Hello
It is my 4th game in " hard mode " and, there, I accumulated the errors of strategy! At least at the end. Look that:
From the 2nd day: arrived from 2 " old friends " and the 4th day, idem: 2 other " old friends ". That it is rather indeed! That makes more peoples for the work!
Having resolved the following puzzles: the fire, the healing plants, the dam, the scarecrow, the 1st day; stews and cutting tools; the 2nd day; fishes eat algae; The 3rd day; a piece of the gong, the 5th day; the totems, the 6th day
And reached the levels: 2 in Engineering, Exploration and Science; 3 in Farming then in Medicine; and there, I preferred to reach the level 3 in Science! It is the 1st error!
That took me 3 days (by playing approximately 6 hours a day average) and my villagers worked a lot on the research (they are almost all Master Scientists) and few in the construction and they are aged a lot! Only 3 of them are "Esteemed Elders" but 2 older have just died and I do not have more than a master builder! Having reached the level 3 in Science, I quickly reach the level 2 in Culture and I puts the oldest at the construction of the " sewing hut " but it makes rather fast and they still are not "to master "!
The next day, I can buy the level 3 in "Culture" and clear the vines of the cliff but there, that goes also rather quickly! Only one girl becomes "master builders", I cannot always open the box!. I decide that I need, from this day, a new hut and I makes them babies ( 5 ) do but, arrived at a population of 30, I stop because I do not have a girl anymore in age to have it. 2nd error: I have many children and always no task for my builders!
The next day, I buy the level 3 in Engineering and my builders begins to build the hospital and to work at the mosaic. But here we are, most part of them are now old and it goes very slowly!! I am well afraid that they never become "Esteemed Elders"!
Today, surprised! Arrival of a barrel of 3 babies!!! It makes me 14 children who eat as 50! My reserves decrease at sight in eye and I have to put a maximum of people at farming! I cannot always open this box and my builders are more and more old!
Here is where I am there! My previous games had caused me fewer concerns!