@michaels.3709

2 weeks ago

Glad to see the strategy from stream seemed to improve the combat! I'm guessing once you start declaring wars, the opposing armies are going to be hardier. A couple of things I noticed: 4:30 -- It looks like the weapons and armor are not consumed when creating units, so if you only have 25 spears in storage, you will only be able to have a maximum of 25 spearmen. This might mean, as your armies get larger, you'll need more general storage just for weapons. Also, keep this in mind when you switch to "Full Trade" and start exporting military stuff. Don't want to accidentally sell all of your spears or something! 13:25 -- Did you rebuild the farms somewhere else off-screen? I'm guessing the reason you ended up with food issues was because those farms were a majority producer, in spite of the low fertility. Makes me think the yield might not be so sensitive to the soil fertility, which might mean flax/etc. could still be viable in your current map tile. 29:50 -- Importing lambs is interesting... If you were to set "import lambs" to, say, "keep 100", then set "export sheep" to "keep 0", would this be a money printer? Namely, if it costs nothing but time and a few families to tend to the sheep, after the first 100 lambs grew up, I think you'd have a constant flow of gold as you exported the adult sheep for 20gp apiece, only to replace them with new lambs for 10gp apiece. 30:30 -- I was wondering about this during the stream: so it does look like there is some mechanical impact of having multiple trading posts. Good to know! Also, I think all of those trades that occurred with no employees makes me wonder if the trades happen automatically and the employees only go and fetch the trade products. I wonder if you were to stock a trading post, then remove all of the assigned families, whether the stock would still get traded. 46:46 -- It looks like the foreign carts are separate buildings (next to the market tool, which you can see just after 46:48, before getting covered by the Marketplace tool-tip). If I understand the usage, as long as you have local wealth, then families will exchange local wealth for food/fuel when supplies are low. [Mechanically, I really like this, since it sort of lets you use your local wealth as a safety-net for necessities. I imagine this will help soften logistics issues in the end-game when you should have tons of local wealth, but might run into logistics bottlenecks once local trade networks get complex.] Thanks, Phil, for the fantastic videos! I'll try my best to make it to the stream Thursday. Looking forward to seeing the Great Ale War!

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