So what do you think of VV5 New Believers?

I release butterflies on the opposite side of the village. Seems to keep him busy longer.

I was luring him away with children villagers, but since he chases them back to the middle of the island, it doesn't distract him for long and he's still in the area where he causes problems.

butterflies. They use less energy than the other powers, and do him no harm. They also last longer than most of the more drastic methods.

Seems my believers are not getting the manna they were at the beginning. Have destroyed 4 totems so far, got my garden watered, converted the heathen mother to my side, filled the pond and THIS ><close to razing the Mausoleum totem.

to stop the child from scaring your workers, have a child get "chased" by yellow masked rascal and then get the child stuck up at the top of the aqueduct right above the small waterfall, it is a very tight but sweet spot that the child can't get out so the scary kid stays and tries to frighten him. Distracting yellow-face keeps all believers very calm and oriented!

heathens to convert along with the destruction of the totems

Remember in VV3 at the end we find out the tribes of the island went into chaos and fought each other like crazy, well these are the descendants of those people and it is up to us to restore their hope.

Also I just converted the master farmer and when I did, his story was so interesting. So far this is the first time we've gotten an answer to a question that came up in an earlier VV. This one being in VV3. It's cool that we finally get to meet the people that were there when the island broke out into war. I love the way the story is unfolding.

remnants of the totems stay in the village after they're dismantled. I think it looks messy to have rubble piles all over the village. I'm hoping they go away once I convert all my villagers.

he told part of the back story.

my earthquake power, everything was built so can't really finish the game as I can't reset any buildings. 2.I have 105 ppl and no triplets, too many ppl to even try for it. would have been better if the max was 150. 3. both myself and hubby have been waiting days and days to get the last idem for the hand. 4. you want 10 with all full skill, yet most can't get the devotion. 5. the kids learn nothing from the school 6.it would have been better if you can judge how far along like % to their skill level e.g adept 53% .
I had fun playing untill I realized I will never be able to complete the game. Some more buildings would be great. There is never enough or to even be able to upgrade the huts to lodges etc

Oh I forgot 1 other thing parenting...... how can you get this skill level with 10 ppl, by the time your half way full, there are too many ppl, you just don't get enough for having or making the child or telling them stories. And you get nothing for teaching.

you can rejuvenate villagers, so they can have several "lifetimes" to work to become Masters, Esteemed Elders, and Jacks of all Trades.

Its really about teaching barbarians than converting people from one religion to another. (yes, heathen means non-believer... but I think its easy for people to not embrace that aspect.

After seeing those details behind the springs, the heathens protecting the idols could easily be seen as just doing it out of fear --- fear of anything... fear of anyone doing anything to change anything. It can be see as that they do not understand science or teamwork or lowest level technologies anymore.

Doesnt need to be called "god", could just be thought of as "civilization" (of course, we shouldnt forcibly civilize native peoples... except that these are dying and unhappy)

The Fog did not turn on the "conversion-over-the-head-lamp."

(The Golden Child at the end of VV1)

A believer, who was wavering, asked one of the little villagers if his God could give him a sign, to which I thought, "Of course I can, the god is me after all and the tools are built right into the game," so I chose to give him a sign. To which the in game result was that the little wavering villager became a heathen and when the message on the screen explained the result it stated something about "Faith comes from with in."

Well I played the trial last night, the 5? 6? hours to download it was worth it. Over all it's a great game. It's slightly harder than the others. I wouldn't rate it as high as the others, but very close, the others would be 5 of 5, this one 4.5 of 5. Just because the dificultly level has risen. Had trouble just keeping enough food for them. Though I did manage to convert that sick one and dismantle one of the totems and build the shack(only by putting it right next to the wood pile though!). Took me almost the whole time to realise that I could distract those one's with the yellow by just putting a villager on them alot to get them away so my villagers could work though!

That was mostly due to the difficulty in getting the wood back, because my villagers kept getting chased away!

builders could be trained by clearing the dam over and over again.

use the earthquake power

"Scholar"

The blockage would continue to build up and you could train builders while doing so, and in VV5 it seems their building skill doesn't build up as fast while "Fixing the huts" and "Polishing the statue".

using Earthquake?

I used earthquake to convert the last non-believers at the filthy encampment. I think there were a total of 8 non-believers, and for every earthquake two converted. In between earthquakes, I granted youth to some of my favourite peeps, 3 runners, plus a few other regulars. Since my population was already at MAX 100, I needed kids to gather the last three collectibles, which as you know, never did happen.

gets covered in flowers.

but I still can't get my villagers to fix it. Some posts said that once all the heathens were converted they would fix the encampment automatically. When I converted the last heathen (which was the rascal) all of my vilagers ran over to celebrate then went back to their jobs. Some posts say if you drop villagers on it they will begin to fix it up. I have dropped many villagers on it but they do nothing. Can only a cartain villager fix it. Does it need to be a master builder or a master scientist or a master farmer. PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME.

you can bring them back to life and most of all never let them die keep making them young as soon as they turn to elderly by using the blue angle

The more villagers and relics you have the more divine energy you will have. The last three god powers are revive (requires 600 energy), grant youth (requires 700 energy) and earthquake (requires 800 energy). The earthquake is the only way to convert the red and yellow masked heathens. Revive will allow you to bring a dead villager back to life. And Grant Youth will allow you to make an adult/elderly person into a child. The person will go back to the age of 5 no matter how old he/she is.

Wait how could you have finished the game if you don't have the power revive? You need it to finish the lake puzzle.

THE GOOD

The graphics are wonderful, as usual.

I like the additional background on the storyline, although I have one question for the team: are the totems in this game derived from the totems in VV2? (Still living in hope that those totems are going to make a comeback, you know!)

I love the Hand of Bloom and Grant Youth powers.

I also love the Master Heathens, although this could just be because they're some of the (very) few who don't chase me around and make me drop stuff :P But I like the way of converting them (no wearing them down by preaching, no nasty divine tricks to make them believe; they're just convinced by the skills of my little people).

Likewise the conversion of the Sick Heathen.

THE BAD

Kids dropping collectibles/mushrooms. I actually don't object to them doing this because of heathens; it makes a certain kind of sense. However, there have been several times (not just in this game, but in all the others) where I've been moving around on the map, a kid with a collectible/mushroom has scampered under my mouse at just the wrong time and I've lost it. There are plenty of other village sim games (Farm Tribe, Gemini Lost etc) where you can pick people up without making them drop what they're carrying; isn't it about time VV joined that list?

Toward the end, there's a lot of sitting and waiting while you build up enough power to convert those last few heathens. (Alright, I know I can leave it running in the background. It's still boring!)

I really don't like the concept of 'Convert the heathen', although I've nothing against it on religious grounds. Yes, I know it's 'just a game' and I know it's conversion to the Isola religion of the Guiding Hand as opposed to any true-life religion (that really would open up a can of worms)! It still doesn't sit well with me. I mean, let's face it; I've never converted a heathen who is weak from lack of food, so they're obviously taking better care of themselves than my little people, who don't seem able to think without me If the heathens had been enslaved and needed rescuing, or something like that, I'd have been far more comfortable with it.

There's not enough of a story; you convert the heathens, destroy the totems (which I also don't like; totems are cool :P) and that's it. There's nothing to really take pride in, such as restoring that giant statue or planting the orchard in VV3. And no, restoring the lake doesn't count; you don't have to work at that, you just click a couple times and it's done.

Nursing moms STILL can't do anything! C'mon LDW, this has been requested right back to VV2; isn't it about time it was implemented? At the very least, they ought to get a pretty big Parenting boost at the end of it. And what about converting; they convert that nursing mom, why not other heathens? As someone else remarked; surely you can stand and talk at people while holding a baby?

The conversion of red masked heathens doesn't make sense to me. Why is it only an earthquake can shift them? I know people say they've managed it with the fog, but it's never worked for me. Inexplicable phenomena like butterflies and a swarm of bees appearing out of thin air, adults coming back from the dead and turning into children, lightning striking one of them on a clear day (okay, maybe that one IS explicable; I don't know, I'm not a meteorologist ;))...that's not enough to make them even wonder. But throw in a perfectly natural disaster like an earthquake, and suddenly they're not so sure. Put it this way: if someone was trying to convert me, getting hit by lightning would be far more of a convincer than a tremor.

AND THE JUST PLAIN MISC

God powers. There have been times when I've been grateful for them (especially the Hand of Bloom) and I LOVE the Grant Youth ability, although I haven't tried Revive yet. I just don't like the rest; for me, it takes away the whole research-discover-explore element of the games. I'm really hoping there's going to be a VV6, but I also hope that god powers won't be included in it.

I like the clothing hut, but can't there be something similar for heads (a barber's shop, maybe? :))

TO RESTORE THE FISH GET THE MASTTER BUILDER AND THE LEAD HEATEN i cant wait to see VIRTUAL VILLAGERS VI BUT A RECCOMENDATION BOOST THE ENEGEY INCREASE WHEN RELICS ARE FOUND I FIND 1 COMMON RELIC BOOSTS ENERGY BY 3. I FIND 1 RARE RELIC AND IT ALSO BOOSTS BY 3. IN THE NEXT ONE BOOST THE BOOSTING BY RARITY OF THE ITEMS. BUT YOU GUYS DID EXCELENT ILL SHOW A VID ON HOW TO GET A GOOD AMOUNT OF FOOD AND TECH POINTS WHEN THE LINK ISSUE IS DEALT WITH.

Use the butterflies on him. Because the kids come and play with him and the peeps can walk right by and not be bothered. I love listening to their laughter as they chase the butterflies and you benefit knowing where they are if you want something picked up.