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used to read this fags blog updates before it was released.

tbh i want my 20 bucks back

>>15388501

This anon gets it, the AI is still a fucking mess. This was purely another EA scam but some retards still justify it.

>>15388501

>>15388558

so this is not worth pirating then

>>15388577

I pirated it anon and gave it a go, its really not that fun. I played without a wiki (like you should) and tried learning mechanics but it was just retarded. Farm mechanics are pretty much broken and what'd youd imagine would be THE IDEAL source of food generation. Of course they arent. Not to mention theres nothing to do once your village is set up and going. Its like factorio in that regard except you dont need austism in banished. Actually, factorio has more content than banished too. Really its a shit game.

>>15388558

So I take it there aren't any mods by now that fix any core problems? I haven't played it in probably two years.

>>15388870

There are a number of mods but none that really make the game all that much better. A game that has no purpose is not much of a game.

I don't know why but I want to compare Thea: The Awakening to Banished. Thea is a much better game for people management.

Oh man I haven't touched Banished in almost a year. Has anything major changed?

>>15388718

>Farm mechanics are pretty much broken and what'd youd imagine would be THE IDEAL source of food generation. Of course they arent.

It's highly dependent on the crop, the climate, and how you lay out your farms. Planting a crop that requires a long growing season in a cold climate is obviously going to cause you to lose a lot of your harvest to freezing.

>>15388718

whats the best method for food then? I still haven't been able to crack over 500 population cause of starvation.

>>15391538

Farming. If you have a map that's favorable to it fishing is good too.

>build nice settlement

>everybody dies, no matter what you do

complete shite

>>15388501

>open ended game is open ended

Anon that's kind of the point, also if you were reading the dev blogs why didn't you pick it up when it was $10?

>>15391538

>>15391544

Fishing + gathering / hunting in a plant only forestry area is the way to go. Get the forest to max density then fire the forestry worker until trees start to die of old age.

Didn't some cuckchan fag make this game?

>>15395838

Unless you go full wiki then thats what happens. The only other way is through experimentation. And by the time youd fully grasp how retarded the mechanics are, you realize you could have played an actually good game.

>>15402622

Wouldnt surprise me with the absolute lack of everything from the game

>Actually learn how to play

>build stockpile of food

>food + housing + jobs = explosive population

>skyrocketing population eats away at the food stockpile like a swarm of locusts

>The spectre of famine looms in the distance and slowly draws closer every time you blink as you panic and rush to increase food production.

>Increasing food production only encourages the people to make more babies, therefore making the problem worse

This game is no longer comfy.

>>15402649

Just stop building houses, they don't get married if they still live with their parents

>>15402649

See >>15402654

When I have a healthy stockpile I'll build 8 houses and wait a year, then you know how your food production looks with your new population.

>>15402616

>Fishing + gathering / hunting in a plant only forestry area is the way to go.

That's the best way to start out but eventually the space that takes up becomes more valuable to you and you'll want to switch to farms.

>>15402649

Its not helped by the fact that theres no splitting of food stock by the AI. One house can hold an entire supply hostage while others simply starve. The AI in this game is purely shit.

Fun game. The inevitable malthusian catastrophe is fun imo: all things must end, all civilisations topple, so it becomes about how long you can postpone judgment day. The further you kick the can down the road the harder the world-ending famine will hit.

And yeah, the AI goes to dogshit when the population gets too large. It works well enough early game when it counts. I actually like the way it goes to shit late game. As anon mentioned above, you get quirky behaviour like some houses hoarding all the food. Villagers assigned to jobs so far away from their houses that they spend 80% of their time commuting. Villagers getting resources from markets and stockpiles so far away that by the time they get home with food they need to make another trip for firewood. Inefficiencies like that, which would spell doom for a 12 person village, but become a mere statistic in an 800 person township.

I see a ton of posts complaining about the AI and mechanics but frankly this game just doesn't have enough content to sustain itself. The developer seems to have just given up at some point on trying to add anything more to the game, and it only takes a few hours to really experience everything it has to offer. You can autistically try to make your civ survive for as long as possible but unlike something like Dwarf Fortress, there's really not anything to do after a certain point except just sit and watch your villagers piddle around in circles.

It's a problem with all of these fucking indie civ management games, they're as barebones on content as they can possibly be and no one bothers to think about what's supposed to engage people once they've got all their buildings set up for maximum efficiency. I've been playing Kingdoms and Castles for quite a few hours and it's basically the same shit, just slightly less obnoxious.

>>15402839

should have sort of an anno/simcity kind of thing where citizens upgrade their own buildings as more people and resources come in

>>15402962

>implying post count means anything

The only time there are any lolz to be had from post count is when you get 100 from one anon in a 105 post thread.