What does the CC Mod offer ?

[mbutton15]

I really enjoy this game and still basically running vanilla after nearly 400 hours play.

I like it's relative simplicity and that's kind of what scares me about moving to CC... the complicated supply chains I keep hearing about. So can CC be used without having to get involved with grinding wheat, to make flour, to make bread (or however it goes). If I just chop wood, grow crops the way I do in vanilla, can I still get benefits from using CC ?

[ebrumby]

Maybe you should try Red Ketchup's New Medieval Town first at http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=1088.0. It adds some really nice content to the game. I also recommend Red Ketchup's Colorful Two-Story houses. And if you want to make it easier to gather resources while you figure out the new stuff, try Increased Resources Combined. That said, I love CC and there's great help available at colonialcharter.com.

[mbutton15]

Thanks, I'll look into the Medieval Town mod.

Follow up:
I generally play on x5 speed and my large maps usually start slowing up when I hit around 1400 population. As this seems to be only roughly 70% map developed I'm going to try a Meduim map next to see if I can reach a fully developed map that way.

So...
Is there a performance hit when using mods ?

[ebrumby]

Depends on the size of the mod. Colonial Charter is the largest and it is now taking me 2-3 minutes to load the game. If your machine is lagging with a large map, using a medium map will help. So does using the No Smoke mod.

[bmrigs]

ebrumby could you run me through how to install Red Ketcup's 2.02. I downloaded the zip file and I know I have to unzip it, then what? Also, what should go first, C.C. or NMT in the mod order? After placing the NMT does it require a new game to work?

[ebrumby]

Open your Program Files (x86) folder, select the Steam folder, then Steamapps, then common, then Banished, and finally WinData. Place the file in the WinData folder. NMT can go above or below CC; whichever is on top rules if there are programming differences so I put NMT below CC. They will show as red because they share some files.

[bmrigs]

Thanks again as always :-)

[ebrumby]

:)

[Vrayna]

You still have the same basic buildings in CC, so if you try CC 1.55, you can actually play a game without needing a lot more than the basic stuff.
You can totally stick to the vanilla Banished way of starting your town (actually, I encourage you to start with the vanilla basics of gatherer + fisher or hunter and couple of houses safe start stuff) before poking around all the new buildings and things. The biggest danger is getting carried away wanting to try all the new things and forgetting about the basic stuff :P

Or you can directly jump into 1.6 and add the Iron Ore challenge for giggles. Although honestly it doesn't make starts too much harder as you have a way to make weaker tools so you don't run out before you start smelting the ore into iron ;)