Entertainment?

[keithb63]

Is the tavern the only form of entertainment?

[Irish Aido]

From what I gather, yes. There are so many issue with this game. I've had a bit of a rant in another thread.

[Pico 22]

There are two mods connected to entertainment, Street Performers by Batyushki and Entertainment by Minotorious. Both can be downloaded from the game (or from mod.io), but neither appears in the game. In the past I used Street Performers and it worked fine; I don't know what the problem is now.

[mat49a2]

You have to unlock them in the book, then they will appear

[Pico 22]

LOL - never occurred to me. I don't remember having to unlock Street Performers, but I am probably wrong. Thanks!

All of the buildings add colour to the game but some were a must in a real medieval town, above all the bathhouse and the brothel; The Church regarded them as one and the same - sometimes they were and sometimes they were not, but they tried to eradicate public bathing in any case. Gallows were a must as well, of course.
i guess gallows and brothel are problematic for a Steam game (are they?) but bathhouses should become part of the base game.

[Minotorious]

Just to chime in, there is no age rating per se for mods for games so anything is technically possible though since mods have to be approved before they become available for download we likely wouldn't allow one that introduces nudity or encourages self-harm and so on.

Though again such mods would be considered on a case by case basis based on their exact content; however, I find hard to fathom such a mod for Foundation considering its graphics and community so far.

[Pico 22]

People bathed naked in the Middle Ages but, luckily for the rating of this game, all the action took place indoors. Sometimes they had a small pool (the big one in Bath was/is a remnant of Roman times) but most often they had wooden bathtubs, the more refined for a couple only and the usual ones for about 6-8 people.
So, no need for naked villagers - though you can always use your imagination.

[pseudoswede]

What advantage is there of having more than one Taverner at each tavern?

[Pico 22]

The advantage must be to have a backup when the first batch gets too drunk to do anything. The only reasonable explanation I can think of.

[redlegsys]

Originally posted by pseudoswede:

What advantage is there of having more than one Taverner at each tavern?

You increase the volume of villagers that can get drinks from my observation. I have not yet hit max capacity of the "Public Lounge" for a size 24 lounge, but with one "Service Counter" you can only serve a fraction of capacity. I have three "Service Counter" at one tavern and this increases the number of people it can serve. Plus it tends to run out of drinks less often since if one runs out the villagers seem to use the alternative one(s).

I was building huge taverns with large public lounges (one service counter) that hardly got used, I have shifted to small taverns with the three service counters as standard which seems to be effective. Less opportunity to decorate which is disappointing, but big taverns that I have observed just don't seem to need/use the public lounge capacity.

Wait until you see the tavern kitchens, you need a boatload of them and they hoover up expensive cheeses and boar like crazy. I don't think its possible to keep up meals volume with drinks volume that I can see.

[pseudoswede]

Originally posted by redlegsys:

Wait until you see the tavern kitchens, you need a boatload of them and they hoover up expensive cheeses and boar like crazy. I don't think its possible to keep up meals volume with drinks volume that I can see.

As soon as I unlock the Lush Garden Masterpiece, I get rid of the kitchen.