Posted June 23, 2013
Short story:
Can someone please advise me on how to deal with having too many children.
Long story:
After a bunch of failed attempts learning at Avarage difficulty I started a new game at Easy difficulty. Things went pretty well, eventually I got the event where another clan shows up and I chose to adopt them into my clan. Which was awesome! I suddenly got a huge population, a huge army. To keep things roleplayed I noted down on paper the names of the new people from the other tribe and made sure to put some of them on the ring and everything.
I then basically spend a while just running over everyone around me, taking land till I had a massive Tula and eventually I formed a tribe. Which is when things suddenly started to collapse. From one year to the next I was no longer producing even half the food my (1600 people strong) clan needed, which of course caused tons of demands for the tribe to split and everything.
I will admit, I just did not want to give up on this game, so I decided I'd rather cheat to get out from the starvation, then accept I didn't know how to play and had to start over a new game. But my cheating was pretty relaxed though, I figured out what I did wrong was primarily not realising how important my cattle was for farming, and not realising how important blessings were for my harvest (so I had like 300 cattle and only one farming-related blessing). What I ended up doing was just using wiki and savescumming to successfully complete the Ernalde feed's the tribe Quest and to twice complete the Uralda's Herd quest (asking for a cow herd both times). Tbh even though I did cheat, it still felt pretty nice and non-broken roleplaying wise. I still suffered and at the low point my clan had only 700 people left. I also cashed in every single favour I had (and I had over a dozen) asking cattle in exchange. I also made it so I'd have almost all harvest blessings active all the time.
So now, a few years down the road, I've mostly recovered. My cattle herd is over 900, and my harvests give me enough to feed my people for a year. But the big problem is, I have too many children. Like, way to many. I have 350 farmers and 700(!) children. And the last few years I seem to get more children born then grow up. Can someone tell me the correct strategy to turn this around? I fear before long I'll be in a starvation spiral again with no way out...
(PS: if any of the developers are reading this, consider making an event for people in this situation, where you can give/sell children to neighbouring tribes. Though it won't help me since I'm playing the PC version, it would be pretty awesome and fit the setting roleplaying wise)
Can someone please advise me on how to deal with having too many children.
Long story:
After a bunch of failed attempts learning at Avarage difficulty I started a new game at Easy difficulty. Things went pretty well, eventually I got the event where another clan shows up and I chose to adopt them into my clan. Which was awesome! I suddenly got a huge population, a huge army. To keep things roleplayed I noted down on paper the names of the new people from the other tribe and made sure to put some of them on the ring and everything.
I then basically spend a while just running over everyone around me, taking land till I had a massive Tula and eventually I formed a tribe. Which is when things suddenly started to collapse. From one year to the next I was no longer producing even half the food my (1600 people strong) clan needed, which of course caused tons of demands for the tribe to split and everything.
I will admit, I just did not want to give up on this game, so I decided I'd rather cheat to get out from the starvation, then accept I didn't know how to play and had to start over a new game. But my cheating was pretty relaxed though, I figured out what I did wrong was primarily not realising how important my cattle was for farming, and not realising how important blessings were for my harvest (so I had like 300 cattle and only one farming-related blessing). What I ended up doing was just using wiki and savescumming to successfully complete the Ernalde feed's the tribe Quest and to twice complete the Uralda's Herd quest (asking for a cow herd both times). Tbh even though I did cheat, it still felt pretty nice and non-broken roleplaying wise. I still suffered and at the low point my clan had only 700 people left. I also cashed in every single favour I had (and I had over a dozen) asking cattle in exchange. I also made it so I'd have almost all harvest blessings active all the time.
So now, a few years down the road, I've mostly recovered. My cattle herd is over 900, and my harvests give me enough to feed my people for a year. But the big problem is, I have too many children. Like, way to many. I have 350 farmers and 700(!) children. And the last few years I seem to get more children born then grow up. Can someone tell me the correct strategy to turn this around? I fear before long I'll be in a starvation spiral again with no way out...
(PS: if any of the developers are reading this, consider making an event for people in this situation, where you can give/sell children to neighbouring tribes. Though it won't help me since I'm playing the PC version, it would be pretty awesome and fit the setting roleplaying wise)
This question / problem has been solved by ddunham
