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                          Pharaoh - Desirability FAQ
                            Version 1.4 (10/17/00)
                By Jim Chamberlin ([email protected])

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. How things work
3. Explanation of Images
4. Acknowledgments


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                                 Introduction
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One thing in Pharaoh that many people seem to question is how the Desirability
ratings work.  To illustrate this, I've made several graphics that I will get
into a little bit later.


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                               How Things Work
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When you bring something like a Farm into a location, it brings about a
"negative" desirability rating.  A farm is only one example of "negative"
ratings, but there are many, many other buildings that do that.

When bringing in a Garden or a Statue into a location, it brings about more
of a "positive" desirability rating.  As with the farm, a garden and a statue
are only two types of buildings with a "positive" rating.

As conditions improve in your city, your citizens will demand more attractive
and more expensive homes.  Increased tax revenues and improved prosperity are
the primary advantages to higher class homes.  Slum-like or dilapidated houses
drag down the desirability of the surrounding area.  Ramshackle housing catches
fire easily.  While, the less-evolved homes drag down the nearby area's
desirability, the more-evolved housing will actually bring up the area's
desirability.

The evolution of housing depends on a few things:
 - Amount of Industry nearby
 - State of nearby housing
 - Current supply of required goods for that house
 - State of the home's residents' health

 Every building has different amounts of desirability.  The one similarity is
 that the building has little or no effect when it's far away from a building.

 To show specific examples, I've made some graphics or you to check out.

 I could have made them in ASCII drawings, but they wouldn't be to scale, so
 they just wouldn't look right.


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                            Explanation of Images
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 Explaining the images is easiest in this text file, instead of actually in or
 next to the actual images.  Once again, I say that I could have made them in
 ASCII text, but it would take a longer amount of time, and nothing would have
 been made to scale, thus images/graphics were the way to go.


 The primary things to look for are the following:

 - Grid
   - The grids represent each "block" of space on Pharaoh's terrain.  For
     example, one house (when you first put a house on the map) takes one
     block, or square.  The principle is the same here, which will help you
     understand how things work, and give you a visual overview of everything.

 - Building Itself
   - The building is located in the middle of the numbers.  Most of them have
     been labeled in some fashion, so you can distinguish it from the numbers.

 - Numbers
   - The numbers are the important part.  They indicate the amount of
     desirability that particular building brings to each "square" or "block"
     of land/terrain.


 What do the numbers mean exactly?

 Each image has a series of numbers surrounding the structure in the middle.
 That structure may be a building, a garden, whatever.

 You'll also notice that some images have numbers in "yellow," while the other
 numbers (from other images) are written in "red."

 Yellow Numbers = Positive Desirability
 Red Numbers = Negative Desirability

 A Yellow number 13, is another way of saying "+13".
 A Red 7 is another way of saying "-7".

 If you have any further questions concerning the "Desirability" portion of
 the game, email me at [email protected].  If I feel it is an important
 question, I may end up adding it here, so others can see it.

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                               Acknowledgments
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 - Jeff Veasey and GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com) for hosting this FAQ.

 - Al Amaloo and Game Winners (http://www.gamewinners.com) for hosting this
   FAQ.

 This FAQ was written entirely using the GWD Text Editor:  (shareware)
   http://www.gwdsoft.com/


 This Document and its Related Graphic Files are Copyright 2000 Jim Chamberlin.
 All Rights Reserved.

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