[Dev Diary] April 2012

[PapiFiveNine]

It does matter. If you want to keep buffing a goldmine with only fish platters, it is possible, but it is easier to just put a sandwich or basket buff on it. Same goes for building queu's. More at once, less hassle. It is all about efficiency.

Its a bad comparison, buffing a gold mine nets a profit. Only buildings you need to replace constantly are wells/wheatfields, nothing else comes to mind and those make no real world difference. Who builds stuff constantly anyway?

[Shelob81]

and new Friary building is overpowered. I hope they won't bring it here. Brew is already easy to get/make or cheap enough to buy. 4x Production at no license cost, even with same ratio to produce it is overpowered.
new buff multiply by 4 is sweet but still it's so OP

As far as I could see, it is very difficult to obtain the soccer balls for both the frairy and the licences both. You only get balls in daily and the 6 adventure quests, which will just give you enough for the frairy, but not for both. It will take trading, or a choice between the two...

[RubendePuben]

Its a bad comparison, buffing a gold mine nets a profit. Only buildings you need to replace constantly are wells/wheatfields, nothing else comes to mind and those make no real world difference. Who builds stuff constantly anyway?

Maybe the goldmine was a bad example. My point being, I dont want to spent more time on building necessary stuff than needed, hence my wish for extended building queu's.. It may save only seconds, but still, having 50+ wells, en 50+ farms, that adds up over time.

[Thimotty]

Any news on the date?

[Winterset]

Not sure if the permanent ones are usefull, if i look for myself i only build ore mines, farms and wells and while it is nice to being able to have more buildingslots i don't know why anyone would want to have 9 of them.

I have 17 wells and 30+ wheat fields. I would absolutely love to be able to build and rebuild them in groups of nine. I think it's a fantastic idea.

But what I really want is a control panel showing building production rates and expiry times, including active buffs. Yes I know it's not the Settlers' way of doing things, because Settlers enforces an enormous amount of manual attention, but it would raise the quality of gameplay (and the appeal of the game) enormously for players like myself who are more interested in production and city building than in trade. And yes, I'm aware of the excellent spreadsheets which have been created, and I've used them and modified them for my own purposes, but what would be far more convenient (and impressive) would be an integrated online tool for production management. I also think a feature like that would pull in numerous new players.

[Observer]

I hope the moving buildings will not cost too much...

[Waldor]

moving buildings ive already planed how i want my island to look like

[RubendePuben]

Quick question about moving buildings, will it be in the same manner as you can move flowerbeds now? Otherwise it would be a painstaking process moving a building from sector 1, to sector 9...

Anybody got any information regarding this?

[Blebekblebek]

destroy it
it will be back in your star menu.

[RubendePuben]

But what is the use of those arrows then, in the screens at the frontpage?