So, I've not been playing this game very long, and I'm not even sure this is a 'valid' discussion, but I just had a heck of a time...

So, I had about 14 villagers or so, I can't remember exactly. I only had farming 2 and a bunch of other ones, but nothing at level 3. I was reading the forums here and took some of the advice/strategies and such. (This is my first village. Well, second...my first one wasn't very successful.)

I decided to make a master parent. Why not, right? That would be kinda fun. (Some of these threads shouldn't be seen by new players!~ LOL)

So I logged off the game for a while; went and had lunch, cleaned the house, played with the kids - you know, normal stuff. It might have even been an overnight - I can't remember how long I was away. Maybe 6 hours or so...I come back, and I see 22 villagers!! I see my food rapidly decreasing and decide I really need to work on Farming 3. I had about 15k tech or something like that - maybe 20.

(Do you see where I'm going? lol)

Then, I read a thread that says that Farming 2 will support a village of 15 max and I was soooo bummed! I didn't want to lose my village! I was determined to make it work. I needed only 70k more tech...I'll just put everyone on the research table except for one farmer, and voila! I'll be there in no time.

Oh wait - I have a master parent. Ok, this is going to be really interesting.

So, I had to of course, pause the game overnight, because I knew the village would be a goner as soon as I woke up. And, I had a very uh .. curious male villager who (I swear!) waited for those female villagers to take a breath and stop researching for just one second!! I had to keep that guy on farming (he's a persistent little bugger), keep the researchers on research (they wanted to swim, mostly), keep making stew for my elders, and get that 90k.

Oh, but it gets better...

So I FINALLY GET 90k tech points. WHEW! Almost there! So I put my active (lol) male villager who is now about as frustrated as they come, and set him off to find some fish and...dangit! He's not a master farmer! ACK!

Quick, quick...go find a master farmer. Oh wait - DANGIT! My only master farmers (since I had everyone on the darn tables) are like 65! They move as fast as slugs through salt! Haha...

Yeah, yeah. I am surprised I was able to get through that whole thing. Yep, we're once again harvesting food. Yay!

So what's the hardest thing you've done to keep your village alive?