Some speedup on simple structures
Helloes. I've been playing Settlers for a while and I got to some point where my settlement is expanded and a lot of resources are consumed and produced daily. What I am thinking about is wheat and water, the most consumed resource in the game (from what I see). Now, every morning when I get up I have to refill all of them empty wheat fields and wells and being that I have an economy that focuses on bread and copper I have a lot of wheat fields and wells. It takes me ~ an hour to refresh them all, which in my opinion is kinda too much time spent on a browser game (next to the time I spend anyways).
I have a few suggestions that could improve this aspect of the game.
Add to the game a mayor (or call it like you want, it's just an example). This unit would be purchased in tavern and it would serve only for 1 thing, either replenishing wells or wheat fields. The mayor should be payed the amount of resources required to replenish all wells or wheat fields that you would need anyway to do it manually (or not,keep reading).
The amount of time it takes the mayor to replenish any of chosen resources would be equal to the time required to do it manually multiplied by 0.5. So if it takes you 10 minutes manually it should take mayor 15 minutes. Time added should compensate for the action being automatic instead of manual.
The amount of resources can also be multiplied in order to pay some sort of fee to make that action automatic instead of manual.
The building queue should (or shouldn't, up to devs) be used for mayors duty. e.g if he has to replenish 3 wheat fields your building queue will be full until he finishes 1 of the building and when he does you can queue another one. If he has more than 3 (lets say 10) you can't be able to queue any other building until he finishes with 8th field.
Mayor should also have a scroll bar on which you can set how many fields/wells you want refreshed.
Placement of new fields should be on the same spot as depleted wheat fields are and the level of the field/well should be the same as the depleted one was so that you can spam all level 1 wells if you had them before. An option can be added to mayor to choose weather u want highest level possible fields/wells or you want the same ones you had before.
This automation of rebuilding the resources would improve the game by speeding up the daily stuff you need to do on your island anyway and I think it wont be game breaking since you still can do all that stuff manually yourself.
Other suggestion.
Simply make a button that you can click to replace all fields/wells without occupying the building queue. This is a more simple solution but not as flexible as having a special unit that you can create and modify by the needs of players and the game in the future.
I would really like to see this suggestion have some positive feedback both from the players and from the staff since I think this improvement wouldn't unbalance the game.
Now, this is just a suggestion, I came here with an idea to suggest a new unit and came up with specifics of that unit as I wrote so I didn't take much time to think about any balance issues while I wrote, so you are free to make a suggestion/correction to this post in order to get it as perfect as we can and hopefully ingame by the next game update. :)
Thank you for reading this.
Duls.
