Since we know you get to choose 5 villagers whether it be 5 children or 5 nursing mothers what is your Ideal tribe?

I will either start with:
all children (male and females as equal as possible)

Or 3 nursing mothers and 2 children (of each gender)

(On a side note I made this cause this was off the topic of discussing the images but on the topic of the game but I thought this would give us something else to discuss while we wait)

//I merged ajuma's "So, what tribe memebers DID you choose?" topic with this similar thread to help cut down on the number of threads in this forum.//

I would start my tribe with a adult male, a adult female, a nursing female, either a 14-18 year old, or a 12 year old; and a 6-9 year old that was the opposite gender of the other teenager.

Here's my ideal tribe:

a male adult, a female adult and three children

Oooh! Now here's a question to ponder...

I think ideally I would like to start with all runners! I would want 1 to be a girl of 11 or 12. I would want 1 to be a young man between 14 and 25 so he could accomplish a lot before going to the mausoleum. For the last 3 I'd like young nursing mothers between 18 and 25.

The man could farm while the mothers nurse their babies for the first 2 years. He could also father the 2nd and maybe the 3rd generations of the tribe.

The child could gather collectibles and mushrooms. By the time the other 3 babies are set down, she should be just about old enough to start working. I would probably assign her to research as soon as possible.

After the 3 nursing mothers set their babies down, I would assign 1 of the mothers to research with the girl. I would assign the other 2 as builders to get things going. When the babies turn 12, I would let all four women (the girl would be over 18 at this point in the game) take a break to start the 2nd generation.

All 3 babies from the first generation would be made farmers as soon as they are old enough to work.

LOL. You took the words right out of my mouth.

~Jamie

Only five? What happened to starting with seven?

Two nursing mothers - of about eighteen or nineteen; one man - eighteen or nineteen; and two children (male & female) of eleven or twelve.

I can get the guy to start farming and the kids looking for mushrooms. By the time the women put the babies down, the kids will be fourteen and ready to start working.

My ideal tribe would be 2 men with red hair, 2 females with red hair (one nursing) , and one child with red hair. The two men would be 18 - 25 and the two females would be the same. The child would be 7. P.S the reason I want them all to have red hair is because in all the VV games I have tried to get all the villagers to have the same hair color and failed; so now that I have a chance to choose I can make them have all red hair. All the generations to come would have red hair as well.

Unless you get the "more villagers fell over the waterfall" and "babies in a barrel" type events. I nearly always get blondes in the events.

Thats true that could happen.

I know there will be baby barrels, buy I'm not sure about the waterfall.

Yeah having a tribe full of runners would be awesome. One thing is fore sure if when I pick I'm making sure NONE of them dislike running.

Hmmm, And to add to my description for types I'm going to go thru the head file and pick out the ones I love hte most and search for them. That is after I buy the game. In the trial it'll be quick and snappy so I can see the game

Mine would be all Runners, 1 male (age 14-25), and 4 females (age 14-25 also) so it's a little easier to keep track of families.

While it'd be cool to have all runners, can you imagine how long it would take to find 5 villagers that all liked running? O.o

Yeah that would probably be a pain... but you can try

Yes, but I'm sure that will be no problem for those of us who spend hours in VF and go through hundreds of adoption applications for Miss Rainbow and then a few more hundred save-game-retries-again-and-again-and-againagainagain for Mr Spike... (and then the new generation starts it all over again.)

That's what I was just thinking!

Oh, add the all runner part to my earlier one.

LOL K you got me. I have done that before.

I also forgot to add to my ideal tribe, I would probably mostly pick black haired villys because I have such a hard time getting them genectically, but who knows. I know in my ideal tribe I want at least 1 maybe 2 runners to speed things along.

I will pick one of the following:
- 1 adult male, 2 adult females, 2 kids of any gender
- 2 adult males, 2 adult females, 1 kid of any gender
- 2 adults(1 of each gender), 1 teenager(14-17 years old) of any
gender, 3 kids of any gender
NOTE: I will have at least 1 runner!

I would have a tride like this in the main game.
1 adult male, 2 adult females(1 nursing) and two children.
I will have a girl with Lyssaria's dress on!

That's an idea! Choose a "Fashion Victim" tribe, where every villager is wearing clothes that won the competition!

Speaking of runners...I DO hope that in VV4 the peeps will move a little more quickly. I recently re-played VV1, and checked to make sure that I hadn't gotten a tribe of all "non-runners"!

The peeps in VF seem to move at a good pace for me.

Back to the topic: I'll probably choose a young adult male, young adult female, one nursing mom, one pre-teen and one child (opposite genders) for my FIRST family. After I see what kinds of things the nursing moms can do, I'll experiment with different compositions.

I was just thinking that you probably wouldn't want to choose a nursing mom if you're shooting for an all-same color hair tribe.


AND wouldn't it be cool if Ms. Rainbow, Mr. Spike, Ms. Blue and Mr. Mohawk make an appearance? Or at least their prehistoric cousins!

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Getting back on topic, I'd take one runner male (18-23 ish), a runner female (nursing; about 18-20 ish), and two children about 12-13; one male and one female (the third child is being nursed).

To get some diversity, I'd make sure the young man was black-haired, and the young woman was blond. I'd make sure that the young girl was black-haired and that the young boy was blond as well. That way, I can get black haired, blond, and redheads from that tribe.

My ideal first tribe would have 2 adult males 2 adult females and 1 kid. I don't think I want runners though. I want to see how fast they are on their own first. For their outfits and hair I would only choose the villagers with the new outfits and new hairstyles just to see what they look like. Or maybe I'll just choose the first 5 villagers I see just to look at the game. Then once I buy it then I will carefully pick out each tribe member.

The peeps in VF are larger. They've also got less ground to cover, since they're only moving about the house and grounds. The peeps in VV have much shorter legs and have to cover the entire village and surrounding area! It's not surprising that the VF peeps seem to move faster.

i think im going to choose 1 adult male 18 - 25 2 adult females 18 - 25 (1 nursing) and 2 children aged 10 - 14

hmm... i would start with 2 children age: 6 opposite gender
2 adults age:18 opposite gender
and a nursing female

I would like 2 males one nursing and two children (childern are male a female oh and one of the two males will be a runner =P

You mean blonds fall over the waterfall more.. Lawl that made by day!

I think I'd start with 2 males, 2 females, all around 14-16. Girls won't be nursing, because that's 2 mouths to feed and, in the absence of anything from LDW to the contrary, not contributing to the gaining of tech points or buildings or food.

2 of each so if something should happen and someone dies, I've still got at least one of each gender.

1 very, very young child, who can go for quite a few years gathering collectibles while the others work, and just getting towards working age when I'm ready for the others to start having children.

That's getting the maximum value from my villagers while resources are scarce, and when resources aren't so scarce anymore, start building up the tribe a little

They have them in the previous games.

Your rainbow hair girl is brown haired with flowers in her hair. I really don't see the resemblance between the two

Wow! That's a great idea! What a challenge it could be if you have to start with 4 kids and one adult, or all adults and no kids...or all women!!

I'm SO glad that there are 5 slots so I can have a variety of tribes going at the same time!

For me a even amount of genders...4 males and 3 females and hopefully the 1 nursing mom will have a female. SO it'll be then 4 males and 4 females:]

I would want a 10-11 year old female with blond hair, a 14-16 year old male with blond hair, a 18 year old nursing female with red hair, a 18 year old nursing female with exotic hair(rainbow, pink, green, etc.) and a 18 year old nursing female with black hair. I would want the babies to be: Female w/exotic hair, male w/exotic hair, male w/blond, black, or brown hair.

I would start with 1 adult male 20-ish, 1 female child 10-ish, and the rest females in their late teens or 20s, so that I can expand the tribe quickly once I solve in inevitable food problem.

I like the children that Humm when picked up. I would love to have a village of hummers. Sing to me baby! I would be careful about too many Mothers at first, as I hate to watch my tribe starve

I spend ages "choosing" villagers for my games by starting, looking at their ages and stats (clothes and hair as well) then quitting until I start with villagers I am happy with. So this feature is fantastic.

I think I'd choose 2 nursing mothers, two young guys and a kid aged 12.
Or 3 nursing mothers and two young guys and just not bother with collectibles until the babies can walk.

Mayfly, I like the hummers too

I think you should def have a kid in the beginning. As we all know, collectibles tend to come fast and furious at the start of the game, then slow down over time.

In VV2 and VV3 both, the only games where I managed to finish the collections were games where I scanned almost continuously with a child. I do this by "flying" the child in a grid search over the whole playing area except for when I have to stop and direct the adults.

On the other hand...in VF all the family members can pick up collectibles...hmm I wonder...Oh well, we'll know soon enough (I hope).

I would start with one nursing mother two skilled adults and 2 children ! so excited !

I would roleplay my first tribe. I would have 4 adults, 2 males, 1 female, and 1 nursing. Last would be a small female kid. I will be hoping that the baby will be male.

My reasoning behind this? I don't think they would send 5 children/nursing mothers to explore the east side of the island. I think sending 2 small families sounds more realistic.

~Jamie

the following tribe is my DREAM tribe I would love to have this tribe
1 female 18-25
1 male 18-25
1 nursing mother 18-30
1 12-13 year old boy
1 7-10 year old girl

Ideally I would ADORE all runners, but realistically...

Probably 1 young adult male, three young adult females, and a boy child around seven years old, so by the time he reaches twelve, the girls will be ready to have a kid . It will, (as someone mentioned above) also be easier to keep track of the families. And I will try to make them all blonde!

I also would like each of my villagers to be good at a different skill. That way well they don't have to be told what to do that often in the beginning. Maybe I'll have two researchers though. You always end up needing those.

I have another good idea for a tribe:
2 working-age males (one with black hair the other blond) at least 1 of them a runner,
1 blond female,
1 black hair female,
and 1 red or purple hair female (nursing).

Oh, I don't know...I'll probably spend most of my trial time selecting the villagers I want. I see no reason, that with enough patience I can't select all runners to start the game.

I have had some thoughts since I first posted here. I now think I'll look for:

• 1 young male between 16 and 22.
• 1 female child either 10 or 11.
• 3 nursing mothers
• All must be runners
• All must be good looking

The male can gather food while the mothers nurse. By the time they set their babies down, the child should be nearly old enough to work, and I'll have up to 12 years of game time to build without worrying about having a kid to gather collectibles.

As soon as the Mom's drop the kids, All 5 adults will begin the buildings. When the buildings that are initially available are done, I will move them all to research.

When the kids turn 11 or 12, I'll have the women all have babies, and the tribal father can go back to farming for a while.

When the 1st group of kids turn 14, I'll assign all of them to research, then I'll see what new project(s) I want to assign the runners to.

Hmm.. I think I'd start with a male and a female 'parenting' 2 nursing moms and 1 child


I agree!!

Dont forget about all the puzzles you have to solve!

I think I would have 2 if not 3 children one about 10 or 11 then as rockmower said there is more chance of getting all the collectables that always come fast & furious at the beguining. The other two would be a male & a nursing mum. I am so looking forward to monday!!!!

In most of the VV games, I try to get my tribe well established before I start on the puzzles. Sometimes, I have to solve a puzzle or two along the way, but overall I save them for the proverbial "end."

There is an easier way to do this if you're interested. Keep a picture of one of the kids in the the box where you can select the villagers...you know, the one with the arrows so you can scan through the tribe? Then you can move around looking for collectables without holding the kid. When you see a collectable, click on the kids picture and you'll be able to go right to the kid and drag him/her back to the item.

I did the "flying scan" for a long time before I came up with this method.

I have given this a lot of thought and I have read all the posts of what others considered their ideal tribe. After considering everything; a tribe of nursing mothers would definitely be challenging but my luck would be the 5 nursing mothers would all have female children. A tribe of children also would be very challenging also but could be disasterous which is something I don't want at the beginning.

So I think what I will try is this:

1- male 14 with some skill in farming and preferably a runner
1- female 14 with some skill in research and preferable a runner
also
1- female 10 and if there are skills for children I would choose
some skill other than building
1- female 6 the same as above
1- male 2 the same as the other kids

I would look carefully at likes and dislikes looking for ones that like things like medicine, herbs, work, running, etc.
And I would look for dislikes of laundry, play, jokes etc.

I would work the 2 oldest back and forth between farming research and building the 1st hut if it was necessary and would use the kids to get all the mushrooms and collectibles that I could get as they do seem to appear fast and furious at the beginning. This may not be the best way to go but hopefully by starting out with the younger ones I will be able to accomplish a great deal before the first ones die off. After all longevity is a problem in the early stages of the game. I think it will be interesting to post how my ideal tribe is doing and read how others ideal tribes are working as well.

Skipper, that sounds like a great idea. I might try that in another slot.

Hi to everybody here! I'm looking forward on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skipper, I like your tribe too!

Here is my tribe for the beginning:
1 nursing female, 18-19, blond, skill in research
1 male, 18-19, black hair, skill in farming
1 male, 14, blond, skill in building
1 female, 10, black hair
1 male, 4, brown hair

I see your point, but if I were going to use this strategy I would just make the first 3 age 14, and then bring along a pair of 2 year olds. That would still leave me with 3 hands to accomplish the initial work, while the "kids" gathered mushies and other collectibles.

It would also still leave me 10 game years before I had to worry about growing the tribe. I can accomplish a lot with 3 workers (especially if 1 or 2 are runners) in 10 game years. By the time I needed to expand the tribe, the collectibles should have slowed appreciably. At least that's been my experience with the previous VV games.

There was a thread about which peeps you would choose. Did you follow through?

I decided to have 1 nursing mom, one 14 yo male, one 14yo female, one 11yo girl and one 5yo (I think...maybe 6). I'm pretty happy with my choices.

You?

Just the ones I intended to back then. Two young women, neither nursing, two young men, and a very young child (6 was the youngest I could find).

Working well so far - child is 12 and woman has just had a baby, so child #2 will be ready to start collecting when child #1 is ready to start working. Just as I planned

i have 2 men, 2 women and a 7 yr old little boy. i wasnt going to have any kids, but thankfully i thought of mushies and collectibles! Slh, thats what im gonna do! im glad this isnt my first vv game! my first one, i was NOT smart, i made kids WAY too much and too fast and they all starved

i have one female farmer 2 builders one male and female a male researcher and a male kid and currently my female builder is nursing her baby

I never actually posted in the ideal villagers thread (that I can remember lol), so I had nothing to look back on to confirm.
I ended up with a man and a woman in their early 40s (a bit of a mistake on my part, I know), a 17-year-old girl, and a little boy - not sure how old he is. There was another woman, and I think she was in her 20s, but I can't remember and sadly she isn't in the tribe anymore.

I started with 3 males, 1 mom nursing and a 12 year old girl. My thought was the mom would have the baby when young girl was ready to work. I would have 5 workers and a child to collect things! Well that is backfiring on me now Seems all my mothers can have is GIRLS! Now I have aging 1st generation males all in their 40's and no young males to carry on with this tribe..I am crossing my fingers I can have a male before my 1st generation hits 50. Wish me luck..

Males over 50 are still fertile, unlike the females. You've probably still got 30-40 Isola years left before the first generation dies off.

I started with one 10 year old girl, two 8 year old old s(one boy, one girl), with a 18 year old male, and a 19 year old nursing mother. I have two tribes with just about the same specs.

For fun though while I was waiting for the to get something done I went thru and started another tribe with 2 nursing mothers, a male, and two females who are ALL RUNNERS!

These are my little villagers so far:

Nice looking bunch of villagers! I like the girl on the top left with the kind of green hair. I want one of those!

I didn't go for "look specific" peeps for my first tribe. I've got 4 other slots to experiment with. Gonna try things like all males plus 1 nursing mom, or 3 nursing moms, one kid, one adult male Oh! the possiblities are endless!! I love this game!

I decided I wanted two things from the first tribe. Being a slavedriver, I wanted to get as long a working life as possible out of them so I wanted them young. Second, I wanted at least one runner.

I chose two 14-year-olds, a girl and a boy, a 15-year-old boy, and an 8-year-old girl. I clicked and clicked the reject button for what seemed like ages until finally a runner appeared. She was 30 but I accepted her anyway.

It was only later that I realised I'd not thought far enough ahead; I'd have to wait three Isola years for the oldest boy to reach 18 so he could become a father. Also, the only woman old enough to have the baby was my runner and I didn't really want to lose her from work for two years while she was nursing at such an important time. That meant that my fledgling tribe was very slow to start growing.

They've all grown up by a few years since then, though, and when I left them the three oldest females were nursing and the population had gone up to 10. The original 8-year-old was now 14 and an adept farmer. With two of the females set to parenting I hope I will return from work to find the tribe has grown some more.

i chose 2 farmers 1 researcher 1 builder and 1 young child (8years old) the adults were all in their mid twenties

my tribe is doing well at the minute ive got one of the adults nursing and i have got lvl2 in 3 of the techs

I went sort of the same route you did. I knew I wanted all my villagers to be as young as they could, to give them time to work on their skills and then later I could breed them ^^

So I got two 18 yr olds, one is a female (she has a baby)and the other is a male. Next I got two 14 yr olds, one female and another male. Last, I got one 6 yr old and he is male. I'm hoping the mother will have a baby girl

I started with a 27 year old nuring mom named Lily
1 22 year old female named Mocha
1 18 year old male named Rasin
1 12 year old boy named Locus
and a 7 year old girl named Papaya

2 boys age 14
1 pregnant woman age 22 (you get two for one)
2 girls 4 and 6

My boys are old enough to begin working and young enough to become masters in all areas while the nursing mother will become our designated master parent until she is 50 she will be introduced to newer skills, we need the girls in order to increase our population.

Having already posted my ideal tribe this is what I ended up a nursing mother 23 and a runner, a 15 year old female, a runner, a 13 year old male, runner(got him by mistake wanted 14 year old male), a 10 year old male runner, and a 6 year old female. Other than the length of time it took the mom to drop toddler it is working out great.

I started my tribe as follows:

a 24 year old male with some building exp.
three nursing females, 21, 19 and 18 and
an 11 year old male.

I immediately put my male to work on the LH and kept my child busy with collectables and mushrooms and then held my breath for two Isola years hoping my useful adult didn't get sick. Thankfully he didn't. After the love hut was finished, I then put him to work researching until the three females were ready to work. I put the 2 younger females to work at research, bred the oldest female and put the male back to building the first of the living quarters. After that I just kept rotating the females having babies so at least for the first 14 Isola Years I always had workers. (The worst problem I had was that my first five children were females)

My tribe is as follows:

All are black-haired, no identical hairstyles

1 male - 26, no dislikes, but a slight advantage in research
2 females - 1 15yr old, 1 17 yr old - no dislikes, but no skills
2 7 yr olds - a boy & a girl

I wanted time to build skills & food supplies before growing the tribe. The male being slightly older didn't worry me because males can still breed til the day they die. And he had a really cool mohawk, so ... Also - growing a population doesn't require as many males as females, thus the slightly higher # of females.

I put the adult male to researching, 1 female to building, the other to farming & the 2 kids to searching for collectibles & mushrooms.

By the time the 1st hut (after the love shack) was built, & females were ready to have babies, all 3 adults were master builders AND master scientists. And having 2 small children constantly searching for mushrooms allowed me to strictly ration the blackberries w/o risking starvation.

Yay! I've been waiting all this time to make a custom tribe, and now I finally can!

After playing all the other Villagers games, I think I've come up with a pretty good dream team. I have two adult males (ages 18-21 are good because they're pretty young yet and have plenty of time to boost skills), one nursing mommy, one 17-year-old teenage girl (because the tutorial wants you to make babies pretty soon), and one really young child - no older than 6.

This way, I've got two guys who will be working for the next 40+ years, one little kid who can grab collectables and herbs while I wait for the next babies to be born (Critical for early tech points boost!), and plenty of potential for baby making. The teenage girl can collect blackberries while I wait for her to turn 18. I got up to 500 food before it was time to have her go to the love shack.

I've been trying different combinations - my latest is all 14 yr olds - 2 male and 3 female. I set one to farming and the rest to research. As soon as they amass 5000 tech points, I purchase construction and put all five to work on clearing the rubble from the fire pit. Once the fire pit is in working order, I assign one of the peeps to be a builder on the love shack, one to be a farmer (not necessarily the original farmer), and the rest as researchers. I like to get them all Adept at all the skills so that I have plenty to choose from after the shool is built. So far, so good.

I just started a new tribe, this time with:

Kiwi - F - 22
Akuaku - M - 18
Taipi - F - 16
Tikina - F - 14
Ali - M - 7

Akuaku and Kiwi are going to be my starter couple, once Akuaku finishes the hut.
And I like to think of Taipi and Tikina as sisters.

I did something very similar to this, with pretty much the same reasoning. But I started with 1 young adult male, 3 young adult (non nursing) females, and 1 very young male child (6 or 7).
I tried to spread out the hair color a bit, but as long as I can stand to look at them I am not really that concerned with it.

The first attempt I made at the game, I chose 4 females and 1 male (for maximum mating potential). Talk about dumb! No children to collect items. And, to make matters worse, the sole dude in the bunch got this hair-brained idea about speeding up construction - and I got this hair-brained idea to agree with him, and the poor chap fell to his death trying out his idea. (sigh) Sooooo... I got smart and set up my village with 1 female child, 1 male child, 2 female adults and 1 male adult - and ALL of them were runners. It was major boring to sit there and cycle through villager after villager after villager in my search for the ideal exploration team - but I kept telling myself that it would be worth it. And, you know, it absolutely was!

I haven't been playing the game for an entire week yet - I'm thinking 3 or 4 days. They are speedy at getting things done - I've already purchased the next level up in all but science (thanks to my frenetic little Einsteins running to and fro in the research lab). They've already cleared the debris, repaired the earthen oven, plugged the hole, repaired the docks, rescued the frogs, built two living huts, and - of course - the 'love shack' (Love Shack baby yeah - funky little shack!). Oops, sorry about breaking into song there, just every time I see the words 'love shack', the B-52s pop into my head.

Not only have they expediently begun the village, but they are way funny to watch. Like someone brewed espresso in the decaf. pot and the whole office is ablaze with hyped-up workers. I was also interested to note whether the mating of two runners would produce a running child and am sorry to report that it does not. I don't think I would have been so adamant about having such an athletic tribe if my first attempt hadn't gone so horribly wrong.

I hope my observations have brought a smile or a chuckle to you and brightened your day. Have fun playing - I sure am!

My tribe is extremely similar to Mystwalker's tribe except my youngest was a female.

21 male
19 female
18 female
17 female
6 female.

None nursing as I wanted all to be able to work. It's worked out very well so far. I put the male with the oldest female after the village was fairly well established and eventually got a male child. Then I put my oldest male (now 24) with the next oldest female and she's carrying a baby. Then I "accidentally" ended up with my third oldest female carrying a baby too when I set her to parenting and had her "telling a story" to the two kids. When she finished, she got together with my 24 year old male before I could stop her, lol!

I've had a couple different ones get sick, but were easy to "heal" and have not had any "negative" events yet, so things are going smoothly.

Edited to add: I would have LOVED to have even one runner, but never saw a single one offered, lol!

My ideal tribe would be runners but I don't have that kind of patience .

Well, my tribe is..

2 Dark red head males between 21-25. One building, one farming.
2 Brunettes between 21-28. one researcher/healer and one builder. (she read a book and became adept in everything. Lucky! )
1 10-yr-old blonde.

No runners . There are 5 4 more slots, though!