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Title: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 05, 2014, 03:09:27 PM
Seed: 627758563
Large Valleys
Fair Climate, Disasters Off, Hard Start
8 adults, only 2 children

game version: started with 1.0.2, continued in 1.0.3 beta from around the year 22

This town's progress was first posted in another post (http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=124.0) (summarized below) and will be continued here in this topic.

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When I started this town, I decided to do just a little more planning (a.k.a. "Holy Pre-Planning, Batman!" - @rkelly17) than I usually do.

This is what the town center and the southern industrial area looked like just before unpausing in Spring 1

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_2_53_01.bmp)
(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_2_54_20.bmp)


Before unpausing, I had to remove all the roads and stockpiles (why can't I pause those!) on the area's beyond the river and stream, to prevent my poor citizens from trying to build them. I also removed all the stone roads in the town center, but left all the dirt roads in place and assigned one builder to slowly built them.

The start was a bit rough on this one. I only had 2 kids next to the 8 adults. I was trapped between the river in the south and the stream west and north, and could only move east for gathering materials until I built a bridge. In the east I built my (temporary) forest circle, so I had to send my citizens further away to cut down trees.
And what I underestimated, was how hard it is to gather materials when you fill the whole area with buildings. So a year of careful unpausing building after building and re-pausing them just in time, so they would be cleared but not loaded with wood and stone yet. The town is doing okay now though, with the trade port set up and a second market working.

In year 2 or 3, the town looked like this:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_03_08.bmp)


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At the start of year 14 the town starts to show a bit like a town, although still quite some yellow pause icons. The roads look okay even without the stone roads in between. I stuck to the plan mostly, although I changed to stone houses sooner than planned. An extra, temporary, fishing dock was placed between the planned trade posts because I needed some extra food. I also started planning some development in the west, including three houses just south of the cemetery. 61 citizens now, 21 families in 21 homes. The north (not really shown in the screenshots) is getting stripped from trees, stones and iron.

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_05_15.bmp)
(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_06_46.bmp)

Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 05, 2014, 03:20:00 PM
Update from the year 35. I've had quite some stone shipments, which allowed me to finish all stone roads, bridges and some wells. I've also expanded north with pastures and east with plenty of farms. There are now 5 markets and some 150 adults, 40 students and 40 kids. Thanks to the 1.0.2 update, only 50 graves. It saves a lot of cemetery space.


Town center:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_12_03.bmp) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_12_03.bmp)


Industrial area with way too few stock piles:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_15_36.bmp) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_15_36.bmp)


Livestock in the north:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_12_49.bmp) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_12_49.bmp)


Farming in the east, with 10+ farms built but unused so far. I need more adults first.

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_17_10.bmp) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_05_06_14_3_17_10.bmp)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: solarscreen on June 05, 2014, 03:29:06 PM
Thank you @Kaldir I think in the absence of a Let's Play video, this kind of post will be valuable to players.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 06, 2014, 05:36:34 AM
I'm not so sure about it being valuable, but it's nice to show them to you all. :D
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Greydragon on June 06, 2014, 09:29:39 AM
if you want to you can go to the options menu and uncheck the show status icons  to remove all the pause symbols when you take your screenshots  ;D
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Bobbi on June 06, 2014, 09:58:49 AM
I didn't know that. I will definitely use that in the future.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 06, 2014, 12:03:24 PM
Ow! I didn't know that either. It would kind of defeat the purpose of those first few screenshots here, but it will definitely come in handy in the future. Thanks for the hint, @Greydragon.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 06, 2014, 05:03:09 PM
Update from the year 45. The population has exploded. I tend to build an almost 1:1 houses-to-families ratio, but hardly even noticed the growth from 200 to 300 citizens, until I saw that my food reserves went down from 80k to 50k. That was easily fixed with more farming and fishing. I also built two trading posts solely for storing extra food.
I've held back on the house building a bit to slow down on population growth. Not much succes in that though; got 450 citizens now, half of them students and kids.

Some statistics from this year, which clearly shows the steep population growth:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_06_06_14_4_51_28.png)


I like the look of the "4x15 farms behind a house", as seen in one of the previous posts, but for the latest expansion in the west I've chosen a square of 9x9 / 10x9 farms (10x10 didn't fit) with two barns in the center:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_06_06_14_4_53_45.png)


I don't really like the long lines of house (unless combined with 4x15 farms) or big grids of them, so I've been experimenting with little plaza's surrounded by just a few houses:

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_06_06_14_4_52_32.png)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: solarscreen on June 06, 2014, 07:49:29 PM
Looking good @Kaldir ! Thanks for the update!
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: salamander on June 07, 2014, 09:19:30 AM
@Kaldir  -- Other than your UI screens in post #7, I'm not showing any of the other pictures in this thread, and I feel like I'm missing out on something good.  Pictures in other threads are loading fine.

It very well could be me, but do you recall if the pictures in this thread were posted with different than usual settings?
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 07, 2014, 09:52:24 AM
@salamander: that's weird. It shows fine for me, and I assume for @solarscreen as well since he replied on them.

In the original thread I mostly posted them as attachments, except for reply #11 (http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=124.msg1021#msg1021) where I did inline images like here. Can you see the images there? The images in that reply and all the images in this thread are posted in the Gallery. The images in this thread are all posted in the Village Collection (http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=8) of the Gallery. Can you see my images there? Otherwise it might be a viewing permission issue there.

The only difference I see between the UI statistics image and the others in this thread is the size. That image is only around 100 KB, while the others are mostly around 5 MB. It's a mixture of .BMP and .PNG images, but if you can only see one image here, that shouldn't be it. Most others here post JPG's, I noticed, but I often forget to convert my images.

What browser/device/OS are you using to view this?
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: salamander on June 07, 2014, 10:17:00 AM
@Kaldir -- This is the first time I've run across this.  Every post with pictures (in many different threads) up to this point has loaded just fine.  So far as I know, I should be able to handle jpg, bmp and png files.  It may be the size -- maybe I'm just too impatient to wait for the pictures to load.

I can see both thumbnails and full-size images in the 'Village Collection' of the 'Gallery' area.

I'm currently using IE11 on a desktop computer with Win 7.

At any rate, thanks for the information.  To me, it sounds like something on my end, not something in how the pictures were posted.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 07, 2014, 01:45:04 PM
Weird. It looks fine on IE11 on Win7 here. Nevertheless, I'll try to remember to convert my pics to PNG and resize them a bit in the future.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 07, 2014, 02:32:03 PM
I added a lot of farms recently, so I built another trading post for storing food. I built it on an isolated lake, or so I thought. This very persistent merchant thought differently.

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_33_10.png) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_33_10.png)


When I dismissed it, it went into the small stream and followed it all the way to the river.

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_27_00.png) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_27_00.png)
(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_27_22.png) (http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_07_06_14_2_27_22.png)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 08, 2014, 09:18:14 AM
Lately I've done quite some bridging and tunnel. I got the Golden Gate achievement, but I think there should also be a London Underground achievement. On the screenshot both the Golden Gates and the Underground.

(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_08_06_14_9_16_51.png)

Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 08, 2014, 03:43:16 PM
Final update for this town, I think. Lowellion is doing pretty well. So good actually, that it's getting boring. Food storage is at 300k because I have it capped there, going down to 270k just before harvest, with another 150k+ in trading posts. I bought so much stone, iron and coal (the only resources the town doesn't provide itself) previously that I mostly ignore the merchants for now, apart from selling mushrooms. Everyone has a warm coat, steel tool and a stone house filled with a good variety of food. Everyone was educated in one of the ten schools and is a member of one of the five chapels.

The town had a slight decrease in population a few years back. The amount of laborers went back from 80 to under 40, before going up again. I now have over 100 laborers. I have 10 markets, with 4 more built but not in use yet. Still plenty of room for expansion, but it feels too much like routine and not very challenging. Wherever I issue build orders, it gets done (eventually) without any casualties. Someone might get hungry or cold now and then, but they always manage to get to safety in time. I haven't seen any death by starvation or freezing. This is beta version 1.0.3 by the way.

Guess it's time to start in a harsh climate with disasters on. :D

Here are the final stats for Lowellion, and some images of the different parts of town.
(http://worldofbanished.com/gallery/8_08_06_14_2_44_28.png)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Bobbi on June 08, 2014, 08:58:07 PM
Your towns are so pretty. I can't wait to see what you do when somebody mods some beautification stuff.
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 09, 2014, 06:07:45 AM
Thanks, @Bobbi. And yes, give me the decorative objects (http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=155.0), already. :D
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: RedKetchup on June 25, 2014, 11:54:31 AM
btw i saw someone on steam has made a football field ... it was awesome
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 27, 2014, 11:29:19 AM
Quote from: RedKetchup on June 25, 2014, 11:54:31 AM
btw i saw someone on steam has made a football field ... it was awesome


Got a link for that?
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: RedKetchup on June 27, 2014, 01:46:30 PM
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/796315595996533886/0176C45E127B055FA8DA74526A81CE7EDB7CC5FF/

sorry i meant a soccer field. canadians always mess up football and soccer since we touch the ball only with your foot ^^
:)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: Kaldir on June 27, 2014, 02:33:19 PM
Quote from: RedKetchup on June 27, 2014, 01:46:30 PM
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/796315595996533886/0176C45E127B055FA8DA74526A81CE7EDB7CC5FF/ (http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/796315595996533886/0176C45E127B055FA8DA74526A81CE7EDB7CC5FF/)

sorry i meant a soccer field. canadians always mess up football and soccer since we touch the ball only with your foot ^^
:)

Looks nice, that one. :)

In many languages, including my native one, soccer is called 'foot-ball'. So I actually assumed you meant that.

You made me wonder now though, if socker used to be played without shoes. 8)
Title: Re: Kaldir: Lowellion
Post by: irrelevant on July 02, 2014, 05:44:58 AM
Ha!