Yeah i think i covered this in the quotas video and mentioned it elsewhere as well. There is a set behavior where they sell you imports first and then buy exports but it can still cause backtracking or caravan pingpong when the warehouses are some distance apart. I recommend putting in all together but you can specialize areas of the map, if you want to for example have the same cities that buy only certain goods use a certain area while other traders will avoid it if the goods they trade are not accepted, with docks the carter time is even more vital and there anything than 2 tiles distance from dock to warehouse is really bad for quota. With docks you can control where certain ships go to though. This video is quite old, made even before cart depots.

Hey congrats for beating the narrow pass and the lowlands. These are some really really hard maps. If you are going For Quitus IV achievement then you also want to be carefull with defeats, as each time you get defeated on a map it reduces your victory points from that map by -10% i think. From what i understand you are using backups and saves though, which i get why some of the maps can take a long time and losing it all to 1 zed is awfull. I believe there is a room for error, when i got this i had like 120k pts i think when i did everything on 800% and had couple of defeats reducing my points. I already have the recording for the next video but it will be a longer one ill cover more missions in a single video with that. I hope i can get it done before today evening.

Hey, please let me know when you are done with the maps i showed here so i can start the next video, thanks.

Thank you, it was your idea with the milestone, i hope this way its better to follow along. Its more work for me but as long as its usefull thats fine. I would like to do some more soon propably next video tomorrow since you are following it and i dont want you to have to go and find someone else with simillar format since it might be hard.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel Honestly, even with this guide I'm struggling on this level. I don't know what it is, but the zombies seem to act more aggressively with me; if I play more passively, then I can't clear the space for the shocking towers, if I do try to clear it, I get mobbed by runners, even following similar tactics- spreading out the rangers and advancing slowly (I think you mentioned they generate 'heat' when attacking, so I try to let it 'cool down' between small steps forward. In my last effort I got two shocking towers down, one on each side of the South but got rushed from literally every side at the same time and was overrun in the North. I'm stubborn so I'll keep at it, but don't worry if the next videos take a bit longer

@@LieutenantSteel no worries if you had restarts. Its one of the more difficult maps on 800%. Yes its the "heat" or noise from units. What you can see me do, is that once i have my flexible defense up and more than couple of runners and couple of shamblers are attacking them i just pull back for a second couple tiles back. This lets the noise go down, if you dont react to these increases in tention the rangers will stay and shoot more and more often until you agro a full runner group that you cant beat. On this map and the next, its like hunters clearing. Lay low and try to not push very far. You can see it in the video i think that i didnt push very far until i had my shocking towers setup. For the north i recommend the walls as i used them to fallback to when too many runners show up. You retreat past the walls to break the agro from the shamblers and just deal with the runners. Then snap the rangers back to place. You should see me do these things in the video i know its sped up but i cant do a normal speed or it would be way too long video. You can maybe play the gameplay part on lower playback speed if you want through youtube settings. The aggressiveness was the same but if you take steps back each time you "sense" they are about to mob you, you can deal with it. The sense you develop as you play, to know how much pushing you can get away with. Unfortunately there isnt any sort of in game indicator of noise. Next video is live now as well. If it gets too frustrating for you, no worries about taking the 500% pick in the campaign selection menu and try to get it done that way, couple of missions like Lowlands and Narrow pass are just monster mission on 800% and are marked as "easy" by the game even though its not correct.

Hey, i made this one just because i had some spare time. If there are some people interested in this i might try to make more before i have to shut things down but i cant tell you for sure, there is still around 50% of the campaign left.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel This series was the reason why I started following you, and I'd appreciate it if you finished it, but it's clear as day that it gets a lot less views than Ceasar 3, so I'd fully understand if you wouldn't want to waste your time with TAB.

It's a shame this series didn't get the same attention as other games; I found the advice in these so much more useful than the generic videos of 800% with minimal commentary and no discussion of tech level (like Kensei)

@@LieutenantSteel thank you, yes i know that lot of pros will often skim through and not really delve into decision making and instead just play their way without giving you the reasoning. Also some tools are just better in hands of these people than relatively new ones, i like more flexible playstyle so for me for example the balista is a dead weight until later in the campaign while they use it to cheese the enemies a lot.

Thanks for following the series, i think i might have done even better in some regards. I will try to see if i still have the save and make a new video for this soon, even if it has almost no views i did enjoy making it and if it helps at least someone then mission acomptished.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel You're very welcome and I hope you continue, so long as you enjoy it. I came across you while looking for 800% guides and yours was easily the most comprehensive- I've been playing along to the video, watching to a point, playing to the same point, comparing myself to your build to see if I'm in a good position or not; not placing buildings in exactly the same places but just trying to hit the same economy & research milestones. The maps you show at the beginning were also extremely helpful but there are a lot of insights to be appreciated. I hadn't played TAB for a few years and wanted to finally go back and try to 100% the achievements- your videos have been invaluable, since I lost a lot of the game knowledge (although I think I only ever completed the base 100% setting previously, so was never this good before!)

Thanks, we will see if it will be possible to keep the channel as hobby at least.

No worries, its not exactly safe so the feeling is right but i have been doing it for 10 years before so i think it will be ok. Thanks for the concern.

Hey, thank you. Yes unfortunately caesar 3 is not very popular, even Zakh who started as c3 youtuber has to do a lot of promotional things or other games to keep his channel going. I understand that and i did try to branch out with games like They are Billions etc. but its just very hard nowdays to succeed. In any case thanks for the kind words.

Thank you, i'm honored you think so highly of the RC and my design. I did have help from my community with testing and capturing art assets etc., it would likely be impossible to make completely alone but i'm happy with how it turned out. I dont think it will be surpassed by anything made fro the game which was my goal. I wanted to find a job in the industry but got an offer too late since i'm already in the process of going to the old job i had. Would have been much better for me creatively if i could have been working on games but i cant turn back time. Anyways as i said, thanks that you think so highly of the RC.

Hey, thank you for the comment. I'm very glad i managed to help you improve its always what makes me feel the best, knowing that it was at least all good for something.

Cheers, thank you for the kind words.

Thanks, i hope you will enjoy the campaign.

Thank you Hoxton, i hope so as well. In the perfect world i would be able to keep this as a hobby but we will see.

Cheers, thanks for the kind words.

Thank you, i'm glad you enjoyed them both. If you want you can leave a review on the new one, its essentially blank since i had to make it a new upload.

Hey, i'm glad you like the TAB videos the milestones would have been good to have but it would also make producing the videos much longer. Still if i was still doing it i would have propably done a rework from the start with a simillar system. I personally dont like the 900% or no pausing since even 800% can be very frustrating at times, its as tight as i can handle really sort of like startcraft on Brutal but the Nightmare mod is too much. The videos end on Oasis i think at which point i had almost no viewwers of it and it doesent make sense to cover. This channel is tiny, i wanted it to work out but it didnt. I will not be able to continue making videos or supporting the older ones for long with a new job around the corner i might get rid of the channel for good, its been only a hassle for my life for absolutely nothing back.

No problem, i'm glad you found it usefull. There is always more to cover and i'm not the best of the best but its what i had to learn to beat 800% myself so i thought id share it for people who want to do it reliably. Some tech is just a trap on 800% i think, unless you are a god then you propably really dont want to pick it especially early. Early maps ramp up enemy numbers and hordes fast, for me i have to have a shocking tower for coast of bones or i'm boned. There are some more of these videos but at some point i think Oasis it was getting so few views that it isnt worth my time to make. Maybe when i get more i will finish the campaign but its a lot of effort to make these and again most of my viewers unfortunately do not care about TAB much.

Hey, the messages xml needs to be in your c3/editor/messages folder so the game can find them. I think this is the problem but not sure, if it doesent solve it you can post a screenshot or send the xml in the discord so i can take a look at it. Otherwise no problem, glad you decided to make something. Its hard to get into these xml specific features since lot is also changing so i think even this video doesent cover everything.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel thanks for your quick reply! The messages are in the folder, but I can only import one in the editor, if I add another the intro vanished. Maybe I'm doing something wrong (id of the message?) I'll send it via discord tomorrow if I can thanks

We all have it on steam or GOG but the game is usually played using Julius mod for vanilla experince with bug fixes and widescreen support or Augustus mod which is an overhaul. Julius -github.com/bvschaik/julius Augustus - github.com/Keriew/augustus/releases

Hey, its possible you have it in caesar3/editor/empires folder. Unstable creates new folder structure nowdays.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel THAAAANK you :)

Hey, yes but with Augustus its the best city builder on the market even today. :)

vanilla shields were 1 = 15 quota 2 = 25 quota 3 = 40 quota They were all bronze color. In Augusuts there are silver and gold shields, i dont remember what values they reflect but since we can see number even before opening the route and many custom empires can have very specific amounts of quota they are just cosmetic essentially and dont correspond.

If all paths are close then its like when invasions is placed behind a river, they will stand there and prevent immigration until you attack and route that army. You can do it with towers for example but it will delay your immigrants.

In Augustus, if you build a grand temple to Mars, it allows for 10 max forts instead of 6.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel ty

Yes that is very usefull to control market distributions. Same as disabling market ladies from warehouse or granaries where you dont want them to go.

@@evrimozbalk5691 hey, i'm not sure what the question is. Miletus has one strating land trade route and then they are all sea. If you want to see how i did things this is when i played it recently. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnWpnuGhdONZ6Msi=kMUXl9Slr2MT8QQa

@@commissarmarek-main-channeli will thank you the problem is my trade partner selling me every thing but not buying :)))

@@commissarmarek-main-channel i will see video by the way

Hey, its due to aging. When people immigrate into the city, some of them are almost 50 which is age which workers stop working forever. As you play more people are not contributing to the worker pool. Kids under age of 20 also do not work. You can see this for yourself in population advisor and census graph on the left. To go around this you can use a setting to raise retirement age from 50 to 60 years, More drastic "cheat" setting is to use fixed 38% of worker pool always works which effectively disables aging but makes the city always only 38% workers. Some people like to keep health low so old people die but thats unreliable in Augustus since disease is much more of a factor.

@@commissarmarek-main-channel Great reply and many thanks. Sadly this always happens when I play any map past let's say 15 years. Already using the 50 to 60 function, but not the 38% cheat. Tried the health factor by deleting the doctors, but that didn't help. I'm a bit stuck, and I do love this game (played it 1st when I was like 19 in 2000 :). Any other tips or do I change the playstyle alltogether?

@@r3llik1981 Right, there is a way some people keep cities perpetually young by spamming venus festiavals and worshipp every year. This is very tedious. Another way is to keep your plebs at medium insula, you will need more patricians but medium insula with lower health services will eventually result in stable population factor. I dont reccoment this unless you really dont want to use the 38% cheat, which in my mind is lesser evil at this point. Finally my way, is just to win quickly and never let it get out of hand too much. There is always a way to purge old pops with cutting water if you absolutely have to. This video goes over some of this if you want a video form. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-vmYKAj8tmlaM

@@r3llik1981 Also i just remembered something else that some people are often confused by, patricians never work or contribute to the work pool in any way. So if you evolve a block from Grand Insula you lose a lot of workers if you were counting on those being workers before.

Soytago delenda est. Thanks for watching it Hoxton.

Hey, its pretty different in the reconquered campaign as shown here not sure if you mean that or the vanilla maps. I dont think its hard at all, this was 23 in game years which is really fast but its a fun mission to play and people have memories of it so i decided to cover it. Thanks for watching the video.

Only way to edit that in saves is using the well cheats. You can find that here www.gamespot.com/games/caesar-iii/cheats/

@@commissarmarek-main-channel wow thanks for the fast response! I have tried it but the money is not added. I can only win the game(which is not so fun for me) any tips on that? Thanks!

Yes the reservoir placement can be further, it has negative des. But thats not usually a big bother, main thing to understand is length and width of the block to use looping roaming walkers.