Well I'm kinda muffed.
So I played a bit on friday evening and saturday morning with a first village to get a grip on the mechanics. Then yesterday evening I decided to start a fresh game and 'do things right'. And apparantly so I did because I got my village to max development in no time. I figured it was time to expand to a different region but all of a sudden, I got a short movie with scenes from my village and a game over screen with my in-game stats?
So I don't know what the hell that was but there's no way to continue with the save game of my perfect village. My region wasn't under attack or anything, it all just ended and brought me to the startup screen.
Think I'm done with this for the year.. Love the vibe and the mechanics are pretty neat but I'd be downright pissed if I hadn't played this through Game Pass. It definitely needs more depth and a lot of tweaking. Here's to hoping Slavic Magic will be hiring a dev team with his new found millions.
edit: oh yeah, to continue on my reasoning from my post above:
Concerning two houses on one plot: so I do feel like this doubles the production of your extension. As in: two houses and a plot will give you double production from that plot. Which sounds like a good thing but really isn't. First of all, it means that through level 1 and 2 development you have less control over the exact production of your houses. I don't necessarily need 50/50 chickens and vegetable gardens for instance. In level 2, you don't necessarily need two families working the bakery or the blacksmith. And then in level 3 you get in big trouble because the amount of families living in your buildings doubles at this point anyway. So you'd get no choice of ending up with a Lvl 3 building with a bakery that you're forced to put 4 families into. Those are three families that can't work the field or put to use elsewhere.
Much better off just sticking to 1 building + 1 extension per plot so you have that extra level of control. You have nothing to gain but much to lose any other way. In fact, in the current state of the game, I don't fully understand why it's an option at all to put down two houses or no extensions beyond pure visual customization. On a gameplay level though, I think it's misleading to a fault. As far as I understand it anyway.
