In the harder difficulties, you have to micromanage everything all the time, and it takes forever.
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Alteon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just busted the Lead Seal Yesterday. Fuck me is Pioneer hard. I don’t know how you’re supposed to do it on harder difficulties. It’s like the storm hits and then everybody’s negative 16 resolve, and I just start pissing away workers.
rigatti@lemmy.world 7 months ago
farcaster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some towns are just going to fail if you’re unlucky… But you can set yourself up for success by learning which Services buildings to pick. Some like the Temple (reduces hostility) and the Guild House (increases resolve every time you buy/sell) can be instrumental to surviving harder difficulties.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’m not convinced there are “unwinnable” settlements. They might be unwinnable for me at my current skill level, but there are people who play at Prestige 20 who I’m sure couldn’t possibly lose at the difficulty I’m playing at regardless of what RNG throws at them.
farcaster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I encountered a settlement on Prestige 15 or so which had a base hostility at level 2… and a ~15% chance of villagers dying every couple of seconds starting at hostility level 2 during the storm. First storm wiped out my town before I could really address anything 💀
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Make sure you have housing for everyone, upgrade your hearth, and unassign your woodcutters during Storm.
Citadel upgrades for essential blueprints of race specific housing and field kitchen will help keep resolve up in the early game.
Cornerstones the reduce hostility will help a ton in the mid to late game.
SandLight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Part of it is just leveling up your citadel. Some is the game dripfeeds new systems and buildings to you that make things more complicated but also help with happiness. A lot of it is just learning what it takes to keep people happy.