- Most construction activities can be done while paused.
- I tend to use a six-by-six grid for common housing and its support as well as industry and eight-by-eight for elite housing.
- Adequate storage and access to storage can be a problem. Experiment with the options to accept, not accept, get or empty. If a storehouse is too far away for a certain building, consider either building a new storehouse nearer that building, emptying out the old one and then demolishing it or building a second, nearer storehouse and getting from the other one.
- Don't put olive groves and grapevines near to the other; in my experience that resulted in the olives getting almost totally ignored which could have been a much greater disaster than wine not getting delivered to the upper class.
- The amount of food you produce doesn't matter if you don't have granary capacity for it. Pay attention to food stocks as well as time of year and harvest times then build accordingly.
- Consider building what might seem like an excess of agoras and cultural venues if housing quality is in flux, affecting labor supply.
- Speaking of agoras, the vendors for elite housing have unusually short reach; you will have to build more agoras for these houses than would be expected for common housing.
- Achievement monuments are a great way to increase appeal over a substantial distance.
- Consider strengthening relationships with allies early.
- If a monster just won't stop killing transporters of goods, reroute them out of range of the monster.
- People don't like living near colleges for some reason (though podiums are unaffected) so plan accordingly.
- Sanctuaries do not require maintenance.
- Elite housing does not require access to infirmaries or fountains.
- If agoras don't seem to be delivering goods effectively, it could be because they are too distant from granaries and storehouses.