Topic: Sumatrans Tribe

Here is a screenshot of a fully developed economy from my last game.

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OIPUN wrote:

In the late phase a few things were extremely tricky. Craftsmen (experienced or not) were insanely hard to create. The diamond mine not spitting out raw diam. didn't help nor did the fact that the Basic Workshop needs a craftsman to make whetstones but you need whetstones to make a craftsman... Didn't get stuck, no, just a lot of moving the few initial craftsmen around between the places they work at. The other really hard ones were chief hunters. I made two and stuck them in a house to become Crocodile Dundees but then saw I needed a third for the Hunting Camp. Thought I was finished with them after I had 2... : ) Here too you need chief hunters to get croc skins but you need croc skins to make hunters... Didn't get stuck here either. I usually also wait for experienced workers a lot. One has to count with this in advance. My basic workshop, weaving mill and coppersmith's house usually work in mode "produce regardless of economy needs" when I don't have an experienced worker yet. I also wait for chief hunters, not so much for experienced farmers. But that is because, while playing Headquarters, you already have 3 at the beginning.

Oh silly of me. I forgot to check if I had any exp. farmers at start.

Oh also forgot about the expansion buildings. 2 types. Guard (1 man and uses 2 trop. wood) and Sentry (2 man and uses palm leaves). At first I started with the Guard ones since they seemed cheaper and have same conquer range but after a while you run out of trop. wood while your palm leaves are increasing so you switch. After a long while it seems you don't need palm leaves for much else so sentries become the standard. Not sure what the Guard Posts are for except convenient at the start. Yes, Guard Posts are for start and for terrains where palm trees are hard to grow.

Thanks, I didn't think of maps where palms are difficult. That'll be my next game. Also so I can try out the thermal springs which are not really needed in Borneo...

P. S. Would it be possible to make the tropical trees use the amazon tree graphics? Currently one can't tell them apart from the "regular" (non palm) trees other than mousing them. I do think the new tree (Dioptera? Sounded dinosaurish) seems to have its own image though which is nice.

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mxb2001 wrote:

P. S. Would it be possible to make the tropical trees use the amazon tree graphics? Currently one can't tell them apart from the "regular" (non palm) trees other than mousing them. I do think the new tree (Dioptera? Sounded dinosaurish) seems to have its own image though which is nice.

Probably not. Not in my plans. But maybe someone else will create an addon for this. I really thing one can get used to. The trees have a very specific appearance. There is no such a red-orange tree as ironwood tree, no such a pale tree with wide trunk as balsa tree and rubber tree is very high just the dinosaurish tree can compare .

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OIPUN wrote:

mxb2001 wrote:

P. S. Would it be possible to make the tropical trees use the amazon tree graphics? Currently one can't tell them apart from the "regular" (non palm) trees other than mousing them. I do think the new tree (Dioptera? Sounded dinosaurish) seems to have its own image though which is nice.

Probably not. Not in my plans. But maybe someone else will create an addon for this. I really thing one can get used to. The trees have a very specific appearance. There is no such a red-orange tree as ironwood tree, no such a pale tree with wide trunk as balsa tree and rubber tree is very high just the dinosaurish tree can compare .

Oh, I thought they were regular tree graphics reused. But actually you are right after playing a while I started to notice they did look a bit different. So long as they don't share the graphics with other trees that's fine then. : ) Dipterocarpus. I paid more attention to it and actually also I was suspecting that it looked unique.

And now for something completely different!

I've exiled the Sumatrans to Antarctica to try out the springs. Slow they are but since I started two immediately they are done. Nice that you get a message saying so.

It was sad to see the poor palm saplings in the snow at first... now they are happy with lotsa green...

Indeed on this map the Guard Post is essential, at least until you have fully melted a patch and enough palm leaves are available for the sentries.

One thing is weird though. I noticed that the tropical trees were growing successfully in the snow. I thought they needed a thermal spring also but it seems that they can grow without one. Bug?

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I suspected that the spring was helping them grow better. I initially had a spring for my trop. trees and they grew nicely, maybe better. I converted it to a palm farm when I saw that trops could grow on snow even though I was wondering if they grew as well. Probably a little slower. But it does let one save the springs for the palms. Antarctica player 1 has a miserable amount of stone so springs are too precious in this instance! (The gold situation looks worse... I'll run out soon I think)

Hahaha the crocs are frolicing in the snow indeed. I have a ton of the buggers because I delayed the hunting camp until late and didn't build a hunt house (which seem to be for temporary/emergency use only since they are not efficient - 2 chief hunters and 0 training!) yet.

I wonder... if two crocs meet... do they breed too?

Snow crocodiles. The new breed. ; )

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