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ANNO 117: Pax Romana – Fire and Disaster Prevention Guide
This guide provides strategies for preventing fires and other disasters in ANNO 117: Pax Romana, covering game settings, city infrastructure, and the use of specialists.
1. ⚙️ Initial Game Setup: Incidents and Incident Protection
- ✅ Adjusting the incident difficulty (easy, medium, hard) affects the severity of disasters, including fires.
- ⚠️ Incident protection can be disabled (there will always be incidents), set to positive (incidents are avoided if fire protection is positive), or kept at 1000 (eliminates all incidents).
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1. ⚙️ Initial Game Setup: Incidents and Incident Protection
- ✅ Adjusting the incident difficulty (easy, medium, hard) affects the severity of disasters, including fires.
- ⚠️ Incident protection can be disabled (there will always be incidents), set to positive (incidents are avoided if fire protection is positive), or kept at 1000 (eliminates all incidents).
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2. 🔥 Fire Protection: Fire Stations and Watchtowers
- ✅ Fire stations and watchtowers are crucial for fire protection.
- ⚠️ Dirt roads reduce the effectiveness of fire stations compared to paved or marble roads. Marble roads only add additional prestige.
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3. 💧 Wells: Complement to Fire Stations
- ✅ Wells, located near fire stations, increase fire protection.
- ✅ Combining wells and fire stations provides double fire protection.
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4. 🔱 Devotion to Neptune: Mitigating Fire Risk
- ✅ Dedicating religion to Neptune helps mitigate the risk of fires.
- ✅ Devotion to Neptune accumulates with the benefits of wells and fire stations.
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5. 🚰 Aqueducts and Cisterns: Importance for Health and Fire Protection
- ✅ Aqueducts are essential for health and fire protection.
- ⚠️ Planning the location of aqueducts before building other structures is crucial.
- ✅ Cisterns benefit even lower-level populations, providing fire protection.
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6. 🧑⚕️ Specialists and Trades: Mitigating Fire Risk
- ✅ Specialists can be acquired through events or "going shopping" (bidding).
- ⚠️ Bidding for specialists can be costly, especially at the beginning of the game.
- ✅ Using trades on the production side of the island and placing fire specialists there helps mitigate the risk.
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7. 💡 Final Summary: Combining Strategies for Fire Prevention
- ✅ Fire risk mitigation is achieved by combining all the strategies mentioned.