The following applies not only to the Flexi-Block, but can be incorporated into any housing block design.Īny given housing block has two boundary states. To further explore the properties of the Flexi-Block, we need to step back and take a meta view of housing block properties in general. "This is all pretty basic stuff." And you're right. The nice thing about this layout is that it handily accounts for the odd location requirements for the entertainment venues and simultaneously accounts for all five of the possible 1x1 service buildings. And finally, there's a space between the bandstand for an Apothecary if you're playing on a Humid map.
If we need to, we can also place a Dentist there. Note that, above the Pavillion, we have a handy spot to place a Firehouse, an Architect, and a Police Station.
The purpose of the tail should be obvious: location of entertainment venues. I call the end with the "prongs" the "tail." The other end is the "head." The length-wise roads are 20 tiles long, with 4 tiles between them. How it compares to other housing blocks is left as an exercise for the interested reader.įollowing the convention that North is to the upper-left portion of the image, here is the Flexi-Block in its undeveloped form:Īnd, for comparison purposes, a shot from "in the wild." My claim is simply that (A) it's very versatile (B) it's very flexible and (C) it works swimmingly well. Note that it may, in fact, be all of these things. Nor do I claim that it is the most flexible. Nor do I claim that it is the most versatile. Nor do I claim that it is the most efficient of all possible housing block designs.
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Advanced players will probably have no reason to read this essay in full except to savor my scintillating prose. With that in mind, this essay will probably be most useful to Novice and Intermediate players. And while I think this essay covers some previously undiscussed aspects of housing blocks, there is nothing revolutionary here. The subject of housing blocks is a subject that has been extensively discussed for years prior to this essay, and discussed by folks much more knowledgeable than myself. A large part of the reason this essay is titled "Reinventing the Wheel" is because I recognize that this essay is merely another entry in the extensive list of housing block discussions.So I thought I'd throw it up for public consumption. you can change the shape of the block and still retain most or all of the features of the block). Recently, I've designed a housing block for Pharaoh that has not only turned out to be incredibly versatile (you can use it for a worker's block of nothing but Ordinary Cottages, or you can use it to make Palatial Estates), but has also proven to be very flexible in a morphological sense (i.e. I just put down my roads in one long strip, threw some housing on either side, and then tried to cadge the required services in as best I could.Īt some point I decided to try and improve my strategy, and to make a long story short, I discovered places such as Heavengames, which lead to the discovery of housing blocks. When I first started playing Caesar 3 and Pharaoh, I had no concept of housing blocks.
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