Thanks for the reply, appreciate the in depth response!
For me the problem was not the repetition as i quite enjoyed the actual building of the kingdom, it was the lack of control over your units, for the most part, and the restrictions the game placed on me in terms of placing buildings down. Thats why i pulled Northgard into this, as we are now making the entire 2D worldplane into sections, much like in Northgard. Doing this, we decided we can freeplace buildings, of choice, within this section. Placing a farm on a farmlands tile is obviously smart, and maybe a house for villagers etc etc.
As for the problem with the Units, we are giving the player almost total control of where the Units will reside, until they are given orders to run left, right, follow or go home. So now they can be used to actually attack or retreat as necessary, but stil rely on timing and not to mention what enemies occupy the section the player wants to own. A quick little "ability wheel" that pops out around the player that allows for fast command issuing. Also, we want to make sure the non-military villagers go outside and die because they had a bad day, stuff like that.
As for the restriction of seeing everything in 2D, yes, that is a VERY complex thing to do and im daily testing and writing on the matter, but i think we got a decent enough idea of how it should work.
Here's a quick look at the overall vibe in the "normal" biome, some placeholders here, im just getting the grasp on the colors and contrasts.
EDIT: open it in a new tab since this site didnt support zooming, atleast i couldnt!
