Veteran difficulty.... tips?

[Nostra]

Hi,

I've been playing some the last days and I'm getting pretty successful on Pioneer difficulty, so far I don't lose any more and that setting. I tried some on the next diff, Veteran, but I'm getting my *ss handed to me big time...

Any tips or strategies for higher difficulties?

Thanks!

[schnappkatze]

What do you lose to?

If it is impatience, you probably need to move faster towards reputation points. Open dangerous glades and solve their events/open the caches. If you lack the materials to do so, call a trader and buy what you need.
Choose orders that are easy, not those which reward is the best.

If your villagers die/leave: Remember to switch off woodcutters during the storm and to sacrifice fuel during the storm if you really need to. Otherwise, also here the time works against you as hostility goes up, so you need to solve the game faster.

With such little information, I can only guess what you can specifically improve. Do you limit how much you produce in your prodution buildings, so you don't end up with 200 planks but no wood to fuel the hearth?

[Nostra]

Hey, Thanks for the answer. I lose to impatience. As for the first dangerous glade, when to open it?

My game takes to long, impatience grows fast and it spirals out of control with villagers leaving due to high hostility because it takes to long :)

Turning off the woodcutters is a great idea! Didn't think off it... I do limit the production sometimes.


Also for the picking of the blueprints at the start. Is it wise to wait with it until you've opened up your first dangerous glade and know what the large deposits are? Any way to know it before you open?

["Donut☆]

Originally posted by Nostra:

Hey, Thanks for the answer. I lose to impatience. As for the first dangerous glade, when to open it?

My game takes to long, impatience grows fast and it spirals out of control with villagers leaving due to high hostility because it takes to long :)

Turning off the woodcutters is a great idea! Didn't think off it... I do limit the production sometimes.


Also for the picking of the blueprints at the start. Is it wise to wait with it until you've opened up your first dangerous glade and know what the large deposits are? Any way to know it before you open?

Waiting before you open a dangerous glade is a good idea. But certain buildings I'll always instantly pick. Any blueprint that has a recipe for planks can be picked up immediately.

Some more beginner tips:
- Don't open too many glades. (causes hostility) Also go for dangerous glades as much as possible.
- Open the first dangerous glade when the first storm is about to end.
- If you put a human in the main heart, impatience grows slower.
- Don't forget to use the favouring button to get a species in blue resolve whenever you are able to. Also use it to prevent a species from getting red resolve of course.
- You can build extra hearts. An extra heart lowers hostility.
- If you put a lizard in your main heart, it gives a resolve boost to all species. If you put a fox (not sure if you've unlocked that yet) in the main heart, it lowers hostility per opened glade.

[schnappkatze]

Originally posted by Nostra:

Hey, Thanks for the answer. I lose to impatience. As for the first dangerous glade, when to open it?

My game takes to long, impatience grows fast and it spirals out of control with villagers leaving due to high hostility because it takes to long :)

Turning off the woodcutters is a great idea! Didn't think off it... I do limit the production sometimes.


Also for the picking of the blueprints at the start. Is it wise to wait with it until you've opened up your first dangerous glade and know what the large deposits are? Any way to know it before you open?

Hey,
I cannot type a longer answer because I am already late where I supposed to be right now, but you can check out the beginner guides in the guide section on steam. At the top thingy, dunno how its called in english, where it says "discussions, screenshots etc." go to guides and look for a beginner guide, there are loads of tips like "switch off woodcutters" that many newcomers struggle with :)

[Nostra]

Thanks for this. lot of tips here I didn't know!

[Samseng Yik]

The only changes toward veteran is just
- less drizzle bonus
- very slightly increase in hostility
- puny minimal scratch mosquito bit of corruption if you water.

You should let us know usually how much years you win your pioneer game.
Most noob problem is hoarding resource for no future and looking plain straight into production without reassign manpower to what you really need

[Nostra]

I just won my first veteran game! Better resource and workforce management did it… and the wood cutters…

[some guy]

Originally posted by schnappkatze:

What do you lose to?
If your villagers die/leave: Remember to switch off woodcutters during the storm and to sacrifice fuel during the storm if you really need to. Otherwise, also here the time works against you as hostility goes up, so you need to solve the game faster.

lol i just went up to viceroy (and i havent lost a map yet) but i didnt realize the woodcutter hostility is per woodcutter and not per building. i deliberately only played with 1 or 2 woodcutter bulidings all like 12 games i did so far.

[some guy]

i mean i don thave the most experience but my tips would be maybe think about your pick priority for blueprints, if you get stuck. like rn i pick sawmill #1 and then usually weaver #2 (if i have 2 races that want raincoats), else i want 2* backpacks for trading and then later a way to make flour and tools and even later the different trade goods. Everything else is situational. I do think sawmill is OP tho.

My other tip would be to abuse trade routes as much as possible, if you arent doing it anyway and lastly, if its getting close consider some form of triage: like decide which race you can sac and favor the other, destroy some building to burn a couple seconds in the hearth, kill the last relevant trader, accept a 12 minute event penalty and s on. Sometimes you can let a villagers get to 90% red bar before you click favor and then the storm ends before the other drops low.

my strat is usually trying to farm every possible resource node (so i prioritize large gatherers if there is a node for them) and play with every complex good deactivated. i onl activate them if its necessary to not lose villagers and only as many as necessary, or if i think i can gain multiple points of reputation by activating all of them at once.