These days I have continued playing Manor Lords after the catastrophe that happened in my first game. To recap a bit, in my first game my people didn't manage to survive the first winter due to lack of fuel, so I decided to start from scratch and try to do things better.
So, as soon as I started, I built several settlements to cover the basic needs, which would be fuel and food. For food I built the hunter's camp, luckily just behind there was a forest with a high population of wild animals.
With the food covered, the only thing missing was fuel. At the beginning, the only fuel we will be able to have will be firewood, so I built the sawmill, which is in charge of cutting down trees to turn them into firewood.
With these two constructions, I could now have peace of mind regarding the basic resources for the survival of my people. Now I only needed to give a home to all those families, so I started to build the manors or houses so they could have a roof to sleep under. When I finished building all the manors, technically my town was able to survive on its own, the hunting camp and the sawmill produce enough resources to keep my current population alive.
However, the goal here is to progress, so we can't always stay with the same number of families, so I built a couple of extra manors. By doing this my village leveled up and became a "small village". Leveling up here is interesting, as each level will give you a point to spend on a skill tree. In this tree we will have things like unlocking apple planting, honey creation, unlocking hunters to use animal traps to hunt faster, among many other things.
In my case, a market stall caught my eye, which could supply us with firewood (fuel) and bread (food) in exchange for money, so I spent my point on that. Having an infinite supply of the two essential resources is a pretty good thing, but now the problem becomes money, some source of income had to be found.
There are several ways to obtain income, but in general we could encompass them in two; Taxes and trade. As I did not want to break my head too much with taxes, I chose to build a building that allowed me to buy and sell products; Meat, firewood, stone, berries, practically all resources are tradable.
Since I'm still starting out, I'm not very comfortable selling essential resources like food or fuel, so those two were out of the question for me. However, when we hunt for meat, we also get pelts. At first I thought about trading the pelts, but I wanted to get more out of it, so I built a furrier where those pelts are turned into leather and I can sell them at a higher price. With this I already had a source of income.
As I played the game, I was told that every town must have a militia to protect it. Here I unlocked the militia and the ability to recruit citizens for my army. The game takes care of giving you a handful of weapons so you can create a few soldiers at first, but eventually you'll have to figure out how to craft them yourself. I recruited a few citizens and got an army of 13 soldiers. With all the progress I had made, I was satisfied. However, I didn't want to leave without testing how the army works, so, looking around I noticed that in a neighboring territory there was a bandit camp, so I sent my army directly to see what was going on.
When the battle began. During these combats we will be able to give orders to our army to maintain the position, prioritize the defense, attack forcing the enemy to move or we can also order them to retreat. Depending on what actions or position our soldiers adopt, their fatigue will be greater or lesser. It was not a very spectacular combat, but I imagine that in big battles with many more soldiers it will be more epic.
When I defeated the bandits, the game gave me the choice whether I wanted to receive the reward directly in my personal fortune or give it to my village. In my case I gave it to my village, which made the village's wealth (money) increase.
And little more, here ends my adventure. I suppose that at this point the ideal thing would be to look for more sources of income, increase the population and strengthen my army to conquer some neighboring territory, but I feel that at this point it starts to be more monotonous. Besides, it is still an early access, there are several aspects that are still in a very early stage, so I think I will leave the game aside for a few months and return after several updates. It certainly has a lot of potential.
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Estos días he continuado jugando a Manor Lords luego de la catástrofe que ocurrió en mi primera partida. Para recapitular un poco, en mi primera partida mi pueblo no logró sobrevivir al primer invierno por falta de combustible, así que decidí comenzar de cero e intentar hacer mejor las cosas.
Entonces, nada más empezar me dediqué a construir varios asentamientos para cubrir las necesidades básicas, las cuales vendrían siendo el combustible y la alimentación. Para la alimentación construir el campamento de cazador, por suerte justo detrás había un bosque con una población alta en animales salvajes.
Con el alimento cubierto, solo me faltaba el combustible. Al principio el único combustible que podremos tener será la leña, así que construí el aserradero, que se encarga de talar arboles para convertirlos en leña.
Con estas dos construcciones ya podía estar tranquilo en cuanto a los recursos básicos para la supervivencia de mi pueblo. Ahora solo me faltaba darles un hogar a todas esas familias, así que comencé a construir los señoríos o casas para que tuviesen un techo donde dormir. Al terminar de construir todos los señoríos, técnicamente ya mi ciudad era capaz de sobrevivir por si sola, el campamento de caza y el aserradero producen una cantidad de recursos suficientes como para mantener vivos a mi población actual.
Sin embargo, el objetivo aquí es progresar, por lo que no podemos mantenernos siempre con el mismo número de familias, así que construí un par de señoríos extra. Al hacer esto mi pueblo subió de nivel y se convirtió en un “pueblo pequeño”. Subir de nivel aquí es interesante, ya que cada nivel te dará un punto para gastar en un árbol de habilidades. En este árbol tendremos cosas como desbloquear el sembrado de manzanas, la creación de miel, desbloquear que los cazadores usen trampas de animales para cazar más rápido, entre muchas cosas más.
En mi caso, me llamó la atención un puesto de mercado, el cual podía suministrarnos leña (combustible) y pan (alimentos) a cambio de dinero, así que gasté mi punto en eso. Tener un suministro infinito de los dos recursos esenciales es algo bastante bueno, pero ahora el problema pasa a ser el dinero, había que buscar alguna fuente de ingresos.
Hay varias formas de obtener ingresos, pero en general podríamos englobarlas en dos; Los impuestos y el comercio. Como no quise quebrarme mucho la cabeza con los impuestos, opté por construir un edificio que me permitía la compra y venta de productos; Carne, leña, piedra, bayas, prácticamente todos los recursos son comerciables.
Como aún estoy empezando, no me siento muy cómodo vendiendo recursos esenciales como la comida o el combustible, por lo que esos dos estaban descartados para mí. No obstante, cuando cazamos para obtener la carne, también obtenemos pieles. Al principio pensé en comerciar con las pieles, pero quise sacarle más provecho, así que construí una peletería donde esas pieles se convierten en cuero y puedo venderlas a mayor precio. Con esto ya tenía una fuente de ingresos.
A medida que jugaba me llegó el aviso de que todo pueblo debe tener una milicia que lo proteja. Aquí desbloqueé a la milicia y la posibilidad de reclutar ciudadanos para mi ejército. El juego se encarga de darte un puñado de armas para que puedas crear unos cuantos soldados al principio, pero eventualmente deberás buscar la forma de fabricarlas por ti mismo. Recluté unos cuantos ciudadanos y obtuve un ejército de 13 soldados. Con todo lo que había progresado ya me sentía satisfecho. Sin embargo, no quería irme sin probar cómo funciona el tema del ejército, así que, mirando por los alrededores noté que en un territorio vecino había un campamento de bandidos, así que envié directamente a mi ejercito a ver qué ocurría.
Al encontrarse comenzó la batalla. Durante estos combates podremos darle ordenes a nuestro ejercito para que mantengan la posición, prioricen la defensa, ataquen forzando al enemigo a desplazarse o también podemos ordenarles que se retiren. Dependiendo de que acciones o que posición adopten nuestros soldados, su fatiga será mayor o menor. No fue un combate muy espectacular, pero imagino que en las grandes batallas con muchos más soldados será más épico.
Al vencer a los bandidos, el juego me dio a elegir si quería recibir la recompensa directamente en mi fortuna personal o entregársela a mí pueblo. En mi caso se la di a mi pueblo, lo que hizo que la riqueza (el dinero) del pueblo aumente.
Y poco más, aquí acaba mi aventura. Supongo que en este punto lo ideal sería buscar más fuentes de ingresos, aumentar la población y lograr fortalecer mi ejercito para conquistar algún territorio vecino, pero siento que en este punto comienza a ser más monótono. Además, sigue siendo un early acces, hay varios aspectos que aún están en una fase muy temprano, por lo que creo que dejaré el juego apartado por unos meses y regresaré luego de varias actualizaciones. Sin duda tiene mucho potencial.
I do think I might start playing this game, I do like the complexity of it. I might endure the figuring out or not but I really want to give it a shot now... or well after Valheim.. when I get bored of that. Laughs!
This game really offers something quite interesting, and well, I guess you are the character with the red cape. Most of these types of games always offer that omnipresent overhead view like the "god" hahahaha but I like that this one puts you inside the town and you are there as if directly with them.
Totally haha, I like that touch of seeing everything up close, I'm sure in the future they will update it with more features.
This game looks pretty awesome. How much did you get it on Steam?
I think this you can actually get for free on a lot of platforms, I'm not too sure about that but I think I have it and got it for free!
I don't know how much it will be on Steam, I think it wasn't particularly expensive for being early access. I didn't have to buy it thanks to a friend that as we have similar tastes, she usually gives me her account and games haha.
You know you have progressed when you need an army to protect it. That fight is funny though... 😂
Cool game! It would be a lot of challenge for my little brain to manage all those things.
Haha yeah, unlocking the army in these games is usually a step up and a little extra stress.
This video game looks amazing, I love this genre and I see that when it comes to fighting you can command your colonists to fight, how amazing!
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