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Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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It has been a while since the last one. So...

Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.

If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be a plus.

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[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

when starting a new game:

-set up a stockpile:

indoors, preferably shelves, but that's a goal to work towards

-stockpile some food:

starting with a talented grower makes early game easier. rice is best in the beginning, when it's beginning to stockpile switch to potatoes, when those stockpile to corn. each step requires less work by your pawns, leaving more time for other stuff.

-get a ranged weapon and some defenses

some bows if there's nothing else. first raid is alwaysa single melee guy, that's scripted, afaik. setup some sand bags or embrasures. walls/corridors to limit the range enemies can shoot at you.

-get batteries

super important! difficult to have a reliable food supply without those!

-get a freezer

also super important because of the above!

-set up a prison

last on the list, not that high of a priority...but still, get some more people!

and then do pretty much what you want...once early game is done, get some research done, plant some cotton, some herbal meds, set up a little medical area, etc.

this should get you to mid game fairly reliably!

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You misunderstand potatos. Rice and corn both have high sensitivity to soil quality. Potatos have low sensitivity. So with normal or better soil rice and corn both get a big speed boost and potatos get a small speed boost.

With poor soil rice and corn get a big speed penalty potatos get small speed penalty.

So normal or better soil plant rice or corn. Poor soil plant potatos.

[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

you are right!

i did actually forget about that when commenting, and thanks for the added info!

however, that's not exactly what i was talking about:

assuming normal or better soil you need less work (i.e. time spent working the fields) per unit of nutrition when moving from rice->potato->corn because of yield.

so your pawns spend less time planting and harvesting, which results in higher overall colony productivity since they can do other stuff in-between, like cooking, cleaning, mining, etc.

you are correct in that you should choose which plant you use based on the soil first, and according to productivity second!

i just wasn't really considering soil quality when writing the comment...