Help with the astari

[Croyal]

I am well into the game i have passed the astari settlement and yet they will not join me i have destroyed all of their buildings but the big one nothing i log in and they steal 500 people this is annoying...any advice?

[Mazian]

My advice is to quit playing.

If you dislike that advice, then I would suggest you use Finger of God and Meteor, assuming that you can somehow scrounge up the belief required to use Meteor.

Kill every Astari in the game.


The game mechanics do not support a peaceful playstyle.

[Croyal]

well ok that is fine i do not mind killing and destroying. I have 400k belief i think i can throw some meteors at it. The problem i was stating is i cant get them to join me or die. This i assume is a glitch and was asking if some1 knew a way to solve this without starting over. Also if i can kill them with meteor (permantly that is) how many damn meteors does it take i have hit them with ser\veeral already......?

[Mazian]

I dunno. I used swamp before they made it impossible to kill them via swamp.

I've since quit playing.

[Dan359]

It is very annoying and I agree, it is not possible to get past the astari problem as the game is now. I'll delete Godus (again).

[Crookey]

Hi you can make them join you. What you need to do is make them unhappy. Make sure you have given your follower a Fountain as a gift. Also give them trees (Holy Forerest). When the Astair have a party then click on your Fountain and have a party. Now hit those Astari with meteors and you should kill quite a few of them when they are outside the temple. Their happyness should drop and then some of them will join you. You need to keep doing this until they have only a few left and then the last few should join you. You can kill some with the Finger of god, the ones that taunt you follow's on the mountains. It worked for me and they are now under my control. By the way you can't destroy there village so don't try.
By the way the Astair that join you are a waist of space so send them all to the Pit of Doom.
Good luck

[Mister Bumbles]

Like some have mentioned, keeping *your* followers happier than the Astari will insure that the Astari join you. By the end of the first week after the patch that introduced the Astari, I had killed half of the Astari, the other half joined me. Now, my own minions have taken over the Astari village, and farm around it.

For me it was a game of patience. Every time I logged in, I used "Beautify" and ran it over my wheat fields. This kept my people happier. Also, don't leave the game logged in until you have destroyed all of the Astari, or captured all of them. When you exit the game, they Astari only seem to throw a single party. But if you leave the game logged in, (like some folks have), the Astari throw a party regularly, and if you aren't around to keep raising your people's happiness, they will eventually take all of your followers.

I currently have 20,000 followers and am busy filling in the sea between the islands so that I can build more. One way to LOWER the Astari's happiness, is to kill their minions any time they are teasing or making fun of your followers. Use the "Finger of God" and smite them where they stand. You only get to kill 4 at a time that way, but it lowers the Astari happiness. That's especially effective if you can drop a meteor on them while they are having a party, that makes them VERY unhappy. Once you capture them all, it's all easy after that :)

As for what Crookey said... "The Astari that join you are a waste of space" .... that's not true at all. Once you finally capture all of the Astari, and send in one of your people to their central building, the Astari symbol on the happiness meter goes away. At this point, the Astari followers that you have captured become workers.

My Astari are currently mining *and* farming, and they live in my big villages. So it's kind of cool that they do eventually work for you.

[vv [FuMM]]

are you playing the ios version? It sounds like you are.

[Mister Bumbles]

VV [FuMM], I imagine that question was for the original poster, but I probably should have mentioned on my post, I'm using the PC version.

[vv [FuMM]]

No. It was to you. The reason why I ask is because the pc version has festivals every hour when the game isn't on rather than the one you mentioned. The ios version apparently has one festival a day.

[Mister Bumbles]

Strange, I only ever seemed to get one fesitival per log off. Well, either way, it just took some patience, but the Astari are toast in my world :)

[Renzo the Sergie]

I don't like killing astari, I have about 150 astari peoples, the game it is better with them. :)

[TheCrab]

For those that recommend killing astari with meteors.....

When the astari stop coming out for celebrations, or, maybe they are invisible, idk.... the metors dont seem to be effective at killing anyone. I can remove the buildings (not the town center) but once the buildings are gone, the metors ONLY seem to light the town on fire, lowering the astari happiness slightly.

By keeping my happiness up i am no longer losing followers, but i may only 'win' ONE astari per celebration IF i use a metor to ignite the town. Otherwise, i DO win the happiness competition, but the astari happiness doesnt fall enough to gain any followers.

As it stands right now... i think i will either have to invest 6K for a metor at EVERY celebration to reduce their numbers by one each time (a costly proposition to be sure) OR be stuck with the astari for the long term.

Is the lack of astari coming out a bug or by design?

[Danjal]

Originally posted by TheCrab:

Is the lack of astari coming out a bug or by design?

Design - because of the way the game is designed to work, a lot of it seems to go off of ratio's.
As the numbers go up or down, the ratio's grow and shrink without a clear line of control...

So once you dip below a certain population point, no more Astari are affected because their base happiness level is FAR higher to start off with.
And their festival mechanic apparently doesn't include these people for some reason. (Perhaps as a mechanic to prevent you from killing them outright).


Though at the core of this is the problem that the only way to keep your happiness up is that time-intensive approach.
Its putting emphasis on the incomplete nature of this game mechanic. Likely it'll improve given time.

[Croyal]

Originally posted by TheCrab:

For those that recommend killing astari with meteors.....

When the astari stop coming out for celebrations, or, maybe they are invisible, idk.... the metors dont seem to be effective at killing anyone. I can remove the buildings (not the town center) but once the buildings are gone, the metors ONLY seem to light the town on fire, lowering the astari happiness slightly.

By keeping my happiness up i am no longer losing followers, but i may only 'win' ONE astari per celebration IF i use a metor to ignite the town. Otherwise, i DO win the happiness competition, but the astari happiness doesnt fall enough to gain any followers.

As it stands right now... i think i will either have to invest 6K for a metor at EVERY celebration to reduce their numbers by one each time (a costly proposition to be sure) OR be stuck with the astari for the long term.

Is the lack of astari coming out a bug or by design?

the astari finaly died in my world and ill tell what i think happened i went around and hit all the astari with a finger of god til they died once all of them had died at the next celebration they joined me. Find them all they like to go places that u cant sculpt yet so look around if they arnt joining you this should be much cheaper then a meteor and should solve the problem permenatly. If you cant suish them due to were they are located try holding down the finger of god and sliding it over them you can launch them into an area were you can squish them