User Guide

CAESAR II
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FORUM
Note: This following section refers to the
forums you will build in your city, not your
personal Forum, which you will visit to hear
advice, set tax rates, organize Plebs, etc. That
one is discussed on page 56.
Forums are your city’s centers of government.
Their primary role is to collect industrial taxes
from your businesses and population taxes from
your citizens. They also act as gathering places
for the masses, so people will want to live near
them. An absence of forum access will limit a
neighborhood’s growth.
Your forums must be adequately linked via
roads to all houses and businesses in the city.
Forums send out Forum Clerks to visit housing
areas and bring in municipal cash. A forum also
has a square radius in which tax coverage is
high regardless of the clerks. If you do not have
adequate forum coverage, taxes may go
uncollected, and your city will suffer.
There are three different classes of forums:
Aventine, Janiculan, and Palatine. The more
advanced classes occupy larger map areas and
provide tax coverage for more territory, but they
will be available only after your city advances a
bit and your engineers develop their skills.
Any class of forum will grow visibly fancier if its
land value rises, but it will always remain the
same size.
CITY LEVEL