They still improve in parenting skills too!

great way to get the females to esteem elder status... breed them now and then when they're still young and once they go grey you can just keep dropping them on the males... 2 mastered skills then a lot of ummm geriatric exercise and presto esteemed elder.

This post has gotten freaking hysterical!

I love reading this board, I sit here laughing. I didn't know that the elderly ladies (was that 51 or 52?) could not get pregnant, but I do remember being shocked when I opened my game one day while playing the first game and found a 67 year old pregnant. I was worried she would die before the baby became a two year old. LOL!

I'm old myself and I still hate the grey/white haired children, they just don't look real to me. I have seen very few actually white haired kids in real life so they don't look natural. But please don't yell at me, it's just a game afterall.

Speaking of not boinking with the ugly ones...the only male my females seem to actually want to mate with is the ugliest guy in the village. I have a bunch of little ugly males running around now. LOL! I don't care, I figure he must be the nicest guy is all. (At least he doesn't have white hair! :-))

Chelah,
I didn't mate grey hair people. Besides a lot of people have complained about this skin (Heh, or hair in this case) apparently and I heard mention that it probably won't be repeated since it's so unpopular

Another GRRRRRRRR how long does it take to get the building skill??? This skill is the worst to teach:

Dropped Rose on to a hut to fix:
After the third time she wanders with "Worried about Housing"
AAhhhh duh?

Three more goes, third time "Unsure what to do"

Three more goes "Bored"
Hut is in good repair.

Next hut, repeat exact smae process. Crap and grrrrrrrrr.

And yeah, in real life how many 50 years olds do have babies without any fertility treatment or other medical help.

Go the bonking ladies!

Oh and cutting the bramble/briar/weeds and three structures later, my builder is still adept. It takes so freaking long.

(Can predict the posts in protest already)

But Emz, some skills take longer than others.
But Emz, this is like real life (Ah, get a real life maybe )
Well, you wanted it to be harder, be careful what you ask for
Different people get different skills faster or slower
yada yada yada blah blah but it's still pretty ridiculous.

I think you like being a martyr

Anyhow just to say it





In fact builders do take awhile. Strategy would suggest if you want elders especially when someone is old enough to work put them on building first, once they master it, it is easier to get the other 2. Get research last because they dont have to go far to work and succeed. This game adds a lot more strategy into it if you want to succeed well. But yea master builders take awhile, but far from impossible. I have like 15 of them.

A martyr is a person who is put to death or endures suffering because of a belief, principle or cause.
Is that a threat Monk??

I do that Monk So while thank you for your profound thoughts of strategy, I did figure this all out on my own.
And I never said it was impossible I was merely stating how annoying getting the building skill was in the first place and how long it takes to make a Master tis all.

thanks google.

I respond to posts to help people because your not the only one who reads them. If you didnt need the tips that is fine but others who read this might. That is ALL i was saying.

Ha, whenever I make poison stews to train my doctors, the builders are always the test subjects. Once, I was annoyed with this guy who just didn't get the building thing, I made him eat the stew over and over and over.

Ah, revenge is a dish best served as a hot stew.

I'm laughing hysterically, Lady Emz! I'm going to start doing that to my doctors!