Banished

[BigBucs]

You need to plop down some more houses more than likely. Even though everyone has a house currently, you likely have two or three families living in one house. They're not gonna be doing any baby making when they're living in the same room as their parents.

Ill give that a try, thanks. I only have 5 houses in my town. I was building them as the population grew. I even have a boarding house up.

good reading here fellas. keep it coming. any coop or just solo?

All solo I believe. Game is definitely addicting.

[JBauerisGod]

Got my second town up to 260 people. Despite a few food scares, the town has been pretty stable.

[jms493]

Very cool JB.

[BigBucs]

What level are you playing on JB?

[Maynard]

i want to get this, but from what i read they have quite a few bugs to iron out. sounds like they are working real hard cause they know people like the game and they dont want to turn people off.

[jms493]

Yeah I am going to wait for a 50% off sale and a patch before playing.

[JBauerisGod]

What level are you playing on JB?

I started on medium. I think the difficulty only affects what resources you start out with.

[BigBucs]

Im playing on hard and for whatever reason I had a real smooth run going with about 40 people. Had 4000+ food stocked and then that shit just started going so fast and I couldnt keep up with the demand all of a sudden. Shit went down hill real fast and mfers started dying from starvation. Im wondering if you can clean out resources in an area. Like do the gathers gather all the food they can from an area and do hunters find all the game they can find causing you to have to set up sites in other areas. The food drought was way too sudden.

i want to get this, but from what i read they have quite a few bugs to iron out. sounds like they are working real hard cause they know people like the game and they dont want to turn people off.

What kind of bugs? I havent experienced any game killing buds unless the shit I posted above is a bug.

[JBauerisGod]

i want to get this, but from what i read they have quite a few bugs to iron out. sounds like they are working real hard cause they know people like the game and they dont want to turn people off.

The only real "bug" I've encountered so far is that your food collectors (farmers, gatherers, hunters) can starve to death, even with tons of food sitting right in front of them. Basically, they'll go to their home to look for the food, won't find any, will go to a market/storehouse, won't find any there, and proceed back to their home, where they won't find any again. Then they die.

Meanwhile, since they aren't working their farm/gather's hut/hunter's cabin, the rest of the population starves because they aren't getting food delivered from those places. It's a vicious cycle.

I put bug in quotations because I think it's more a design flaw than a bug in the actual game.

Im playing on hard and for whatever reason I had a real smooth run going with about 40 people. Had 4000+ food stocked and then that shit just started going so fast and I couldnt keep up with the demand all of a sudden. Shit went down hill real fast and mfers started dying from starvation. Im wondering if you can clean out resources in an area. Like do the gathers gather all the food they can from an area and do hunters find all the game they can find causing you to have to set up sites in other areas. The food drought was way too sudden.


What kind of bugs? I havent experienced any game killing buds unless the shit I posted above is a bug.

The hunters and gatherers will never run out of food to collect. However, they require ample forestry to be most efficient, meaning that if you keep encroaching on their territory and destroying the surrounding forest, the hunters and gatherers will collect less food.

Keep an eye on your food reserves on a year-to-year basis. If you had 5000 food to start year 5, and then you only had 2000 food to start year 6, that means you will run into starvation problems in year 6 unless you remedy the situation quickly. Building a town hall will help with monitoring. I like to keep between half a year and a year's supply of food in reserves. Even if I fuck up terribly, I should have a year to remedy the food situation before my people start starving.

A final tip: don't build any houses until you get the food situation under control. Building more houses leads to more babies, which leads to more food consumption.

[Maynard]

the bugs might just be a few people here and there. i read about the food thing JB posted, plus there is some issue with the game booting up that is right on the purchase page for steam. nothgin that is keeping me from buying it.