Banished - upcoming city-building strategy

dickie999 · 26 Feb 2014 at 08:37

Blazin23 said:
You played 9 hours straight and didn't notice the time?

yeh!, and the village still died due to starvation!

:'(

Atlas23 · 26 Feb 2014 at 08:47

dickie999 said:
yeh!, and the village still died due to starvation!

:'(

Gutted! Did you learn some valuable lessons at least?

Vimes · 26 Feb 2014 at 08:53

^^^^ apart from getting to bed at a reasonable time

Mockingbird · 26 Feb 2014 at 09:25

jubei said:
seed 1 is probably the best, seems to be the one most people use anyway if you look at reddit.hard large harsh on.

In what way "the best"?

Deewon · 26 Feb 2014 at 09:48

I think I'm going to have to drop my difficulty down to Easy, just can't quick hack Medium yet.

jubei · 26 Feb 2014 at 12:10

Mockingbird said:
In what way "the best"?

Obviously there are too many to compare, but 1 has a river and lake right next to your spawn, and a buttload of resources and flat ground to build on.

Its also far easier to type '1' any time you start a new game instead of a long number

wnb · 26 Feb 2014 at 13:22

Whats your population at the moment? So far I am at about 350 which is the best i have done so far. I was so close to losing half my villagers on a few occasions you really need to keep an eye on all of your resources. Its too easy to concentrate on having enough food and dropping the ball on firewood.

And those pesky nomads each time I let them in they go on a 3 week bender munching through my food reserve and drinking all my beer.

Mockingbird · 26 Feb 2014 at 14:26

jubei said:
Obviously there are too many to compare, but 1 has a river and lake right next to your spawn, and a buttload of resources and flat ground to build on.

Its also far easier to type '1' any time you start a new game instead of a long number

Ah, I see what you mean.

I was failing to graps whether it was "best for an easy/reliable start" (as it appears to be) or "best for amazing landscape", or something.

My current start is slightly hemmed in by mountains/rivers, so you need to elongate to the south before spreading out.

Has anyone come across a start that's on a genuine island yet? (mid-lake, not just piddly rivers). Not sure if the engine will generate such a start but I think it would be a very interesting challenge.

Saviola · 26 Feb 2014 at 14:33

Mockingbird said:
Has anyone come across a start that's on a genuine island yet? (mid-lake, not just piddly rivers). Not sure if the engine will generate such a start but I think it would be a very interesting challenge.

Seed 140 starts you on a small island and is quite popular amongst the community.

Chicken #16 · 26 Feb 2014 at 15:06

wnb said:
I was so close to losing half my villagers on a few occasions you really need to keep an eye on all of your resources. Its too easy to concentrate on having enough food and dropping the ball on firewood.

I've found tool production is the worst. It creeps up on you and then no one has any tools to do anythig, you struggle to mine enough iron or chop trees for wood to rush out more. Building another ironmonger is difficult and your mine is depleted and so need to dig another.

I've currently got about 35,000 food stockpiled but I reckon I should trade a huge chunk of that to get a good couple of thousand tools hoarded.

Mockingbird · 26 Feb 2014 at 15:16

a couple of THOUSAND? My Smith's currently capped at 85... should I be looking to boost that? I was thinking he'd hoon through all my iron and leave me none for buildings.

Ewanb75 · 26 Feb 2014 at 15:38

up that cap mockingbird, i ran out last night, major knock on effect.

Omaeka · 26 Feb 2014 at 15:49

Chicken #16 said:
I've currently got about 35,000 food stockpiled but I reckon I should trade a huge chunk of that to get a good couple of thousand tools hoarded.

I wouldn't mate, I had 20,000 and still managed to starve, between 20,000 and 0 food I didn't really do much, built 5 or so extra houses and gained 10 or so extra population and then the food just dried out completely. Was frustrating as farms/fisheries were the majority of the food buildings I had, so it's not like the deer or the gatherer foods were all harvested or anything, the civilians just went crazy and ate themselves to death.

Mockingbird · 26 Feb 2014 at 16:26

Farms are problematic - they are very efficient but quite seasonal (obvs) and a harsh winter/early frost loses you 50% of the year's crop and the stored food just goes, from what I've seen.

I've always noticed quickly enough to buy in a load from a handy trader/chuck everyone at the gathering huts and hunting lodges.

I also tend to drag everyone out of the quarry and mines, as I assume (based on nothing other than 'that's how I would program it' that manual workers eat more food).

benbo96 · 26 Feb 2014 at 17:35

Last night I decided to see how it would work if you decided to rush a market first thing. It is actually a viable rush by the looks of things.

Market Rush

Zenduri · 26 Feb 2014 at 18:01

benbo96 said:
Last night I decided to see how it would work if you decided to rush a market first thing. It is actually a viable rush by the looks of things.

Market Rush

I've done this on Hard on a random seed and its actually working really well

Mockingbird · 26 Feb 2014 at 18:07

What's the advantage? You skip making the barn?

dickie999 · 26 Feb 2014 at 18:10

Mockingbird said:
What's the advantage? You skip making the barn?

this!

I thought market only helped when you build far from your barn.

benbo96 · 26 Feb 2014 at 18:23

I've found that it helps you plan out your town in advance although I've had issues where my workers just don't transfer the food to the market when there isn't a storage barn.

Could be that there aren't enough vendors

Zenduri · 26 Feb 2014 at 19:06

NOOOOO the above town i was talking about was just subject to my first every tornado which killed 27 of the 40 population

and wiped out half my town