When to go into bronze/iron age?

[c0de]

Here are some screenshots, this is the best i have done so far in copper age
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/983379608594020258/1BB0348EB0E467FDFC552892F8A4868ED5D4919A/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/983379608594020400/8C26B8468D737BC7BEF6F7D3772459B402178F8F/

[Aieonae]

First try?

[OKOK]

That alot of people. First prize

[c0de]

this is my third attempt. my second was ok but i put up too much farm land too quickly and didnt realise you could priority the crops. that is KEY for food growth.

[badmaddin]

looks like my village XD

[c0de]

My biggest question is, do you guys upgrade ALL of your hide to thatch before going bronze
and equally upgrade all thatch to stone before going iron, etc?

[Daliena]

Originally posted by c0de:

My biggest question is, do you guys upgrade ALL of your hide to thatch before going bronze
and equally upgrade all thatch to stone before going iron, etc?

I know I do, but that's mostly because I usually have the resources to run the upgrades before I have enough knowledge to hit the next age anyway, considering I don't rush through the ages ignoring techs (with a few exceptions).

Also, unrelated, but your village has an awfully high amount of towers. Doesn't that actually make it kind of hard to defend when villagers spread out to man every tower, including ones on the opposite end of the area from where the attack is coming from?

[Kitty]

I tend to go to bronze age asap because I rather be working with bronze over copper,. and I push to iron equally as fast. I find the better the tools, easier everything else gets. Plus getting the ovens is a must for me to keep up food needs without using a lot of work power

[Caelestus]

Originally posted by Daliena:

Originally posted by c0de:

My biggest question is, do you guys upgrade ALL of your hide to thatch before going bronze
and equally upgrade all thatch to stone before going iron, etc?

I know I do, but that's mostly because I usually have the resources to run the upgrades before I have enough knowledge to hit the next age anyway, considering I don't rush through the ages ignoring techs (with a few exceptions).

Also, unrelated, but your village has an awfully high amount of towers. Doesn't that actually make it kind of hard to defend when villagers spread out to man every tower, including ones on the opposite end of the area from where the attack is coming from?

Your villagers only man the side that the raiders are coming from, so it's not bad.

Originally posted by Kitty:

I tend to go to bronze age asap because I rather be working with bronze over copper,. and I push to iron equally as fast. I find the better the tools, easier everything else gets. Plus getting the ovens is a must for me to keep up food needs without using a lot of work power

Same, I skip Copper Age, and I use Bronze tools during Iron Age, until I reach Steel. Copper and Iron are transitional tools and are quite useless.

[c0de]

Originally posted by Kitty:

I tend to go to bronze age asap because I rather be working with bronze over copper,. and I push to iron equally as fast. I find the better the tools, easier everything else gets. Plus getting the ovens is a must for me to keep up food needs without using a lot of work power

i recently did this as well. the only copper tools i made was the knife, but everything else went bronze.

as for the tower question someone had, the village only runs to the towers on the defending side. so if you close the gates the more towers on that side the better so they can attack over the walls still. and not just sit there waiting for the raiders to bust through the gate.
i am almost at 200 villagers in steel age! i may post a few more screenshots but i believe i have a good system now.

THE most important thing i can suggest to anyone is be very careful when starting farming, do not do too many too quickly, and a little goes a LONG way.
ALSO setting max on EVERYTHING especially animal breeding at the start was KEY, keep animals manageable with the amount of straw coming in, i use primarily barley at the beginning since it is 50% straw.

[c0de]

OH also on a side note, has anyone noticed pees and pretty much any of the veggies/fruit are useless? their yield is VERY low IMO.

[jwinter]

Originally posted by c0de:

OH also on a side note, has anyone noticed pees and pretty much any of the veggies/fruit are useless? their yield is VERY low IMO.

They are good addition as they do can ease your workload due to having different seed/harvest seasons than grain but you should treat them more as an addition to grain.

[hy杨]

i go into bronze age when my knowledge is enough to unlock much tech.and after raider attack ,i build a whole set of production and more mine as soon as possible.

[Nakia]

Originally posted by c0de:

My biggest question is, do you guys upgrade ALL of your hide to thatch before going bronze
and equally upgrade all thatch to stone before going iron, etc?

I do because I find the upgraded buildings easier to work with. I stay in the Neolithic period for a long time. However that is my play style and we are all different.

[Ghostlight]

Originally posted by c0de:

Here are some screenshots, this is the best i have done so far in copper age
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/983379608594020258/1BB0348EB0E467FDFC552892F8A4868ED5D4919A/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/983379608594020400/8C26B8468D737BC7BEF6F7D3772459B402178F8F/

Nice looking village. I notice your walls have gaps all over the place where you've let the terrain be the wall. Does that actually work? i.e. Raiders cannot come over those steep mountains and enter through the areas that are not walled?

Also how the heck did you get all your buildings placed so close and uniform? The damn grid won't let me group me close in like that?

[c0de]

yeah the building placement is a little wonky in this game, if you hit "c" it will spin the buildings and as long as the paths dont over lap you can get pretty close (the green arrows)

as for the walls, i found the AI will path to the least resistance and usually go for the first defensive structure. they can technically make it over those mountains but they never do. I eventually close those off as well as best i can.