Hey guys

Here's the deal, I've had the game for about a week now, and I feel totally ripped off! All my little guys do is die. I have the game set at easy and running in half time (I found this time setting suits me best when I play "fish")

So whats the deal, I dont feel challenged i just feel really cranky that i spent money on people who live one to three days and then die...

Maybe its because I had like a zillion fish in the tank and I didnt miss them as much when one died.

Any ideas?

Lyndy

Are you feeding them? Do you breed them?

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No wonder God has lived so long....He can't stop playing!

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It can be tough getting a game going, especially if you try to focus on puzzles instead of survival at the beginning of the game. The keys to success are to keep your population at a level that will avoid starvation, and to keep an adequate number of villagers researching so that the tribe can discover better food sources. This thread has one strategy to get started that always works for me.

Not really sure what you're doing, but you've got to train your villagers. Villagers die from old age or starvation. I suppose they can die from illness, too, but I haven't seen that.

You've got to keep them fed. In order to do that, you need to train at least one villager to farm. Start by picking one to be a farmer. Get his/her details and check farming to give him/her a preference for activity. Whatever activity you check will be the one they go back to again and again. You still have to train the farmer, though. At first, the only farming on the island to be done is foraging for berries. Place your farmer by the berry bush. He'll try to forage. He may be unsuccessful at first. You have to keep placing him there until he carries a basket of berries to the food bin. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see a few details about the selected villager. Note that he is "untrained". After he takes his first basket of berries to the bin, move him back up to the berry bush and keep repeating until he's no longer "untrained" but an "trainee farmer". From my experience, at this point, he'll forage on his own and move up the ranks to "adept farmer" and eventually "master farmer".

The berry bush, however, isn't enough to keep your villagers from starving. The only way to learn how to do more advanced farming is to do research and spend research points on farming. For this, you'll need to pick another villager to be a scientist and train him at the research table in the same way you trained the farmer at the berry bush.

The same goes with builders, healers, and breeders. Figuring out how many of each you want/need is part of the game. There's not a single combination that works, but different emphasis will make the game unfold in different ways, although always to and through the same accomplishment thresholds.

By the way, I like to train some of my villagers in different skills. You can change an adept farmer, for example, into a scientist by changing which skill is checked in that villager's details page. You'll have to train him or her anew in the new skill. I have found that once a villager has lots of training in more than one skill, he'll move back and forth on his own among the activities associated with those skills. Generally, he'll prefer the skill that's checked, but there's also a strong preference for the one where he has the highest degree of skill.

Hope this helps.

I had a bit of a problem figuring out how to keep my wee peeps alive .... but I figured out how to grow my population without them starving. Run the game at 1/2 speed... have your designated farmer forage just enough berries to get trainee status... then change its skill to research and set him/her making tech points. If you go for farming tech first you can harvest crops. While you're waitng for tech and the hut to be built...constantly and I mean constantly scan the village for mushrooms. You get 8 food for the brown capped mushrooms and 45 food for the ones with the pinky orange tops. Only forage for berries if your food drops below 100. Put the game on pause when you do not have the time to constantly look for mushrooms. If you do this you can support a population of 15 villager fairly easily. Once you have the ability to harvest crops you can switch to normal speed, (but switch back to 1/2 speed when u are harvesting.... the villagers eat less often and you can get a bit of a stockpile going.) You can support about 25-30 peeps this way. I got a little cocky and grew my population to 50 before i got fishing... needless to say I had to restart lol. I hope this helps

thanks everyone,

I've never been able to get my population over 10 ppl ... today I got so fustrated I turned the game off and went "fishing" for a while... mmmm

my problem is just gettting enough tech points up to buy the 2nd level of food... last night I had just gotten the second level of tech on building and food, and i thought this will be great, I only have 2 ppl left but ones a girl and ones a boy and I know what that means! but I checked in this morning and my girl had carked it to put it bluntly!

I'll try all those suggestions, thanks again