This is a Castle Builder Not a colony managment game!

[DakotaFred]

There is no marriage no relationship mechanic in this game. Gender has no role.No children can be born. This is a castle builder that want to appear like its a colony sim. So Disappointed.

[failsafe]

But, on the other hand, you have several really good colony builders and just few castle builders. I came to this game looking for a castle builder and Im almost happy ;-P

[kacperreszka]

Originally posted by failsafe:

But, on the other hand, you have several really good colony builders and just few castle builders. I came to this game looking for a castle builder and Im almost happy ;-P

yep i have same.
Love that game can not wait till they optimize engine. and add attack other "castles"

[Biel-77]

Originally posted by kacperreszka:

Originally posted by failsafe:

But, on the other hand, you have several really good colony builders and just few castle builders. I came to this game looking for a castle builder and Im almost happy ;-P

yep i have same.
Love that game can not wait till they optimize engine. and add attack other "castles"

The attack castle thing would be awesome!
And create new castles would be even better I guess...

But I agree that this game could have the family thing too...

[Spotter]

All of you need to LEARN REAL HISTORY of the Game, and the Real Era. 👍👍🤴

[DakotaFred]

Originally posted by Spotter:

All of you need to LEARN REAL HISTORY of the Game, and the Real Era. 👍👍🤴

Naa i just want this game to be like its name going Medieval.

[Morbious]

Originally posted by DakotaFred:

Naa i just want this game to be like its name going Medieval.

you know 90% of the population are dead of something nasty (see store page somewhere on backstory of the game) and your settlers are now all sterile due to said nasty thing that ravaged there bodies

its a alt history
..... that's what spotter was prob saying i think maybe

also yay castle building

[Prophet]

correct

[sintri]

Originally posted by Morbious:

Originally posted by DakotaFred:

Naa i just want this game to be like its name going Medieval.

you know 90% of the population are dead of something nasty (see store page somewhere on backstory of the game) and your settlers are now all sterile due to said nasty thing that ravaged there bodies

its a alt history
..... that's what spotter was prob saying i think maybe

also yay castle building

But there's an infinite supply of younger than you settlers, so clearly someone's not sterile.

[Morbious]

depends on how much time has passed if every ones min age is 22 and no lower than that was when the event happened

ever watched children of men (prob classed as old now think 2006-07 but good film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/

[Kaelroth]

Honestly, the "story" of Going Medieval really doesn't matter since absolutely none of it is portrayed in the game, merely on loading screens or on a wiki somewhere. Any actual story has to be devised by the player. This is the first I've heard of all the settlers being sterile and aside from it being a stupid idea, because it means the whole 'colony sim' idea of the game would logically only last for 1 generation then an inevitable human extinction; it doesn't really matter given that nothing of this notion is transmitted into the gameplay itself.

Personally, I only play it for the building aspects of the game. The colony sim actually detracts from my enjoyment more than adding to it. In that vein, the 'lore' doesn't really bother me because I'm done with a settlement once I've built everything I want to build. There really isn't any point to playing beyond that at this point aside from trying to acquire more settlers. Yet the storyteller in me is screaming at me to tell whoever came up with the idea that everyone is sterile that they need to stop telling stories. Because they are thoroughly garbage at it.

What a great idea for a game: play knowing that either it's pointless because logically you would run out of settlers in a few decades, or ignore the fact that people are magically able to appear even though they should have all died out in 40 or so years (real average life expectancy in Medieval Europe was 30-35 years).

Not that I'm arguing for marriage or children. I don't care either way. I'm just pointing out that using the so-called "lore" to invalidate the idea isn't great if that lore is stupid. But maybe that was the devs' plan given that the game becomes pretty unstable the longer you play a particular settlement.

[Jambie Lionheart]

It's both

PS you guyss till carrying that unhealthy obsession with kids? Might wanna turn yourselves in.

[Morbious]

oh im totally talking out of my ***


well part of it
it is a alt medieval era so the devs can wave there hands and not include things if they so choose and apart of that story is that the survivors was ravaged per the games story
however
i was just seeing how long i could make it last with the sterile part
a white lie if you will

if it was fact id include quotes / links (i like to back up what im saying with quotes)

on age i mean you can make your settlers immortal so cant really compare the game to real history (btw dev if reading this there's a weird % in the file after a certain age the settlers chance of dieing drops from 0.3% back to 0.1% )

[Kaelroth]

Originally posted by Morbious:

oh im totally talking out of my ***


well part of it
it is a alt medieval era so the devs can wave there hands and not include things if they so choose and apart of that story is that the survivors was ravaged per the games story
however
i was just seeing how long i could make it last with the sterile part
a white lie if you will

if it was fact id include quotes / links (i like to back up what im saying with quotes)

on age i mean you can make your settlers immortal so cant really compare the game to real history (btw dev if reading this there's a weird % in the file after a certain age the settlers chance of dieing drops from 0.3% back to 0.1% )

Considering you're talking about editing the game files to remove death, that's not really a valid argument either, since you are editing it out of the actual gameplay. Additionally, I've seen Severin mention that they add stuff based on historical and historical-adjacent information. Specifically the addition of bears to the game comes to mind, so the devs at least TRY to keep it close to reality.

Either way, it doesn't really seem like adding any in-game narratives is on the devs' to-do list. I don't mind that since I play for the building and not the colony sim. But I can understand why other people would want to have those elements included if they're less interested in building castles and such. Perhaps modders will be able to fill in that gap for the players who want it filled.

[Morbious]

oh oh noes

you touched on the bears
ah i remember that history thread it didn't end well
in fact id go as far as to say any history thread don't end well
btw bears went extinct wild between 1500-3000 years ago in england
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44699233
there undecided due to people having them for entertainment purposes

again the devs world they decide <hand waves> back to alternate time line
i really should find that thread to see if it was as bad as i remember it
yup it was bad

anyway

Originally posted by SeVerin:

The game occurs around the year 1353

Originally posted by SeVerin:

Why do you insists on "accuracy" in an alternative history medieval game where the plague has killed 95% of population? Where the population of one's settlement is around 20 settlers usually? Where you have bears on an English land? Where all kinds of animals haul items for settlers? Where people can manifest axe to chop wood out of thin air, but can't use that same axe to fight enemies?

<sorry was cooking / eating>

which takes us back to the previous comment

Originally posted by DakotaFred:

i just want this game to be like its name going Medieval.

again a alt universe and not following our time line
i mean id like to see a deer in real life grab a body with its mouth and throw said body onto its back but we as humans would prob kill it straight after seeing it

[Kaelroth]

Originally posted by Morbious:

oh oh noes

you touched on the bears
ah i remember that history thread it didn't end well
in fact id go as far as to say any history thread don't end well
btw bears went extinct wild between 1500-3000 years ago in england
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44699233
there undecided due to people having them for entertainment purposes

again the devs world they decide <hand waves> back to alternate time line
i really should find that thread to see if it was as bad as i remember it
yup it was bad

anyway

Originally posted by SeVerin:

The game occurs around the year 1353

Originally posted by SeVerin:

Why do you insists on "accuracy" in an alternative history medieval game where the plague has killed 95% of population? Where the population of one's settlement is around 20 settlers usually? Where you have bears on an English land? Where all kinds of animals haul items for settlers? Where people can manifest axe to chop wood out of thin air, but can't use that same axe to fight enemies?

<sorry was cooking / eating>

which takes us back to the previous comment

Originally posted by DakotaFred:

i just want this game to be like its name going Medieval.

again a alt universe and not following our time line
i mean id like to see a deer in real life grab a body with its mouth and throw said body onto its back but we as humans would prob kill it straight after seeing it

None of that changes the fact that you can't use "edit the game so people no longer die" as a valid argument for your point. You are specifically editing the details of their created 'alternate reality," which ruins your point. Additionally, settlers WERE immortal originally. They added in the growing older debuffs and chance for dying of old age specifically to make it more accurate to our reality.

Everything else you added about bears and pets hauling is immaterial to the point I was making. You quoted: "The game occurs around the year 1353." That is literally History. As I stated, they do take history into account with some aspects of the game. Denying that is pointless. Your argument "yeah, sure it's history, but it's an alternate history" still means it's based on our history.

*edited for OCD grammar accuracy.