Small Questions

[snapster]

Wtf...

What the capital ****?

[irrelevant]

1) and unacceptable

Bummer for you. Again, we've all been there.

Bummer for the game, not me.

Yes, the occasional vagueness of the help has caused some confusion. The classic examples is "herbs require old growth forest," and "crop rotation is necessary."

[snapster]

It's not vagueness. The Help is explicit in places.

[irrelevant]

Wtf...

What the capital ****?

Yeah, well?

[irrelevant]

It's not vagueness. The Help is explicit in places.

Okay, yes. And in places it is just wrong. Not many, but for sure in the examples I gave above.

edit: "Old growth forest" is vague.

[snapster]

Well, ****! Stuff like this makes me not want to play this game. No wonder the guy is bored or whatever he is.

[snapster]

It's not vagueness. The Help is explicit in places.

Okay, yes. And in places it is just wrong. Not many, but for sure in the examples I gave above.

edit: "Old growth forest" is vague.

The rotation one applies to diseases only. The explicit false one is the workers transporting their products. Old trees as well, although there may be a usually and which may still be true.

[irrelevant]

No, old growth forest absolutely is vague. Now that I think about it, that may not be in the help but rather is in the teaser blurb. The crop rotation thing is in the blurb as well. But both are firmly embedded in the Banished mythology.

[snapster]

I read both in the Help. Old trees I found to be useful enough. The workers carrying their own products to storage is egregious.

[irrelevant]

Okay.

[snapster]

That hunter thing... anything wrong with the fish? Or anything else? Using one hunter will feel weird, take a leap of faith.

O it makes me mad. But I've got nothing to do. That tear looks more like a booger.

[irrelevant]

That's the spirit!

No, more fishers = more fish. Just don't cross the streams, er, overlap the fishing circles.

That tear looks more like a booger.

I lol'd

[snapster]

Do the builders of a building carry materials as they can't be doing anything? Do they just fall in the normal queue instead? It has seemed like materials have gotten quicker to my building sites than would be according to a normal queue of labor. The clearing of building sites has been the issue.

[salamander]

... The crop rotation thing is in the blurb as well. But both are firmly embedded in the Banished mythology.

Remember that Luke had a blog about the crop rotation/soil quality idea and why he eventually removed it?  That could be the source of the continuing myth about crop rotation.

As far as the old growth forests, I have to agree that's a little ambiguous.  It was a term used in early game descriptions, but never found its way into the game itself so far as I know.

[slink]

However, since we can see the herbs, roots, berry bushes, mushrooms, and onions on the map, it is no mystery where they actually are.