Hi, I totally agree with what Dark is saying here. A lot of problems with Castaways can be solved by not being too static. As he says a lot of times you don't need a doctor so rather than have him or her standing around get the doctor out to do food deliveries, go hunting, chop lumber, or something else useful. Thinking that this person only has one job can get your entire settlement killed because you aren't making use of all of your human resources. A lot of what makes you an effective Castaways player is being able to assign and reassign people to different tasks as needed rather than just giving each person a task and letting them stand around waiting for work.
Cheers! On 8/22/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Lori. > > On the first couple of maps, goblins will always come from the top and > sides, so it's better to place your buildings at the middle bottom and if > you want to use towers, put them towards the edges, walls aren't needed just > > for goblins they come into play later on. > To be honest though if your stratogy of making soldiers and knights is good > > enough you shouldn't need towers. > > Myself, the stratogy I always play to is to start with a view to creating > knights. So I first build the tavern and storehouse next to each other, the > > lumber yard on the closest bit of forest and the stone quarry on the nearest > > bit of stone. > > I usually begin with meat and vegitable production and houses, and don't > worry about bread until I've got more population, and because mining takes > time I build the mine and smithy early so that I can start making knights. > the important thing with castaways however I've found is not to be static. > You want to build a building? wEll reassign all your people (bar the cook), > > to builder. You only need a doctor when someone is actually injured, and > sinse the doctor's secondary job of tailer isn't useful until you have yarn > > to weave into cloth, there is no point having her/him stand around idle. > > You don't need a miner metalergist and a smith, just two out of three > usually will do sinse the smith can smelt and the metaligerist can mine. > Unless you need wood in a hurry, a carpenter can moonlight as a lumberjack. > > This is one reason I love castaways, it's all about changing your stratogy > and assignments according to what your doing, and if you can do this to > maximize your population you can hae more than enough soldiers and knights > to keep the goblins in check, so long as your not building really close to > the edge of the map. > > hth. > > dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
