Newbie questions

My berry bush runs dry about the time I get the farm up and going unless monkeys come and eat all the berries or a flock of birds come and denude the poor thing. I haven't starved anybody to death yet, but I don't have 'em start making babies until I've got farm 2 because I'm scared of having rotting corpses all over, running out of food and turning them into fans of long pig. EEP!

Hmmm what level of diffifculty do you have your game on? How fast is your game speed?

Oh. I'm middle of the road on both usually.
Speed=Normal, Difficulty=Medium.
I say usually, because if I'm going to be sitting there actively playing with them I put it on fast speed.

My speed = normal, difficulty = easy. I also placed my speed on fast when I was actively playing with it. However when I did that, I ran into berry bush starvation problem. But I never did get the attack of the birds in easy mode. I did get one attack of the parrots at 140 hours or so. But by then it didn't matter what I had on the berry bush or my farm.

simplerich, it sounds like you are using one of the proven strategies. Given everyone plays the game differently, but using the berries sparingly till the farm starts, and waiting for the farm again to breed are useful things to try.

The game can be slow and nerve-wracking until things start building up, so just keep working at it

Savi

Having a Tungsten E is not your problem. It is the best machine I have owned up until now. I am running mine on a memory card. Don't shut the palm off from the game go to your home page first. That should stop the locking up problem you are having. I have finished the game except for one puzzle with my tungsten running on a memory card. Wait for a while to start breeding. It makes a big difference.

Hoody Hoo!!!

The curse has been lifted!
A monkey made some mojo on my tech-table and I got some points and while the villagers were all agog over being shown up by Shakespeare's monkey a whale washed up on shore and one of my enterprising farmers thought it might be a good idea to harvest it (With some prompting from me... I needed the food far more than a whale that owes me a favor due to one of my enterprising 18 year olds deciding that since I hadn't told him what to do when he was younger he'd be a breeder while I slept! Ain't that the truth! ROFL - kids... can't keep your eyes off 'em for two minutes!)

So, the good fortune appears to be turning up just about the time my original villagers appear to be ready to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Oh thats great, glad to hear that you got many good events. I've had a few really bad ones when I played my games and not so many good ones at all.

My people went brain dead for a while because I didnt want to lose 135000 tech points, food got washed away, bobo turned into a baby... ^^;; Yeah glad someone's seeing the brite side of the rainbow. *lol*

I'm a real newbie, I've got 48 hours played. Today a couple of my "elderly" women villagers died after they had babies. Two questions 1)did I hasten their death by encouraging them to breed? 2)their decomposing corpses are just sitting in the village center, is this going to cause a health problem for the village? Is there a way to move them to the "sacred area for the dead"?

We haven't found that breeding causes pre-mature death. It's actually less strenuous for them than fishing!
As for the dead villagers, they will decompose on thier own without health issues until you reach a certain level of technical awareness!!

Your elderly women would have died anyway. It doesn't appear to stress them very much to have babies (unlike real life)!

The corpses are more of a problem for you than they are for your villagers. It DOES look bad to see them sitting there in village center. Your villagers can give them a proper burial if they know how!

Here's an appearance question. I've noticed the young adults in my village are more colorful than the older members. Do they get duller as they mature, or just differences in individual appearance?

The adult villagers' appearance doesn't change as the game progresses. The elderly villagers do slow down, but any other differences you see are simply a result of individual differences in clothing, etc.

Are the females ever too old to breed. I've been trying to use the older ones so that the younger ones can keep working.

Is there a way to make villagers healthy before they actually get sick? I've tried dragging them over to eat or drink well water. If I try to heal them before they're sick they think I'm trying to get them to breed.

Females can breed until they die, but be careful, because if they die while nursing, the baby dies too.

How old do the children have to be before they start being productive members of the village?

14.00

ok thanks ... next stupid newbie question ... is there a period of time where crops do not grow? And does someone need to continue to tend to the field during this time for the next growing season to start?

The farm has a crop cycle much like a real farm. Villagers continue to improve their farming skills as they work the farm, which will come in very handy and provide lots of food later on in the game, when it will be needed.

Next question ... I have an Adept Scientist that I switched over to Trainee Breeder, she had a baby and sat for a while nursing. After a while, I figured it was about time for the baby to be ready scamper off on its own, but I was about to step away from my Palm for a while, and I didn't want mom to immediately drag another villager into the hut and have another baby, so I switched her back to a scientist while she was still caring for baby. I walked away for a bit (it ended up only being about a minute), and when I came back and looked at the map view, I noticed the new little one scampering about. I then went to find my scientist, to make sure she had returned to the research table, and she had - but she's stilll carrying a baby! My population count hasn't gone up beyond the baby I know she was caring for earlier, so is this a bug? Or have the women on my island found feminism and become working mothers!?! While I've been typing this, she's wandered away from the table to go try to push the boulder, still with baby in her arms.

(I finally realized why this company picked their name ... once your boss sees how much time you spend playing all their awesome sim games, it really will be your last day of work .... :} )

Update: about 20 minutes later, the baby disappeared. I wasn't looking at mom when it happened, so I can't pinpoint exactly when/how it hapened...

I had that happen a few times too. I think it's just a little quirk of the game.

The "spare" baby usually disapears the moment you drag the mom somewhere, or when she begins a chore that involves picking up something, such as watering the crops, fishing, laundry, etc.

I like to think of it as she's like many real moms, and just doesn't want to "let go" of her baby, even when they've already left.

You're exactly right, Brenda. It is a small bug in the timing of when the "baby decal" is removed from the mom. The "real" baby has turned into a toddler and is probably off chasing butterflies or something!

I've noticed the same thing with the lingering baby... I had a builder lady working away lugging a baby around with her. I think it's just a doll that she carries with her to avoid post-partum or something... that or it's a graphics glitch. *grin*

The funniest thing I've seen is Mom going fishing with the babe in her arms. It looks like she is about to commit infanticide.

I have 13 villagers 3 childern some how food always runs out and dont have enough tech points to get level 3 harvesting any ideas as to what I can do?

I don't usually have more than about ten or so villagers until I have level 3 of harvesting, because food becomes a problem - children eat as much as adults do. You've started to push the limits of how many villagers you can feed from the farm, so food will probably be a little tight at this point. The best thing to do is to keep as many villagers as possible at the research table until you can purchase level 3 of harvesting, and don't make any more baby villagers yet. Once your villagers can fish, food won't be a problem.

Oiy! What a game. My 3rd village -- I can't get anyone to breed, build or figure out what the plants, fields, rocks or other things on the island are.

Once question, must I wait for one village to "complete" her research before I drag another to the bench, or can two or more villages do "research" at the same time/

Oiy! What a game. My 3rd village -- I can't get anyone to breed, build or figure out what the plants, fields, rocks or other things on the island are.

Once question, must I wait for one village to "complete" her research before I drag another to the bench, or can two or more villages do "research" at the same time?

(Apologies for the double post. I'm new at this as well!)

You can have as many villagers at the research table as you want. They all just squeeze in there together to get the work done!

The first things you need to focus on in the beginning are a stable food supply and research - especially harvesting, since the berries will be depleted at some point.

Once your food supply is at least 300-400, your villagers will not be as worried and will start doing some of those other things. They'll be more receptive to breeding after that, too!

Thanks. I've got two harvesting the bush (to get the 400 FS points faster) and the other three are hanging out at the research table, gaining points, I guess. I had no idea that I needed so many points to do anything! My first game had the beach all neat and tidy, but no one knew how to fish; and the field nicely watered but nothing to grow. The all died, but they were prepared for a future that was not to be! Everyone died overnight in the second game, since I had no idea that I had to pause the game before I turned in for the night. Don't these villiagers ever sleep?

In game 3 the invisible monkey showed up at the research table and gave me some points -- maybe those villagers did not die in vain!

PS I registered as well.

Sounds like you've got a good start to your game! I usually have one harvesting in the beginning with the others researching.
You don't HAVE to put the game on pause overnight- I get the villagers trained in thier jobs and then just run the game on slow overnight. Usually, there are no problems in the morning and there are a lot more tech points!

Need babies, but the villagers won't mate until they reach 18 years of age. Incredible that they subscribe to Christian fundementalist notions on sex -- is this village in Texas?

But seriously, seems a lot of fun so far.

Hey!
Well, I guess that's a good thing!!

i need some help im rnning out of food and i need 2 lrean how 2 fishplz ome one end 2 me

plz im running out of food how do i fish plz ive cleaned up the beach im out of berrys only 65 meals left and i have 8 pelop soon 2 be 9