Use this cheat when you get the option of going into the Senate: Click the Emperor icon in the Senate. Give yourself a wage of 500 denarii (Caesar's wage). After a few months, when you accumulate about 3000, go to the same screen and press the "Give to city button". Click the "all" button in the dialog. Then press the "give" button. Notice, now you don't have any savings at all. Nevermind ;) Press the "Give to city" button again.
WARNING: DO NOT PRESS THE "ALL" BUTTON AGAIN OR YOU'll GET YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE!! The quantity of money to give to the city is the money you gave before. So you just press "give" button again, and your savings go in minus, but who cares 'bout them anyway :) So just keep repeating this and you'll have a fortune. And yes, don't be afraid to turn off the Senate screen. You can turn it off, and return to it later to give yourself more money.
File Hack
In the Caesar 3 folder, there is a file named "c3_model.txt". When you open it
up, you will find all the values for the items in the game. There is some instructions
included within that file, but not all the instructions are there. The first section named
"All Buildings" is where you can change the price, desirability, desirability
steps in tiles, desirability steps in size, max desirability range, number of people a
buildings employs, and future expansion.
Here is an example:
39,Gardens,{,12,3,1,-1,3,0,0,0,},
Note: Pay attention only to the values within the { and }
12 den is the price, 3 is the desirability, and so on in order
Here is where it gets good. :)
According to this, you will have to pay 12 denari in order to build a garden. Change that
number to a negative and when you build a garden, they will pay you!
for instance:
39,Gardens,{,-1000,3,1,-1,3,0,0,0,},
Now with that setting, when you build a garden, the computer will pay you 1000 denari
and adds it to the city funds. You can do this with any setting.
Another thing you can do is change the second number to high number and nothing will
have detrimental effects on property.
The first is pretty self explanatory since the instructions are on the .txt file
itself.
The second part of this file is named, "All Houses"
This took a bit of trial and error since the names of the values were not given. Here is
what I came up with with trial and error. Here is a sample from the file:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p
q r s t ... to Z
House 1 - Tents,{,-99,-10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,25,5,5,1,,,2.5,,,,,, House 2 -
Tents,{,-12,-5,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,25,10,7,1,,,3.5,,,,,, House 3 -
Shacks,{,-7,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,3,25,15,9,1,,,4.5,,,,,, House 4 -
Shacks,{,-2,4,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,3,25,20,11,1,,,5.5,,,,,, House 5 -
HoveMs,{,2,8,0,2,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,3,22,25,13,2,,,13,,,,,, House 6 -
HoveMs,{,6,12,10,2,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,3,22,30,15,2,,,15,,,,,,
Only pay attention to the numbers after the {
going accross, I will assign each number a letter in the alphabet for easier
understanding. :)
(In most cases, the lower the number, the less the demand for that item the houses need to
evolve. Also, unless where specified, the lowest number should be a zero.)
A. Desirability level at which the house will devolve. (-99 is the lowest I have tryed, when at that level, you can build the house next to anything and it will evolve. Raising the number to say, 12, will make the house want a more desirable location in order to keep it from devolving.)
B. Desirability level at which the house will evolve (same concept, the lowest I have
tryed is -99. This makes it require a number above -99 in order to evolve.)
C. The higher the number, the more likely the house will devolve.
D. Water Supply
E. Religion, lower number = less religion required.
F. Education
G. Evolve back to. When this value is set to a 1, that house can devolve. When it is
set to 0, the house can not devolve.
H. Barbar
I. Bath
J. Demands for health building (e.g. Doctor, Hospital)
K. Food Access.
L. Pottery
M. Oil
N. Furniture
O. Wine
P. ???
Q. ???
R. ???
S. Number of people to occupy that building.
T. ???
U. ???
V. ???
W. ???
X. ???
Y. ???
Z. ???
The ones with the ??? are the ones that could not figure out. They may have to do with
taxes and demand for a prefecture and engineer. I am not sure though.
Hope this wasn't too confusing and it makes for some interesting games. :)
Also beware, if you set out to make a rich neighborhood, I found out the hard way that they do not like to work, so expect things to go really bad. Fires, building falling down, no food, riots and barbarians all at the same time kinda deal... So try to make each building only one square each so they can't expand into the great big Luxuary Villas.
