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Bohemian Toffee said:
It's not got the same death spiral starvation curve as Banished, but it's an ambitious game in early development.

I recommend Manor Lords, it's less stressful than Banished, but I am playing it without the rival lord enabled.
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So, first 3 or so hours in. I went into the "build mode" win condition, so no rivals/combat at all, to get a feel for it.

Honestly, even in its current state, it's Banished with a lot more going on. Some content is unfinished (and a friend told me the dev's getting flak for going on a short holiday recently?!) but even with that I'll still sink way more hours than I need to hahah.

Great and ambitious project and so far it delivers on things that other games either didn't, or didn't do it well enough imho.

Oddly enough the only bugs that I experienced that broke things were oxen not wanting to go to their designated place, which didn't impact anything anyway and fixed itself, and a lot of menu bugs when creating the character/banner, and nothing else, no game breaks, no crashes.

Surprised with the 3rd person view thing, very fun to walk around and get a "feel" of your town.
Also surprised to see no water bodies (yet?) in the game, or is that just me?

If/when it gets a few more updates it'll be fantastic, the dev is really cooking it seems.

Cities Skylines 2/Paradox can learn a thing or 50 from this tbh.
 

Not games related but thought I'd stick it here rather than adding a new thread

I'm not sure I can be bothered paying for Microsoft Office again

I've heard of a free alternative called LibreOffice

Anyone here used it or got any other decent MO alternatives?

At home I'm only doing basic word processing, so I don't need anything too fancy
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Not games related but thought I'd stick it here rather than adding a new thread

I'm not sure I can be bothered paying for Microsoft Office again

I've heard of a free alternative called LibreOffice

Anyone here used it or got any other decent MO alternatives?

At home I'm only doing basic word processing, so I don't need anything too fancy
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LO is good and free with most Linux distributions. Pretty similar MO to Word/Office in all fairness.

Thunderbird for email and LiberOffice is basically the Linux "Office pack".
 
DualityNSNO said:
So, first 3 or so hours in. I went into the "build mode" win condition, so no rivals/combat at all, to get a feel for it.

Honestly, even in its current state, it's Banished with a lot more going on. Some content is unfinished (and a friend told me the dev's getting flak for going on a short holiday recently?!) but even with that I'll still sink way more hours than I need to hahah.

Great and ambitious project and so far it delivers on things that other games either didn't, or didn't do it well enough imho.

Oddly enough the only bugs that I experienced that broke things were oxen not wanting to go to their designated place, which didn't impact anything anyway and fixed itself, and a lot of menu bugs when creating the character/banner, and nothing else, no game breaks, no crashes.

Surprised with the 3rd person view thing, very fun to walk around and get a "feel" of your town.
Also surprised to see no water bodies (yet?) in the game, or is that just me?

If/when it gets a few more updates it'll be fantastic, the dev is really cooking it seems.

Cities Skylines 2/Paradox can learn a thing or 50 from this tbh.
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I have a bug where deleted roads reappear after I load back in, but it's nothing to delete them again - about ten seconds.

Otherwise, same as you, playing it on build only but with bandits and finding it really immersive. I don't fully understand the market mechanic, I would also like more control over who sets up stalls.

I expect rivers will be added, there's talk of a variety of animals being introduced, especially pigs. The developer needs to keep hold of his vision for the game and not let people rush it.
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Not games related but thought I'd stick it here rather than adding a new thread

I'm not sure I can be bothered paying for Microsoft Office again

I've heard of a free alternative called LibreOffice

Anyone here used it or got any other decent MO alternatives?

At home I'm only doing basic word processing, so I don't need anything too fancy
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I use it, never had a problem with LO
 

Bohemian Toffee said:
I have a bug where deleted roads reappear after I load back in, but it's nothing to delete them again - about ten seconds.

Otherwise, same as you, playing it on build only but with bandits and finding it really immersive. I don't fully understand the market mechanic, I would also like more control over who sets up stalls.

I expect rivers will be added, there's talk of a variety of animals being introduced, especially pigs. The developer needs to keep hold of his vision for the game and not let people rush it.
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Stalls were/are a bit weird, but basically as you don't assign a unit but a whole family to a business, one of the people from the family will set up a stall from it. I don't grasp fully the market system in a different way as it sometimes needs the market closer, sometimes not, and people are unhappy quite often as they don't reach a certain item, even if the market has it, but then they magically do. Used to do a square grid setup starting from a massive marketplace on Banished, might try that later lol

The outsider trading is quite well done imo, surprised it has a demand system too to be honest - I had a rich clay deposit so made a bunch of clay and roof tiles or whatever and at one point was so very poor unexpectedly, turns out I've basically flooded the market so the price went from 2-4g/piece to 1 and no one wanted to buy any lol Truly went far and above expectations for a solo dev, props to the lad.

Hope for water as fishing and stuff will probably be added, as well as other trade routes, maybe watermills or something, etc.

On mills - there's an efficiency rating for when you placed it, honestly those 3 hours were me clicking on buildings/things and going "oh, no way" lol
 


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