How do I complete a map?

[spark.milanders]

I'm playing the demo and I finished the tutorial. I'm on my first map by myself. I've completed all my orders and I'm just slowly watching the red bar fill and opening dangerous glades for loot. Am i supposed to just wait until the red fills up? The blue is almost full but with no new orders I don't see a way to fill it. Is it just that the demo doesn't move along? My understanding was that you finish a map win or lose and then do it again on a different hex while unlocking perks for your city.

[[Asgard] Thor]

You need to get the blue line filled before the red does. I remember in the demo the last couple bars of blue had to be filled in either by having high resolve for a while or sending caches to the citadel for straight reputation. In the retail game I think they made it a little easier to just have orders fill the blue bar.

[doomleika]

You win this game by reach required reputation points(blue bar), point requires to win depends on your difficulty(12 for lowest, 14 for the rest, 18 for prestige levels).

There's 3 way to obtain reputation:

1. Completing orders, 1 for each, even if you completed all the orders you might not have enough reputation to finish the game, but they are usually the fastest
2. Fill the resolve threshold for your race, which is:
shelter(+3)/race-specific housing(+3)
complex food, 3 for each race(may overlap), each range from +4 to +8 depends on the complexity
advanced service building like Temple which will consume luxury item, each race have 3(may overlap)
Human/Beaver have a special consumable item called coat, it gives +5
global resolve bonus from perks/events, upgraded hub(8 slot of shelter + 4 comfort decoration within the hearth )
If their resolve reached threshold they will slowly generates reputations multiplied with their populations,
Slot them in a job they are happy with(+5), for Lizards it's warmth, for Humans it's brewing, for Beavers it engineering, For Harpies it's clothing.
Note resolve threshold will raise once it gained enough reputations from that. How it raises depends on the race, Lizards are notorious for raising their expectations, while Harpies only need +2 for each point it makes up they are extreme easy to drop below 0 resolve in early games.

3. Select reputation reward in glade events(the one at the right) , depends on the difficulty of even it changes between 0.5 to 1, sometimes traders will sell 0.5 reputation for a dozen of amber.

For new players in lower difficulty(< Prestige 5) I would suggest you look up for pipelines that help you produce tools so you can use caches to farm reputations.

[spark.milanders]

Great info thank you both. I feel a bit silly that I just sat there waiting while the red ticked up. The tutorial mission completed with the final quest so I thought it was the win condition. I think a big mistake I made was taking in too many people I had a lot of unemployed and not enough housing a little bit more(and fewer lizards) and I think that blue bar would have completed. I did notice you can sacrifice coal/wood/etc to lower hostility but I didn't see any effect on the red bar.

[[Asgard] Thor]

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I did notice you can sacrifice coal/wood/etc to lower hostility but I didn't see any effect on the red bar.

Sacrificing wood reduces hostility by 50, coal by 80 stacking up to three times each. Each level of hostility is 100 points. So if you're at like, 190 hostility (Level 1 hostility, nearing 2) one rank of wood sacrifice isn't going to do anything. You'd need two ranks of sacrifice bringing it down to 80 (hostility level effectively 0)

[Axotl]

Originally posted by Asgard Thor:

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I did notice you can sacrifice coal/wood/etc to lower hostility but I didn't see any effect on the red bar.

Sacrificing wood reduces hostility by 50, coal by 80 stacking up to three times each. Each level of hostility is 100 points. So if you're at like, 190 hostility (Level 1 hostility, nearing 2) one rank of wood sacrifice isn't going to do anything. You'd need two ranks of sacrifice bringing it down to 80 (hostility level effectively 0)

Think he means the impatience bar, not the woods hostility bar. He mixed up the two mechanics.

[Solaris]

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I'm playing the demo and I finished the tutorial. I'm on my first map by myself. I've completed all my orders and ....

i complete a run more by working on pops resolve than on orders,
but
you need a few upgrades to be able to work on resolve with some control
also depend of the game mode you are playing
i play veteran and i play the full game
not sure what up with the demo, never tried,
i started play ATS on epic store 3 months ago >>>