Blow-by-blow playthrough of the Settlements update

OK Yea I found if your breeders are maxed you can not leash people in. But when my breeders was low my farmer timer was at like 7 hours. Leashing in people raised my breeder count and once full I was down to 30 min for a farmer.

I just wish I could leash homeless back into a house they had come from.

I think the term breeder is supposed to be a bit tongue and cheek. I just don't think the joke was worth what it cost in the game play factor.

I do wonder how that is calculated.

Refilling settlements of breeders takes FOREVER, infact - any larger sized building has it take forever to refill.
On the other hand smaller huts are much faster. And not even just for followers but also for belief.
Time and time again I find that smaller buildings are FAR superior than the larger ones.

There is only a single instance where larger buildings are favorable. And that is when you play for 5~15 minutes and then go away for 4~8 hours.
When you 'play' like that for 3~4 times a day and just leave it running the rest of the time (be it running in the background or just offline).

Even when looking at farms, a size 1 farm gives 1 to the wheat counter and 1 wheat per harvest every hour, a size 2 farm gives 1 wheat to the counter and 2 wheat per harvest every 1½~2 hours? Larger farms give 1 to the counter and more per harvest but at a longer duration per harvest.
Belief works the same way, smaller huts only store so much, but can be collected much more often. Resulting in a far superior yield.

Now, I know where I've seen this before. Farmville and similar mobile/facebook games work the same way. You either build small collection structures and log in every 15 minutes to do a quick collection round. Or you build the larger buildings but only log in 3~4 times a day.



Taking a step back, looking at how the settlements refill. It takes 30 minutes for a farmer to be born and 60 minutes for a miner to be born.
A reinforced lookout tower costs 20 ore, which means that at 6!!!! hours per mine, unless you make larger mines (and we've already established that the size to yield ratio makes that unfavorable in most cases) it'll take you 20 size 1 mines, or if you have less mines, it'll take you a multiple of 6 hours. 5 mines = 24 hours assuming you 'collect' right away.

Again reaffirming the conclusion that this game is made with the idea that you tend to it 3~4 times a day, but you never actually sit down and PLAY it.
That is, unless you are throwing tons and tons of money at it to break through the timers. (or in our case, mass genocide)

20 ore isn't even the worst part, it takes 12 hours for the first Reinforced Beacon to get repaired (with max followers attached), 18 for the next, and a full day + 50 ore for the 3rd. And if you're unhappy at any point, you lose all the followers building beacons. It's like the Astari are a constant fail state.

And it is not like the timers are a PC balance issue. So that can not use that as an excuse. It comes down to them wanting us to buy and use gems on mobile so they can make more money. Now I do not know how much influence DeNA has, but every other DeNA game I have played has very very VERY heavily pushed their in-game currency. I feel they are very much a pay to win publisher. I will say most of the games I have played from them are more competitive then Godus is, all the games I have played from them have weekly events where you earn rewards based on your rank again other players.

With the other DeNA games, Transformers and the Dungeons and Dragons one. To be in the top 100 you have to spend money. For Transformers I have heard of people spending upwards of $1000 to get the number 1 slot. That is so they have the rewards, a set of the current best cards that might remain best for about a month, maybe more I never got close. That might let you not spend as much money the next week. That and/or play the game almost non-stop for the week to get in the top 500 maybe 100, but with out spending money no way are you getting in the top 10 unless you have spent money in the past.

Pardon me if my stronger hate for DeNA over flows my hate of 22Cans.

Again I have to wonder if after they ignored the alpha feedback and had to go back to start over, if they did not have to get in bed with the devil to make the game. I have read on several sites how mismanaging Kickstarter physical rewards, through no fault of your thier own, just not knowing or thinking how much it will cost to full fill them, can really eat through your case. I heard that Steve Jackson Studios took a huge hit on the Ogre Kisckstarter, I think they ended up 100k or more in the hole after shipping the game and rewards to just the backers. So much so that I think they are not going to do the CarWars Kickstater they talked about. With how 22cans cheapened out on their physical rewards I think the same think happened to them.

Very true. I never thought about that at all. And people would drop some money hoping to get to be god of gods and make it back from others trying to knock them off as your suppose to remain god of gods for at least 6 months I think. Figure if you invest a couple thousand to get god of gods and then sit back for the next 6 months as say a thousand others spend the same amount. Even at 1% going to the god of gods you should make more then you spend when you take into account all the others spending $5 or $10 here or there.

Wow I think you have a point and that may be their idea to milk the whales.

You're forgetting something there, PC users will also have a massive advantage as they can just sacrifice tons and tons of followers to gain hundreds or even thousands of gems in a matter of hours. A persistant PC player will easily 'earn' hundreds of dollars worth of gems.

I think that in about 1 hour's worth of sacrificing people and being annoyed at the horrid pathfinding system having to 'correct' the path of some followers that insisted that they got stuck. I gained almost a thousand gems.

Slightly unrelated but whose bright idea was it to make a pyramid with only one stairway to death? Talk about inefficient malevolence.