Church and Market radius

[Neith_is_here]

The church and market radii need to be larger. It feels so unrealistic how short they reach and it ends up discouraging you from building large, cool looking areas because 30ft over you’ll have to build another one. Especially with the churches. It looks so weird to have a huge cool looking church sitting in walking distance to multiple small churches just so the residential area is all covered.

[Minotorious]

The radius ia simply an increase in residential desirability around them, any villager from anywhere on the map can actually go to the church/market

[Neith_is_here]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

The radius ia simply an increase in residential desirability around them, any villager from anywhere on the map can actually go to the church/market

Then my game is broken. Ive watched and villagers wont go very far to reach them. That or they just refuse to build houses in ares that don't have the increased desirability. I always have huge untouched areas zoned for residential and they won't build there even when I need houses if its not increased.

[batyushki]

They will only build houses near their workplace, if they are Commoner or above they need high desirability as well. Lastly they will not build over paths even very faint ones so you need to fence them off from trampling the ground where you want to build houses.

[Neith_is_here]

Originally posted by batyushki:

They will only build houses near their workplace, if they are Commoner or above they need high desirability as well. Lastly they will not build over paths even very faint ones so you need to fence them off from trampling the ground where you want to build houses.

I do all that too. I make sure jobs are spread right and everything. They still just don't build unless the desirability is bright green which means I have to have churches/markets everywhere.

[Minotorious]

Serfs don't need any special desirability value so the people complaining for you are most likely as Baty said Commoners+

For them you need to increase desirability and you can do that via any building that has a green circle around it, i.e. you can simply place decorative bushes qnd a few wells instead of markets and churches all over the place.