u/Galliad93

Seriously the entire town order thing is useless. Midgame, sure. Maybe, but late game?

I tried to build it up. First I tried to design a factory like in factorio. But I noticed the conveyers are the power consumer. So, I just kept conveyers at the very bottom to make iron ingots, bricks and glass and let it flow into a chest. I played around a bit more, but mostly setttled on hand fed work stations. I'd have an assembly bench or a smithy with 2 conveyers and 2 chests feeding in and either a chest or a conveyer with a supply station flowing out. energy cost (after the patch) 4 or 5.

But never did any town orders with it. Instead I made building materials. Enough to build up the town, but if I would do another run, I would recommend focusing on the workshops and stalls instead of the houses. especially the furniture maker and the builder are pure gold. because they sell the simple and advanced kits. iron and wooden kits, as well as stone, marble and sculputre kits are easily made at the bottom of the factory.

that gives you all the materials to build up the town. and then? how do you get town favor? well, by trading with the workshops. at level 3 each workshop can give you 50 favor per week. and you can sell really easy to get stuff there. the blacksmith gives you 30 favor just for 20 advanced and 20 simple iron details. you can craft these in like 1-2 minutes. the iron will be provided by your smithy in the basement. the veggi stand accepts lots of grain and veggetables from your garden and gives better favor then Herm. The apothecary gives great favor for insense and candles.

but the best part? they sell what they give favor for. so if you are willing to take a monetary loss (the paint merchant would like to compensate you), you can just buy theirs and sell it right back until the favor is all absorbed. you can even do it one item at a time back and forth, if you want to minimize the loss. time stands still in the merchant menu anyway. so no need to rush.

I personally decided to stop being a tycoon and be a humble graveyard keeper. and with my 1000 rating graveyard, which is still not finished, I get 2-3 gold per sermon. So the monetary loss from trading with the townspeople is just a drop in the bucket if it means I have time for operations, embalming and tombstone crafting.

Hi there. I was actually looking for a community like this. I have been writing for years. mostly on a never finished fantasy book. I changed projects about a year ago while studying at college. I am also not a native English speaker, but since my language skill is execellent, I decided to write my new story in it.

I am usually not uncreative. I get an idea and the idea proliferates into a large network. My current project is urban fantasy with detective story woven in. 2 Protagonists and I just can't stop. I then actually started using AI, first copilot because it was free and unlimited. Then I got into image generation. i used gpt pro for that and made portaits of all my characters. I made a nice file containing all information about characters, one about locations, background and how the case my detective is investigating actually played out.

Gave all of that, including my drafts to GPT and asked it to help me get over a block. What can I say, I have spent the past 2-3 days almost constantly prompting new drafts, rewriting old ones, editing my own writing, giving it back to the AI, let it judge (harshly), rewrite, let it reedit and read back to me, let it correct spelling and grammar.

It not only improved my language skill and taught me many expressions, it also helped with researching my setting, so I keep geography consistant, for example I used it to research how police in the US operates, to avoid TV tropes, how much does an officer earn to be able to judge if a character would take a bribe etc.

And I am stunned. Mostly because the results are so much better than my early drafts. But I also get into a much better flow. I have tuesday and wensday of from classes and I have been working on my project for almost 10 hours straight with no break. That is what amazes me most. I can work without tiring now for extended periods of time. So I might actually finish the project at some point, maybe even before Christmas.

Yeah anyway. i wanted to share this and hear your thoughts. Of course I have no idea if my story would actually be good or appealing to any human. But I read some theory on how to write well years ago, namely the books by James Frey. So it cannot be that bad. But when it comes to judging if the idea itself is good, I am at a loss and think I will have to live with that until I am ready to show a "final draft" to an actual person. Thanks for reading. If you want to comment, I would apprechiate. :)