Food & Basics | Cretonians to 1000 #1

[@kazineverwind5267]

I love how the game tries to reward you for not strictly sticking to squares and rectangles for buildings. Aesthetic choices providing a tangible benefit to promote thinking about them.

[@KY_100]

You definitely sacrifice a lot in efficiency though

[@kristofferjansson8339]

I build larger tree structures for the Cretonians and fill them with housing and other services, I start off with rectangel shapes and remove corners for the roundness effect.

[@bradleykurtz2605]

Damn you are fast! It took me around 4 hours to get to my humble 125. I keep stalling in growth, and I have to kinda throw things at the wall until it sticks. One funny issue is that my citizens are never happy with the toilets. There is a red square in the map when I have them selected that remains red even when I had 4 toilets there XD. Right now I am trying to bolster my economy so I can afford to import cut stone to get posh relief.

[@OshanMan]

Well, I do have 700+ hours on the game, XD Maybe that red square is blocked off somehow?

[@ludiccidul6711]

amazing game btw

[@PurpleBraveGiraffe]

keep em coming bruh

[@JiangXina]

cannot wait for the next episode.

[@tosi-RE]

keep up i love this type of series !!!

[@ludiccidul6711]

xD 'they'd be gone by now" thats mean haah

[@Brenkie5]

Ty ily

[@cavalyn]

I had to turn off weather in my game as well. Never been epileptic but it gave me such migraines

[@Quoxozist]

would love to see one of the experienced SoS youtubers do this with Humans...I find them to be very difficult to get stabilized to the point where I have a steady, predictable immigration/birth rate but also enough farms to feed everyone and workers devoted to farming without crippling my productive industries

[@OshanMan]

Might be a while before I get to humans, but pretty much you want to focus on just grain farms, bakeries, furniture and laboratories with them, upgrade those industries with research to be super efficient and trade for everything else. This is because of the 100 worker production bonus, which is why you want to really want to focus on only a few industries to begin with until you have the population and resources to really diversify your economy. It also really helps if you can take a region on the world map, otherwise all that is probably your best bet :)

[@milo4433]

I play almost exclusively humans. Once I get a decent bread supply chain going I go heavy into labs, libraries and dip into the education. Around 500 pop you’ll have a lot of tech points and you can supplement into whatever industry is lagging through research. Idk if it’s optimal but I can get past 1000 pop smoothly doing this. Another nice thing is you can pick a profitable item like pots metal, furniture etc and put tech into that then start pumping it out to trade and make a lot of money early on.

[@Quoxozist]

@@OshanMan So at what point do you begin producing alcohol and building more happiness focused services? I just find that, when I go barebones like you suggest, I end up with riots, but If I try to diversify and provide enough various commodities and services to keep happiness up, I either have to import mass quantities of food to keep up or, as I said above, end up pulling tons of workforce away from productive industry just to keep services running and everyone fed. I find trading generally to be a bit tedious - I wish there was a way I could assign a merchant to a trade depot to automatically trade for me, varying the prices on his own within a set range or something, looking for the best deals on assigned goods within that range...anyways, I was hoping to figure out a general build order that, on a good map with lots of resources, would allow me to build a completely self-sufficient human-only autarky, but I'm wondering if that's not possible with humans, or if there is a better species to try it with.

[@Quoxozist]

@@milo4433 do you not have problems with happiness/satisfaction from producing only bread? what about other food items? alcohol? services? I hear you on the labs thing, I definitely try to build a huge lab building and fill it up early, but I haven't thought about going into education early, mainly because you need paper, and by the time I'm looking at investing in it, my logging industry is already stressed by the amount of furniture my carpenters need to pump out to maintain even basic furniture allowances for my people...

[@kallumhansen5893]

Clearly this guy owns an airfryer

[@OshanMan]

I do indeed 🧐

[@Dududididada21]

Cretonians only game play is one of the hardest

[@vorvv]

ive got a cretonian for a ball and chain if you know what i mean ha ha guys ! am i right fellas !

[@OshanMan]

[@muflihoon10]

I got a challenge for you. Could you speedrun 1000 population in the tutorial campaign without any titles (timed with in game years).

[@OshanMan]

ngl, never looked at the tutorial so might be worth having a go someday, lol

[@JeanPineau44]

Hi mate, did you remove your basic build order? Can't find or click it

[@OshanMan]

Hey mate, here's a link to the video I was talking about: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXeZnZyDnpKjns0si=byb0cwn1_dkagPMk I'm not sure why the card top right didn't work, but hopefully this reaches you in time :)

[@JeanPineau44]

@@OshanMan thanks my man, great stuff 👍

[@sirsim33]

Cheers!!!!!!

[@gersakkun]

Bro just hunt (manually). It takes zero time and solves early game food problem.