Any tips or tricks for a newbie?

[TheRedGryphon]

I just picked this game up and I was wondering if there's any tricks or tips I should know.

[Bobywan]

A few:
- Have 2 research buildings whenever possible.
- You will need to deal with poison at some point: look up the tech tree for what you will need to deal with it.
- If you haven't the proper tech when you reach your first poison cloud: PAUSE the game inside or after the poison cloud, find all the poison and use the harvest tool (+ have workers available to harvest it, using a worker post with harvester ideally)
- Look the population tab in the top right corner and see what benefit your villager effciency, try to increase that.
- Research scavenger early enough, that's the best way to get more villagers.
- Make Onbu happy and don't hurt it

[Zep Tepi]

Buildings that work together should be close to each other. Put water next to farms. Put kitchens next to pantries. Remember that workers spend a lot of time walking to find food. Houses can go off in a corner though because no one goes there.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Buildings that work together should be close to each other. Put water next to farms. Put kitchens next to pantries. Remember that workers spend a lot of time walking to find food. Houses can go off in a corner though because no one goes there.

So true !!! And have a few workers dedicated to transport.
At the start I like to have a worker post with 2 transporters, they will almost always be busy freeing time for the other workers.

[LittleLostJ]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

A few:
- Have 2 research buildings whenever possible.
- You will need to deal with poison at some point: look up the tech tree for what you will need to deal with it.
- If you haven't the proper tech when you reach your first poison cloud: PAUSE the game inside or after the poison cloud, find all the poison and use the harvest tool (+ have workers available to harvest it, using a worker post with harvester ideally)
- Look the population tab in the top right corner and see what benefit your villager effciency, try to increase that.
- Research scavenger early enough, that's the best way to get more villagers.
- Make Onbu happy and don't hurt it

If you have 2 research buildings can you research multiple things at a time or does it just make your research time faster?

[Sphinx of Black Quartz]

Originally posted by LittleLostJ:

Originally posted by Bobywan:

A few:
- Have 2 research buildings whenever possible.
- You will need to deal with poison at some point: look up the tech tree for what you will need to deal with it.
- If you haven't the proper tech when you reach your first poison cloud: PAUSE the game inside or after the poison cloud, find all the poison and use the harvest tool (+ have workers available to harvest it, using a worker post with harvester ideally)
- Look the population tab in the top right corner and see what benefit your villager effciency, try to increase that.
- Research scavenger early enough, that's the best way to get more villagers.
- Make Onbu happy and don't hurt it

If you have 2 research buildings can you research multiple things at a time or does it just make your research time faster?

It increases research speed. You can still only research one thing at a time.

[Bobywan]

Only one research at a time but +40 % speed.
And if you build a 3rd research station it's +28% additional, not as interesting in my opinion.