The first round is almost done. I’m an experienced player who likes to plan and look ahead, I think it is a poor try to add some action to the game. I play in 10 worlds and in none i am close to get the settlement finished. I play daily and not every hour and i never buy diamonds. When i can’t finish this quest normally it makes no sense for me to play it. But perhaps other players have nothing else to do then playing this game the whole day. Something for prisoners and people in hospitals i guess....
Personally I am not that excited about
Culture Settlements but probably some more planning is required to finish a settlement in time. I managed to finish my first settlement with 2 days to spare and I didn’t use any Diamonds nor did I check the settlement every hour but I think it is hard to finish a settlement with one log-in per day and with 24hr goods production.
For example let us say that in total one needs to produce 200 Axes.
1 goods production building by 24hr = 20 Axes per day (1 log-in per day).
1 goods production building by 8hr = 3 x 10 = 30 Axes per day (3 log-ins per day)
Therefore with the 24hr production it takes 10 days to produce 200 Axes (20 Axes x 10 days = 200 Axes)
Whilst with the 8hr production it takes less time to produce 200 Axes (30 Axes x 7 days = 210 Axes)
Conclusion – It may not be wise to use the 24hr production.
In total a
Viking Settlement needs to produce a total of 938 goods.
(Edit : The total of 938 goods are required for Embassy Advancements only and this total does not include the goods required for expansions )
Using the 24hr production one needs a minimum of 4 goods production buildings continuously producing goods to be able to finish the settlement in time as we must not forget the building's built time required, etc.
4 goods production buildings by 24hr = 80 goods per day = 80 goods x 12 days = 960 goods.
Whereby using the 8hr production and having the same 4 goods production buildings continuously producing goods it will take less time to finish the settlement leaving enough free time to take things easy.
4 goods production buildings by 8hr = 120 goods per day = 120 goods x 8 days = 960 goods.
Obviously one can add more expansions to enable adding more goods production buildings.
More goods production buildings = more expansions + more goods to the get expansions + more Copper Coins to run more goods production buildings + more Population to enable the building of more goods production buildings = more expansions.
It is a circle therefore a good balance needs to be found.
