What is your favorite City Building game?

@pieter-bashoogsteen2283

5 ай бұрын

That’s a difficult question, but if I had to answer I think I would say Cities Skylines (I don’t own the game myself but played with friends). I haven’t played city builders much in general, though if I owned Ostriv it surely would be in the top.

@cmpondeck33

5 ай бұрын

If city skylines or any of these city builder had multiplayer like sim city back in the day they’d be awesome. It was cool to see my friend’s cities in the distance or map view. Also you could trade & sends funds if needed.

@Kidraver555

5 ай бұрын

Kingdoms reborn is pretty good but like most city builders they tend to get hectic later on, this game looks like it is really calm and relatively sane to play.

Your town looks awesome. Ostriv is a great village builder having played it for some time, it's quite relaxing seeing all the people run around the village being busy. I would suggest getting that sunflower oil into production for it's almost always shows up as a demand in the trade window and makes a decent income and keep the trading house stocked up with the oil (~2000 for export). You can overwhelm the oil workshop with sunflowers, but you can also sell the sunflowers as a trade item if you end up with a over abundance of sunflower. I have a farm with four fields (50x50x50) with two fields of sunflowers while the other two are fallow. The six workers + manager is enough to get it working and supplying the sunflower seeds. As for the other farms, they are three fields (50x50x50), one for potato/buckwheat, second is wheat and hemp, and the third being barley and flax. Those pairings work well with the balancing of the nutrients. Each farm will consist of either a Cowshed or a sheep farm where the animals will use the fallow field of the farm as pasture giving back nutrients to the field. Also, get some oxen for the ploughs, at least two ploughs for each farm for you should have two fields growing while the other is being fallowed, with that you should get max production from the fields. Generally I place down the potato/buckwheat farm down first and put them to market, but you want to feed the chickens the buckwheat and not the wheat for that is used for flour. Keep an eye out on excess, which should be put into the trading house for exports. It's a balancing act but manageable as the town grows that excess will go away. Eventually you will be making money from clothes and shoes. For clothes, its hemp and flax being weaved by weavers that then pass along to the tailor. Shoes require leather, which comes up in trade, but its best to get the leather production line going, which requires the slaughter house for the raw skins (need salt) which the tannery will produce the leather from the skins along with salt, bark, and lime. You get lime from the lime kiln and salt from the Saltworks. In order to build the saltworks and kiln you will need stone. Also the saltworks will need a ox. The kiln is worked by labors just like the charcoal. Lots to build in order to get shoes but its worth it. Build slowly, don't rush. I could go on. Good luck with your town, you are doing much better than me on my first run.

@Skibitth

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

@leftcoastline

5 ай бұрын

I'd just buy lime at the start to get the tannery up and running. Early game you aren't killing enough animals for hides or building enough advanced production buildings to use up much lime, and lime kilns are crazy intensive to build and run (9000 charcoal and 15000 limestone per firing, plus heaps of labour to fill it), it'll delay your tannery ops by almost two years by the time you build the limestone mine, the kiln, a dedicated forester and charcoal line and the limeworks, plus filling the kiln, then another 6 months to tan hides. I'm not even sure if it's worth it at all on this map to fire your own lime until later game because if I recall you only get a couple firings before you're completely out of limestone. I'm playing map 1 right now with unlimited limestone and decided to make that my primary export industry and it was a slog to get it up and running, meanwhile lost a couple families to no shoes because I kept saying "I'll have learher soon, no worries" lmao. It's a fun industry tho, just intensive.

Thanks for the shout out! I'd seen the 'not looking for work' before but never noticed their "no point making more money" quote lol. Hes making 3.75 on his own because hes a manager and they have a separate salary level thats fixed. I usually try to get my managers from village houses without gardens otherwise they accumulate excess wealth faster in two ways, but all your houses have gardens. Managers, counsellors and the mayor dont matter if they are close to work because they dont functionally do anything, they just have to exist to get their benefits. Sometimes ill make them walk across town from the far reaches because it has no impact lol. You want to be careful with rents because those affect all homes, even without gardens, so without extra income, it can hurt if too high. Land tax only affects garden homes so its a good control for that alone, with a high wealth tax to ensure a cap without hurting poorer workers/new families' ability to get established. One thing thats not clear in game is that pay is calculated 30 times a month. Employed get pay everyday no matter what but for everyone thats bouncing between labour and unemployment(at rest or doing home tasks), it matters their status at those exact moments, so they average less than full pay, even if it seems like theyre always busy.

I would suggest the name Hillcrest, sounds like a good fit for this little village.

I'll bet running 2 series at once in the same game (this and the (RO) series) makes for some interesting deja vu moments. You might be able to relocate some of those unused Cart Shed carts to a cart parking until you can fully employ it later. And how do you run out of wood? 🤔 I didn't think that was possible! LOL Something interesting to take a look at: Go to the Help tab (lower left of screen) and read the article about Illness and Injury. It talks about dangerous jobs (the Mine) and the role of the Barber Surgery, as well as what influences their health bar (all food groups and pollution) and seasonal illnesses like the Flu. This game just keeps getting deeper and more real. And be sure to find a poor family to watch as well as a rich family in regard to taxes. High land taxes won't hurt a rich family for a long time, but might bankrupt a poor family within an episode. Good show!

@Skibitth

5 ай бұрын

Haha everything is possible for sure 😂 Soon I will run out of water too

Tomatoes are a new world food and as such where not introduced to Europe until after the 1500's. There was slow adoption of them because they are in the Nightshade family and so there was a thought in Europe that they were toxic. And in fact, a number of people did get sick after the tomato was introduced. But modern research had found out that the reason for this was not because the tomato is toxic, but rather because there was widespread use of Pewter for plateware in Europe. pewter is made by combining tin with lead, and lead is toxic to humans. The tomato is highly acidic, and so tomatoes on pewter plates leached some of the lead from the plates causing people to absorb it into their bodies.

You should really build the houses with out yards near the farming and orchard area as that is where you will need lots of labor jobs. You should also check your land tax. One of the houses you looked at was paying more in land tax than they are making in income.

I think if the land tax is more then the monthly wage, they’re making no money & will eventually go broke especially if they have no wealth.

You could use dedicated carters for supplying warehouses: instead of "laborers by cart" set "carters" in all warehouses and trading post, and set minimum load as 0 in carter station (that which employs workers). So you'll get a special transport service for industrial/commercial logistics. And at 35:15 - you don't have oxen, that was an interface buttons to do "snappy snap" to a specifix ex-bull

salut! trebuie taxati ai tai, tare de tot :P altfel e greu sa faci comert, statul da, statul ia :P p.s ti` am tr cerere pe steam

I think you may want to sell the sumflower oil at the trade depot

@Skibitth

5 ай бұрын

That's the plan 😁

Do sheep really produce milk? Usually that is goats.

@Skibitth

5 ай бұрын

Sheep give milk too. Less than a goat, but still give

@spamfilter32

5 ай бұрын

@Skibitth learn something new everyday!

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@Skibitth

5 ай бұрын

:)))