Zeus: Master of Olympus Housing

Housing ladder

Two ladders. Common housing runs seven rungs from a hut to a townhouse and holds sixty people at the top; elite housing runs four more, from a residence to an estate, on a four-by-four plot. Zeus is the one game here whose ladder took two sources to assemble, and they check each other.

Where this comes from

Names from a fansite, thresholds from an engine, joined on capacity. Zeus Heaven names the rungs and gives each one's population but states the requirements qualitatively - "oil + appeal". eZeus, a live C++ reimplementation, carries the exact conditions in its evolution code but reads the NAMES from the game's own language file, which does not ship in the repository. The two agree on every population, which is what makes the pairing safe: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 60 for common housing and 6, 10, 16, 20 for elite. The build fails if that ever stops being true. "Venue" is the engine's count of the four culture walkers - philosophers, actors, athletes and competitors - which is what the fansite calls culture and science. Appeal figures are the engine's, and are not on the fansite at all.

Zeus Heaven - housing levels ↗eZeus - buildings/esmallhouse.cpp ↗eZeus - buildings/eelitehousing.cpp ↗

Common housing

#	Rung	Size	People	Needs
0	Hut	2×2	8	Nothing. An empty plot with people on it.
1	Shack	2×2	16	Food.
2	Hovel	2×2	24	Water, and one kind of venue.
3	Homestead	2×2	32	Fleece, and appeal above 2.
4	Tenement	2×2	40	A second kind of venue.
5	Apartment	2×2	48	Olive oil, and appeal above 5.
6	Townhouse	2×2	60	A third kind of venue, and appeal above 8.

Elite housing

#	Rung	Size	People	Needs
0	Residence	4×4	6	Food, fleece, oil, three kinds of venue, and appeal above 5.
1	Mansion	4×4	10	Armour, and appeal above 7.
2	Manor	4×4	16	Wine, and appeal above 9.
3	Estate	4×4	20	Horses, a fourth kind of venue, and appeal above 10.