New player, would anyone be kind enough to give me advice on food and happiness?
Hi everyone,
I'm new to the game, using Invictus. I've been doing as much learning as possible, watching tutorial videos and reading guides. This is my first real campaign I've stuck with.
I've made some good progress on expansion, but I'm running into two issues.
-Food issues. I'm guessing this is due to seasonal food usage, I was having problem with two main providences, Latium and Aternum. I completely solved the issue in Latium by finding out the AI was exporting too much of my grain, taking back those grain exports fixed that issue.
I've been struggling a lot with Aternum though, is this because I only own one state within that province? I've built a few Granaries, I've tried to open a trade route, I've made sure the governor modifier is on food, etc. Yet I'm still struggling in winter.
The other main issue is just happiness in general, I feel like a lot of my pops in a lot of my provinces are unhappy. I don't fully understand culture too well, but I have only integrated one because it had a high population base and the rest I'm trying to let assimilate by using the governor culture focus in my newly conquered provinces when I can.
Here is an imgur album showing everything I thought would be helpful with my current campaign. https://imgur.com/a/NRPwfvy
Please excuse any silly choices, I'm still learning. I don't quite know from a new player ELI5 perspective, what to build and when, most of my building choices have been reactive to my province needs.
I've tried looking up advice before, but a lot of people explain things as if a new player is already intimately familiar with the mechanics and it makes a lot of the posts I find hard to follow. I'm doing my best to learn and research on my own but I'm struggling with these few things if anyone would be kind enough to give me a hand.
thank you.