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Re: Banished
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2014, 08:52:41 pm »
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settlers! :D

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Re: Banished
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2014, 09:46:04 pm »
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It does remind me a bit of Settlers 2, but there is no scenarios or combat. You mostly have to manage where you put you workers and provide all essential stuff they need. Apart from that you have to think a bit about where to put each structure. Like Quarries or Mines make people unhappy if you put homes near there, or gatherers/herbalists need old trees I think rather than newly planted ones. You get diseases in crops/pastures that can spread so you need to put some distance between crops/pastures.

Its got a nice slow pace though if you choose it to so you get time to plan stuff
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Re: Banished
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2014, 08:36:23 pm »
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Hehe, I've had to restart countless of times. Sometimes it's the fire doing a tactical strike at my storages and production building, once a tornado came and wiped out my whole 100 pop village, only 15 survived the disaster itself, but the next winter took care of the last ones.

Now I've managed to build properly to avoid fires from spreading (put the buildings in groups of max 5 + wells near important stuff), and the only tornado I've had wasn't so bad. Got a epidemy of measles, but that only killed like 20. Now almost year 100, I have a nice town of almost 500 citizens, and expanding. Started on hard difficulty.

Some tips:
Spread out a lot, this way tornadoes won't do as much damage. Place your buildings in small and separate groups, so they won't go down like dominoes when the first fire starts.
Try to farm as many different types of crops as possible, and never farm 2 fields of same crop type next to each other. This way parasites won't ruin your whole harvest. Same goes for orchards and pastures too.
As you expand, keep up a good network of Marketplaces to balance the resources between regions.

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Re: Banished
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2014, 08:53:07 pm »
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Banished is hard as fuck :(

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Re: Banished
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2014, 09:00:42 pm »
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True. I had a fun spiral, from 80 people to 15 in two years. Apparently having 100% of the population on food production does not stop a famine before a couple of years... it seems like people sometimes keep working despite being starving

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Re: Banished
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2014, 11:31:52 pm »
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I guess its kind of like a roguelike - theres an expectation to get wiped out at some point, just see how many years you can last for and then do better next time
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Re: Banished
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2014, 02:54:54 pm »
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Nah, once you've grown big enough there isn't a disaster that could completely wipe you out. Once you've reached that, the game kinda get boring since it has nothing new to offer.

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Re: Banished
« Reply #22 on: February 22, 2014, 08:13:56 pm »
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How is this so hard? Haven't had any trouble so far in my first game. Game is pretty neat and is relaxing to play but doesn't offer much after the first few hours. An incredibly hefty price tag for what it is, do not recommend buying.

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Re: Banished
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2014, 12:12:02 am »
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I'm enjoying it anyway and i'm still on my first game. Went from 39 adults down to like 10 because of old age and not enough kids, now up to 45/11/13. I'm not sure if it was hard, but it was enjoyable

Compared to regular city builders it definitely does present a challenge, but challenge isn't always the most important part of this type of game. I've played the crap out of Tropico 3 and 4 and they are quite easy. I just like sandbox building games, especially when you can chill out and plan your expansion which you can with this. The added challenge just makes it even better

For the future i'd like them to implement a story mode with some scenarios to complete and maybe add more building types. They are quite limited tbh. Worth the asking price for me though as it is
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Re: Banished
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2014, 12:52:41 pm »
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Playing this game reminded me how much I miss Anno and Ceasar :(
Btw is Anno 1404 any good?

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Re: Banished
« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2014, 01:02:55 pm »
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I've been playing it. Fun and sadistic. Gathering huts are OP.
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Re: Banished
« Reply #26 on: February 23, 2014, 01:19:47 pm »
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Playing this game reminded me how much I miss Anno and Ceasar :(
Btw is Anno 1404 any good?

Yes I think Anno1404 is great. It's another chill game, a bit less difficult than Banished, but more stuff to do in the long run  :wink:
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Re: Banished
« Reply #27 on: February 23, 2014, 02:09:57 pm »
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Btw is Anno 1404 any good?

It's awesome. So is Anno 2070. I played Anno 1404 with friends who were new to the game. I taught them the basics and we did 1v4 and they got stomped. And they never played again.
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Re: Banished
« Reply #28 on: February 27, 2014, 10:02:10 am »
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Really enjoying Banished, altogether me and my two brothers have clocked 20 hours so far. It is indeed very relaxing and there being no violence is very refreshing for me. I only hope there will be a DLC in the future to add nordic/ viking architecture and the possibility of sending trade fleets.

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