How to Increase Impressiveness in Black And White 2

The sum of the impressiveness of all the buildings & embellishments in your city. Each structure’s impressivess is a combination of a base impressiveness and a location modifier. The base impressiveness is constant per building/embellishment type; for example, villas are 22 impressiveness, while temples are 1,300.

The location modifier roughly correlates with elevation. Lowlands incur a penalty, while high areas give a bonus as high as +200.

Build impressive buildings where the location modifier is locally greatest [1]

This modifier ranges from -4,000 for pure evil to +4,000 for 100% good.

1.8 times the number of adults your city can house, rounded to the nearest integer.

If adult population exceeds adults housing capacity, the penalty is −18 × (adults in city − adult housing capacity); otherwise it’s zero.

+45 for connecting a building (but not an embellishment) to a road. This bonus can only be earned once per building, and cannot be lost.

+9 for changing a building’s orientation before placing it.

Building more than two of any building type incurs a building variety penalty, which increases per building up to a per-type cap. For example, building villas incurs an increasing penalty that reaches a maximum of −18 per villa at the eighteenth villa. For temples, the third one incurs a −390 penalty, and each beyond that incurs a −585 penalty. Generally, the more impressive the building, the greater the cap and the sooner it’s reached.

Embellishments do not affect the building variety modifier.

Each tree planted next to a building is +20 impressiveness. A large building like a creature pen can easily fit twenty-five trees, for +500 impressiveness. A villa will fit five easily, for +100 impressiveness, though if you try hard, you can fit dozens.