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[Fanofgaming]

I'm pretty sure my parish steward has gone inactive. We got attacked around 10 hours ago and he hasn't repaired the walls, nor has he done anything log-worthy (ranking up, upgrading the castle...) since long before I joined. And yet people are still voting for him.

[Tyler6498]

I'm pretty sure my parish steward has gone inactive. We got attacked around 10 hours ago and he hasn't repaired the walls, nor has he done anything log-worthy (ranking up, upgrading the castle...) since long before I joined. And yet people are still voting for him.

Perhaps your peers are not observant..you should denounce him as an elf and go for the throne! That's what I did.

[Ozyton]

Alright, I'm just going to go ahead and try it for myself. Downloading now.

[Thendash]

He may not be able to repair/rebuild the walls, I sort of mentioned this earlier but it seems I didn't explain it well enough so here goes.
To build walls and towers, the parish village must have an adequately leveled architects guild. To level it, parish members have to donate goods to it. To actually build the walls, the parish needs to have stone, to get the stone parish members have to sell it to the parish stock exchange, and then the steward has to use parish tax money to purchase it for use in the castle. So as you can see, running a parish doesn't just fall on the stewards shoulders, but the members as well. If people don't have gold to pay the tax, no troops or resources for the castle. If people don't donate to the guilds, no access to defences or bonuses for the parish. If people don't sell resources(wood, stone, iron, and pitch), then no defences. No defences means the parish can't hold onto flags, and the steward needs flags to build guilds(including the architect's guild). Guilds grants access to troops and defences for the parish capitol and grants bonuses depending on the guild and level to all the member of the parish(Such as +x% wood production).
So in short, sell stone to your parish, always have some gold on hand to pay the tithe, and donate spare goods to the guilds regularly.
This is why I like this game, it has a lot of layers that you slowly get access to as you rank up. There's an actual political hierarchy, that leads to some good politics and diplomacy. Stewards are busy trying to get the most out of their parish, while the sheriffs above them are busy trying to get the most out of their stewards, and on it goes up to the king dealing with the whole country.

[Fanofgaming]

Maybe I didn't explain it well enough, but my parish steward hasn't done anything near as I can tell. I havn't seen scouts or armies coming from his village. When I joined, I couldn't see anything with his name in the log. I'm pretty sure he's inactive.

[Thendash]

Then do as tyler suggested, denounce him in your parish forums, start voting for yourself, and encourage others to vote for you. Fanofgaming 2011! A steward we can believe in!

[Fanofgaming]

I don't think the guys in my parish would elect me, but I'll vote for myself. Maybe I can convince them.

Also, our current steward just ranked up. He's still completely avoiding our parish chat, so maybe I can still get him replaced.

EDIT: I just spent about 20 minutes convincing one guy that I'd make a decent steward, but I don't know if he bought it. Hopefully, other parish members will read the discussion (it was over parish chat) and will consider me a good choice.

DOUBLE EDIT: He said he'd vote for me. ^^

[Ozyton]

Does anyone have any important info I should know before I start?

[Thendash]

Don't worry about building up your castle or your gold for the first while. Focus on establishing a good economy at first. Good foods to research are apples, cheese, and meat as those 3 farms can be built on any village type. Bread can be made on the starting village type(lowlands) but not on all types so it's up to you if you think it's a worthwhile investment. The arts are really important for gaining honour so try to max it out fast but don't focus on it solely. Put a few points in forestry and stone quarrying each, and build a lot of woodcutters and quarries. As you build things the cost and the build time goes up, so it's important to set a good foundation to build off of. After you have a good income of stone, wood and food, start thinking of building ale to make your peasants happy(more honour and tax) and banqueting buildings(spend the goods in return for honour but you have to research them). Then you'll be well on your way to building castles, armies and taking over other villages.

[bluephoenix]

Is this game good for people who don't have a lot of time?
I already downloaded it but I just want to see if I should get really into it.

[Rilder]

Is this game good for people who don't have a lot of time?
I already downloaded it but I just want to see if I should get really into it.

Hard to say really, I would recommend just trying it. I've personally been watching it while I play other stuff and there does seem to be quite a bit of downtime.  At least for me waiting to gather enough resources for a market.

Edit: Guy by the name of Rook42 just joined my Parish, says hes from B12, if so the Dwarves are taking over this Parish. MAGMA MOATS FOR EVERYONE.

[Ozyton]

Wherabouts are you people? I'm in western Ireland right now. Can't check where exactly due to server maintenance.

[bluephoenix]

Apparently I'm in ross-shire.

Ugh, maintenance.

[YouR_DooM]

Will do a quick summary as soon as everything finished building.

I blew through all my resources, and I now have 6 apple farms, 4 cheese farms, 4 stone cutters, 5 wood cutters, 2 hovels for 11 each and a market.

Considering I have no resources left for now, I set the tax to +320 per day, as I don't need any new villagers anyway ( right? RIGHT? )

Also, I'm spending LOL amounts of time moving all buildings to pixel-hunt the best spots

[Akura]

In the county of Dyfed, southern Middle Wales, m'self.


I've learned that you cannot progress past 3 free cards a week without buying Crowns(first purchase is the requirement for 4/week). I've donated resources to my parish(req. for 6/week) but the option to increase is greyed out. It looks like I'll be able to get 6/week if I get 4(first Crowns) and 5(Rank 9) cards first.

Considering I have no resources left for now, I set the tax to +320 per day, as I don't need any new villagers anyway ( right? RIGHT? )

If nothing needs a worker, and you're not doing anything for a while, then having idle peasants is a bad thing, actually. However, higher taxes(reduced popularity) will cut into your honour income, which might be worse.