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[irrelevant]

So I've got 120 wooden houses. They burn maybe 2500-3500 more firewood a year than that many stone houses do.

On the other hand to upgrade them would cost around 4500 stone (net of what would be recovered from demolition). I think I'll just build a couple more choppers, and save my stone for TPs, blacksmiths, tailors, taverns, markets, and more houses! 

[rkelly17]

So I've got 120 wooden houses. They burn maybe 2500-3500 more firewood a year than that many stone houses do.

On the other hand to upgrade them would cost around 4500 stone (net of what would be recovered from demolition). I think I'll just build a couple more choppers, and save my stone for TPs, blacksmiths, tailors, taverns, markets, and more houses! 

I had no idea the numbers could get that big! At present in Antre, my trading challenge settlement, stone is more plentiful than firewood so I may get to work upgrading log cabins to stone houses. Of course, stone houses also require more logs, so . . . .

[irrelevant]

@rkelly17  The choice between wooden and stone houses is a an evil feature of this game. There's always pain; you can choose lots of pain today, or a little bit of pain forever.

[irrelevant]

More befores and afters-.

Screen1, 2, & 3 -- Early Winter 84, Early Autumn 85, and Early Winter 85

Screens 4 & 5 -- Late Spring 70 and Early Winter 84

Screens 6, 7 & 8 -- Late Spring 70, Winter 84, and Late Winter 84

[rkelly17]

@rkelly17  The choice between wooden and stone houses is a an evil feature of this game. There's always pain; you can choose lots of pain today, or a little bit of pain forever.

Ah, yes, the essence of life.

[irrelevant]

Then and now.

Screen 1 & 2 -- Late Summer 83, Autumn 88

[RedKetchup]

nice over 2.5k pop

soon you will try to beat my 406 nomads

[irrelevant]

I keep hoping for a big horde of them to show up, but it's just 150 here, 200 there, not even worth the trouble 

[RedKetchup]

I keep hoping for a big horde of them to show up, but it's just 150 here, 200 there, not even worth the trouble 

hehe 406 is pretty exceptionnal
i dont think Geronimo can handle more. over 50% are non educated and i have double the amount of families versus homes.
so i m working on the little sister of Geronimo Geronimo has a seed of 7505 , and this one , i called ' One ' has 7552 as seed. alot of very good maps in 7500s range
(like 7505, 7512, 7527, 7530, 7539, 7544, 7548, 7552...)

Good luck Mon Ami

EDIT: i finished to check all 7500s up to 7599 , nothing important, maybe 7576 if not too picky... and 7585. i checked all 7400s too : nothing at all.

[irrelevant]

@RedKetchup  Thanks! And thanks for the tip on the map seeds. So far I've just been going with random numbers and do-overs. I'll take a look at yours.

[irrelevant]

Then and now

Screen 1 & 2 -- Late Summer 81, Early Spring 89

I love big long bridges, they really help with logistics.

[irrelevant]

So I spent the whole day dealing with merchants. Trying something I had read about someplace. As each merchant arrived I bought as much from him as I could afford. In lots of cases I bought everything he had I was interested in. But the food merchants had way more fruit (that's all they bring now, 20,000 and 30,000 at a pop) than I could afford to spend things like iron tools and wool coats on. So I bought what I was comfortable with, and changed my desired inventory to include a couple thousand beans and corn. And I left all the merchants' windows open until I had them all. Then I went back through, bought whatever additional fruit I could, which at several TPs was a considerable amount, as enough time had passed that I had fully reloaded. I dismissed them all at the same time. That means several months of not having to deal with merchants at all, and they will possibly all return in a narrow enough window that I can do the same thing from now on without it being a big deal. We'll see.

So I'm going to use the time to work on tweaking my town and expanding farmland one forest node at a time, without having constantly to look over my shoulder at merchants arriving.

[RedKetchup]

yeah i gave up, and i deleted like 75% of all my TPs, and selling all my 200k ales :S

[irrelevant]

200k ale??!?!? How many taverns do you have?

I've produced 360,000 ale, but I've had to sell 330,000 of it to buy stuff. 

Hoo boy. Log crisis. Had to turn off all the tool production, and some of the choppers. When are those merchants coming back again? 

[RedKetchup]

14 taverns, i made 136642 ales so far, all the other ales i had , i bought them in exchange of things i didnt need.
i sold alot, really alot lately, just focusing to maintain this 3000 pop at flow on everything.

I am still extremly happy with this city, my first 3k city still alot of space to extend (all the forest in the South i dont even use it) but....... man, the game is crashing every 1-5 mins, i dunno why never happended to me before.