For those of you who don't know Banished is a game very similar to Simcity or Anno. You start out with only a three families and scarce supplies. At least if you play on hard anyway, and you're not a casual. Are you user? The goal if anything is to manage your ever growing township as the families raise their young and new settlers arrive, it's a pretty easy game for the most part but the music and atmosphere make it very comfy. While it does have a few neat features it's pretty bare bones, but enjoyable none the less.
This is my town, Menia. Known for it's lumber, cattle, and fine cherry ale. It enjoys the benefits of trade from merchants sailing along the river and has a couple small outposts consisting of lumberjacks, hunters, gatherers, and herbalists that help supply the two larger sections of the town that are separated by the river and connected via bridge.
And this is the tornado about to fucking assrape everything that I've worked on.
There's no dialog in game but so for I've been able to trade fucking firewood for a ton of food and other valuables. So i can only assume that i am the one doing the kikery. Maybe the tornado is here to DEUS VULT me.
Julian Johnson
Always bothered me that there was no way to fill those back in.
Ryan Reyes
To anyone playing, once you are comfortable with the basics of the game, I recomend the mod Colonial Chapter. It adds a lot.
OK, if you play Banished, the worst thing you can do is expand too quickly. You'll have food shortages and everyone WILL die. So never, for the shake of God, NEVER acept inmigrants into your town.
See this pic? This is Borontiton. 700 citizens at its peak, all of them starving to death because I took in a bunch of immigrants (nomads they are called in the game). I had about 10k of food in storage, and in less than a year it was gone. All of it. I thought they would be a quick way to grow, an easy way to expand my workforce. They only were a quick and easy way to destroy everything that I had build.
Also, fuck those guys who store 500 food in their houses while the rest of the town is dying of hunger. Seriously, fuck them.
Daniel Collins
I tried hard to start with little numbers, but they don't work fast enouth and die too quickly.
Gavin Johnson
The second worst thing is to not expand enough. If you aren't making babies, there WILL come a time when a dozen old farts will suddenly die all in one season, leaving you with a huge labor shortage, and then everyone starves.
Banished is a game much like Dwarf Fortress, except the only possible ending condition is everyone starving, rather than a tantrum spiral.
Wyatt Baker
Did the devs abandon this or what? My only memory of the game is making a comfy little town then I expanded quite a bit and thought I was doing well enough to build a moderate sized suburb type area then everyone fucking starved or froze in the winter. The mechanics are there, the content is not.
William Morris
Yeah it's pretty glaring but it doesn't bother me too much since it's kinda off to the side. Would be neat if I could fill it in with water and get an artificial pound of sorts.
Damn user looks like you spent a lot of time on that. Pity it's going to hell because of those nomads. Remember kids, close your borders.
Chase Moore
There should be a way to only take SOME nomads, but it's always an all-or-nothing affair. I remember several times where I had a choice between not taking any nomads and potentially having too few workers, or taking all of them and having too many mouths to feed. It was a no-win scenario easily fixed if I could say "I'll take only ten of you."
