How to become a 'Town'

[The REAL chris]

I can't find any answer to this.. Town/City what are the requirements?

I have completed all the chapters.
I have 60 buildings.
I am still Hamlet.

People talk of Town/City status but I can find no reference as how to get there ??

[Goldi_Toplitz]

It depends on the number of buildings you have built. Plus if you have set the building limit overall to be higher, you will also need more buildings to reach the different statuses.

[The REAL chris]

nl_toplitz [developer] 13 minutes ago

It depends on the number of buildings you have built. Plus if you have set the building limit overall to be higher, you will also need more buildings to reach the different statuses.

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Thank you for that...

And yes I have 'cheated' everything pushed up to max [1000% and 160 buildings]. To be honest I did start 'pure' but I just seemed sooooooo long to get anywhere. I read somewhere that many players ramp everything up, so I restarted and pushed everything up as far as I could. When I played 'pure' I just got so frustrated waiting around forever, killing millions of birds etc.

I am still learning :) I promise once I get everything worked out and do the achievements I will play a 'pure' game (if I live long enough - I'm 70...)

Oh BTW Mr Developer: I really do love this game. My congratulations on such a wonderful game - it has taken over my retirement... All I would like is a speed button.. So I can double the speed of the villagers when I want to, (make the days go a bit quicker). I've had it about 3 weeks and played 252 hours ...(175 hours in the last 2 weeks)

[AfLIcTeD]

Be careful when setting everything to max, as you can progress too fast and have nothing left to do. Eventually getting bored. I did this. Had everything built in like 3 years.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by chris:

nl_toplitz [developer] 13 minutes ago

It depends on the number of buildings you have built. Plus if you have set the building limit overall to be higher, you will also need more buildings to reach the different statuses.

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Thank you for that...

And yes I have 'cheated' everything pushed up to max [1000% and 160 buildings]. To be honest I did start 'pure' but I just seemed sooooooo long to get anywhere. I read somewhere that many players ramp everything up, so I restarted and pushed everything up as far as I could. When I played 'pure' I just got so frustrated waiting around forever, killing millions of birds etc.

I am still learning :) I promise once I get everything worked out and do the achievements I will play a 'pure' game (if I live long enough - I'm 70...)

Oh BTW Mr Developer: I really do love this game. My congratulations on such a wonderful game - it has taken over my retirement... All I would like is a speed button.. So I can double the speed of the villagers when I want to, (make the days go a bit quicker). I've had it about 3 weeks and played 252 hours ...(175 hours in the last 2 weeks)

one thing you can do is get drunk, which then lets you go to sleep and pass time faster.

i havent quite resorted to this, as i have little to do for another 3 years or so. the player being unable to romance "super" NPCs destroyed my plans for my heir, who i am now playing as.

i'm trying to avoid even more of a housing crisis. i did not know what i was going to specialize my town in, so i went with a "one of each" approach. there was a baby boom of children. i've already had to up the building limit to ensure i'll have enough houses when all these kids grow up (aside from the 2 more racimir is going to produce.... i didnt account for them.)

i really hope people start dying off by the time the third generation grows up.

[Blixa]

there´s a good vid about on youtube.
Take your time, get sleep (ingame and RL ), enjoy the ride...
it´s your retirement, so why the rush?

[The REAL chris]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

Be careful when setting everything to max, as you can progress too fast and have nothing left to do. Eventually getting bored. I did this. Had everything built in like 3 years.

This is true, my NPC now do almost all the work and market stalls make money. Leaving me to build houses, decorate and quest. But once that is done ....... It has taken Racimir 12 years to get to this point - his son is 1. Once he is 18 - or I get too bored I'll start another game in a new location. Like I do with City Skylines (although I have done all those maps)

Terrorsaur

i'm trying to avoid even more of a housing crisis. i did not know what i was going to specialize my town in, so i went with a "one of each" approach. there was a baby boom of children. i've already had to up the building limit to ensure i'll have enough houses when all these kids grow up (aside from the 2 more racimir is going to produce.... i didnt account for them.)

i really hope people start dying off by the time the third generation grows up.

I have 1 per house and 'partner' them over time to control population as you can't have 2 same sex in one house. (currently 4 toddlers around) and I didn't want have the workers going on maternity leave at the same time for 2 years.

Originally posted by Blixa:

there´s a good vid about on youtube.
Take your time, get sleep (ingame and RL ), enjoy the ride...
it´s your retirement, so why the rush?

But I would like to finish before I die.

[Goldi_Toplitz]

Well, I hope you will stay around for much longer and enjoy not only this game but many more. :)

[Spotter]

Originally posted by chris:

nl_toplitz [developer] 13 minutes ago

It depends on the number of buildings you have built. Plus if you have set the building limit overall to be higher, you will also need more buildings to reach the different statuses.

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... I am still learning :) I promise once I get everything worked out and do the achievements I will play a 'pure' game (if I live long enough - I'm 70...)

I'm the same age, and it looks like we are like minds FTW! 👍👍&10⭐

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

Rushing also creates settler population problems later on.

I may be playing too slowly, as I am in my third generation and still have a lot to do.

[The REAL chris]

Originally posted by nl_toplitz:

Well, I hope you will stay around for much longer and enjoy not only this game but many more. :)

You could create the game I wanted since I can remember... :)

Start in the stone age, on through to Iron age (think Age of Man) but don't stop. Continue through the ages Dark ages / Medieval (this game).. then into others like the anno series up to and beyond current days..

But design it all like this so you actually live through the ages. Not 'GOD' Ones.. Father->Son etc ... I really do like this format...

I expect that to come out next week :) I guess from that you know I love city-build :)

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by chris:

Originally posted by nl_toplitz:

Well, I hope you will stay around for much longer and enjoy not only this game but many more. :)

You could create the game I wanted since I can remember... :)

Start in the stone age, on through to Iron age (think Age of Man) but don't stop. Continue through the ages Dark ages / Medieval (this game).. then into others like the anno series up to and beyond current days..

But design it all like this so you actually live through the ages. Not 'GOD' Ones.. Father->Son etc ... I really do like this format...

I expect that to come out next week :) I guess from that you know I love city-build :)

The only problem with your idea is the timeline. Either it would take forever to reach the next age or your main characters life would be extremely short so you can proceed through the generations.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by chris:

Terrorsaur

i'm trying to avoid even more of a housing crisis. i did not know what i was going to specialize my town in, so i went with a "one of each" approach. there was a baby boom of children. i've already had to up the building limit to ensure i'll have enough houses when all these kids grow up (aside from the 2 more racimir is going to produce.... i didnt account for them.)

i really hope people start dying off by the time the third generation grows up.

I have 1 per house and 'partner' them over time to control population as you can't have 2 same sex in one house. (currently 4 toddlers around) and I didn't want have the workers going on maternity leave at the same time for 2 years.

i dealt with that with the rate of recruiting people and pairing them off. there's like ~30 children running around, but there's a fairly consistent rate to the ages of them. the outlier was my heir, who was older than everyone else by 2 years. i should have 1-2 children reaching adulthood a year every year for the next 18 or so.

the maternity thing wasent a problem, for the most part. at least till near the "end" of my build. i had to move a hunter to being a stallkeeper a couple of times. i know now i overloaded my hunting lodge, assuming that NPCs needed the same amount of food as i did.

this led me to having FAR more meat than i could ever use, prompting me to put up food stalls earlier than i had planned. since putting up the food stalls, i pretty much stopped doing my "once a season visiting most settlements in the valley to sell clothing" trips, as the stalls paid more than the rent all on their own.

[Hardened_Mass]

What is it with us retired old duffers and games like this? I've played so much I had to have surgery on my right shoulder for a torn bicep! Well..... getting broadsided by a semi without wearing a seat belt might have had a little to do with that, BUT the point is, I spend about 8 hours a day playing this game (if I don't have a Dr. appt that day. Don't get us old f'ers started about medical problems, they never end.) and usually have to take a break every 15 minutes or so because my arm goes numb. It's fun! (not really)

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Hardened_Mass:

What is it with us retired old duffers and games like this? I've played so much I had to have surgery on my right shoulder for a torn bicep! Well..... getting broadsided by a semi without wearing a seat belt might have had a little to do with that, BUT the point is, I spend about 8 hours a day playing this game (if I don't have a Dr. appt that day. Don't get us old f'ers started about medical problems, they never end.) and usually have to take a break every 15 minutes or so because my arm goes numb. It's fun! (not really)

i mean i'm old by internet standards, but younger than you guys kicking around at 70. i mean, i'm "only" a grandpa, some of you must be "greats" by now!

anyhow, now that i've unlocked everything, most of what i need to do ingame is just pass time. i've actually started pacing myself, so i do not finish everything i want to do in the game too soon.