I feel like this is not so much a bug as just a fact of living in medieval times. They drank more booze than water. I say they should keep the ale consumption as is and just make it easier to grow hops. I want my villagers sloshed to the gills in historically accurate fashion god dammit.

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Small beer and ale was pretty dilute. Somewhere between 0.5-3% alcohol. In modern terms somewhere from non-alocholic beer to light beer range. Also there’s a lot of myths about this, medieval people did also drink water, they knew to boil it or get it from fast running streams/deep wells, even if they didn’t understand why. It wasn’t just that beer was safe, they liked drinking beer for the same reasons we do. The taste and getting a little buzzed. Also, it was a way to store excess calories that would otherwise go bad. Similarly with wine/grapes.

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Also there’s a lot of myths about this, medieval people did also drink water, they knew to boil it or get it from fast running streams/deep wells

I didn’t say they only dtank beer.

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Sorry was referencing what you said specifically, it’s just a real pop history fact that gets thrown around.

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is Manor Lords actually good? is it Historically Accurate (derogatory) ? i wanted to get into it but as far as I could tell, there’s only two options for women leaders and in classic fashion one is white and young and the other is white and old :/

I’m hoping that’s not the case, it sounds like an interesting city builder to try out

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It’s got good bones, but they are bare.

It’s very pretty, the fundamentals are well done, its satisfying. The animations stand out- you can watch a villager build each building beam by beam.

But after you set up food growing and a few production chains, there isn’t much left to do. This could be a great game in a year or three, but its not there yet.

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the character creation is kinda superfluous at this point, you can spend loads of time naming them, making a coat of arms etc. but in my experience it never comes up anywhere, nor does your leader character. there’s no real plot or politics to speak of, it’s just a medieval city simulator. there are some policies you can enact but the only impact is just ‘raise taxes = people sad’ and the like. maybe in future more stuff will be added but at the moment it’s not got anything i would consider problematic
there are already mods to change things like character avatars so you could potentially just make whatever character portrait you like and put that in the game

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I really enjoy the concept of this game but I would be really pissed at its current state if I hadn’t gotten it for “free” on Game Pass. This is in waaaaay to rough a state to be charging $40 for.

And yeah, I get that it’s a small (I kinda doubt the claim of 1 man, but okay) team but it’s being backed by a publisher and just isn’t in a good enough state even for early access.

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I’m told that’s a lies my teacher told me thing, and folks did drink water from wells and whatnbot that were known to be safe.

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has anyone else had the issue where livestock just doesn’t get bought for years on end? every playthrough I set a family at the livestock trader to buy like 50 sheep, and 3 years later they’ve bought 1, even if I had money to spare in all that time

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