Hello!

I have been lurking at this site for several weeks and decided a few days ago to join because the people here seem very nice and supportive and I LOVE Virtual Villagers!

I wanted to post about my recent experience with VV. I love this game and I am very excited about the sequel. I have learned a lot in the forums here over the last few days and I just thought I would post them here in case they might help someone else enjoy the game as much as I do.

I really thought I had this game mastered and had nailed all its little details and secrets but after coming here there were many new things that I was thrilled to find out about!

First, I found out about the bongo drum next to the school which if you click on it, it will make the children attend school. This is helpful to keep the Golden Child busy if he is interrupting things. (Doesn't that kid drive you crazy?!!!) Also, if you want to see how many kids you have or change their clothes its a good way to get them all in one place.

Second thing I learned was that you can change the characters clothing by highlighting the person and then pressing the F6 button. This is really helpful if you want to assign different costumes to specific workers. It helps when you need to spot a doctor quickly!

If anyone knows anymore tricks please post them!

I have 6 games going at all times and I log in many times a day to check on my villagers. My longest game right now is at 1400 hours as of this posting. During this game my population actually got up to 92 because of triplets being born which was really cool. For several days after I had solved all the puzzles I decided to just let this game run and see what happened. Well, after weeks of checking in and always having 90 villagers I checked in yesterday and had only 4 villagers left! I don't know what island event happened but it was certainly devastating. (I think the sequel should have some kind of ongoing list of island events so if something happens while you are not at the computer you would have it documented.) I thought that I was going to have to give up on this game and finally after all that time re-start it but I thought I would try and save things. I had a golden child, 2 adult females, and one 45 year old male. So, of course without having to worry about food, tech points, or construction all this male will have to do is keep the females preggers until the island is repopulated.

I don't know if this is a random fluke or if it is programmed in, but every time the females became pregnant they had triplets. This happened 3 times in a row with each female!!! In 6 hours each female had 9 babies each! This seems like statistically unbelivable if this is random. (If anyone could tell me if this is random or not I would appreciate it)This occured the first 6 hours after I started repopulating the island after losing 86 people. I now have all the adults set to breeding and the oldest kids are now getting close to worker age. The females didn't continue to have triplets they had twins and single babies after all those multiples. Now, I have 37 people and it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I wish I could see stats on each villager on the detail screen for the sequel such as number of babies delivered (male/female) and with the males number of children fathered or something like that. Even though the game is solved I like to keep it going and I see lots of other people do too.

I have another game running in which it is totally solved with a population of 90 and I have them all set to be parents and it is hilarous! I had a group of 8 men following one girl around. As you probably know, you have to mate a male at least 2 or 3 times to get them interested in continuing the behavior. Well, when they are saying their "Oh" when you pick them up it sounds kind of like a pornographic movie! LOL! And for those of you that don't know this, here is a little time saver - when you mate a male and female, you don't have to wait for them to go into the "love shack" to see if you have a baby. After the villagers embrace and "kiss" pick up the female and put her back down right away and if she is preggers then she will have a baby in her hands after you set her down. Be sure to lift the male up and down too or he will go into the love shack alone. It just takes a long time to wait on that process sometimes so maybe that will help someone!

I would love to hear different game scenarios that others have set up. Thanks!