Pharoah: A huge disappointment.

[Grumbold]

You place the monument in the same way that you place any other building, but the suckers are BIG so you need a lot of available space (and IIRC they are not rotateable so you are stuck with having the "entry point" in the place they designate, even if that is the space furthest from your worker guilds. Like the temple complexes (when you get them) the footprint can be so large that actually getting it to lock down where you want it to go can be fiddly. Best to save your game immediately before trying and putting it into slow speed. Once you get the knack its becomes a lot easier.

Unless you are sandboxing you can only build the precise monuments that the scenario requires. IIRC you start with a small mastaba which is basically a brick tomb about five tiles wide and eight tiles long. It still takes a heck of a lot of bricks to build but its nothing compared to the great pyramids that come later. Its possible you need to hit certain population caps or other milestones before the scenario will make the monument available too.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
BTW, Zeus sounds good.

Zeus is good. Not supergreat, but good.

I can't say the same for Poseidon, which is a sequel to Zeus only not as good. I tried Poseidon and quickly went back to Zeus.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Grumbold
Its possible you need to hit certain population caps or other milestones before the scenario will make the monument available too.

Ah, that could be my problem. The game is trying to get me to build a mastaba though. Why would it want me to build a monument when I can't?

[Grumbold]

Without dusting off and firing up the game and trying that scenario, I couldn't give you more detailed advice. You might try running through the monument building part of the tutorial to see if you spot anything obvious that you've overlooked.

[Jaguar]

It appeared on the religion button like 2 years after they told me to build a monument. I wonder if I just overlooked it, or if it was intended, or what.

I'm liking the game now but I get annoyed because of all the sucking up to the empire. I always ditch the empire because they are always demanding gifts and they never do anything useful in return. Then I take a look at the ratings guy, and I have a huge rating in everything but kingdom, where I need like 75 and have 0.

[Sarxis]

I like Pharaoh, and its expansion Cleopatra.

Heh- I guess opinions really ARE a dime-a-dozen.

[Grumbold]

In some scenarios the Pharoah can give you good stuff if you suck up, but its true if you are playing optimally its not needed except to get your rating up to the required level.