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Village industrialization by fabio 06/29/2016, 11:36am PDT You have raw materials (timber, coal, iron, wool), which your factories can turn into processed materials (lumber, steel, cloth), which other factories can then turn into manufactured goods (furniture, arms, clothing). Each step takes 2 points of labor and you need internal transport points (sort of like the transport pool in MOO2) to ship all the harvested raw materials to your capital. When I tried playing with just the straight line from harvesting, I was always ridiculously behind the AI and just chalked it up to massive cheating. A mechanic that is not explained AT ALL is village industrialization where your villages outside your capital will begin producing stuff on their own. You have to have a province with at least 4 of the same raw material (not necessarily harvested with depots, the potential for 4 just has to be there), a depot on or adjacent to the village (depots adjacent to villages give no explained bonuses otherwise so you wouldn't do it), and your manufactured goods factory of the corresponding type (furniture factory for timber, etc) expanded to a certain size. Once all these are met, processed materials and even manufactured goods will start being produced for free that you can transport to your capital. So normally 1 unit of furniture would cost 4 timber (to turn into 2 lumber), 4 labor (2 labor for each step), and 2 turns. Village industrialization can just give you that furniture for free. I was playing thinking I had to put depots on every possible resource patch and connect it all by railroad to the capital. All you need to concentrate on at first is building a depot next to the villages whose provinces have at least 4 of a resource then connect that to the capital. It's such a huge boost to your economy. My win rate on normal shot from 10% to 75%.

Games you found consistently entertaining or keep coming back to and why by Welcome to Omsk 06/27/2016, 7:45am PDT     Re: Games you found consistently entertaining or keep coming back to and why by laudablepuss 06/27/2016, 11:34am PDT         Nope, Mount&Blade by Taleworlds before the Warband expansion. Good OMM link thou NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 6:41am PDT     been playing Silent Storm yet again recently by artist formerly known as Eurotrash 06/28/2016, 1:22am PDT         Was the experience bug ever fixed? by MM 06/28/2016, 4:02am PDT             Nope, don't think so by artist formerly known as Eurotrash 06/29/2016, 12:02pm PDT                 Fan patch? NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/29/2016, 9:31pm PDT         Sounds pretty good, should get around to Silent Storm NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 7:14am PDT     I'm going to slum the joint up a bit. by Oom Shnibble 06/28/2016, 2:14am PDT         I'm kind of pleasantly surprised a racing game made this list NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 7:14am PDT     Still Imperialism and Act of War by fabio 06/28/2016, 3:27am PDT         Can we talk about Imperialism? Does the sequel hold up or just the original? by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 7:12am PDT     Dune 2000 still classic and re-playable after over 20 years NT by thats right, Dune 2000 06/28/2016, 10:31am PDT         Is that the one with individual unit selection? NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 12:00pm PDT             you can select both by individual unit or drag across a bunch of them NT by RTSLOVER 06/28/2016, 3:22pm PDT                 I wanted to like Dune2000 but it lacked some RTS feature that made it hard. by Welcome to Omsk 06/28/2016, 5:10pm PDT         I have a review of 2 on GOG by fabio 06/28/2016, 3:52pm PDT             ^Imperialism reply NT by fabio 06/28/2016, 3:53pm PDT             Could you explain what you've learned or would that spoil the fun? Or is it self NT by explanatory? 06/28/2016, 5:11pm PDT                 Village industrialization by fabio 06/29/2016, 11:36am PDT                     Thanks, might try it. Do you think this will affect your enjoyment? NT by Welcome to Omsk 06/29/2016, 10:45pm PDT                         No, I think it's improved it by fabio 07/05/2016, 11:56am PDT                             but seriously I can't believe more 4X games haven't followed this model by fabio 07/05/2016, 1:12pm PDT                                 I don't think the original Colonization had production queues either? by mark 07/05/2016, 1:38pm PDT                                     managing the specialists and supply chains was the opposite of fun by fabio 07/05/2016, 3:40pm PDT                                         fun part of colonization: oppressing natives, sniping enemy colonials early game by Welcome to Omsk 07/06/2016, 6:42pm PDT                                 you'd think they'd put in a centralization tech by midgame at the latest by Welcome to Omsk 07/06/2016, 6:44pm PDT                                     There's nothing to manage about the villages by fabio 07/06/2016, 8:01pm PDT     Jumpman, Quake 3, Mario 64, ADOM, Nethack, M.U.L.E. by mark 07/05/2016, 7:52am PDT         On the topic of non-PC Games. by Oom Shnibble 07/05/2016, 3:54pm PDT     Lode Runner, for starters. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/06/2016, 9:43am PDT     Rocket League by Entropy Stew 07/06/2016, 7:33pm PDT