to building your city is the aesthetics and surroundings, if you would like your houses to upgrade a level you’ll need to place a few gardens and beautification structures in the same vicinity.

Buildings and structures can have a negative or positive impact on the appearance of your housing suburbs. Workshops and factories will degrade your housing neighbourhood if they are built in the same area.

People also get hungry and will starve if there is an insufficient supply of food. You’ll need to establish a food supply chain with three farms, a granary, and a few hunter’s lodges. You should also build some bazaar’s along-side your houses.

When you think of your neighbourhood there’s always a firehouse or a crumbling building nearby. You’ll need to build some firehouses and architect posts near your houses to make sure your buildings are maintained or don’t catch a light.

Civilians in your city will also need a place to work, so that means that you will need to build several factories and workshops to keep the unemployment rates down. High unemployment rates in your city will have a negative impact. 

Currency is important and you will initially start the game with some money, but it will soon run out. You will need to start earning some money before you run out, the easiest way to make money is by accessing gold on the map.

Most governments receive their income from taxes, once you have enough currency you’ll need to build a palace. The advantage of building a palace is the regular income from taxes that you will receive.

The income that you receive from taxes will not be sufficient to cover all the expenses you acquire, this means that you’ll need to start trading some of your resources with traders in exchange for gold.

Lastly, let's not forget about the gods in ancient Egypt, they play a significant role in the fertility of your farming lands. Build several temples and shrines to each of the five gods in the game, this will increase your prosperity rating.

In Pharaoh: A New Era, food and water are vital resources to sustain your populations. Farming is one of the most popular methods of generating food in the game, it also produces some raw materials that you can use to craft items.

There are five different types of farms that will produce the bulk of your food; Figs, Chickpeas, Grain, Pomegranate, and Lettuce. Every fruit or grain can be harvested at different times of the year. You will unfortunately be limited to the amount of farms available in the game.

You'll only be able to build a farm on a flowering meadow or on the floodplains near the Nile. Farming on a floodplain is naturally risky as the Nile water levels frequently rise in different seasons. The Nilometer, at the top of the screen, will indicate the strength of the flooding. 

Building a farm on a meadow also has its own problems, as the soil isn't the most fertile and won't necessarily yield the best results, until the land is irrigated. In order to irrigate your crops, you'll need to build a water lift next to the Nile river and connect it to the road.

The irrigation process is labour intensive and requires six workers to operate. Once you have connected the water lift to the road, you'll need to build an irrigation ditch two blocks away from your farm. Connect the irrigation ditch to your water pump and your farm will now be irrigated.

Trading in Pharaoh: A New Era a method used to balance your economy and trade-off surplus goods for revenue. In order to set trades, you'll need to open a trade route to another town on the World Map.

In order to open trade routes with other towns, you will have to access the Overseer panel and select the Overseer of Commerce icon. Under the icon, you can set your goods on either export or import. You unfortunately will not be able to export and import the same type of goods.

Opening a trade route is not for free and will cost some Debens, the currency used in Pharaoh. Select the World Map icon that is found on the left-hand side of your screen. You must then left-click on the town that you would like to open a trade route with.

You must then select "Open Land Route" and it will allow you to trade your goods with that particular city. You will now be able to see what goods the town is willing to trade or purchase.

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