Banished - nearly finished

Darkspire · February 24, 2014, 04:49:07 PM

Quote from: skeptical.platypus on February 24, 2014, 04:33:56 PM
There are no brigands. There are nomads who will show up at your port (trading dock) and ask to join. They are like wild animals in that strangers' diseases can kill you, but you have no defense (particularly if your herbalist is out wandering).

Not to sure a Herbalist will help with disease, well mine didn't, I had to build a Hospital to cure the mangy folks.
I was very lucky the first time in that I had an outbreak of typhoid, at least 8 folks, and it cleared up on its own, I had no Herbalist or Hospital, they just died and took the Typhoid with them. Second time it was worse, much worse and the herbs did not go down in number, I built the Hospital and it cleared up fairly quickly.

Darkspire

skeptical.platypus · February 24, 2014, 05:25:22 PM

Quote from: Darkspire on February 24, 2014, 04:49:07 PM
Quote from: skeptical.platypus on February 24, 2014, 04:33:56 PM
There are no brigands. There are nomads who will show up at your port (trading dock) and ask to join. They are like wild animals in that strangers' diseases can kill you, but you have no defense (particularly if your herbalist is out wandering).

Not to sure a Herbalist will help with disease, well mine didn't, I had to build a Hospital to cure the mangy folks.
I was very lucky the first time in that I had an outbreak of typhoid, at least 8 folks, and it cleared up on its own, I had no Herbalist or Hospital, they just died and took the Typhoid with them. Second time it was worse, much worse and the herbs did not go down in number, I built the Hospital and it cleared up fairly quickly.

Darkspire

I don't know that herbalists do anything, from my short experience so far. They've gathered herbs, which remain unconsumed in storage. I've managed to freeze or starve my banished ones well before any kind of disease shows up.

undercovergeek · February 24, 2014, 05:55:49 PM

The herbalist increases their average health.... my heart meter went down to 2 and a half due to a piss poor diet but once the herbalist was installed it slowly went back up to 4.... once at 4 the herbalist never had another customer

skeptical.platypus · February 26, 2014, 02:14:37 PM

Thanks for the clarification re: herbalists.

Does anybody know of any way to influence how many trading partners come to see you? Don't I need a variety of different traders to get different wares. I've only got one repeating visitor so far, and can only order products such as beef (but not cows), mutton (but not sheep). My singular dream in Banished life is to herd, often and well. How do I get my chicken herd?!?

undercovergeek · February 26, 2014, 02:45:26 PM

That must be random as I got chickens and sheep from mine but I wanted apples - they're expensive chickens mind

skeptical.platypus · February 26, 2014, 05:15:43 PM

Yes, I think it may be random. I've been offered seeds, chickens, and cows now. Expensive, indeed. Firewood ftw!

undercovergeek · February 26, 2014, 05:23:39 PM

yeah i see the firewood 'exploit' - started watching quills vids - he has a good grasp - guys got 3000 food rolling in right at the start of the game - need to get back into it

skeptical.platypus · February 27, 2014, 10:32:04 PM

Yes, between learning of the long reach of the gatherer's hut and that a stick of wood trades for 1/2 the price of an iron tool, there's not much mystery in the game any longer about how to survive.

My chicken herd grew from 8 to 20 in about six months. I got three cows mooing -- no calves yet, but it's only been a season. So I'm well on my way to Herd King of Comfortdoch.

I'm at 40/4/11, and trying to decide if I'm fully committing to wheat for ale, and if so, how many fields do I need. Also, I cannot tell a lie. I'm thinking of a cherry orchard. And a quarry. And a town hall. . .

undercovergeek · February 28, 2014, 02:30:05 AM

It gets you like that

PanzersEast · April 27, 2014, 09:27:47 AM

I've played this some and while it is a pretty decent game... it tends to get boring for me at least. I feel like a spectator just watching with minimal input and Tropico feels like a better experience.... not a bad game, just not very interesting either.

PE

DennisS · April 27, 2014, 08:40:01 PM

I enjoyed playing Banished, until I figured out the game mechanics.

Initially, it appears to be brutally difficult, and challenging. This was primarily due to players not really understanding the relationship between the markets, and the food distribution system.

Once you suss out the mechanics for this, I think the game becomes rather easy. You can build one self-sustaining community, and drive another road tendril into another fertile area, and rinse/repeat. I have no issue at all with generating communities of several hundred, and never losing ANYONE to starvation.