User Guide

108) if it will help get the tribute paid.
Keep citizens employed and the city’s jobs filled.
Both unemployment and labor shortages will
damage the Prosperity Rating. A city’s Prosperity
Rating benefits most if you keep the unemploy-
ment rate down to between zero and five percent.
Pay workers high wages.
If the city pays more in
wages than what others in the Kingdom pay, its
Prosperity Rating will benefit. Paying below what
the Kingdom pays will cost the city some
Prosperity Rating points.
Feed people a variety of foods.
The more types of
food you provide your citizens, the better the
chances for a high Prosperity Rating.
Take steps to improve the city’s housing stock.
Low-quality housing severely limits a city’s
Prosperity Rating. No matter how well the city
provides food and jobs for its citizens, if it does
not provide attractive housing, the Prosperity
Rating will not climb.
Encourage workers to become scribes.
Having a
good percentage of scribes in your population
provides a boost to your Prosperity Rating.
Remember, though, that scribes do not work, so
the city will need to attract more immigrants to
take the scribes’ places in the work force.
In addition to the above, a Temple Complex, Senet
House and a completed monument adds to a city’s
Prosperity Rating.
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education, health and religion buildings to meet the
needs of its citizens. Check with your Overseers of
Diversion, Learning, Temples and Public Health to see
if the city is lacking in any of these services.
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The Prosperity Rating is a measure of a city’s wealth
and its financial security. The rating goes far beyond
an assessment of the city’s treasury: it also looks at the
wealth of its citizens, taking into account property
value, unemployment and types of food eaten. To
keep a city’s Prosperity Rating rising, try to accomplish
the following:
Keep the city solvent.
Debt generally has a nega-
tive impact on a city’s Prosperity Rating. If, how-
ever, the city is in debt due to construction costs,
its Prosperity Rating won’t be affected. Money
spent on construction is not really lost, it is
invested in the city.
Export more than the city imports.
If the city’s
trade balance is positive (it earns more in exports
than it spends on imports), your city’s Prosperity
Rating will receive a boost. A trade deficit reduces
its rating.
Make sure the city can pay tribute every year.
Missed tribute payments not only damage your
relationships with others in the Kingdom (see
Kingdom Rating), they also hurt a city’s
Prosperity Rating. Make sure the city has enough
money in its coffers at the end of the year when it
is time to pay the Kingdom its due. Consider
donating some of your family savings (see page
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