First level

[Pflanz]

Sooo i love this! I just find the first level a little weird. I remember learning these games making these games work. By constistently building towards roadblocks. But in that first level you are just blindly building everything without even thinking about it. Not usre if that's the best way of teaching the player of how this game works.

[Lhosson]

I agree. It's a great little game, but on attempting the 1st mission (guide) I found that as soon as I had built something, it immediately wanted 2 - 3 - 4 of something else. The list was so long and felt so random that I just did what I assumed was the best order from my previous experience with games like this.

They need to rework the guide to move more purposefully. Not rushing the player to a production chain that doesn't even have the correct resources coming in yet.

Hopefully that'll be on the road-map for newer players, to avoid overwhelming and confusing people that don't know how production chains work.

At least in the beginning it should be getting the guard and scout towers up, then:

1. Forestry chain
2. Stone quarrying
3. Foraging and hunting
4. Storage
5. Housing
Etc....

One at a time, concise and focused, but simple. Then let the player follow a more complex list to continue.

At the moment it feels like:
Build a guard and scout tower, then make a forester, then stone, now forager, now provisioner, now farms, now... List grows down the right side of the screen, leaving the original tasks drowned in new ones.

[Pflanz]

Yes exactly! You shouldnt be able to build or half a city so quickly without batting an eye :D The harder maps are almost a better tutorial. Because you run into these roadblocks quicker, which teaches you that you should have taken care of your basic resources quicker

[Pflanz]

With that in mind i really prefer you would start with much less people