I build a long house in the middle, put a tavern in the bottom middle, shop bottom right, barracks upper middle, Smith middle right, shrine middle left, monument top left. Walls and maybe a pier.
This was the optimal set up that gave me optimal bonuses pre-upgrade. I left the top right box open for a jail.
The key is generating enough stability. For me personally that is the stat that sinks you.
Yea I can't get enough done fast enough to explore without my kingdom collapsing. I wasn't given any kind of break from barely surviving Trolls to moving to the next phase. The ramp ups just get harder so I don't think I can make it past phase 3. I had to sit in my throne room just managing events to make sure I ended up with the results I needed to survive. If I had 12 stability I could afford to run off and go explore the 30 or so places I have never visited.
On the difficulty I am playing exploring and content is a luxury.
The way this is playing out is typically on a normal difficulty I assume the events come in slower, you get to level your characters so you can finish the main quest in relative safety.
On higher difficulties you have to attack the end bosses in the story line faster than normal so the events don't kill you. So basically you are lower level and have greater difficulty dealing with AI events built for higher levels. The further I get into the story the further behind I get and the greater chance of my kingdom collapsing.
This was the optimal set up that gave me optimal bonuses pre-upgrade. I left the top right box open for a jail.
The key is generating enough stability. For me personally that is the stat that sinks you.
Yea I can't get enough done fast enough to explore without my kingdom collapsing. I wasn't given any kind of break from barely surviving Trolls to moving to the next phase. The ramp ups just get harder so I don't think I can make it past phase 3. I had to sit in my throne room just managing events to make sure I ended up with the results I needed to survive. If I had 12 stability I could afford to run off and go explore the 30 or so places I have never visited.
On the difficulty I am playing exploring and content is a luxury.
The way this is playing out is typically on a normal difficulty I assume the events come in slower, you get to level your characters so you can finish the main quest in relative safety.
On higher difficulties you have to attack the end bosses in the story line faster than normal so the events don't kill you. So basically you are lower level and have greater difficulty dealing with AI events built for higher levels. The further I get into the story the further behind I get and the greater chance of my kingdom collapsing.