Banished

Haven't played a game like this in a while, looks pretty good!

Yeah I read the description the other night just browsing Steam. Plan ongettingit as well

Here's a first impression by Totalbiscuit

Let me know what ya'll think of the game. I was kind of intrigued with the game myself.

Frostbyrn wrote:Just played for an hour and a half and only stopped because of a crash

Otherwise im having alot of fun with it

At my 5th Year and have been playing at 10x Speed

Any questions you guys want to ask ill try and answer

I broke down and bought the game. Here's to several hours of frustration as I try to learn the game lol.

Here's a tip. Don't build a farm on your first year. a gathering and fishing hut are much much better to get you through the first winter.

this sounds like dwarf fortress with less goblins

Made it through 20 years in game, and then I screwed up and expanded too fast. My population was getting older, and they were not having enough kids. Put too many houses down and didn't have the food production line to back it up sadly.

so is this worth picking up? seems a little bit like civ...kinda sorta.

well is it fun?

Maybe? I enjoy strategy games as long as they aren't too RTS like. I can't keep track of and multitask a whole bunch of shit at once.

Frostbyrn wrote:Watch one of the Lets Plays

Its mostly about managing resources so all your little ants do not die

Keeping them fed, warm and healthy

Although sometimes some bullshit does happen like my first loss were the babies came out 75% Female and I died due to a combination Pussy flood and Penis shortage

Bullshit. Why wouldn't one guy just get all the pussy?

Frostbyrn wrote:Fishing huts production is based on amount of water within its radius

Herbalists and Gatherers are affected by the density of the forests around them

Firewood sells for 4 in the trading post and tools sell for 8 its takes 2500 to buy a crop seed and about 600 per animal

Tools and Education each improve a villagers effective by 2x each so a educated tool equipped worker is 4x better than a bare handed uneducated one

Villagers will take jobs which are in the closest proximity to their house

What about quarries, does it matter where they're placed?

Frostbyrn wrote:Quarries are permanent and not infinite but no it does not matter

Also be careful when making a trading post for the first time as foreigners can have diseases so make sure you have herbs stacked up and maybe have a hospital pre-built

Also I do not know why one guy could not knock them all up and have a super inbred village

Although at one point a 3 year old boy was living with a 50 year old woman who wasnt his mother I was like

SOON!

Lol, so far soo good on my part. Nearly at 50 years for my village and still counting. At a point where my people are getting too old and the youngins are not growing up quite as quickly as I'd like. Saved right before having to make a choice to let 32 nomads become citizens. 12 was hard enough to make up the sudden influx of food consumption. I'll have to clear a huge section of the map just to put up farm land among other things.

Been having a blast with it, SO worth the $20 IMO.

Is it challenging enough once you get how it works?

I feel like without any kind of combat or enemies (curve balls) it would get boring as soon as you figured out how to not fail from natural causes.

Well that fucking sucked, my village of 57 years in game gets obliterated by a freak tornado. God damn this game is mean. Landed right in the middle of town, an tore directly through my primary residential district.

Not to self for future villages, spread out the houses so that shit like that isn't so damn painful. Took out like 7/10 of my entire population.

Good thing I saved earlier.