Ara: History Untold - Best City Settling Tips & Gameplay Guide

[@lckimler]

I was irrationally uncomfortable with you not picking up the goodies, but this video (and your others) have been extremely helpful with learning game mechanics.

[@yurisoares2596]

A one tip which can be easily overlooked by beginner people is to focus each region in one type of "economy", because a lot of buildings stack up production bonus solely for their type. I think the preferable would be for each reagion focus on one type of improvements + synergetics ones, like Farm 2 + Waterwell/Granary.

[@jts1702a]

Glad someone is catching on. The same type ("impact" ie. farms/lumberyards/mines especially, or workshops of the same type) create synergies and boost production.

[@atlanteean]

@@jts1702a what is better? 3 farms and a granary or 2 farms, a granary and a waterwell?

[@jts1702a]

@@atlanteean The latter, if we're only talking about one region. However, it's most likely you'll be hosting more than one region of dedicated farming for a large city, and those buildings ARE limited to one per city, so definitely weigh your opportunity costs there.

[@Earendel4]

Finally, the video I was looking forward to 😊

[@huntsalone2013]

Thanks for the tips!

[@AlifZabidi]

I like rice. I also liked this video, thanks for the tips! I knew making a farm in the city center felt like a bad starting move, definitely avoiding that now.

[@DonDensho]

Subscribing and liking! Good stuff

[@alexossan2829]

I like rice. No I'm actually not such a big fan of rice because I've been eating it all my life. I like how you showed the end goal of what a city looks like, especially about how many regions we're going to be looking at, instead of just saying leave X regions between cities without giving any reasons.

[@jorsh1908]

I'm very literally never near any copper in any of the 12 games I've started so far. Like even with six cities by turn 150, there's like one or two copper on the map and they're WAY beyond my nation's limits. Usually on the other side of another large nation.

[@sortasurvival5482]

I like the dynamic of each age having different goals, is similar to life. In the ancient times societies developed to make the big picture of what they knew then.... I'd love a 4x game where some resources start abundant then get decimated. Like a plague on wheat, or surface deposits of gold that run out in the next age....

[@sortasurvival5482]

Hell it could go the other way, starting 2nd age, a winter strong form of wheat evolves.... A volcano erupts depositing fkn diamonds across its devistated land....

[@robert2449]

Is it normal that the feast disappears to build in chapter 2?

[@annekekramer3835]

So far, i like starting with one or two scouts, or a scout and a spear, just to avoid building in the city centre before i get a setler.

[@hydralance8837]

But you always want to put your Dwellings in the city center so its perfectly fine to go scout, dwelling, settler.

[@DeadInkPen41]

How are you getting the tile informaiton to show like that? I cant find the option for that in the game

[@TacticatGaming]

bottom right screen is a view icon that lets you set layering

[@Dexsting]

Is there a way to see how many places in each region other than if you have a settler?

[@TacticatGaming]

kinda, any unit can see individual cells, but i think the settler is the only one that shows the region borders - i may be wrong here but that's my knowledge

[@randomman1050]

This is exactly how to start.... build a dwelling in the city center and scout for the next good one while you await tier up. anything else is a waste as ideally you get a 5 region start and the spaces need saving for stuff that bonuses by being in the city centre. Also dont make the mistake of not building a new city on a 4 food resource.... its not like the others, you need the resource under you.

[@tom.walder]

I like rice. Specifically sushi rice.

[@firilockz]

Grain I like!

[@keithcrook8591]

Appreciate these vids! Apologies if I missed it, can you turn off all victory conditions and continue playing sandbox style like civ 6?

[@TacticatGaming]

Nope but you can turn off player culling for real players and extend the game to 1120 turns

[@oufukubinta]

@@TacticatGaming So it's not even 1250 turns like I thought? I wish I could play forever in single player even if that's no one else's idea of fun but my own

[@oufukubinta]

You invest so much time and effort into a game and it sucks that the game tells you when you've had enough fun

[@a37n31]

I like rice xd. I think that your first hunt of lvl2 danger animal (like cheeta) is hard-coded to give you a feast.

[@micdy7104]

thanks for sharing

[@TacticatGaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@michaelthoenen6797]

Do farms double dip? If you place a farm on those horses does it produce food as well as the horses, or only the horses?

[@TacticatGaming]

You can choose one or the other on a lot of resources - sometimes you can’t though - but they don’t double dip per my understanding

[@matzerotti]

@@michaelthoenen6797 Most dont provide food but only the Ressource. If it is one of the rare ressources that allows food production you have to decide - Ressource or food? - Rice is one of the exceptions and it grants a big food boost compared to a normal farm

[@riokhan1821]

Rice I like!

[@charliecordes3532]

I like rice. Also, somehow, I'd completely forgotten to play with the region food, wood, materials in mind. Which, in hindsight, is dumb af 😅 Also I've experienced claims costing 3.

[@matzerotti]

Do you use sawmills with experts to boost City production or do you know another method than their fixed amount?

[@TacticatGaming]

This is a great question I almost feel like we need an excel document to categorize the bonuses - yes absolutely use experts to increase city production big time -

[@TacticatGaming]

Baskets in dwelling increase it by +1

[@28Dariel]

I like Rice !

[@ShredderZA]

I like rice! Rice is nice!

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you’

[@jts1702a]

But what about your need for lumber and materials? Sure you may be collecting the food bonus of each region but it's the farms that'll be doing most of the heavy lifting. I've only played Act I, but from what I see there's the granary and water well that boosts regional production, so keep those separate, and place them on good fertility tiles (pref. with resources) and spam normal farms after that to fill up. For tiles with 3 food, perhaps you can "waste" a specialist and prop up that region to 4 in one of those farms. Nothing 3~5 farming regions won't fix. Since the majority of spaces you'll be placing industry, it doesn't really matter what yield those are later. Heck, I've claimed an arid river piece of 3-slot land with 1 grapevine, and I've built fermenting pits (national limit: 3) all over it and just use rice to make my wine. The natural grape generation finished that grape buildcost technicality.

[@TacticatGaming]

you will get materials very easily when you can expand to 24 regions.

[@annekekramer3835]

I just started a random game on Duke. My best food tiles are water tiles with 2 food. The rest is tundra with 1 food... but I'm gonna continue, I'm not yet failing and i want to see if I can turn it around

[@TacticatGaming]

restart - like i was saying in the video sometime you will get just terrible terrible starting locations - best to restart

[@tutkarz]

@@TacticatGaming no need to restart if player want some more challenge

[@annekekramer3835]

@@tutkarz Exactly. It's not on the max difficulty, and so far I'm in the mid-low tier. I have absolutely zero clue if I can catch up in Act 2 or 3, but in my previous game I was leaving in Act 1 with triple the second score, which makes an extremely boring game (standard difficulty).

[@yurisoares2596]

When I see that all predators around me is 4 or 5 I'm already restarting. In Potato streams he always get the 3 or 2 tier.

[@AleAGez]

@@yurisoares2596 hoestly tier 3+ predators early are really good cause u can get a feast by turn 4 and really boost early growth

[@jamesfee1966]

So, I’ve noticed (or maybe I’m not) that settling by a river or lake isn’t quite as important/valuable as it is in Civilization … is that the case?

[@TacticatGaming]

Certain leaders get river buffs - and usually river tiles have higher fertility

[@89volvowithlazers]

And the fun just got spread sheeted right out of the game thankyou very much

[@mrTannu666]

This is where the fun starts haha. Otherwise your just doing random stuff in game.

[@ZoraxGG]

#MakeRiceGreatAgain

[@simonenglish5713]

i like rice, and the videos

[@dalrunin4138]

I like rice. Sake is the best.

[@World3mpir3]

I honestly find that the deeper the game goes the more the micro becomes very tedious regardless of the production. I Wish they simplified somethings! 😢

[@TacticatGaming]

I'd like for an upgrade all / apply all tools button or something too

[@mrTannu666]

​@@TacticatGamingYeah UI & notifications is something that could use a lot of work in the game.

[@gregorydorsey1472]

I like rice 🎉

[@kornelg8584]

I like rice :)

[@matzerotti]

I like rice!

[@TacticatGaming]

God bless you

[@taghjenx4]

I like rice

[@chessguy99]

I like rice.

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you!

[@bogusawdominiak2183]

I lik rice

[@Shadow-ss6sx]

I like rice.

[@TheRealNacho87]

I like rice

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you!

[@charlesd6060]

I like rice

[@zondor8123]

@@charlesd6060 classic asian