Settlement Survival

1. 꾸미기나 물류 배치나 내가 디테일하게 뭘 시도한만큼 리턴이 없는 점이 좀 별로였음 게임 전체적으로 디테일하게 조작하는거 자체가 너무 피곤하게 짜여져있다 나름의 친절함인지 모르겠는데 디테일하게 안하고 대충 해도 마을은 잘 돌아간다 그래서 대충 하게 된다 어느 시점 넘어가면 이걸 도대체 왜 돌리고앉아있는거지? 라는 생각이 들게됨 2. 재해나 전투쪽은 만들다 만거같아서 좀 아쉽다. 솔직히 왜 넣었는지 이해가 안가는 시스템 넣지 말던가 잘 만들던가 했어야했음. 너무 인위적으로 사람을 엿먹이기 위해 짜여진 시스템이라 성취감 대신 짜증이 우선됨. 3. 칙령도 정책도 '이걸 꼭 해야겠다' 같은 선택지로서의 역할이 거의 없다. 4. 테크트리도 전후가 좀 순차적으로 가는게 아니라 비선형적으로 여기저기 흩어져있는걸 주워섬기면서 게임해야하는데, 이걸 게임 디자인으로 커버가 안되니까 툴팁으로 '이걸 먼저 해야한다' 로 응급처치를 해놓은게 느껴졌다. 그게 아니라 순차적으로 나아갈 수 있게 했어야하지 않았을까. 감상이라면 이것저것 기능상 걸어놓은건 많은데 짜임새나 디테일이 아쉬운 게임이라고 느꼈음 이런 평가가 솔직히 기준이 너무 과하다 뭘 원하는지 모르겠다는 생각이 들 수도 있는데.. 사실 이런 불평이 느껴지지 않는 게임 디자인이 갖춰져있지 않다면, 꼭 이 게임에서만 느낄수있는 새로움이 없다면. 정말 수많은 배니시드 아류 중에 이 게임을 굳이 할 이유가 없는게 아닐까 생각함

Another enjoyable city builder. It's easy to learn has an interesting upgrade system. There's only been one issue causing significant frustration but that issue could certainly come down to skill. The Military: The combat economy forces you to slowly lose your civilians as they become "reservists". These reservists do nothing and need to be further formed into military units. So the first issue is that you need to build multiple structures (which require multiple prior technologies) before you even have access to basic units. There is a part of timing and strategy that I certainly need to improve to ensure I have defenses ahead of the escalating attacks. In the meantime, you have to rely on arrow towers which struggle to cover an appropriate area for the cost and all but guarantee you're losing buildings. The raw resource investment isn't the only issue. The second part of this is time and cost. You need 200 silver and seemingly (in-game) years to train enough reservists to create a formation of basic spearmen. You cant create just 1 or 2 spearmen- the minimum number of reservists needed for a single usable squad is 8. So you're losing a considerable amount of civilians you could be using to support your ever growing needs. But resource investment and the weight on your civilian economy aren't the only issues. The killing blow is that once you disband the formation, those people are just dumped back into the civilian economy. You have to then spend the time and resources to train a new group of 8 people for the next attack. Conceptually, this doesn't make sense. So these npcs just forgot how to handle a spear after we spent years getting trained up and actually facing combat? But even in practice, this becomes a huge burden. Playing on the default settings, I've had to restart numerous times so far all due to the amount of time you have to spend learning and managing this part of the game. IMO it needs serious help to make the rest of the game feel more smooth.