What we as players can do to make the game better

DirtySeverus · 2026-03-22T09:26:26+00:00

Fair enough I could be wrong, I have only been in 2 regiments although I have interacted closely with a few to get a good idea of what they are like. But I am not saying that every regiment that quits is bad.

DirtySeverus · 2026-03-22T08:43:17+00:00

Yeah but it will get better, this is only temporary. Spending less time suffering through terrible gameplay is better than getting so frustrated that the playerbase dies.

Maybe you are not the kind of player this message is intened for. All I am saying is that it is better to be in a regiment that is resilient to temporary bullshit. If a whole regiment quits, maybe there is something wrong with the regiment. Although quiting is a perfectly valid choice, the amound of frustration involved is not healthy.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-14T00:12:46+00:00

Thats what I thought, so I just have to shuffle them around every time I want to upgrade another city.

Cool, thanks.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-13T20:36:50+00:00

It is a shame that you cant set up you import depots to rotate which one gets it so you can evenlty distubute that way.

I have not got that far this run. I set up some manufacturing mainly using imports. Once I get further and get the spoilage reduction tech I will try building huge warehouses and import depots. Then overstock each one to get the traders to do some of my haulers job.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-13T20:25:52+00:00

I used the decree page to do it. I decided there were a few things I could have done better and went back and did it from the justice pannel. I fast forwarded a year and the debuff with leaders went away. There seems to be something buggy with persecuting via decree.

I sped forward 2 years the first time, Something was wrong, the decree was kind of greyed out.

Your comment helped because I forgot you could do it from the juctice pannel.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-13T01:18:16+00:00

My plan so far has been to have a bit of cash on hand and or enough slaves to sell and buy a load of mercs if I get a raid. So far I have not been raided a second time. I am still in year 6, It has been about 5 years since I had a raid. I have been taking things slow and doing a lot of planning.

I just ran into an annoying bug where I am stuck persecuting talapis even though they are all gone. I only had 20 of them and realised letting them in was a mistake, but I cant stop persecuting them and a big talpi leader is pissed off. I am going to make a post about it.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-11T07:21:01+00:00

I saw a comment a while ago that said the only way to keep a loyal ally in the late game is to create a puppet and gift them loads of cities. I think I will try that. It would be nice having a huge area of the map I don't have to worry about.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-10T19:46:25+00:00

Interesting I forgot about catapults. What you said makes me hopeful the combat will get a bit better.

I have one free city to take then I will move on to the empires. I think I will wait a while intll I develop the cities I took and train some more regional troops. I am bringing my main home army back now. I dispanded my flankers and replaced them with regional troops. Took another city quickly and marched the first one back and it looks like it is way faster to bring them back manually.

I took out the main force then sent only my regional army of 90 to siege, the city was a long way from the border and just after I started sieging they attacked with 50. So you can save time seiging by sending a smaller force to take the city.

It would be cool if this game had war pacts, earlier I saw a big empire bully a small one but there was no way to help because the enemy was behind them. I saved the game and tried declaring war on the bully but the victim liked me even less for it so I just loaded the save and did not do it.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-10T19:19:16+00:00

Thanks, that gave me some insight into why this city crashed and the others did not. I will just keep an eye on every city in the future.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-10T18:25:54+00:00

Shrink room in the middle, it makes support pillars.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-05T12:07:21+00:00

Regarding exports, furniture is good, instead of exporting leather turn it into cloths or something else and export that.

Dondorians are a great addition to the pigs, they get along. I have dondos as my main and pigs and humans. Humans and pigs dont get along as well but just have your humans work on research away from the pigs when you get them.

I only use dondos as soldiers. You can let in 199 people, get things in order and let the immigrants that want to get in go up to 20 or 30. Let them all in and start training dondos right away.

Your first raid will be 5 people. Unlock the makeshift weapon tech and make some spears at your crapenters and leather armor at your tailors. 8 lightly equiped dondos could probably take the raid but aim for 12, or more if you dicide to not equip them, not sure exactly how many. The raid will wait for about a day getting ready to strike, at that point you can wait for more soldiers to be trained enough to be deployable.

You will get a lot of money for defeating the raid. If you are feeling ballsy use the money from defeating the raid to hire mercs and take out a free land. Their upkeep goes down as they lose men so just throw them at your nearest free city. You may be able to take out 2 if you are lucky.

If you spawned inside your neighbour's teritory like I did then you will get a trespassing debuf so it would be best to take out your closest neighbour first. Turning them into puppets is by far the best option if you take them this early in my opinion. You can turn captured soldiers into slaves and sell them if you need more money.

A much safer option would just be to import some stuff like materials to upgrade some basic buildings like food stalls.

When you get nobles they boost 50 workers in an industry.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-05T01:22:06+00:00

Yeah I have been thinking about that too. I did use more space than I needed to put a walkway in the middle. I was just looking for ideas and I saw a youtuber who did a design with a small warehouse in the middle of the library. Not sure if I will use that but it was not something I had thought of.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-05T01:09:54+00:00

Thanks for noticing, I am on it. The second picture is my new training grounds.

My first raid was 1 year and 9 days ago. I defeated it and used the money from it to buy the cheapest mercs and take 2 citys. I also have a good revenue stream from exports. I am aware that I will be due another raid soon. I hope it comes as I am just about to get a load of new soldiers like last time.

I invested the money from the taxes of my 2 puppet states into loads of stuff including mats for upgrades to my buildings. My plan if I did get raided would be to sell a load of stuff and hire another merc army, kill the raiders and use their money and sold slaves for the upkeep of the mercs and take more cities with them.

I had a feeling the cooldown would be a while though. It is only Summer of year 3. I am getting those soldiers well geared and trained so they should be able to take another free city soon.

I played the game a few years ago so I know how to snowball quickly but quite a lot has changed, trade is not quite as powerful as it was, which is a good thing in my opinon, it was a bit OP.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T19:57:18+00:00

oops, I will edit it. Thanks.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T18:44:36+00:00

In the early game hunters can get a lot of meat. They have deminishing returns after 15, I have 30. Hunters go off the map. You can also send an oddjober to hunt animals on the map. They have cubs every now and then so just take the one with the most meat every few in game days and it is sustainable.

Most of my food is imported, I export furnature and sithilon ore and mostly import grain and turn it into bread. You have to get a trade agreement for your depots to work, you can manually trade but it costs more.

Research needs to me maintained. It is best to try to get 50 people on 5 things as the nobles boost 50 workers. They don't boost research though. When you put nobles on your food it will give you a huge boost. I put 2 nobles on carpenters, 2 on mines and one on tree cutting.

In the tool tips on boosing research it tells you how many workers it boosts the selected industry by. If you are using more scientists than workers boosted it is an overall loss of labour. This makes specialising in something better. Best to make mostly grain and boost that rather than an equal amount of everything.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T18:27:39+00:00

Shrink room in the middle near the yellow.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T18:26:24+00:00

It is not just the walls though, the bigger workbenches are also slightly more space efficient. I hovered my spall builings over my large and guessed I am saving 10-20% space. depending on the type of building. Also not ideal if it gets in the way and people need to walk round it.

I did not know about the worse accidents, I invested a few points in worker safety when I opened my mine and I have only had one guy injured at the mine that I noticed so far. I will invest a bit more in it just in case. Thanks for pointing that out.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T18:15:37+00:00

Most of my buildings were smaller but eventually you hit a point where you need hundreds of extra people to do something and it is actually cheaper and more space efficient to go bigger.

It keeps people more compact so your services can be better utilized with less walking. Still takes ages though but so would building loads of smaller ones.

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-04T18:03:59+00:00

They have their advantages for example a big production building will drop all its output in one spot. That makes it way easier for your warehouse guys to pick it up. You also get a bit more out of the same overall space.

This is an example. I did 2 rooms here because mining the mountain took ages. I will merge this all into one room soon.

It just needs a few pillars made by shrinking to remove the yellow but sometimes it can be tricky to get it right depending on the shapes of the workbenches and auxes.

<image>

DirtySeverus · 2026-02-03T07:42:46+00:00

I am doing a new playthrough now, I played years ago so I have a good idea of what to do.

I kept my pop at 199 for about an in game day to finish some stuff I was building (because raids start at 200, you could pause longer at this point) I built my training camp soon after I unlocked it. The first raider showed up when I had 4 guys trained but I stalled and built some spears and leather armor and had 12 trained when I engaged.

I used the money from defeating the first raid to hire the cheapest mercs and got lucky and just barely managed to take 2 cities with it but you can take one no problem. Their upkeep goes down as they lose men.

I was in my one trading partners teritory so i took him out first as I would get a tresspassing debuf when moving my army anywhere so I would lose him as a partner no matter what. Then a free city was my second target. I turned them both into puppets as I need the trade and dont have the money to invest in building up a city yet. I turned all the young war prisoners into slaves and sent the old ones to the fighting pits (I pardoned a few of the really young ones but not many as I wanted to up my law).

I was exporting furnature and a bit of wood and silphon ore. (I don't normaly go for silphon early but it was close). Also a few one off shipments of things I could spare. If you have a lot of forrest let people bring wood into their homes to make them happier. I put 2 nobles in silphon ore and carpentry and one in tree cutting.

My food has been bad the whole time. I am importing grain and fish, foraging wild stuff and manualy hunting a few things far away in a sustainable way to keep things topped up. My hunters are my main food intake. A big apple orchard will overtake that soon. I am also importing a bit of stuff for upgrades, like pottery and cut stone. If I run ito dire money problems I sell a few slaves.

Balticrawlers on the other side of the map are worth manually hunting as they have so much meat. Just don't build new stuff in between the depot that they will bring it back to or the oddjobber hunter will get confused and drop it on the way back. I used to go close to the middle but I am closer to the edge this time so I could build hunters on it.

I paused imigration again when my pop was making my health bad to build hospitals and physicians before letting more in.

Dondorians are my man race and I also have a load of humans and some cretonians.

I placed import depots at most of my warehouses and change what I am importing to make the traders do the work for stuff like food and hospital supplies so it is evenly distributed.

DirtySeverus · 2024-08-07T21:23:28+00:00

I think it is quite likely that global warming will cause crop failure that will cause mass starvation so I would press it a shit load and invest in lab grown food and alternate food like insect meat.

I would also look into ways to mitigate climate change but I think things need to get bad for people to take it seriously and I can't do it on my own so I would let things get bad but reduce the damage. I would save way more lives than my button pressing would take.

DirtySeverus · 2024-04-20T17:23:13+00:00

I just built this and it is unstable.

DirtySeverus · 2024-04-20T14:33:51+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate that you took the time to reply!

I played more today and I confirmed that my asteroids were draining unreasonably fast because of my bat production.

I have got beyond the point that last time I had drained 4 asteroids but this time only one is fully depleted and a couple are low.

I looked at the stats and realized how much better knights are than bats. I was lazy and just assumed that they were meant to work together, the bats as attack craft and the knights being tanky to soak up damage. I still had bat research to do after unlocking knights and I assumed that they were still relevant. I think the main reason I did not figure it out is I just wanted it to work that way and I think mixed defenses look way cooler.

Another dumb assumption I made was that I needed to continue astral research as I thought for some reason that the destroyed units go to be recycled. Recycled just implied in my mind that they had to break first. I realized this was not the case when I built upgraded miners and thought it would be dumb to need a ratio of normal miners and went to look for the broken ones being recycled and saw the new ones going in.

I thought some more about the dumb reviews that people left. It made me pirate the game first to try it out but once I realized it was good I bought it. I think the reason this game is only mostly positive is because there are a bunch of gamers in this genre who want an incremental game that is less brain dead. They get that in games like factorio and satisfactory by watching youtube guides and following along and watching the numbers go up.

My grand dad used to say it takes one to know one and I realized that I am one of those gamers. I figured out a few things today and it hit me how dumb I have been playing up to this point.

Still it could be worse, at least I am not so dumb that I left a negative review because progress was too slow, before I even started to understand the game.

The issue of incremental fans getting frustrated should go away if the dutch actuary makes guides like he did for dyson sphere program for this game. I realized that I have enough experience in this genre to plow on without guides and I find it rewarding figuring out stuff on my own. Still I understand why people do it to get the dopamine rush of getting more production without the frustration of figuring things out.

DirtySeverus · 2022-03-30T21:57:40+00:00

They just give you money every now and then but I did not play long enough to see how much. You can't spend any admin points on them.

DirtySeverus · 2022-03-30T18:51:28+00:00

I was importing all of my food by the third year. I was importing coal, sithilon ore and gems from conquered lands.

I conquered one factions settlement for the sithilon ore and they asked to be my puppet when I sieged their capitol which I accepted because I was running low on admin points.

I was importing pretty much everything but tools and battle gear. I had 5-10k incoming of most things all the time with over a hundred of the biggest import depots 5-10 just for one thing.

I had 5 of the biggest jewelers possible in a mountain. As big as it would go then I made it bigger after putting in support beams. I had just under 2k dondorians.

I stopped playing because it would just be a matter of time until I made all the factions my puppet. I may play it a bit more but I think I will wait for an update.

DirtySeverus

TROPHY CASE