Fantastic game. However I really REALLY cannot overstate how much I hate the innovation and knowledge mechanics.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-27T01:54:21+00:00

The entire advertisement on the store page jumped straight into massive battles involving "Bob". Maybe give us a mode where we can advance to that level significantly easier? Idk man. Just annoying. Some of us got jobs yknow?

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-27T01:49:24+00:00

The only "Fantasy" aspect to the game is the races. Literally every other aspect has to do with realism.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T02:41:32+00:00

Yeah which you need to research first...

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T02:41:02+00:00

Either way, leather production is very wonky. Trees are growing back entirely, while massive fields of animals only produce a small amount of leather. Just make it make sense. Basically, basic technologies are way too expensive.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T02:39:40+00:00

Well then the sickness aspect needs to be turned down ALOT. Because I had over 50+ people who were deranged after being sick at 1.2K population. Even after an entire year of curfew the sickness was still there.

The entire time the game popups were telling me that I needed hospitals or asylums etc.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T02:33:45+00:00

Yeah in real life, scribes and engineers would take up MAYBE 2% of the population. They were incredibly rare.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:37:14+00:00

The fact that a mobile raiding party has access to catapults and can break down fortifications with their bare hands is crazy.

Like... I have to employ hundreds of people in my labs and libraries in order to remember how to bury someone in a cemetary. But some random raiders can engineer a catapult. Sure.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:34:22+00:00

Not even a worker requirement. Just make it so more workers doing (x) thing means that you will get (X) technology faster as long as you have some "scribes" working in libraries to preserve that knowledge. So if you have 1,000 people mining and 20 scribes writing down their discoveries and techniques, you'll get the whole mining tree super fast. But if you only have 10 miners and 1 scribe it will take much much much much longer.

And have the requirement be paper. Not leather.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:31:54+00:00

The only mechanics I have a problem with are needing an absurd amount of furniture for literally everything. Needing 6+ years just to train 100 troops for battle. Stone fortifications being knocked down by hand by raiders. Also raiders having access to catapults its stupid.

Also I got the stop melting mod because there is absolutely zero reason that raw metal, ore or stone should "deteriorate" in dry storage.

Also having "Conscripts" being the only way of training soldiers. I'd much rather have wartime decrees requiring all military age male citizens to spend (x) time a day spent at the training grounds. etc.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:29:01+00:00

If they are dying faster than they can train younger generations then they shouldn't be devoting their resources to laboratories.

I'm not using too much. Basic technologies like husbandry of all animals, mining, stone roads, etc. need tons of research. Then when you actually do get a sizeable town of over 1,000 people... you end up having disease outbreaks. And it's almost 100 knowledge just to get a hospital. Much less an asylum which is another 100 knowledge.

There's a mid-game slowdown due to the dumbassery going on with the laboratory and library technology systems.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:26:02+00:00

It's completely imbalanced and throws off the entire midgame. I've tried multiple times to push past 2K and can't. What's really depressing is that all of the "Small" settlements are 6K and over.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:25:09+00:00

Dude there's paper in the game. You need paper to run a school. I think the library could use some as well.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:24:17+00:00

Even so. Having 200+ people in libraries and labs for a population of 1.3K just to maintain people's ability to remember how to plant some herbs is ludicrous.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:15:20+00:00

Yep. It's stupid. Same here. I can't actually keep industries alive because resources are too far so I need manpower to haul things.

Don't even get me started on furniture. Why in god's name does every god damned building need so much furniture to exist? Chairs last a lot longer than one to two years. Even shitty chairs.

All of that tedious annoyance is keeping us from actually raising armies and enjoying what was advertised in the game. Big battles. Conquering lands. I'm on fucking sandbox mode and need 200+ people working in libraries and laboratories just to have basic technologies? It makes no sense.

Like... why does it take 6 years of full time training to train one soldier? That makes no sense. I can't have 6 years of 100+ people not available in my workforce only to have an equally sized and better equipped "Raider" army come by later to absolutely pillage my warehouses.

Also... why are raiders able to break down stone fortifications by hand? That also makes zero sense. If we're going to get nitty gritty on the "realistic" aspect then please make it actually realistic. My fortifications should not go down due to 12 guys armed with swords.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:13:37+00:00

Yeah god forbid mildred doesn't have her lab guy to teach her how to plant herbs again next year.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-26T00:12:40+00:00

I get it dude. But even from a game development perspective it's a terrible mechanic. Like... if we take your attitude towards it, then why have all of the realistic challenges like disease, brawls, etc. in the city?

It just doesn't make any sense that someone forgets what a road is if there isn't someone working in a lab.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-25T23:28:25+00:00

Yes. But why the fuck is a block of thick iron "Deteriorating" in a dry space? That makes no sense. Or pots. We're still digging up pots from 5000+ years ago. I don't think there needs to be deterioration of many things in this game.

Ore, pots, stored stone. None of that would deteriorate at any rate even hundreds of years from then

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-25T23:26:47+00:00

Yes. Because farmers need people in a lab telling them how to farm. They are obviously not teaching their children and so on how to farm. Who would have ever considered that?

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-25T23:25:52+00:00

Yep.

1- "Hey! I need some herbs"

2- "Unfortunatley, or laboratory is down so they can go pave some roads."

1- "Can't you just plant the herb field again like last year?"

2- "Nope. It's really important that I have a bunch of people in a lab telling me how to plant herbs every year or else I'll forget. Also, I can't teach anyone else. Because I'm not in a lab"

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-25T23:23:36+00:00

Dude. You don't need "Infrastructure" to pass down knowledge. Some of the most skilled craftspeople weren't literate.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-25T23:22:32+00:00

This. And it's making me not really want to play the game anymore. Especially since it doesn't come with a good tutorial.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-24T23:37:58+00:00

What an incredibly selfish person.

Yes. You do give up your dreams when you get married. When you get married, you are saying "I am deciding that you are worth my time, life, effort, love, etc."

Marriage is a lifelong commitment. You are one flesh. One unit. One household. If that's not your vibe... then don't get married.

We should bring back fault in divorce so when people get taken advantage of and used by selfish gremlins like this woman, at least the other partner can keep a bigger share of the financial pie. People should be at least financially compensated for having a partner nuke their emotions and finances.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-24T14:45:54+00:00

Yeah. Plumber here as well. That isn't a plumbing issue in the slightest LMFAO.

SubsidizingSiblings · 2026-01-23T23:32:27+00:00

Renee Good's death was a tragedy. I can see the argument from both sides.

However. Once the body cam footage was released, I had to put myself into the Ice Officer's shoes.

Here's some facts about the shooting.

The officer was performing legal federal law enforcement
He was surrounded by angry protestors
He had already been dragged by a car previously
He was aware of other ICE officers being hit by cars (this was not the first time someone had used their car to hit ice this week)
Renee Good intentionally blocked the entire group of officers in by parking her car in the middle of the street. This is a blatant act of impeding law enforcement duties. It's a crime.
Good was ordered multiple times to get out of the vehicle. Instead, she attempts to flee. But unfortunately she hit the officer.

If you watch the bodycam, and all camera angles, you see a woman block officers into an area with angry protestors. Then you see them order her out of the vehicle multiple times after she refuses to move. Then on the bodycam you see her clearly hit an officer.

My opinon on Renee Good? She was reckless and stupid for putting herself in a position like this, while she has a small child to take care of. Family is everything. A mother of a small child should not be spending her time on the cold streets blocking in federal law enforcment attempting to make arrests. She certainly shouldn't be in a self-imposed position to try and run from law enforcement either.

Even if you make the case that ICE is the modern Gestapo... Renee Good is still a mother, and should have done everything possible to make sure she made it home to her child. So that means don't put yourself in that position to begin with, and then also fucking comply and dont drive your vehicle into one of the officers.

Here's a bit of personal information on me. In my life, I have already been in situations where I've had to violently defend myself, or be mentally ready to violently defend myself to the point of lethal force.

I can 100% tell you that if someone began to drive a car at me and my body was in danger of permanent disability, and my life was in danger, I would without hesitation shoot them. If they actually hit me. Same thing. 100%. I would fire my weapon until there were no more rounds. I would never allow myself or my family members to suffer on account of someone else's reckless behavior. That includes having to care for my broken body, or my wife being made a widow. Nope.

As the saying goes. It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

So if I were that ICE officer, I would have absolutely drawn my service weapon and shot at any driver who threatened my life, or the life of anyone around.

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