House upgrading

[Serdni]

Hi,

I was a bit confused about how the upgrading of houses worked in the 1.0 version, but it really should be something you can decide as player when and who to allow to upgrade. At one point I had 15 houses upgrading, needing somewhere in the vicinity of 500 planks and a lot of stone, some of it pollished and of course many tools. This meant I had to just wait until they were all build before I could add a new building, seeing as all my material was vanishing before my eyes. This is presumably not how it should be, me as player waiting on x3 for half an hour just so I can keep playing.
Have I overlooked the ablility to halt upgrading, apart from pausing the building? Also, I kept having 'insufficient housing' while this was going on. I couldn't tell if it was because so many houses where upgrading and they can't be used while that happens or because I did not have enough residential zones?

Quite a different game from what I have been playing over the years. I like the houses better and it is nice to have a more natural feeling in the world, what with the backdrop, but why can't I have a black sheep anymore?

[28rommel]

Have not reached that point yet, but to upgrade the homes, I believe they needed patrols, correct? If that is so, could you have painted the patrol area over just some of the houses, and not all of them? Then after they were completely upgraded and built, expand the patrol area further, and upgrade a couple more. Slowly repeat this process, until you have upgraded them all, over a longer period of time.

[BIll Dauterive]

Originally posted by 28rommel:

Have not reached that point yet, but to upgrade the homes, I believe they needed patrols, correct? If that is so, could you have painted the patrol area over just some of the houses, and not all of them? Then after they were completely upgraded and built, expand the patrol area further, and upgrade a couple more. Slowly repeat this process, until you have upgraded them all, over a longer period of time.

this should work for you, also if you dont promote people will it still upgrade, I myself have not made it that far since full release, but I know you can employ serfs to commoner building just with a hit to production.