irrelevant - Sink Mill: trying for 5000, got 6000 instead

[irrelevant]

TPs on streams have always worked just like TPs on the river. The big trick is finding a spot on a stream where you actually can build one.

[rkelly17]

woooooat? since when can trader swim little rivers? someone here said they only can come big rivers and lakes that are connected to big rivers:0

Merchants also have the "ability" to row through narrow mud flats to get into lakes that visually do not quite connect to the river--I suspect it is a diagonal row of land squares which only touch at the corners but visually appear more solid.

[Trizeropz]

do you have a screenshot of that? would like to see something like that:)

[irrelevant]

So @Trizeropz I see in your screenshot that you are demolishing cemeteries and taverns. I assume the cemeteries will be replaced with housing--and a hospital or two would be a good idea

What are you planning to replace the taverns with? More choppers? Cause I actually was considering doing that, same size and all. Less food to buy that way, but also less trade value to use.

[Trizeropz]

your village is much better than mine dude. seriously. i am just surprised about the number of your woodcutter:o built some more instead of stock piles. i changed now many things to 'late game'...
here you have a good overview:

and yeah. a hospital is urgently needed^^

[irrelevant]

Another thing I have done that you may wish to consider is adding another farmer to each field. There isn't really a need for so many laborers now, and the extra farmer is "insurance" against the game assigning farmers that live on the other side of the map.

[Trizeropz]

ouh i forgot that. good you said that:
btw your village got some nomads

[irrelevant]

That's the same time I got the batch of 549 that I turned down on reply #259 on page 18. Wish I had gotten your batch instead, I would have taken them and been close to being done! 

[irrelevant]

your village is much better than mine dude. seriously.

Thanks! I'm quite fond of this town.

[Trizeropz]

dat balance

[irrelevant]

So close!

[Trizeropz]

i think you can do it. be patient and do it. you should get the 'most nomads and live' as well;)

[irrelevant]

So having learned a couple of things from my friend @Trizeropz, I have decided to go back a few years to Year 70, and work on pushing Sink Mill to pop 7000. I won't be posting much cause it is boring as hell.

[Nilla]

It's not so boring. I want to see your progress and also know what you have changed.


Good luck. I'm sure you will make it.

[irrelevant]

Good luck. I'm sure you will make it.

@Nilla Lol, I wish I was 

Back to year 70, pop ~4300

Here's what I'm going to do differently:
1) Demolish chapels and cemeteries, replace with housing. When you demolish a cemetery, the walls get torn down right away, but the graves still decay as normally, they just are not replaced with new ones. Tearing out a cemetery takes years.
2) Replace some (many?) barns with schools and housing
3) Replace some (many?) stockpiles with choppers and housing
4) In my pop 6000 town I demolished the pastures and replaced them with wood houses starting in year 70 and finishing up ~year 75. To reach 7000 I will need to keep the pastures longer. The mutton and wool production is important. I'll have to squeeze another 200-300 houses into this town somehow before I do that.
5) I just turned a group of nomads away. The next batch is the one that I originally accepted that put me over 6000 (and brought smallpox). I'll need to turn that one away as well, and wait for the one after. That means 9-11 more years. 
6) As I have no mods, grow only beans and wheat. That's the next thing I have to do, go through 306 farms one by one

Sink Mill is seriously handicapped by having only 31 TPs. I have found a spot where I can build one more, but that will be it.