Pharaoh/Cleopatra Housing Chart

There is an incredible amount of information to be found on this site, and others, about the game of Pharaoh/Cleo. Of all of these wonderful resources, the one that I have referred to most often is the Housing Levels chart that I found on Grumpus The Elder's site Which Way To Thebes.

Lately I have been playing on the higher difficulty levels, and Grumpus' chart is only accurate for Normal Difficulty. Also, Grumpus' chart is lacking information on taxes, which I find very useful. Nero Would prepared a chart, Housing data table, which included information for all difficulty levels on taxes, prosperity and entertainment. Nero Would's chart did not include the required desirability levels for housing evolution, and neither chart included the desirability effect that the different levels of housing had on nearby housing.

What I have tried to accomplish here is to develop a chart that included all of the information found in the works of Grumpus The Elder and Nero Would, plus add a little additional information of my own. I hope that some of you will find this chart useful as well.

Due to the large amount of information included in this chart, it must be viewed at 1024 x 768 (or higher) with a minimum setting of 256 colors.

This chart consists of two pages, with a legend for each page. The link to page two is at the bottom of this page. Before printing this chart, set your printer's top margin to .75" (1.90 cm), the bottom, left and right margins to .50" (1.27 cm) and turn "header" and "footer" off (leave blank).

Also, be sure and check out the Pharaoh/Cleo Structures Chart. It is a nice compliment to the Housing Level Chart.

 — VitruviusAIA —

PHARAOH/CLEOPATRA HOUSING CHART - Page 1

Housing Level	Siz	Pop	Evolve / Entertainment					Services	Prosperity					Taxes					Desirability
			VH	H	N	E	VE		VH	H	N	E	VE	VH	H	N	E	VE	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6
Crude Hut	1x1	5	-98	-98	-98	-98	-98	None	5	5	5	10	15	1	1	1	1	2	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	20	0	0	0	0	0							12	12	12	12	24
Sturdy Hut	1x1	7	-10	-10	-10	-10	-10	Well or Water Supply	10	10	10	15	20	1	1	1	1	2	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	28	0	0	0	0	0							16	16	16	16	33
Meager Shanty	1x1	9	-5	-5	-5	-6	-7	1 Type of Food	15	15	15	20	25	1	1	1	2	3	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	36	0	0	0	0	0							21	21	21	43	64
Common Shanty	1x1	11	0	0	0	-1	-2	Access to 1 God	20	20	20	25	30	1	1	1	2	3	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	44	0	0	0	0	0							26	26	26	52	79
Rough Cottage	1x1	13	4	4	4	3	2	Water Supply	25	25	25	30	35	1	2	2	2	3	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	52	0	0	0	0	0							31	62	62	62	93
Ordinary Cottage	1x1	15	9	8	8	7	6	Entertainment	30	30	30	35	40	2	2	2	2	3	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	2x2	60	10	10	10	10	10							72	72	72	72	108
Modest Homestead	1x1	16	13	12	12	11	10	Pottery	35	35	35	40	45	2	2	2	3	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0
	2x2	64	20	15	13	13	12							76	76	76	115	153
Spacious Homestead	1x1	17	17	16	16	15	14	Physician or Mortician	45	45	45	50	55	2	2	2	3	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0
	2x2	68	25	20	16	15	14							81	81	81	122	163
Modest Apartment	1x1	18	21	20	20	19	18	Beer	50	50	50	55	60	2	3	3	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2x2	72	30	25	20	18	16							86	129	129	129	172
Spacious Apartment	1x1	19	26	25	25	23	22	Courthouse	55	55	55	60	70	2	3	3	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2x2	76	35	30	25	22	18							91	136	136	136	182
Common Residence	2x2	80	33	32	32	30	29	Scribe School or Library	60	60	60	70	80	3	3	3	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
			40	35	30	25	20							144	144	144	192	240
Spacious Residence	2x2	84	41	40	40	38	37	Dentist & 2 Types of Food	65	70	70	80	90	3	3	3	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
			45	40	35	30	25							151	151	151	201	252
Elegant Residence	2x2	88	50	48	48	46	45	Linen	70	75	80	90	100	3	4	4	5	6	1	1	0	0	0	0
			50	45	40	35	30							158	211	211	264	316
Fancy Residence	2x2	92	55	53	53	51	50	Access to 2 Gods	75	80	90	100	120	4	4	4	5	6	2	1	0	0	0	0
			55	50	45	40	35							220	220	220	276	331
Common Manor	3x3	100	60	58	58	56	55	1 Type of Luxury Good	450	450	500	600	650	11	10	10	12	13	3	2	1	0	0	0
			60	55	50	45	40							660	600	600	720	780
Spacious Manor	3x3	108	65	63	63	61	60	Physician & Mortician	550	600	600	700	750	11	10	11	13	14	3	2	1	0	0	0
			65	60	55	50	45							712	648	712	842	907
Elegant Manor	3x3	116	70	68	68	66	64	School & Library Access 3 Gods*	650	700	700	800	850	12	12	12	14	15	4	4	3	3	2	2
			70	65	60	55	50							835	835	835	974	1044
Stately Manor	3x3	124	76	74	74	72	70	***	750	800	800	900	950	12	12	13	15	16	4	4	3	3	2	2
			80	75	70	60	55							892	892	967	1116	1190
Modest Estate	4x4	184	82	80	80	77	75	2 Types of Luxury Goods	1500	1600	1600	1900	2000	15	15	15	16	17	5	5	4	4	3	3
			90	85	80	72	65							1656	1656	1656	1766	1876
Palatial Estate	4x4	200	92	90	90	87	85	3 Types of Food **	1800	1900	1900	2200	2300	15	16	16	17	18	5	5	4	4	3	3
			100	95	90	83	75							1800	1920	1920	2040	2160
* For the Easy Difficulty Level, 3 Gods are not required until you get to Stately Manor.
** For the Very Easy Level, 3 types of food are not required.
*** The chart that Grumpus The Elder made (for Normal Difficulty) had "Senet House" at this location. This is an entertainment requirement. With the "entertainment bonus", a Stately Manor could be evolved on Normal Difficulty (and on Hard Difficulty if Cleo isn't installed) without a Senet House.

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Colors: The vertical bands of color have been used to distinguish the various Difficulty Levels. VH=Very Hard, H=Hard, N=Normal, E=Easy and VE=Very Easy. The horizontal bands of color are to aid in reading across the chart.

Siz (Size): Size of the housing that this level produces. For housing that can be either 1x1 or 2x2, both are listed.

Pop (Population): The maximum number of people that the house will hold.

In the columns with the gray heading are listed all of the requirements for housing to evolve to the designated level. These include the desirability of the area necessary to Evolve, Entertainment points required and the necessary Services that need to be provided. Evolve: For housing to develop to this level, the Desirability of the area must obtain this minimum value. For housing that covers more than a 1x1 area, at least one tile must obtain this minimum value. This value increases as the difficulty level increases and is shown in the top row, right justified. Entertainment: Entertainment must be provided for housing to evolve beyond Rough Cottage. The amount of entertainment required increases as the difficulty level increases and is shown in the bottom row, left justified. If you have questions about entertainment, visit the thread by Nero Would: Entertainment - more than you may want to know. A brief summary on Entertainment: You get 10 points for a Juggler, 20 points for a Musician, 30 points for a Dancer and 40 points for a Senet House (or Zoo if you have Cleo installed). There is also an entertainment bonus available, which can amount to a maximum of 20 points. Services: What you must provide, in addition to the desirability of the area and entertainment, for housing to evolve to this level.

Prosperity: I can't explain this any better than Nero Would did in his Housing data table post. This is what Nero Would had to say on the subject: "Your Prosperity Rating is evaluated every 3 months and may increase depending on your cities profitability, unemployment, wages and other factors. But your prosperity will not increase above a "cap" that is determined by the prosperity values of your housing. To calculate the prosperity cap, multiply the prosperity value of each house by the current (not maximum) population. Add up this number for each house in your city, divide by the total population and round down to a whole number. For example, if you are playing on Hard and have 1300 people living in Rough Cottages (100 Rough Cottages if they are all full) and you have 1000 people living in Common Residences (say 25 Common Residences each half full), your prosperity cap is: (1300*25 + 1000*60) / 2300 = 40"

Taxes: For each level of difficulty, you will find two numbers corresponding to each level of housing. The number in the top row (the smaller value, left-justified) is the "tax rate multiplier" for the house. Again, I am quoting Nero Would: "To calculate the annual taxes paid by a house, you multiply the number of occupants by the tax rate multiplier, by the city tax rate, and by 6. For example, on Hard and with the default 9% tax rate, a full common residence pays annual taxes of: 80 * 3 * 9% * 6 = 129 debens." The number in the bottom row (the larger value, right-justified) is the amount of tax that a full house of this level will pay at a 10% tax rate. I chose 10% because it is easy to adjust for other tax rates. Multiply this number by .7 for a 7% tax rate, or 1.5 for a 15% tax rate, etc. (For houses that can be either 1x1 or 2x2, the number shown is for the 2x2 version of the house.)

Desirability: This is different from the "Evolve" value found earlier in the chart. The number in the "D1" column represents the desirability effect (positive or negative) that the house has on adjacent squares. The number in the "D2" column represents the desirability effect 2 tiles from the house. "D3" = 3 tiles, etc. 6 tiles is the maximum range that the desirability effect extends for any house. For example, the Desirability Chart of a Stately Manor (4,4,3,3,2,2) would look like this: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 SM 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

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Credits: Most of the information contained in this Chart was provided by Nero Would. Additional information was obtained from my review of the Pharaoh_Model.txt files and from tests that I made. The original concept and format of the Chart was derived from the work of Grumpus The Elder on his site "Which Way To Thebes". If there are any errors in the Chart, they are entirely by own. VitruviusAIA

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