Houses/Apartments/Longhouses

[Private Homestead]

Is there a difference aside from size, material cost/construction time, and capacity? For example, do people like apartments more than houses and houses more than longhouses? Because I'm fine with there being no real difference other than whether I'm making a communist utopia or a classist ethnostate, but I just would like to know.

[annie]

pops can only share housing with others of their same race, so you end up in some situations where cretonians are taking 3/18 slots of a longhouse while there are 15 homeless dondorians. im not sure that counts as a difference, but it's a reason to use housing sizes other than the largest

[Private Homestead]

Originally posted by annie:

pops can only share housing with others of their same race, so you end up in some situations where cretonians are taking 3/18 slots of a longhouse while there are 15 homeless dondorians. im not sure that counts as a difference, but it's a reason to use housing sizes other than the largest

Now see I larp a little bit. I let more highly skilled individuals have apartments. But duly noted, houses are probably better than longhouses in multicultural societies just because of species being a little bit racist.

[Watereaters]

Correct me if I'm wrong but some species (like Dondorians) prefer to live in smaller houses while others are fine with longhouses

[Haethei]

Originally posted by Watereaters:

Correct me if I'm wrong but some species (like Dondorians) prefer to live in smaller houses while others are fine with longhouses

just wrong, i think this used to be a thing with "privacy" but no longer

[Grimmrog_SIG]

kinda gone, ther eis now a superminor effect of "space" that a lognhouse inner tiles have higher space ratio than an apartment. bu it's negliable.

[teremaster]

There's really no difference. There's a small advantage in tiles per citizen for the larger buildings but that's really it

[Judaspriester]

Some months ago, someone here in steam made a in depth analysis. I just remember the outcome, that longhouses are the best choice. For Space/capacity as well as cost/capacity (including upgrades).

There was a feature called privacy which made the pop like smaller houses more than the big ones, but that one is gone again.

So if you manage to make it fit into your city and are up for efficiency, use long houses and forget about the other 2.

[Ravensblade]

If we don't count walls all house types are as efficient for space being 3 tiles per person.
Cost is 0 for house, you only paying for roof and wall and that depends on area.

If you make double house it's exacly the same footprint and the same capacity as longhouse, you just have 2 "doors" on longer side then 1 "door" on shorter side. And is less costly by 1 as you exchange one wall for roof as a 2nd door.

As for footprint with walls or making cheaper it's simply making it as square as possible (as we can't actually make circles) so something like 2 longhouses back to back with each other and 4 apartments on each side of them for 44 pop and 14x13 area with walls. And if i count correctly cost is 172 material of choice, giving 4,14 tiles per person (with walls) and 3,91 wood per person. At the same time amount of material or tiles saved is miniscule