How a Tavern Sparked a Huge Expansion in Foundation! | Ep. 2

[@CityPlannerPlays]

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[@MrCagibson]

Hey dude! Did you have a content creator code for Foundation? I am going to buy the game after watching you play it for a bit, and wanted to make sure you get recognition for that - I woulnd't have even heard about it otherwise

[@bphillips907]

Absolutely love seeing you be new to a game. Foundations has so much hidden nuance and watching you peel back the layers and troubleshoot is so fun. A couple notes for you to consider as you go (some i've seen others have pointed out already) 1) The larger you make your monument buildings and sub buildings the better they tend to function. For example, the brewery being only one small room limits how many brewers you can assign and thus it's output. This works for tax offices, watch posts, and service buildings. You can improve your church's capacity just by adding another room to it. 2) There is an icon on walls to invert them so you can face the inside of the wall towards the inside of the town. Important for aesthetics. 3) The maintenances cost of buildings scales with workers, but isn't 1:1 with their output, that's based on the bottom of the info panels. 4) Along the lines of point 1, adding your beautification "raw" from the build menu will increase housing beauty, but won't contribute to any splendor. The bushes you placed in front of your church in episode 1 could have been built as part of the church itself and add to your clergy splendor. There is a trade off to building for your housing and building for your various factions splendor. 5) Physical distance to your monuments matter. E.g. the tax collector out by your manor is having a hard time getting to all the various houses in the city. You can right click on the gold at the top left and see the gold available to pick up. Colocating your tax office to where taxes are generated (or building multiple) will really improve the efficiency of your taxation. This also applies to distance from service and entertainment buildings. Sometimes many small local churches are more effective than large ones. 6) Villagers level up in their jobs the longer they perform them. Early game it makes sense to move people around, but there is an efficiency impact for doing this. Can't wait for you to work through all the other pieces of depth here, the game goes absurdly deep in lots of unexpected places. The monument building though is especially deep. Keep an eye on the building component icons to see what it impacts (capacity, maintenance, worker slots, splendor, etc).

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Oh man, these tips are GOLD! So good that I'm screen grabbing to help with the next one. Thank you!

[@SuperDave1426]

One thing worth mentioning regarding the employment levels - they currently do nothing. A level 6 builder builds no better/faster/more efficiently than a level 1 builder does (same for any other profession). I got that right from the developer's Discord server when I asked about it. It's something that will probably come into play eventually, but for now, the employment level doesn't make any difference. 👍

[@alexitosworld]

Nice tips indeed I was surpised to hear CPP mention "production per turn" as AFAIK that's not what that number means, it's just maintenence cost. The icon is a gold coin with surrounding arrows. If I'm wrong it would be a big discovery for me! :D Also CPP should check the hunting area, the boars need quite a lot of surrounding forest and with the farms and new housing so near I'm afraid they would have fleed. Also as per the watchtower, it's a bit annoyng so I prefer to use walls, but if you wanted to use it, remember you can make multiple versions of the monuments, so you can have multiple watchposts. That tavern looks awesome, an inspiration!

[@bazzakrak]

Those are some nice tops for sure And #4 is a VERY good one that everyone should take note of, makes it a bit easier to go up in levels with the different fractions. And nice seeing you playing the game@@CityPlannerPlays

[@Blacwulff]

@@CityPlannerPlays another tip is be mindful of your storages and where they are located. Later on, you can also upgrade them with 2 extra storage plots, giving you 8 more resources to add onto one warehouse. Same with the granary. Make sure your market is near your warehouse/granary too because the market tenders visit your storage to pick up their wares The more land you buy also, the more expensive it gets. Much like in CS2, be mindful of that too!

[@pigeonlizard]

You’ve spoken about Beatrice so much that you’re gonna have to make sure you never lose her. And also keep us appraised of her situation.

[@migle25]

Its Betrice. No a. :)

[@worcestershire-sauce]

@@migle25 look at the name of chapter one, it is Beatrice, with an a

[@Rouzig1]

European urbanism/history nerd here ! Your remark about the walls is great, because those were a HUGE part of their identity to our old medieval cities. A common pattern was a city building walls, filling them until it was overcrowded, people building houses outside, and then start again with a new wall. As a result they were the driving factor between the apparition of the old town, new town, and other neighborhoods. Centuries later, while the walls are gone they still influence the streets layout, because our main arterials were the roads going throught the gates.

[@thomasdickson3622]

You could simulate that by upgrading the current wall to heavy fortifications (stone) and then expanding the light fortifications around it. You'd protect main areas, but there would always be farms and cheaper homes outside the walls

[@bramrots2681]

Also, I think the manor should be placed inside the walls, like castles were in medieval times

[@Katoho97]

Looks like you're looking at the upkeep cost when looking for productivity, it might not be accurate/the same. Also you can upgrade your storage with more goods if you get the storage improvements upgrade.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Oh shoot, I'll look into that in the next one! And I think that's one of the next paths I want to head down - that and improving the church!

[@planespottermerijn]

​@@CityPlannerPlaysYeah the only thing being balanced was the maintenance cost. The actual input and output is shown on the bottom of the building screen, although I'm not sure in what timeframe/how the # of employees interacts with this. But definitely one to look out for

[@alexytikhonov2744]

Even green circle in the bottom is just % of max speed per building. I can help with bread production. 3 farm workers -> 2 windmill workers -> 1 bakery worker.

[@Andrew.W712]

@@alexytikhonov2744 oh how did you find these numbers? I am always in such a crazy bread deficient I think my folks are just spearing fish with baggettes or using them as building material.

[@alexytikhonov2744]

@Andrew.W712 just added workers slowly and keep them working nonstop. Use meat as prime food and bread as secondary.

[@fatbloaterdave]

Love it when I forget I bought something go to buy it and it’s already in my library. Apparently bought this 4 years ago! Time to dive in again.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

That’s a pretty awesome surprise! Hope you’ve enjoy it as much as I have been!

[@KP-us9iy]

I’ve been so enjoying Foundation play throughs. I love how gradually the city changes, and how natural it feels

[@bphillips907]

@@KP-us9iy Desire Path Simulator is hands down the coolest feature of any city builder and the fact more games dont use this mechanic is an actual crime. Adding new buildings and watching the roads slowly evolve to reflect transit never gets old

[@mikeorr6691]

Bought this game and started playing after your first episode, thanks for such a great recommendation! Very calming, total opposite of most city builders

[@kurtmooreca]

I bought this game like 5 years ago and it is my favorite game, let alone city builder, it is just so peaceful to play, even just being on as background music. Enjoy your journey it is an amazing game.

[@bethbroughton6837]

I enjoy this so much I became a member because i couldn't wait to watch it!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you so much, Beth! Hope that you enjoyed it!

[@NelielSugiura]

I saw the title with "Foundation" in it and immediately went "Ooh, another Foundation?" and clicked. I like that you are continuing this series! The cartoony style and free-form build vs grids is really nice. Not having to deal with traffic and endless bugs is a bonus, too.

[@JelliinaCup]

When it comes to hunting grounds, make sure you don't highlight all the pigs spots or it will be harder for them to repopulate if at all. I'm absolutely loving this so far and it's such a fun game! Thank you for introducing it.

[@lewismcdermott3024]

My prayers have been answered and exceeded - not only has Phil played Foundation on the channel, he's now making a series! #Inshallah I've been playing Foundation since Alpha 1.7ish in 2021 and have been in love with the game the whole time. The full release version is both absolutely stunning and has not only delivered on the promises of the pre-release, but I think even overdelivered on what I expected from the game. I'm so glad to see you playing one of my favourite games I've ever played and showing more people how great this game is - the Devs have been so awesome all these years and deserve much much more praise and respect for all the work they've put in and deserve to see this game go gangbusters as it were. Thanks again for another excellent video as always Phil and I'll see you in the next episode!

[@The-Only-Daniel]

We need faster episodes PLEASE!! We're enjoying this A TON!

[@FiredAndIced]

This isn't City Planner Plays. This is City Planner Lords.

[@arminmalekm.4243]

Thanks for the video, The icon you were referring as "Production" is the maintenance cost of workers of that building.

[@JamesChangMusic]

Yeah I was wondering how he could've made such a big mistake...

[@jllew5]

You put me onto this game with your last video, and I've been playing it daily ever since. Love it, hope we're in store for more episodes. Keep up the good work!

[@Sneakypork13]

I've tried to watch other channels play this game, but your videos are so much better. They way you go through and explain your thought process and game mechanics I find more enjoyable than some of these other channels and their YOLO style of playing. Keep up the excellent content!

[@BeardoPNW]

Can you name the tavern? I think a good name for it could be Beach Bramble because the chunk of wood, shrubs and stone on the lake shore right by the common area. I really like what you're building and I hope the series takes off! It would be cool to see some narrative in this game like you use with Magnolia County and Segundo Beach.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I think I can! Great idea! We'll see as far as the narrative goes. It's been nice to experiment and kick these out a bit faster in the mean time!

[@Telsion]

@@CityPlannerPlays Betrice's story is all we really need, anyway. I would love to see more of Foundation, keep it up!

[@Kim-ft6cx]

I just wanted to say that there are people who are youtubers just because and there are people who are born for it. You are one of them! Great content, clarity in speaking, fluidity of thoughts, it's very relaxing to follow your playthroughs.

[@NathanHart]

Thanks for continuing this series. I love Foundation and your video inspired me to pick it back up with the full release. I look forward to seeing how you build your village and how I can improve my own builds. Thanks for all you do.

[@DrewEverlong]

Thanks for this series, it's really relaxing too watch

[@amandal7225]

Love this series. I brought straight after your last video. I can't tell you how many hours of spent playing it already. Love foundation. Even allowing the kids to play

[@ijangumpet]

8:55, it was not unhappy because it's near the stonemason, but because you set a forbidden area. it removes any zones overlapped by it.

[@Guardian_Rain]

One thing I noticed is instead of trying to cram a lot of farms in the same space, getting the farming upgrade would allow you to have one really big farm you can continually upgrade as needed without competing for space :)

[@kurtmooreca]

Interesting, Ive been playing this since 2020 the new expanded modules for buildings is something Ive still been trying to learn. Typically you want 3 farms per windmill, would an expanded farm allow you to cut this to 1+expansion per windmill?

[@Derrick3223]

I was a kickstarter supporter for this game and it warms my heart to see it make it to release and so many people getting to enjoy this cozy game

[@lx-icon]

11:28 - imagine a town mayor nowadays mandating a levy so they can put some shrubbery in front of their manor :p

[@OaknWood]

@@lx-icon i thought the same thing lol

[@JeanPierreJacques]

This game so chill yet so rewarding. More people need to play this.

[@HelenVoiHyvin]

You know, when you were setting the tables at 35:39, notice the 2 arrows pointing left and right? Those are for changing the style of the table. I'm loving this game 😍

[@TheGhostReacher]

I'm loving Foundation man. It's such a nice game. These few years have been great for these strategy and building games.

[@Wyldchild777]

Would definitely love to have you continue this series. Long term goal suggestion - get every purchasable tile/region and expand in some fashion into them.

[@sanitygone-l9y]

Love this and the Manor Lords series so much

[@silverdragontm9548]

Thank you for bringing this little video series to me. I honestly didn’t knew, foundation was officially released, so I’m so stoked to find out what is new to the game. I only played early access way back.

[@MosCraciun1923]

Today I've ordered all the parts for my first pc build. I'm nervous about doing it myself but this will be the first game I'll buy and play. Thanks for all the inspiration, CPP.

[@Dirigo207]

Bought this three days ago and i think ive sank tons of time into it already before i head back to work this week. It’s been a blast!

[@Swahyan]

Love this playthrough! Remember you can change the weather scene in the bottom left. It can help to decide how and where you wanna place buildings 🙂

[@cyano3d]

I started few days back with foundation now I love city building games, currently playing manor lord so f****** good I love it

[@AlexanderArts]

Started playing this game after the last video and was really surprised by how deep and challenging the systems are. Thanks for showing this game off!~

[@drainpip]

I think you're confusing "upkeep" (the coin with the arrows around it) to how much they input and output. It shows how much they take in and put out above that.

[@rickmaff]

It's wild how many times I've seen youtubers who don't read the pop-up tooltips for such simple stuff. Makes me want to yell through the monitor to slow down haha

[@Sevestra]

Really like this new series, keep on trucking my man! Also the 1.0 update is really well done, can honestly recomend the game to everyone now.

[@ThisIsAitch]

Oh I love this series - I'm really looking forward to you playing this through!

[@fablism8543]

Your first video got me into this game and I have loved it since! Thank you!

[@foamyesque]

The music in the intro reminds me really strongly of the BGM for The Settlers 1, which I played absolute gobs of back in the day.

[@iCro4Gaming]

Jumping into comments for this, 18:25, you talking about "producing 12 a month" its not producing its how much coin you need to pay to maintain the building, more workers increases the monthly fee.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Ah shoot, I have been misunderstanding this. Thanks for point that out!

[@iandayhew8648]

I was going to say the same thing. Also I am loving this game, just struggling to have a super aesthetic pleasing build.

[@wheezy-c]

If im remembering correctly, it used to be that the villager needed to be a commoner to work in certain building (like the polished stone) in EA. i really like that you can now assign anyone in there and it’ll work just less efficient 🙌

[@gnubbiersh647]

you have a remarkable ability to make everything fit so nicely. i agree that building on the sand is odd but there might be no way around it

[@Cap45T]

Yes, more foundation! I loved the last video, so happy you continued playing.

[@Bexar2204]

This game looks super cozy. I´ve downloaded the demo, and I´m very excited to try it; and maybe purchase the full game. Please keep the videos coming.

[@herlescraft]

i've been playing mannor lords and i have to thank you for bringing it to my attentiontion, i knew it was a thing and that it was presented many years ago as a trailer at a game conference but the fact that it was now playable was news to me until your last gameplay of the latest update and how it somehow went in my suggestion feed on youtube.

[@sean8024]

Love your videos sm especially with a game like this!!! Constant little problems getting solved is so satisfying

[@NoxDracul]

Been playing a lot of Fabledom atm, but its just making me want to get this game so much more.

[@spartakus1298]

Please make this a full series! This game is awesome

[@PoplarPonderosa]

So glad you're keeping this series going! Love this game. ❤

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Such a great game!!

[@Liyah357]

New favorite game! Been playing all day and I’m currently building a tavern! Hopefully it’s done by the time I finish this video

[@Ekgladiator]

I didn't realize the maintenance cost per building also was how you tracked the output of said building. That is really interesting!

[@steepfrugut]

Please continue this series. Loving it!

[@jholland73]

Really cool, hope this series keeps going.

[@BeckyBenton]

Foundation is great and I really appreciate your video!

[@xvaliasx]

Got Foundation two days ago. Can't recommend it enough to those that enjoy city builders.

[@DagganSGaming]

I just finish EP1 and was thinking, well shoot I wanna see more! And you just posted EP2! Love it already!!

[@TigonOlogdring]

Great expansion CPP! The watchtower couldn't be manned most likely because you need a watchpost extension at the main manor house, to provide the local constabulary. The walls do look particularly fine though and encompass a much bigger area. (and you remembered gates, which I totally forgot first time building a wall... no-one gets in, or out!)

[@TheTecno21]

Was awaiting for episode 2. love this series

[@JPM621]

I’ve become obsessed with this game 😂 15 hours of gameplay since your last video and my village is up to 300 population. 🎉

[@jackcobalt2005]

I also recently started playing Foundation. Not because of you. But once I saw you play this aswell, I was quite happy seeing you play! Giving me a different view on things. Really enjoying this :) Hopefully this will become a running series for some time!

[@biandbroke]

Love what you're doing, would love to see more of this game!

[@the_dad_d]

Usually I just watch CS2 stuff, but this I like

[@DynastyEra19]

I leveled up all my serfs to commoners and boy did I regret that, you really need serfs to run the economy and keep things humming along. It was a lesson on the need for immigration.

[@malius1841]

You’re really plan things so well!

[@rato3789]

Please continue with this series!

[@EternalGamingNet]

Now I want some bread and berry brew. Great video!

[@kingblade6563]

I have learnt so much from this one video....absolutely awesome thanks

[@moxbismuth]

🌆 city emoji engagement

[@MadocComadrin]

The tavern benches have variants! If you select a bench you'll see some arrows next to the movement and rotation widgets that you can click to cycle through them.

[@bobbycrosby9765]

The easiest way to get something under fortification is the tower from your church or your manor. You can even make a new manor build with a tower whereever you need it.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Please continue! Such chill vibes. 👌😄

[@AlexanderArts]

More #TIPS for @CityPlannerPlays : 1) The Icon you thought was Production is actually Maintenance Cost. 2) Each industry building has on site storage. The warehouses are more important as trade hubs. 3) If you notice products aren't being sold to your villagers, you might need to stop holding them in warehouses. 4) To keep commoners happy, try to make sure the housing needs are met before upgrading them. The serf houses can have beautification around them while waiting for a commoner resident to move in. Once you have a commoner area, you can start working towards Citizen housing which requires glass, and active guard patrols. (Quite demanding!) Overall, I found I had to slow way down in how I played, make sure there are little villages for each industry area, and make sure things aren't too spread out. The game doesn't tell you how far their range is, but villagers won't travel that far for certain items. Before start upgrading to Citizen there are A LOT of things that have to be prepared, so you will probably be staying with serfs and commoners for a long time.

[@gnubbiersh647]

loving this game! heres to ep 3!

[@iain.sm.c]

eyy, I was looking forward to episode 2, thanks Phil :D

[@Grrizo]

To anyone having problems with light fortification: Towers like those in the manor, or bell towers in the church, count as light fortification too and don't need a watchpost. So you can build a small treasury, a chapel or tax house with a tower and that will help develop those pesky buildings.

[@Hardcaslte]

Actually you can build the manor towers by themselves and itll put out patrols and count as fortification. I don't have a wall around my city, but I have several of the manor towers and it works and still looks pretty good even without walls

[@Mirrigold]

Please carry on with this series, I’m playing it atm and keep getting confused with the various different housing requirements!

[@TheCreat]

26:54 when you adjusted the field sized you (understandably) followed the info from the farm if the size suits the number of workers. This is a rough estimate though, and most importantly doesn't take into account the walking the farmers have to do when harvesting, bringing the wheat back to the main building. So for the 3rd farm near the forest, they are likely not going to be able to clear the field in time, because it's so long and slender, with the farm at the far end of it as well essentially maximizing walk distance. The other two are (probably accidentally) an essentially perfect layout, with the farm building at the center, and could probably handle an even slightly larger field. Edit: Others have already pointed out that the maintenance cost (which you call "production") isn't a useful metric to compare input/output rates of buildings, but I thought I'd add it again to make sure. At like 32:00 you remove a worker from the common wares workshop, and it changes the maintenance from 20 to 18. It's just an expensive building, and actually produces rather slowly, and removing one worker will (of course) half the real production rate. Note also that you're employing serfs currently, and it's suited to citizens, so each worker has a productivity of 25%, and since you only have 1 of 2, it'll drop the production to essentially 1/8 of the buildings capacity.

[@acediou5]

This game is just amazing, and what's even more incredible is how you play it! Thanks a lot! :) I remember a game I played almost twenty years ago called Beach Life / Virtual Resort: Spring Break. It has really cool and enjoyable mechanics, especially considering it was released in 2002. I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

[@Rem-Union]

I love this game, as its similar to manor lords, but lighter if that makes sense. I love games that feel open ended, and have creative city building elements. I’ll consider buying this after watching some more of your playthrough.

[@BigEasyH]

was really sad when Foundation didnt work well on my computer, thanks for another new episode

[@Tilaf69]

Cant wait to see more!!!

[@DarwinPlaysVideoGames]

The large towers that are part of the manor also provide the light fortification. I use them early on, because they double great as a tax office!

[@arushiiru]

More Foundation please. We need some medieval drama.

[@RemedyDoesGaming]

Waited all week for this!

[@KittenRaee]

Manor and Church parts can provide fortifications. You can recognise them by little fence icon next to the part. You don't necessarily need to fortify everything (although increased living density is huge)

[@Noordledoordle]

Bombas compression socks are the real deal ❤

[@QuestingTruck]

The terraced seating actually has variations. When placing them in the editor there are white arrows that let you change among , I think, 3 different types.

[@MaksB.]

Yes its back

[@williamhogan5772]

love it! would be eager to see you stick w Foundation

[@Myndvor]

Dont forget to unlock your edicts and privileges, Phil. They provide some great perks (that you can swapout with mandates once you have a Bailiff). This game rocks! Have lost many hours of sleep to it already 😂

[@TheSwordcluts]

From my experience, you will want to have a granary/warehouse close to the next step in the production chain. That way the market stall only has to travel to the granary next door instead of a granary near the wheat farm and that way you're making the storage workers take the long trips instead of the production building workers.

[@destynnee]

This looks like so much fun

[@justinsinke2088]

For the tavern, it looks like there's a keg decoration to hang from the pole that says "tavern" more than the banner. Also, ironically, I think your fortification walls are inside out, as the braces are currently on the outside.

[@timhi2558]

Legit just yesterday I was at the same chokehold as you. Needed tools, had to build the 3 places, then also needed polished stone, and also needed cloth. So had to buy sheep farmers and cloth makers. All in all had to make 6 buildings just to make tools! It took a long time to fix all the issues. Not sure if that is something devs should fix or recommend building something sooner

[@SteelersNationAustralia]

This Game looks heaps fun. I member i played a game called settlers like 20 years ago. I miss playing games like this

[@VioletConway-v5s]

Along with Cities Skylines 2, this is really fun and cool. I hope you keep making content of Magnolia County and this......

[@christopherbrown7230]

Granaries and Warehouses have add-on depots you can build that double the slots for storage