Let's Play: Banished (Pre-Release) - #2

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Bridge building, "someone gave it one tap of the hammer and ran away" - made me lol so much :-)

[@gix_d]

I feel so bad for Odeille. First her parent died when she was five so she had to live by herself until she was 10 years old. The young child had then to work as a fisherman where she got married to 17(!) year old Milbur. Probably by practical reasons, but however the marriage only lasted for 2 years before her husband brutaly died of starvation while their neighbours had their houses stocked with food and firewood. Lol!

[@3lloGuvner]

It's not the bridge they're trying to build, it's the trade post. You needed to pause the trade post till the bridge was finished.

[@timshipley1898]

Very true

[@Hunter85792]

I was screaming that at my computer for so long. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

[@Throku]

The interesting thing is that they take the long way around the source of the river where as the deer wade across the shallow part diectly north of the new cabbage field (northeast of the bridge) 33:50

[@Nukle0n]

THE RESERVE OF FIREWOOD IS RUNNING LOW THE RESERVE OF FIREWROOD IS RUNNING LOW *reassigns woodcutter*

[@Adnapist]

I'm pretty sure those were from the previous year. He points out that his firewood stockpile is full.

[@Trent8086]

Lesson learned about queuing up buildings before you have a route established to get to it. Only cost you 10 lives or so.

[@adamrules01]

The deathmarch to the bridge is why you don't build roads before you build a bridge :D

[@scottfordham]

Quill the reason your builders wouldn't build in Ep 1 was because your stockpile was full and logs and stone were on the area where you wanted to build hope this helps :)

[@scottfordham]

Also happened again in this Ep with the blacksmith only started working when your people took some fire wood :)

[@SunTurtle]

That's what I thought was happening, glad to have my assumption confirmed. Good to know for when the game releases and I get to play.

[@timshipley1898]

Yeah the tooltips kept saying it was full or filling up. The barn does not store wood/stone from what I have seen just the stockpile which should be wasy to keep another pile

[@Demolition990]

im loving this. keep this as a series. this is a refreshing change

[@LadySinovera]

9:13 - lol, maybe that's the premise of the game: they got banished because they were greedy assholes. Society got fed up with them and rounded up all the extremely greedy people and kicked them out!

[@Briarstoned]

I need this in my life.

[@RichardHoman9009]

It may have already been pointed out, but the people couldn't build the houses in part 1 because all the houses still had to have objects removed from the lot but they couldn't remove those things since the stock yard was full. They don't deliver build materials until the lots are cleared. You placed down another house in a spot that happened to not need cleared, so they delivered the materials immediately, which freed up space to clear the other lots.

[@Isildor]

Oh I love to see how fast you upload stuff

[@threedogful]

Regarding ages at the time this game is set on people were at full working age with 10 years and actually died at 40-50 years old, so it seems like the developer knows what he's doing.

[@WillTellU]

If they really are that greedy it's comes as no surprise they were banished from their village or w/e.

[@mileskeller2003]

Quill you have made me so excited for this game. I cannot wait! I'll just have to enjoy your Let's Plays.

[@TheHumanSynthesisProject]

This was so much fun and so relaxing to watch :)

[@GoodCharless]

I AGREE!!!

[@kavis2006d]

Wow quill you are amazing. I watched the first video and thought of how much I want to see the next one, and here it is, thank you so much :)

[@Finsternis..]

"All our builders are dying because they pathfinde the houses and roads across the river over a way they couldn't ever pass alive" - "Let's assign more builders" Good job, lol...

[@therealdemen247]

Episode one: this video has gone on too long as it is, so I'll put a cut in here..." Episode two: 8 minutes longer.

[@OutcastSpartan7]

A food rationing mechanic would be great for low yield seasons or during and after disasters.

[@Cotten55]

Oh man, I was cracking up so much when the people were dieing doing the weird pathfinding going all the way south and around to build the roads and trading post instead of the bridge. I love all your videos Quill and I bought this game on GoG because you explain things so well and are so enteraining in the process.

[@FortunaDraken]

I love how you paused the construction on the bridge because you're blaming that, then finally realise it's the road and the trading post XD One thing at a time!

[@Relvain]

Quill, what about setting up a series of little farms that can be managed by a single farmer?

[@BalimaarTheBassFish]

31:52 I reckon those two were 'having fun' in the woods but realised half way through that it was cold :D

[@CanadainStrategist]

I think the game should do rashioning so a house can only take so much food compared to how much food is there and if they take to much then they give it back to the barn

[@jonasbrevikstrmsvag8602]

Ended up screaming "Remove the trader!" during the bridge-situation xD

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

This is where boarding houses are worth their weight in gold as they hold loads of people but the food and wood storage isn't as split up. Therefore you wont get a single house in a row freezing to death as they starve while their neighbor chows down on pigeon pies in front of a raging fire.

[@xavmanisdabestest]

Liarra Sniffles He should of built a market they distribute food alot more evenly

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

Elite Salad Even so, at this point in development the game still had the "bug" where people would take enough to fill their house, often forcing their neighbours to starve completely. I found that the only way to fix this, was to ALWAYS BUILD ENOUGH FIREWOOD AND CLOTHES FOR TWICE THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE. The supply/demand graph is lying!

[@nitzillastudio]

Like many I can't wait to play this game. Glad I watched these videos first: lesson learned - queue things up one at a time.

[@wikes6097]

Quill one thing to think about is that if the people take a house based on their job, if you have things spread out (like the trader now) constantly switching jobs may have them traveling far distances.

[@vakalkas]

Idk if it's because of the game or your commentary, but these videos are really interesting and soothing ^^

[@brooksy10366]

Love this game. I just wish you could zoom in a little bit more.

[@FalqonOne]

Textures arent that good ;p

[@muaddib6650]

Odellie nooooo!! LOL I love that. Your such a good mayor.

[@stephangoodwin]

THANK YOU for cutting the weather effects!

[@kc3vv]

You should just have a priority slider where you can put in numbers from one to 100

[@scarfacejasonok]

Quill - "this video has gone on way too long" Me- "no it hasn't keep going O_O"

[@RMJ1984]

Yeah he's crazy like that. He takes his breaks very seriously!

[@Fewrfreyut]

This game looks awesome.

[@nathanwiles2719]

Besides going to their neighbor, it might also be a good idea to create a labor type for a unit which handles food assigning. If a unit is dedicated to that, citizens won't be able to hoard food.

[@Achiles5th]

im just dying laughing as i see that villager around 3 miles away from the village, im a terrible person for that

[@vesmolol9185]

I really wish the dev expands on some of the features in the future, like the linear upgrades from hide coats -> wool coats -> hide+wool coats is fine, but if there was more variety and not just linear upgrades that take more resources it would be awesome.

[@xylpho]

The dev wrote a blog post explaining that modding will allow this sort of things (he will release the tools for the modder's community), and will eventually be part of updates or extensions

[@papafade5092]

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to plop that depot down BEFORE finishing the bridge.

[@Drecon84]

Wouldn't it be better to build more but smaller farms? It seems like the size of your current farms is actually holding you back a bit.

[@AmoralWpg]

Thousands of potatoes per year is not very unreasonable. A labourer needs about 3500 calories a day, or about 20 potatoes, or about 7300 potatoes each year.

[@Wiliraughshai]

To elaborate, if you are on heavy labour chances are you eat 4-8 potatoes a day assuming you also have something else to share the plate with. Multiply that with 365. That's quite the few potatoes to chew on.

[@Briarstoned]

Wiliraughshai TIL I must be a heavy labourer.

[@jamc666]

with 770 cal for 1 kg potatoes ... that makes it about 4,5 Kg / day ... 20 potatoes ? really ?

[@AmoralWpg]

It would depend on the size of the potato. But yes, 20-25 potatoes a day would make 4.5kg. Here's an image of a 5kg bag of potatoes for estimation: www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=258423640

[@Briarstoned]

Chris Currie +1 for Tesco. xD

[@grandad1982]

I'm pretty sure that hunting lodges work best in areas that are free from disturbance, i.e. old growth forest. Also I'm not sure the deer you see running around are actually the deer that are hunted, so no need to worry about having them in the hunters lodge zone.

[@grandad1982]

In addition the herbalist needs old growth forest too.

[@captainbear1000]

I can't wait for this game!

[@Divus101]

dont blame the pathfinding ^^ the only tried to finish the jobs you assigned there xD btw: i cant wait... 18 long days left till i can play :(

[@yukowl]

The biggest complaint with Simcity was map size but I myself didn't mind that, what I did mind was the dire path finding/A.I and although I'm looking forward to this game I'm now a little worried about path finding/A.I

[@nicmilbrett3884]

They eat so much, they eat as much as Hobbits!

[@CanadainStrategist]

OMG SO MUCH I LOVE IT!!!!

[@dragananeo9628]

AHH YOU ARE THE BEST, JUST KEEP THEM COMING, LOVE YOU!

[@ContradanzaEU]

This is very entertaining :) Keep em coming m8

[@mattiassvensson6961]

Loving this game :) Kepp uploading it :)

[@mattiassvensson6961]

Keep*

[@philipripper1522]

"How much they eat is insane. In terms of food." What else would it be in terms of?

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

Hay quill18, watching you play this game has given me much desire to cut down a tree! Just thought you might find that fun

[@RoyalDragoon123]

Instead of building the hunting and fishing buildings, would it have been more efficient to rush to a second farming spot in the second or third year?

[@beta269]

12:50 - "My cabbages!!!"

[@thyrdstryyke]

This game is looking awesome

[@moonluna8628]

The reason your homes weren't building in the first vid was because you didn't have a large enough storage area for lumber, ore, & stone. The logs in the area couldn't get cleared away so that the foundations could be built. Once people started taking more resources from your storage area to build the 2 extra homes you set to be built next to it (the storage area), then other laborers gathered the wood from the zones set for the initial 4 houses you set up.

[@skyworm8006]

I realise this is not meant to be a violent game but perhaps in the future things will be added like hostile and aggressive animals, may be even bandits. So that would add another factor of having a militia or other defenses. While not going full Age of Empires sort of defense of course. :P

[@waynetaylor4034]

This game looks amazing..only 2 more days!

[@alithat1]

I don't think the first come first serve mechanic was planned by the developer but I kind of want them to keep it like that

[@moonluna8628]

He also needed Foresters to chop wood and replant trees, then he wouldn't have so many problems having to constantly assign laborers to clear-cut those sections of forest.

[@RockPaperSccissors]

i see that this game has that "fun" factor that we see in the incredibly "fun" at times Dwarf Fortress , i cant wait to play it!

[@doctordonutdude]

Please tell me someone else was thinking "MY CABBAGES!!" when all his cabbages were dying.

[@zIHaXSaWIz]

This looks amazing

[@Kinkikomon]

I wonder if it would be better to just start off with stone houses, or maybe 1 or 2 stone houses and 1 or 2 wood houses to make firewood more efficient.

[@CrzyJerry333]

There is a priority slider I don't know why Quill wasn't using it.

[@DeadlyApples666]

YAY MORE ! :D

[@TheKlokwurkMan]

You keep assigning all of your villagers to other tasks and do not leave any as laborers, so the menial general stuff you are wanting to get done is not happening (field clearing, resource collecting, etc...)

[@Connor19527]

obviously ive never played the game before but wouldn't clear cutting the forest and plopping your herbalist down where the forest will be destroyed mean that the herbalist get nothing and cutting down everything near you hurt you long term? this game looks really fun btw!

[@creedless8233]

A perfect video to show how to mess things up, very entertaining ; )

[@Relvain]

The ageing mechanics reminds me of Games of Thrones where Seasons last for years ;) Of course he states the same thing within a minute of my original post ;p

[@incrediblyStupid678]

Also: "Not that I would ever murder people in a video game!" - Yeah...thank god you aren't venetian in this one! ;)

[@Malvo0ovlaM]

well it's winter Quill as you probably know by now, it's a bad idea having them walking about/building about in winter

[@pukuhaamu]

I love the fact that there's no fighting.

[@incrediblyStupid678]

Really looking forward to this. Still a bit sceptical though - I always find myself loosing interest once I get a fortress/settlement stable and am done building every building in the game. :(

[@moonluna8628]

For building the Bridge, he needed to use the Prioritizing tool.

[@beatsbybrandon902]

Gatherers are ALWAYS best to start with

[@Mageprince93]

[@gonavygonavy7249]

I like the GOT-type seasons that last for years.

[@KjeftenLP]

Maybe a priority system would be in order.

[@kuliksco]

you can set priority. he must not have learned how yet.

[@wurree]

Keep it going!

[@buk1237]

Does anyone else mishear Quill when he introduces himself at the start of his videos? I swear to god I keep hearing him say Quillyteen.

[@thequeenofswords7230]

Thanks for turning off the weather effects. It really could use a slider or something, it's nice but just too much.

[@KJessieS]

DUDE there is a priority button you should use it!

[@Nukle0n]

Your stockpile is tiny and already full, supplies are scattered everywhere. Also build a cemetery.

[@martinsjoquist]

"Hmmm, the workers are trying to build everything beyond this unfinished bridge, lets Pause the bridge so it never gets done." *facepalm* Thanks for making the same mistakes I would have done playing :)

[@2d20kobolds3]

... A market place will help distribute food more evenly because people will get food as they need it in stead of in bulk .

[@RTexasUSA]

This game looks like it's going to be so much fun. Any idea on the cost?

[@Buyskruit]

The game will cost $19.99 USD. www.shiningrocksoftware.com/faq/

[@vikingyaffa8346]

20c in like a nice warm/cool in the shade kinda day nice but when it gets to the high 20s to 30s here in Australia

[@zoroisking]

9:27 more newspeak? quill you please big brother

[@gemberkoekje]

"A child called Heavenity was born" (quite in the beginning of the vid) - fitting, considering half the population just died.

[@Homarid1]

Oh man that trade post was a disaster. Great video though.

[@mattiaslarsson9578]

forgot to check but from what direktion did you place the bridge

[@vivrin07]

that suicide builders was epic fail... i would have rage quit

[@thedrunkmonk8386]

Hah! Comes out on my birthday. Guess I know what I'm getting.

[@TVFILMBUFF]

"Deer... are not quite that chicken"

[@TFrills]

The weather is kind of annoying because it makes it too difficult to see. I like snow and rain but not see hard to see though

[@duckduckgoose9493]

You could upgrade farms alot at the start then sell excess food on things your short on

[@buk1237]

That bridge was made with death

[@shohchkheh]

Does anybody know how expensive this game will be?

[@Seafort505]

I think the developer said $20.