Thank you for your interest in Caesar III for the Macintosh. This document will help you learn how to play the demo, and explains how the full game differs from the demo.
Following are system requirements for the full game:
PowerPC 601, 100 Mhz processor.
OS 7.6.1 or higher
32 MB RAM
4x CD-ROM drive
Minimum install space = 150 MB
640x480 resolution at thousands of colors.
This demo does not require a CD drive and uses only 42 MB of disk space.
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM
iMac or better
II. ABOUT THIS DEMO -----------------------------
II.a. How to Install and Run This Demo
The demo is compressed into one large file. You need StuffIt Expander, available for free from Aladdin Systems, Inc. at http://www.aladdinsys.com. Once StuffIt is installed on your Mac, simply double-click on the demo and follow the instructions on-screen to decompress it to a location of your choice. After the demo is installed, double-click on the Caesar III file to start the demo.
VIRTUAL MEMORY: Caesar III requires 32 MB of RAM to play. Before running Caesar III, confirm that the largest unused memory block is at least 36 MB for best performance (Apple menu: About this Computer). If not, turn on Virtual Memory and/or increase the amount of Virtual Memory on your system (Apple menu: Control Panels: Memory). If animations do not play or your computer locks up, then you probably do not have enough memory available for Caesar III.
Be aware that using Virtual Memory can slow your system down. If you desire better performance, close all other applications before running Caesar III. Also, running the game at a lower resolution will speed up the game.
The other setting on this panel that might affect Caesar III is the Disk Cache. The default setting of 1 MB (that's 1024 kilobytes) should be fine. If you've set this lower, please raise it to 1 MB. If you have problems running the game, and changing the Virtual Memory settings didn't help, try increasing your Disk Cache to 2 MB (2048k).
II.b. How to Play this Demo
If you have played Caesar II, be careful! You may think that you know what to do, but since the underlying city model has changed substantially, you may end up in trouble. The game is now a lot more intuitive than Caesar II was, so you should quickly learn the changes just by reading the messages and briefings on screen. If in doubt, command-click on a structure or piece of land for more information about it.
Caesar III casts you as a trainee governor at the very start of the ancient Roman Empire. Your success will lead to promotion and personal financial gains, and could help expand the Empire itself. Ultimately, your goal is to rise all the way to becoming Caesar, Emperor of Rome. This demo version has only two training missions and contains only a fraction of the features available in the full game, but it will give you a good feel for what the game is like.
Each assignment has specific goals toward governing a city within a province of the fledgling Empire. Often, especially early on, you will have to start a new settlement from scratch; later on (not in this demo) you will be charged with governing existing cities and fixing any problems they may have.
Governing a city is relatively straightforward, using common sense. You should allocate areas for housing, and then provide for the basic needs of the people who come to live in your settlement - food, water, security. As the settlement develops into a town, add entertainment, temples, health structures, government buildings, and more.
Cities consist of a collection of working buildings. To build a new structure, select a category from the panel at the right of the screen, then select the specific structure you would like to build from the available choices you will see. Now, move the mouse pointer over the landscape. You will see the structure itself where you are able to place the building, otherwise you will see a red diamond, indicating that this particular structure may not be placed in that location.
In order for buildings to "work" you should place them sensibly together. This is mainly intuitive, although there are a couple of key concepts you should learn:
1) Road Access: all structures (other than water structures, parks and statues) should be next to a road. This does not mean that the building should be surrounded by road, merely that there should be some road next to at least some of one of the building's sides.
2) Labor Access: most structures in Caesar III need to employ people to operate them. A new structure will send out a citizen to walk along the roads in search of housing; if he walks past housing, the structure will know it has physical access to labor. Water structures, such as fountains and reservoirs, are the only structures which do NOT need to be connected by road to a labor supply.
3) Insufficient Labor: Even if a structure has access to labor, there may not be enough labor in the city for all buildings to work. The computer automatically allocates the available workforce to tasks; you can review and change the order in which different categories are assigned labor from the Labor Advisor screen.
Look after your people - make sure that they eat, have jobs, and live in as pleasant conditions as possible. Should your city be an undesirable place, few will wish to move in, which could hamper your chances of achieving your objectives. Should your city become too desirable, you may find problems with too much unemployment, which could lead to crime.
Once your settlement is up and running, you can interact with the rest of the Empire. In this demo, that means that you can establish trade routes with other cities. In the full game, Caesar sometimes asks you to send armies out to fight enemies of Rome, as well as needing to protect your own cities. From time to time, the Emperor may send you requests. Heed these well, lest you enrage him, since his wrath knows no equal!
You will be briefed on each assignment, and may receive other instructions part way through. Check your messages carefully - they contain useful information. A fanfare indicates the arrival of a new message, for you to read when you are ready. There is also plentiful help in the game; wherever you see question mark button, click it to access help appropriate to that panel; alternatively, use the Help menu (at the top of the screen) to find the subject about which you seek help.
You can command-click (click while holding down the open-Apple key) on any building or piece of landscape in the game. This will bring up a panel with some current information; sometimes an explanation of why the structure is not operating, or how efficiently it is operating, or what a house needs if it is to evolve into a more desirable dwelling. These panels also allow you to access help. This is an important source of information for you; if in doubt, cmd-click on a building! If you have a two-button mouse, map the right button to the command key.
You can also cmd-click on the people inhabiting your city. Click at their feet rather than their upper body. The people will provide you with useful information about the status of your city. For example, if they complain of boredom, you may wish to increase the entertainment facilities you offer. Note that in this demo version, almost none of their "chat" has been included as voice; the full game has voices for all their chatter.
III. ABOUT CAESAR III ------------------------------------
The full game of Caesar III adds substantially to what is in this playable demo.
Career Path: The full game allows you to play out a whole career, involving many assignments. As you achieve one set of objectives, you will be offered a choice of new assignments - one peaceful, one dangerous. This amounts to having two parallel careers, and many players go all the way through both of them. The Career game ends when you are promoted to Caesar, Emperor of Rome.
Construction Kit: Once you have played through the Career campaign, or at any time, you can select one of a wide selection of maps, and simply build a city there, with no objectives. You can choose to build almost anywhere within the Empire map, with differing playing conditions in different regions. There are also scores of player-created maps available for free download over the Internet.
New Terrain and Larger Maps: The full game features terrain of varying height, with hills and plateaux. There are several different terrain sets, so that the landscape will look quite different depending on where you are. This will also affect gameplay, so the game will play differently if you are in the desert than it will if you are in Northern Europe. The maps that you have seen in the demo are fairly small; in the full game there will be a variety of map sizes, many very much larger than those in the demo.
Combat: You will be able to choose between cities in more dangerous or more peaceful parts of the Empire. In the more dangerous parts (and even in some of the "peaceful" areas), you will need to defend your city against agressors. The enemy may be local natives, upset with the intrusion of Romans into their lands, or a powerful army led by Hannibal, for example. You will be able to build walls for protection, and towers which will send out patrols along the walls. You may also build forts, each of which will generate one cohort; you may then move these cohorts around the map, and choose different formations for them.
Boats and Bridges: There will be two types of bridge you can build, enabling your city to expand onto parts of the map otherwise inaccessible. You will also be able to set up sea trade routes, and build thriving ports to support your developing city.
Empire: Interaction with the rest of the Empire is substantially increased compared with Caesar II. You will need to be truly wise and politically astute if you are to gain the ultimate promotion.
Assignment Editor: Create your own maps and customize events and conditions with the same Editor we used to create the game. Trade maps with other players over the Internet. Macintosh maps are fully interchangeable with PC maps.
Many, many more structures: The demo barely scratches the surface of the housing levels available; you will be able to build yourself a personal home in the full game, with several to choose from depending on your own financial circumstances. You will also be able to build a colosseum and lion house, or even an enormous hippodrome, to hold chariot races to delight your citizens. There are many more crops and products available, walls, towers, gatehouses, forts, statues, large temples, oracles, educational structures, health buildings, and more.
And of course, there will be more music, speech, sound effects, and movie clips.
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