Spel instellingen

Het nieuwe spel scherm

The first thing you will do when starting a new game is set up the game rules. The game also offers a few pre-made sets of settings for objectives and difficulty, which can be combined together.

• End goal
  • Growth: Reach Large Town settlement level to win.
  • Conquest: Claim all regions to win.
  • Domination: Eliminate all the other lords by claiming their territory. (requires off map adversary)
  • None: Endless play.
• Off map adversary
  • Absent: No adversary.
  • Present: Adds an AI opponent located off map. He controls 2 regions and brings his soldiers to the main game map when challenged.
• AI aggressiveness (requires off map adversary set to Present)
  • Reactive: AI lords don't press claims towards the player's regions, but they will protect their own.
  • Balanced: AI lords may press a claim towards the player's regions after they run out of neutral regions to claim.
  • Aggressive: AI lords may press claims towards the player's regions at will.
• Raider frequency
  • None: No random raids.
  • Medium: No more than a single raid every 2 years.
  • Frequent: Possibly less than a year between each raid.
• Raider free years (requires raider frequency set to Medium or Frequent)
  • 1: One year before raids start happening.
  • 2: Two years before raids start happening.
  • 3: Three years before raids start happening.
  • 4: Four years before raids start happening.
  • 5: Five years before raids start happening.
• Initial bandit camps
  • None: No bandit camps present when the game begins.
  • 1: One bandit camp present when the game begins.
  • 2: Two bandit camps present when the game begins.
  • 3: Three bandit camps present when the game begins.
  • 4: Four bandit camps present when the game begins.
  • 5: Five bandit camps present when the game begins.
• Random bandit camp spawn limit
  • 0: No random bandit camps spawning during play.
  • 3: Random bandit camps stop spawning if there are already 3 of them.
  • 5: Random bandit camps stop spawning if there are already 5 of them.
• Starting season
  • Spring: A balanced start with available seasonal deposits, room to start farming early, but frequent rains.
  • Summer: More difficult start with no time to start farming and average seasonal deposits, but less frequent rains.
  • Autumn: Challenging start with approaching winter, dwindling seasonal deposits and frequent rains.
  • Winter: A challenging start with no seasonal deposits, risk of freezing and decaying supplies due to snowfall.
  • Random: A random day of the year.
• Starting supplies
  • Nothing: Just some barebones construction stuff.
  • Standard: A balanced amount of starting supplies.
  • Double: Mother starting supplies for a more relaxed experience.
• Armament delivery
  • No: No free weapon delivery.
  • Yes: A free weapon delivery for militia as soon as the player builds a Storehouse and 5 Residential Plots.
• Residential requirements
  • Tolerant: Requirements triggering loss of Approval are shifted by 1 level to be less demanding.
  • Balanced: Town will not grow if requirements are unfulfilled.
  • Demanding: Requirements triggering loss of Approval are shifted by 1 level to be more demanding.
• Approval
  • Low penalty: Approval factors have a low impact on population growth.
  • Medium penalty: Approval factors have an average impact on population growth.
  • High penalty: Approval factors have a significant impact on population growth.
• Well placement
  • Unconstrained: Players may place wells everywhere without constraints.
  • Underground water: Players may only place wells on top of underground water.
• Weather events
  • None: Weather is cosmetic only and won't do any harm.
  • Balanced: Players get a warning if supplies get soaked, and when the next rain comes, they may get destroyed. A chance of random droughts in the summers which may kill crops. Rare fires caused by thunderstrikes.
  • Difficult: Droughts may happen in the summers, thunderstrikes cause fires and rain instantly damages exposed supplies.