So I took a long look at the trello page and couldn't see any plan to allow any kind of fortifying rivers?
fair, it just seemed that having a community of over 2000 people called rochchop village, and a community of 10 called ***** settlement seemed weird. If the name remained stagant but the title changed that would be really cool.
still, this is by far my favorite game on itch, and i appriciate the work you have put in to making it :)
Settlement production in 1.4 uses a buffer system, each structure tries to keep a buffer of input resources, and of output resources. Settlements will queue production as needed to keep those buffers. If that over 300 turns (if memory serves) of production has been queued, but it isn't enough, then an "insufficient resources" warning will be given.
So even if you have a lot of food in the settlement, there might not be a high enough rate of production to avoid that warning. Do you have a lot of barracks? They can be food hogs when a lot of soldiers are housed inside.
Hey! I really love the game, even if my computer can't handle it too well (which is something I know you're working on so thank you so much). I really enjoyed trying a few things, including making a bunch of small settlements that traded items in one game, and a few games where I just let one settlement become massive.
My question is, how different will the "feel" of 2.0 be from the original? Will I still be able to have the satisfaction of doing city building and being able to have somewhat organically growing cities?
I would also like to mention that in 1.4.2, having to place a house for every single person got really tedious, and also trying to set up trade routes between different settlements started to get overwhelming because I would have to set the import/export for every good for every city going to every other city. Maybe you could abstract the trading system as well?
In any case: The game is really good and once I'm not on public wifi I'll send you some money because hey this is a really fun game (my most played game on itch by far)
I'm trying to keep the same feel from 1.42, you'll have to be the judge of that however. The emphasis is still on city building, if anything the growth is more organic than before. The new way population works requires it. You can only build structures if you have a free pop, and you can only get free pops from having enough food, and enough spare housing for your settlement to grow, so it's a balance of securing enough food and housing to support everything else.
The change from individual people to abstract "pops" means that you'll be placing a lot fewer houses. The trade settings are very similar to 1.4, but I'd like to revisit them in the future.
Thanks for playing!