optimal city layout to get the most out of the space you have?

[Zunymitshu]

I get that each city and layout is different. just wondering if there is a place that covers the main city and then gives "tips" on other potential combos for other cities.

[OnlyOffensive]

i wish they would allow us to use 2 slots that are missing from the capital. It would be at least a start.

[RJM]

There's no perfect layout. It depends what you want to achieve and what alignment you pick.

Some players advise creating as few buildings as possible except for unique artisans. You need 6 to be eligible for upgrade to a town.

Different alingments get unique buildings. Some players reckon the noticeboard is great and advocate one in each village if you're allowed to build them.

It's really up to you.

[OnlyOffensive]

Bulletin boards and courthouse are amazing if you are lawful. Stocks if you are evil, other buildings per your vision. I have fort/jail park in main town and mage tower goblin quarters/mansions as major buildings in other town.

[Propsken]

Most buildings only serve as a minor baseline for your kingdom stats anyway; their bonuses, even if optimized and maxed out, pale in comparison what you get for completing kingdom events.
Still - if you have a 3x3 core, plop a longhouse in the middle, and branch out from there with tavern/shop/smithy on one side etc... Just look for adjacency bonuses. That should give you a good start.

[OnlyOffensive]

well courthouse gives your warden +4 roll on solving missions... i wouldnt call it minor. Bulletin boards give everyone +2.

[Propsken]

I would call it "minor". In as far as kingdom stats are concerned. Which I did specify.

[OnlyOffensive]

well at least i dont need to reload, because those bonus rolls help my advisors solve problems. Considering that you need to level million advisors and you start encountering quite a few 25+ DC problems in 4 chapter, i'd say the difference between 10-12 warden and 19 warden quite significant.

[Propsken]

I'm not talking about the kingdom advisor event checks, I'm talking about the kingdom stats. But hey, you do you, boo. I'm sure you're right about everything all the time in your own little world.

(Boy, 2:30 in the morning sure is not doing much good for my disposition...)

[['w']]

when you got multiple of those stat+ or stat random building, do they add? like 10 brothels all over your kingdom and you got suddenly totally random dice roll bonus/malus?

[OnlyOffensive]

its hard to tell for sure, because you cant check, but i've seen people reported that city full of bulletin boards works wonders. Those buildings usually work per region, so you need to stack in single village/town/city. Cant say if stack works, single buildings seem to work fine.

[['w']]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

its hard to tell for sure, because you cant check, but i've seen people reported that city full of bulletin boards works wonders. Those buildings usually work per region, so you need to stack in single village/town/city. Cant say if stack works, single buildings seem to work fine.

lol brothel bonus is a little too risky to build more than one :D

[Propsken]

It's a capital city in a medieval fantasy setting. You simply can not have enough brothels. ;)
Boom chikka bow-WOW!

[['w']]

Originally posted by Sporp Miw:

It's a capital city in a medieval fantasy setting. You simply can not have enough brothels. ;)
Boom chikka bow-WOW!

I want my dicerolls to succeed \o/ for the rest I just send regongar from house to house.

[=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil]

Also bp price of buildings go up in each city depending how many you have in that city. If you put the long house in the centre of the 3x3, don't fill up one square next to it as when you upgrade there are some extra buildings. I'd recommend only build 6 so that you then know what other ones there are.

There is a wiki page about buildings

[Happygamer]

I made my kingdom neutral good and got an orphanage and a hospital. I am suprised however that I don't have a court house. What game designer at Owlcat had the foolish idea that any alignment that is non-lawfull would not need a couthouse?! Does he or she think there is no need for laws in the kingdom and we are just running a country through arbitrary rule?! I am starting to think the lead game designer his or herself is lawfull stupid.