Tips

[Dr. Guildo]

If anybody who's beaten the game, or generally figured outo the mechanics of it, could offer up any tips they have, I'd appreciate it. I seem to be stuck trying to reign longer than 80 years and tricking the devil. I always end up dying.

[MrNuts70]

Wow you can get to 80 years? I still have yet to get to 50

[Dr. Guildo]

Originally posted by MrNuts70:

Wow you can get to 80 years? I still have yet to get to 50

No, the longest I've gone is, IIRC, 66 years. No idea how anybody would manage to get the 100+ year achievement.

[Varrok]

Have you tried asking the witch for help with the devil?

[Dr. Guildo]

Originally posted by Varrok:

Have you tried asking the witch for help with the devil?

Do you mean The Senator? I was told by her to get The Devil to perform an impossible task. Didn't manage to actually do that, though, and ended up restarting the game.

[Varrok]

Nope, though this too is a hint to what you should do to win.
I mean the lady sorcerer. The one in black.

[Dr. Guildo]

Originally posted by Varrok:

Nope, though this too is a hint to what you should do to win.
I mean the lady sorcerer. The one in black.

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind and hopefully somehow trigger that option during this playthrough.

The main tips/strategies I can think of are:

Enter the Pungeon: Find the gold door to get the key. Find the air door
Escaping your kidnapper: Head away from the sound of water and away from the sound of voices. Follow the single voice. Otherwise, head right.

[Nouel]

Here's how I got 100: You know how the witch gives you old age and then takes it back after 15 years? Somehow I think the game bugged out a bit, and she decided to undo my old age when I was around 60 years in reign. Then I just kept playing as normal.

How anyone ever got to 200 I have no idea.

[KingUrameshi]

Its mostly luck and knowing what choices really do what. I got to 88 years or something and was going for 100.

[the turkey wrangler .]

i got 79 years. keep playing best advice.IF anyone has alot of spare trading cards that they dont use i would be happily ask you to give to me so i can use it. :)

[~var]

Tricking the devil: read a guide for it, there are many :)

Reigning more than 80 years:
0. You need to unlock/have given the blood to the homonculi first. When you reached ~50 years of reigning, it will offer you the young potion to be able to live longer. If you don't receive the offer by 50 years I don't think you will be able to survive a long age.
1. Have a/some safeguards to handle situations when your stat hit the bottom. e.g. Community barn (my favorite), tower. Having both barn and tower would be better. I have minimum experience with cathedral and the coin thing.
2. Save them when there's a threat to them (e.g. community barn on fire, garrison under attack).
3. Knowing that you have some stat safeguards when they reach bottom, you can freely sacrifice these stats when you need to. (e.g. Sacrifice people to raise your church when you have both stat low, knowing that you have a barn.)
4. Avoid raising your stats to the ceiling. Spend them when they are too high.
5. Avoid most continuous effects like Crusade, Love, Colonization, etc. that may hamper your ability to control your stat or make decisions.
6. Avoid events that you find will limit your stat-keeping/decision-making ability, e.g. I tend to avoid the kidnapping event (by just saying "no").
7. Contrasting to no. 5, you may find continuous gold-raising stat (remember: just gold stat is affected, other stats unaffected) like Silk Road is great for a long run - because: a) most actions need gold, some need a lot of gold, so you can keep the gold low from time to time; and b) when you in need of gold, you can idle a bit to raise your gold stat to the level you need ;)
8. Avoid sickness. Avoid cakes (diabetes). Avoid dungeons/lethal fighting (you can die; training is ok). Follow your doctor wisely (folow some but definetely avoid advises about poisons and blood gout).
9. Having saving the skeleton is a plus since it can raise your low stat.
10. Focus your goal to reign for 2 centuries or more, other goals can wait after you died.
11. Remember point 0 above.
12. Pick your time span to focus on this. You may want to unlock some things first before you start this. And you may want to avoid the devil years within you planned year range if you have plans yourself for that event. e.g. You may want to complete all this before year 1998 if you want to get all Royal Deeds completed, so that you can focus on the devil task when reaching 1998.

Feel free to add more. I have so far reached 101+ age but then 1998 came too fast :(

[spacedoge]

I lived for 132 years. I think he was Edward the fossil

Also dont forget about getting clarity