Sorry to say it but

[Lordly Cinder]

The game is just too rough now. Hard enough as it is to grow then you have settlments even with envoys to keep peace with my nearby rulers. They then recruit whoever else they want to gang up on me. They want basixally everything I have for one resource and its not sustainable. Yet I have to give them loads of stuff even ifthey technically are smaller then me. I cannot keep my rep from dropping and when I gibe somehting it says it shouldraise their opinion by a certain amount but it only chnages by a fraction of that. Went from overwhelming positive to very positive but I wonder how many of those are from people who dont even play anymore.

Theres a lot to it and I dont know if Im the one to point it all out. Ive plated plenty of hard games. Definitely not the average gamer. Yet its just not enjoyable to just eek by and everything has to be set up perfect a single playthrough can take forever, Basically to win and do well you need to cheese the systems.

The logistics get pretty hairy too. One thing that would greatly help is if I can direct someone in logistics to pull directly from the mine or source. I mean I have to spread out but then moving a resource from one area to another is quite intensive and it doesnt always work especially if Im pulling it from and island or with bridges,

Dont make the game for the hardcore audience thats actually quite small but more in the middle. Someone will always break it when they play for so long. Im not at the top of the list for gamers but Im definitely up there. Your game you can do as you wish these are my thoughts on it.

[Vanir]

Thank you for the feedback.

There were some recent changes that should have lowered the difficulty quite a bit. Did you play with those, or is this based on previous experiences?

At what population did it become too annoying?

That bit about the requests is definitely annoying. The thing is with how the rivalry system works at the moment, no larger factions will demand stuff from you. That only leaves the smaller ones. You should be able to scare them off if you have sufficient military, but perhaps the ratio is off a bit.

Pulling from a room can kinda be done already. You would have to place a small warehouse next to it and reduce the radius. Then you can pull from that warehouse. This is usually good practice anyway, since it extend the storage by a lot.

However, I can see the utility in directly pulling from rooms without doing this.