I would love to know what members in these forums think of the new city builder. Anyone here buying it?
http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/game/
http://www.banishedforum.com/
I have been part of it (I mean that I have followed the development) ever since it started, some two years ago, I guess.
It looks excellent, minus a few minor details and seemingly very interesting to play, a sure-play for me, that's for sure. It will give me a break from SC4 just like The Settlers and Civ III have been.
There also might be some addons and maybe even some Mod possibilities. That surely is making "Banished" interesting.
A must have for dreamers like me. ;)
Fred
From what I'm reading, the developer is planning on making a mod kit after launch. That really did it for me.
http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/2014-02-05-questions-and-answers/
I will be buying it for sure.
Anyone here playing it. Got my copy Tuesday and I'm lovin it. The simulation is so deep you have to watch when children are born and people die. Luke did a great job with this one. &apls
I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this here. We finally got another city builder that's made with real city builders in mind and will be moddable.
Quote from: Mr_Maison on February 20, 2014, 06:49:17 AM
Anyone here playing it.
Yap, since three days and having fun also.Still don't understand the workplay fully yet, but I surely will with time. Got a town of 34 and in its 5th year sofar, just having minor problems with food and wood here and then......
I bought the game yesterday and have mixed feelings about it. I am very interested in what the mod support looks like and if this could be modded into a true city builder. I don't really consider it a city builder right now, more of a strategy game. I have been having a lot of fun with it so far but after Googling how to properly gather food and such it seems the game may lack the depth to hold my attention. It seems like it has potential but the building, resource and skill trees seem a bit sparse. I am concerned I will run out of things to do in a few days like I did with Anno or SC2013.
Either way I am not disappointed in my purchase as it was a reasonable price and I have already gotten 8-15 very enjoyable hours out of the game which is more than I can say for many $20 titles. It is also incredible that Luke did this all himself with the exception of some of the music I believe.
Quote from: droric on February 20, 2014, 07:50:21 AM
...It seems like it has potential but the building, resource and skill trees seem a bit sparse. I am concerned I will run out of things to do in a few days like I did with Anno or SC2013....
Modding really seems to have taken off, and some of the SC4 Batters have started adding content for it
http://www.ill-tonkso.co.uk/
So far the list of mods I'm using for my MD are quite small (see 1st post)
http://www.city-builders.info/cb-discuss/village-of-windthorpe
and I would recommend the Llama Mod, except when they escape and spend the winter out with the deer
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$%Grinno$%
Banished is currently the main game I play. I have been addicted since it came out and now with the new mods it is getting even better.
Its my winding down at the end of the day game, currently playing Windthorpe (starting conditions was set to medium, see link in my last post), another village which had its starting conditions set to hard can't seem to get the population past fifty at the moment, and just for a challenge I've just started Map Seed: 517937420 which has an Island landing site I'm still trying to decide whether to play it as easy, medium or hard ... hard might make a good competition ... who can survive the Island :D
If you havent played with the newest Colonial Charter mod, I would defiantly recommend it.
I've looked at it a few times on this site
http://colonialcharter.com/
but as its the equivalent of adding the NAM to SC4 Deluxe I decided it wasn't something I wanted to try just yet plus it also looks like a couple of the Mods I'm already using aren't compatible with it so it would have to be started on a new map seed and I'm not quite ready to start any new villages.
-catty
The Colonial Charter completely changes the game and adds a lot of new things to the game. I personnally love it.
Below is my old Downtown Center.......made with this Mod.
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Fred
Quote from: mrbisonm on January 27, 2015, 05:45:29 AM
...Below is my old Downtown Center.......made with this Mod....
&apls
I must admit its very very tempting ... I think once I've gone as far as I can with the three villages I'm currently playing it might be time for a change
:thumbsup:
It was four villages, but this one (which was my first successful village) is no more
http://city-builders.info/cb-albums/item/210-dilwoodview-by-catty/group/22-banished
and this one is the one I'm doing a MD on
http://city-builders.info/cb-albums/item/218-village-of-windthorpe/group/22-banished
The other two villages I haven't bothered to take any pictures of them :(
The centre of Windthorpe
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:)
One thing to note about the colonial charter mod is that it includes a bunch of other mods that you are probably using. What is everyone's highest population so far? I've reached 225 many times but always seem to struggle at that point.
I got the population up to just under 500 in the village I'm doing as an MD, then sometime after year 30, I got an outbreak of scarlet fever which killed off quite a few, in turn as it was late summer not all the crops were brought in and so the survivors starting dying of starvation, before winter was over I was down to about 50 villagers not including the kids, it was a couple of years of struggling to balance the jobs around the village even now when I'm about ready to do the 50 year post in my MD I've still only got the population back up to about 150.
:(
The last one I stopped at 4500 or so, it was starting to get really slow on my computer. Now, I do not really play much at this time, still working on the SC4 MFP1 set and on some Farming Simulator mods, but I have this little town of 220 that I am enjoying on some evenings without really forcing it to expand more, but more trying to make it look better and more real and cozy looking.
Fred
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wow, 4500, impressive. I tired of the game, even with all the great mods, but forced myself to go for a high population just for a goal. I surpassed my goal of 2000 and haven't played again since. The game slowed down to a crawl on the highest sim speeds but ran fine still in the first couple lower sim speeds.
Screenshot of my 2000+ population city.
http://i.imgur.com/iKMPuQN.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/iKMPuQN.jpg)
4500 is not really impressive, since there are 6000 and even 8000 and more out there. I have even seen a 10000 town of Banished somewhere, everything, mostly raw materials, was imported.
At 4500 I lost interest in playing the game, making it less controllable and less interesting to look at, sometimes even repetitive and it became to freakin slow and sometimes jammed on me for a few seconds/minutes, making it boring to play with.
So, these days I create smaller villages, max up to 1000, which play better on my computer, are more interesting to watch and look at and most important, I have all the control that I want over it. I like to play to make things realistic, which is more important than those challenges and making them bigger than others.
i like details, which look good and interesting. like this living space add-on that my villagers are building when having problems finding space. I also follow every individual,s family tree.
Fred
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I think I'm with Fred on this one, for me its about having a nice stable village with enough villagers to do all the jobs and have a reasonable numbers of labourers so if disease strikes or its a bad winter with a lot of deaths I'm not having to juggle people from job to job and that I've also got plenty of food supplies, so if I do take in nomads there is enough food to feed them and Inns to house them.
Does anyone here use Windows 8 with Banished and Steam, I don't but Jmouse does and she is having a bit of grief with ... not to sure what ... see over here fixed :)
http://www.city-builders.info/cb-groups/item/22-banished
PS: Fred I love those pictures and especially on your second to last picture there is a building on the bottom right hand corner sitting over some water it looks :thumbsup:
Quote from: catty on January 28, 2015, 01:58:31 PM
I think I'm with Fred on this one, for me its about having a nice stable village with enough villagers to do all the jobs and have a reasonable numbers of labourers so if disease strikes or its a bad winter with a lot of deaths I'm not having to juggle people from job to job and that I've also got plenty of food supplies, so if I do take in nomads there is enough food to feed them and Inns to house them.
Does anyone here use Windows 8 with Banished and Steam, I don't but Jmouse does and she is having a bit of grief with ... not to sure what ... see over here fixed :)
http://www.city-builders.info/cb-groups/item/22-banished
PS: Fred I love those pictures and especially on your second to last picture there is a building on the bottom right hand corner sitting over some water it looks :thumbsup:
Sorry, I cannot help there, I am still on XP with my gaming computer, besides, it plays better with those older games I love...Simcity, Serf City or Settlers I, Farming Simulator,Tropico and Civ III.
For that bldg on water, some buildings in those new mods can be built partially on water, as the picture below shows, as long as they have support on their 4 posts. With this you can do some strange, interesting ,nice and different things.
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While at it, here is a pic just outside of town, the northside, where my villagers keep the Llamas, Chicken, Sheep and Bisons and some fruit trees and veggie fields. You can also see that I am micromanaging almost everything, something we cannot do anymore, when over 1000 pop.......
Fred
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The bison look great :thumbsup:
... after you have been playing for bit I really start longing to have different colored cows other than those red and white ones ... and yes I know about the mod to turn them black and white, but it would be so nice to have different colored ones all in the same field.
And your first picture has sold me on downloading the colonial charter mod ... just not quite yet, will finish the MD I'm doing first ... my goal for that is eventually about 500 villagers with all of them living in nice stone houses once I achieve that I'll be happy :)
I forgot to mention, if you want to build homes on canals like this with the CC {Colonial Charter}, you will need the Flattening Terrain Tool, which makes it possible to sculpt the terrain for such a use.
Btw, there is a mod that gives you different patched cows, the Milk Mod, but again, they are black and white. I know what you mean by different coloured cows. It is those red and white Ayrshires, Hereford and Simmentals or even Angus and Charolais cattle that would be fun to have. Perfect for meat/beef production.
Fred
Yes I've got the Flattening Terrain Tool, probably use it way to much, have now downloaded a mod for growing crops on hills so I might not be as tempted to flatten things.
You expect the sheep and chickens to pretty much look the same, its just the cows that don't look right
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Quote from: catty on January 29, 2015, 10:04:46 AM
You expect the sheep and chickens to pretty much look the same....
....same as what¿
And , where did you get those brown cows from¿
Fred
Edit, got my question mark upside down.....lol....keyboard freaks out on me.....lol
The sheep in New Zealand all tend to be white, chickens brown ;D
As for the cows, I think its just the way the picture came out, I've just been thru the picture album for the village at CB (village no longer exists) and found another picture of them taken a lot closer up, unfortunately it was chucking it down with rain at the time so its not a great picture
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:)
Yeah, I have these red cows also, they are Herefords. Then I have the black and white Holstein cows, which produce milk and meat.
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I don,t think that sheep come in other colours in Banished, so white is what I have too.
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I have both chickens, the white Leghorns and brown regulars.
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Plus I have the buffalos/bisons, the Llamas and the pigs. I have no picture of the pigs, I will have to take one the next time I start the game and add it here.
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The hillgrowing crop mod is a lot of fun and adds a whole new aspect to Banished agriculture. I only use the flattening tool for the waterside of the villages, simply to adjust for bldgs or to make it more interesting to look at.
Fred
Those black and white cows proved too much of a temptation ... I had to have them ... so I have just finished downloaded Colonial Charter Excellent Adventure ()stsfd()
I'm going to keep my MD going till its done 100 years (always supposing it makes it to a 100) and then make the changeover re mods
:thumbsup:
Excellent choice. I could not do without it anymore.
Couldn't resist having a look, so I disabled my MD Mods and switched on CC for a new village, it looks great haven't got the cows yet but no-one is going hungry this winter ... they might be getting really fed up of tomatoes (see attachment) as I'm currently growing rather a lot of them ;D
Slightly upset about the Fountain Mod and Decorative Items Pack going red when I tried activating them for the new village, but as you know most of those two mods have been included in CC, unfortunately not the little stilt houses from the Fountain Mod or the Greenhouse from the Decorative Items pack and I'm really fond of the greenhouse as all the seedling from them can go to the trading post and will pretty much pay for anything I want to buy from a trader, but a quick internet search later and it seems someone has done a CC compatible version of both mods ... it means having two menus one for the CC version and another menu for the non-cc mod but a small price to pay.
-Cathy
Quote from: catty on January 31, 2015, 09:39:18 AM
Slightly upset about the Fountain Mod and Decorative Items Pack going red when I tried activating them for the new village.....
Hmmmm..... I have both and many more that turn red, but as long as you keep the more important ones on top of the list, there are no problems. So I have the CC plus the Fountain mod and decorative items, all in one, without having the double menu. All a matter of putting the priority up and lower on the cheat activation menu list. Below is a sample screenshot of my some of my Mods. Many of them are red......and I have not had any problems.
Fred
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Well, I got convinced and bought the game. Here's my 2nd try, first was a complete disaster. $%Grinno$%
Quote from: Rayden on January 31, 2015, 02:56:17 PM
Well, I got convinced and bought the game. Here's my 2nd try, first was a complete disaster. $%Grinno$%
Looks good &apls just don't make the mistake I made this morning
Quote from: catty on January 31, 2015, 09:39:18 AM
...it looks great haven't got the cows yet but no-one is going hungry this winter ... they might be getting really fed up of tomatoes (see attachment) as I'm currently growing rather a lot of them ;D
and forget to keep an eye on your firewood supplies, they didn't starve instead in the time it took me to get a hot drink they all ... and I mean the entire village ... froze to death
:'(
As I had the Nomads Pop Zero mod I did eventually get some nomads move in, but I spend quite a bit of time worrying about the chickens till they arrived.
Thanks Fred for your post I'd kind of assumed that if the mods were red then that was it, and good to see the translucent mod in action, I'd been wondering if I should get it :thumbsup:
Quote from: Rayden on January 31, 2015, 02:56:17 PM
Well, I got convinced and bought the game. Here's my 2nd try, first was a complete disaster. $%Grinno$%
Rayden playing Banished ¿ ??? ........lol
Just like any other game it will take some time to get everything smoothly going. Not quite my style since I find the village a little too square, but nice going. The most important part is that you have fun.
Quote from: catty on January 31, 2015, 03:16:20 PM
Thanks Fred for your post I'd kind of assumed that if the mods were red then that was it, and good to see the translucent mod in action, I'd been wondering if I should get it :thumbsup:
I couldn,t do without the translucent mod anymore, it makes the whole scene a little more open-spaced and clear.
Fred
I think all of my villages start out squarish looking its only after if they survive that first winter they start to change shape :)
Fred thanks I tried your suggestion re mod order and not worrying about the mods turning red, and I've now got the Stilt House and the Inn from the Fountain Mod
()stsfd()
Still doing a bit of play around with my test village, but it looks like my MD is going to continue with added CC content :thumbsup:
-Cathy
Quote from: catty on February 02, 2015, 09:23:44 AM
I think all of my villages start out squarish looking its only after if they survive that first winter they start to change shape :)
Fred thanks I tried your suggestion re mod order and not worrying about the mods turning red, and I've now got the Stilt House and the Inn from the Fountain Mod
()stsfd()
Still doing a bit of play around with my test village, but it looks like my MD is going to continue with added CC content :thumbsup:
-Cathy
No need of thanking.
I did not say to stop worrying about the redturning mods, but to first investigate why it is turning red
[sometimes you have doubles and when it is, delete it or adjust the loading order, sometimes it just does not work with another mod and crashes the game, then you delete one of them, sometimes it doesn,t do anything and then do simply not bother] and then establishing a loading order in the modmenu. Always make a copy of the map you are trying new mods on, just in case. ;)
Once you get an order and understand the modding orders, the news mods can be absolute fun. Have fun.
Fred
I've started another one, now with the Colonial Charter Mod, Adam & Eve style (a couple with only a storage cart with some tools, firewood and loads of potatoes), large map plains and rivers on harsh weather. So far I have survived the first 3 winters and the family now it's 8 adults and two child living on 4 wood houses. Quite challenging this way. :)
Quote from: mrbisonm on February 02, 2015, 09:39:19 AM
...I did not say to stop worrying about the redturning mods, but to first investigate why it is turning red [sometimes you have doubles and when it is, delete it or adjust the loading order, sometimes it just does not work with another mod and crashes the game, then you delete one of them...
:thumbsup:
That's what my test village is for, plus it means I'm getting familiar with what's available in CC, things like the sawmill I've got a separate mod for that, but a sawmill is also available in CC ... my current thinking is if I delete the sawmill out of my MD village, save the village and then restart the village with the CC mod activated I can then put in the CC sawmill ... but at this stage am just still playing around.
Quote from: Rayden on February 02, 2015, 10:26:00 AM
I've started another one, now with the Colonial Charter Mod, Adam & Eve style (a couple with only a storage cart with some tools, firewood and loads of potatoes), large map plains and rivers on harsh weather. So far I have survived the first 3 winters and the family now it's 8 adults and two child living on 4 wood houses. Quite challenging this way. :)
:bnn:
I picked the Silk Road as my test village, but then decided that as my MD village was using a medium village start (valleys and a large map) I should really stick to the same in my test village ... but it was fun while it lasted.
:)
Quote from: Rayden on February 02, 2015, 10:26:00 AM
I've started another one, now with the Colonial Charter Mod, Adam & Eve style (a couple with only a storage cart with some tools, firewood and loads of potatoes), large map plains and rivers on harsh weather. So far I have survived the first 3 winters and the family now it's 8 adults and two child living on 4 wood houses. Quite challenging this way. :)
pics ¿......sounds nice.
Quote from: catty on February 02, 2015, 09:23:44 AM
...but it looks like my MD is going to continue with added CC content...
I decided to stop my MD at year 50, have uploaded the 50 year pictures to the MD picture album but as yet still have to do the last post in the MD itself, and have now re-organised my mod list, the cc compatible version of the Decorative Items Pack is looking nice and green as its creator has gone thru and removed everything that is now in the Colonial Charter mod, but the cc compatible version of the Fountain Mod stayed red and on top of which the stilt houses and Inn wasn't in it, so I have gone back to using the original mod, went thru the rest of my mods and had a purge just keeping things like the Mountain fields, etc
And started a new village
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Really like the new buildings available in CC
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()stsfd()
Looking good. About some mods turning red, well, do not worry too much about. Try to find out why they turn red and if you do not find the actual problem, just leave them on, but make sure that they are lower on the menu list than the more important ones.
This way even the things from the Fountain mod will load but what is available in the CC mod will be overwritten by the one higher in the list. This is what I do all the time, and I have no problems with them.
Fred
I'm down to three red mods, the rest are green ()stsfd(), so I'm pretty happy especially when I read a post over on the CC site that says they are looking at adding in the "Fountain Mod" Inn and houses to CC, anyway I though I'd post a few pictures
Fred you should recognize this mapseed from SimPeg
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As you know I was moving all my villagers onto the island and keeping the fields, etc on the land around the island
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I am now ... I think its from watching to many zombie shows on TV ()sad() ... building two stockades around the village the first will go completely around the island
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the second will protect the fields, livestock and orchards
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;D
Yeap, I recognize it well since I am playing on it also, but at the moment, I am pretty busy finishing two more categories of the MFP1 set (Modern Farm Props) for SC4.
As soon as I have done a little more on this island I will show some pics too, a bit different from yours, since I do not like organizing my buildings and fields, but build them in a way as the terrain lets me.
Nice going. I think to keep the food production on the mainland is a good idea enough for me to take the same steps. But I will really keep the main village on the island and if needed maybe enlarge it a little to the south later on.
Fred
Edit. btw, nice going to get rid of the red mods, I myself have about 50 percent of them in red, but it doesn,t really bother me as long as I keep them in line on the menulist. If the fountainmod will become part of the CC, that surely would be convenient, it will make another mod green.
I've been trying to follow the shore line as much as possible, but quite large areas of the village are having to be knocked down and rebuild as I build down to the waters edge in a lot of places, the eventual aim is that most of the villagers will live on the island and be surrounding by the internal stockade, food production and industrial activities will be done on the mainland and they will be surrounding by the external stockade and gatherers, hunters and foresters will be out in the forest surrounded by their own smaller stockade with safe paths set up to the village gates ... its going to take a lot of logs to complete which is why I currently have switched on the debug menu so I can get an unlimited number of logs and stones when required ... I'm not using it for anything else as I don't want to cheat, so everyone in the village is stuck eating grapes and pumpkins for the foreseeable future until I can afford to buy some different seeds from the trader.
As for the situation with the red mods, I found I was able to get rid of a lot as I no longer needed them as they were now available in the latest CC, things like the official mods, advanced blacksmith, llamas, sawmills, dairies, bakeries, windmills, specialized stockpiles and a few others I can't remember have now been included, also things like the "Better Fields" mod are no longer required as its also part of the CC, and I've just switched off the "Wildlife" mod as some of that also appears to be part of the CC.
-Cathy
Be sure to get Red Ketchup's latest Medieval Town mod... the three story houses are great.
Totally addicted to Banished now that there are some great mods.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1122.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl528%2Fpurringcat%2FBan_reclam.jpg&hash=32020e0fae19b4fc4537bcde1eb7821653ef16af)
Looks great, you can also get three story houses in Colonial Charter, but you have to do about 5 house upgrades on a home to get them, always assuming you have the right materials
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F217%2F2511%2Fbanished0007_original.jpg&hash=ed7399ae5f93e60b3ff15e7fe08957f4e05b2157)
:)
Quote from: Couchpotato on March 16, 2015, 11:26:27 AM
Be sure to get Red Ketchup's latest Medieval Town mod... the three story houses are great.
Totally addicted to Banished now that there are some great mods.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1122.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl528%2Fpurringcat%2FBan_reclam.jpg&hash=32020e0fae19b4fc4537bcde1eb7821653ef16af)
I seem to be having trouble finding this medieval town mod. Can you link it for me?
Had a quick look round and couldn't spot it, I know he deleted his stuff off the Steam Workshop cos people were stealing them and putting them back on the Workshop under their own names ... there was patch put out to stop that happening but there is still a lot of duplicate-looking plugins still available on there
Here is the latest version of it - link (https://mega.co.nz/#!0UNzETyJ!dFxIswOVhddM4qOrqmExdXn7nIjosuWsWhGEpg2T4uo) - He's soon updating another version, perhaps on the next few days or over the weekend. You can find his thread over here (http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=786.0)
Thanks! Simcity 4, Banished, and Civ 5 on my only 3 games I ever play. Couldn't live without them lol
&hlp :bnn:
Just released in the last fortnight "Colonial Charter: Curse of the Golden Llama (1.4) "
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/welcome-mat/1255-colonial-charter-curse-of-the-golden-llama-1-4#11277
Would highly recommend it to people, still getting used to the menu changes and all the new extras that come with it.
()stsfd()
Quote from: catty on June 08, 2015, 03:30:16 AM
...Just released in the last fortnight "Colonial Charter: Curse of the Golden Llama (1.4)...
Start of a new settlement
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F217%2F2563%2Fbanished0013_original.jpg&hash=153348e53916313c872c7eef26073175572a0aae)
and planting flowers
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F217%2F2562%2Fbanished0014_original.jpg&hash=c14cc0837a2ac0bd24ccfee64f5e06c566846802)
;D
For those Banished players out there they have just released CC New Frontier - [Version: 1.55]
http://banishedinfo.com/mods/view/679-CC-New-Frontier-BlackLiquid#description
Part of me is going :bnn: the other part that's just started a new picture album over at CB of my CC Golden Llama village is going :crytissue:
-catty
Trying out CC New Frontier
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F217%2F2922%2Fccnewfrontiers_original.jpg&hash=aa3273db3e5655cb88d2172b2c5370e9e64cbbb8)
:)
I haven't play this for a while, get to have a go again sometime soon and see what there's new about mods.;)
Quote from: Rayden on August 26, 2015, 08:06:03 AM
I haven't play this for a while, get to have a go again sometime soon and see what there's new about mods.;)
CC New Frontier is over half a GB in size so I have a feeling once I start really looking thru the menus I'm going to be getting rid of some of the mods I have in addition to CC not that there is very many these days ... main one is the fountain mod so I could have castles (+ walls).
http://banishedinfo.com/mods/view/686-The-Fountain-Mod-Highborn-Society-v-1-544-beta
Quote from: catty on August 26, 2015, 11:21:45 AM
...before I hit the delete button on my village and loaded up CC New Frontier, so if you are interested (and a member of the site) the album is over here
http://city-builders.info/my-albums/item/318-beehive-v1-an-ice-age-village-cc-golden-llama/user/catty
I tweaked a setting, so unless the site is :sleeping: you should be able to see above link and also my new Ice Age MD here
http://city-builders.info/my-albums/item/337-beehive-v2-an-ice-age-village-cc-new-frontier/user/catty
()stsfd()
Very nice Cathy, I really like those tepees and the palisades. Which mod are they coming from?
The new Colonial Charter Mod - New Frontier the link to it is in a previous post, you can have the tepees, etc as props or convert them so people are living in them or make them a storage area, the same for the large round ones and the longhouse ... just be careful if you do as they require things like muskets and arrowheads to do the conversion.
EDIT: Currently working on the harbour
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F337%2F2932%2Fbeehive-v20005_original.jpg&hash=414eee8440a2d43bc3897b34898c877abee70301)
Hrrmmmm looks nice for sure, might think about trying this one out
Quote from: Pat on September 08, 2015, 01:34:48 PM
Hrrmmmm looks nice for sure, might think about trying this one out
:)
End of the harbour
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2934/beehive-v20007_original.jpg)
and looking towards the harbour
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2935/beehive-v20008_original.jpg)
Nice arrangement of the harbour, looks like as if it could've been like this for real. I am amazed to see that some folks still play Banished, maybe I should have a go at it again also.
Nice work.
Fred
Very nice pictures! :thumbsup:
If I would have a computer, where I were able to play Banished, I definately would give it a try.
Hi Guys and :thumbsup:
QuoteI am amazed to see that some folks still play Banished
If it was still the original Banished then you would be right, but the Colonial Charter Mod has made all the difference, someone asked me over at CB if I'd recommend it and I used SimCity 4 vanilla as opposed to SimCity 4 Deluxe as the example of the difference between the two.
I don't like the flying ducks the latest CC version had added to the game, that's till I found the ducks hides and I've been adding them along the riverbanks, etc to get rid of the ducks that way, and the extra protein will be good for the villagers ;D
Have started building the city walls
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2939/beehive-v20012_original.jpg)
More pictures here https://city-builders.info/my-albums/item/354-catty-plays-banished/user/catty
One of the main advantages of Banished is you can keep a number of your previous village saves and if you don't like what you have done you can just start again using a previous save
Mining Settlement with Stone Quarry
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2942/beehive-v20015_original.jpg)
As you can't remove quarries once you start one and I didn't like where I'd put this one as I decided that given the high death rate in the Banished mines a Cemetery would make more sense in this location, so going backwards in now looks like this
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2945/beehive-v20018_original.jpg)
Also the castle walls have been finished in this area
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/354/2947/beehive-v20019_original.jpg)
()stsfd()
:thumbsup:
Quote from: mrbisonm on October 03, 2015, 02:27:22 PM
:thumbsup:
Colonial Charter is literally turning Banished into a new game, the latest New Frontier is only just starting to bring in the new options, if you look at this picture here
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcity-builders.info%2Fmedia%2Fcom_easysocial%2Fphotos%2F354%2F2977%2Fbeehive-v20024_original.jpg&hash=1eee2d273298142675e24bed4c6bba59103ec01a)
from my latest village, the two houses in front of the fields are actually 6 houses (2 ground floor, 2 second levels and 2 top levels houses not sure just how many people are living in them) you plop the ground floor and then either add a top level or a second level and then a top level to finish the house off, they are also adding roads to a lot of the buildings as you can now plop things on roads like oak trees which is why I have oak trees so close to these houses front doors
If you want to see what the next CC version is going to give people the ability to do, take a look at the pictures in this topic
http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org/some-mod-impressions-t124.html
While the pictures on page 1 and 2 are great, its the pictures on pages 3 and 4 that are :clap:
:)
Have been using the new Banished Beta (Beta 1.0.5 version 2) which meant I could then install CC1.6
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/welcome-mat/2256-colonial-charter-1-6-the-forge-awakens#20429
And while I tried to resist I've been playing around using the new cheat starting conditions "[cc] All the Wild Things" no starving to death or running out of building materials ... a villager might still died tripping over a bucket of milk in the forest and freezing to death is still a option, but otherwise you can concentrate on building your town $%Grinno$%
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3524/beta-cc1-6-0003_original.jpg)
Stopped cheating and went back to a normal map as I realized I liked the struggle of keeping my villagers alive, two things someone asked me about what was new in the betas ... so firstly some menu pictures that I took the other day for them to look at
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/209/3526/beta-cc1-6-0006_original.jpg)
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/209/3527/beta-cc1-6-0005_original.jpg)
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/209/3525/beta-cc1-6-0007_original.jpg)
And secondly a couple of pictures from [CC] Old Castle
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3530/beta-cc1-6-0008_original.jpg)
and looking from the other side
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3529/beta-cc1-6-0009_original.jpg)
more pictures over here
https://city-builders.info/
()stsfd()
If anyone is wondering just what Banished is like these days you just have to take a look over here
http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org/seaside-port-area-t312.html
its really worth the visit the pictures are &apls
That´s crazy! I play this game sometimes, and I love it´s look, but these pictures are simply awesome. :)
And I can understand the first comment. Speechlessness is the right answer.
I have no own experience of this game, but it looks very good also to me.
But I also wouldn't have guessed otherwise, now that I know who's building it. ;D
Quote from: Themistokles on March 23, 2016, 01:51:17 PM
...now that I know who's building it
I'm never going to match his skill especially when I go around knocking holes in the maps using the Terraform Mod
Started off ok
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3546/terraform_original.jpg)
But then got carried away
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3547/map-hole_original.jpg)
()sad()
Where did you get that mod?
Quote from: Jmouse on April 03, 2016, 11:44:55 AM
Where did you get that mod?
On the CC site here
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/kralyergs-kave-of-krazy-kontraptions?limitstart=0
I'd also recommend the Irrigate Mod on Page two it was designed for ditches, etc, but you can use it to do this kind of thing
http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org/about-landscape-cc-quays-take-2-t313.html
:)
Got 'em. Thanks! :)
Another link to a great looking picture ()stsfd()
http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org/herbalist-compound-t318.html
And some recent ones of mine
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3563/screenshot0_original.jpg)
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3564/screenshot1_original.jpg)
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3565/screenshot2_original.jpg)
not in the same league as Paeng, but still having fun :thumbsup:
Quote from: catty on April 13, 2016, 03:55:24 PM
.......... but still having fun.......
.............and that's what counts!! Looking good.
Fred
The first image is very reminding of traditional South-East Asian riverine communities. I think it looks great! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Themistokles on April 14, 2016, 03:48:52 AM
The first image is very reminding of traditional South-East Asian riverine communities. I think it looks great!
We didn't used to be able to do docks they are a recent addition to the Colonial Charter Mod which keeps growing with each new version, the first CC version I downloaded was 243mb in size its now 947mb in size so almost the same size as the game itself :)
I just fired this game up for the first time since the beginning. Also trying the CC 1.6 mod combined with Redketchup's New Medieval Town mod.
My first attempt at a some of the dock stuff...
(https://i.imgur.com/X207NDa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/tGuVtnr.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/tm3mdTf.jpg)
Looks real good &apls
I've been avoiding downloading Redketchup's New Medieval Town mod tempting as it is, as it would add another 118mb to my mod folder, and that's already over a GB in size with just CC, Fountain Mod and a few others
:)
Banished 1.0.5 along with a new Modkit were released yesterday :bnn:
QuoteChanges in 1.0.5:
– UTF8 is now used instead of USC2.
– Resource files can be in UTF8, USC2, UTF16, big and little endian. They'll be converted to UTF8 on load.
– Memory usage allowance has been increased to 1 gigabyte, which should allow for larger mods.
– All materials now use custom shading language SRSL instead of HLSL.
– Any mods with custom materials will need to be modified to point to the new shaders and/or use SRSL.
– Math library can now be compiled without the need for SIMD instructions.
– OpenGL is now supported (but isn't currently being released with the PC version)
– Data compilation is now in a separate DLL – CompileWin.dll – this can be swapped out for other platforms (consoles, mac, linux, etc)
– Shader compiler is now in it's own DLL. Video DX9/DX11/GL dlls are no longer required for compiling shaders.
– Added safety code to check for invalid and dangling pointers – this should make catching hard to find and rare issues easier.
– Sped up mod details dialog for massive mods that have 10000's of files included. This should make looking at conflicts and uploading to Steam workshop easier.
– Beta Mods and Mods newer than the currently released version can no longer be uploaded to Steam Workshop.
– Nvidia and AMD GPUs in laptops should now be auto selected for use, instead of an Intel Integrated card.
– Textile limit is now available for modders to use.
– Cropfields, Fishing, Forester, Hunters, Orchards, and Pastures now have a configurable resource limit.
– Livestock has a resource limit for the by product they make (eggs, wool, milk, etc) Note that if a by product isn't created because of the resource limit, the icon won't appear above the building.
– Added textile to the Status Bar, Resource Limit window, and Town Hall UI
– Added graphs for textiles to Town Hall UI
– Fixed a bug that caused fonts from 1.0.4 to not load in 1.0.5. A UCS2 – UTF8 conversion wasn't made properly.
– Fixed a bug that caused dropped resources (from citizen death/task cancelation) to drop in invalid places.
– Fixed a bug that caused orchards to cause invalid data access and or data corruption if a citizen tried to harvest a tree, but the tree died before he got there.
– Fixed a bug that caused potential memory corruption when cutting down an orchards trees.
– Fixed a bug that caused a crash if game startup failed before memory allocation was available or was corrupt. It now properly displays an error.
– Added better error message if the game runs out of memory due to too many mods loaded.
– Fixed a bug that caused a crash when loading old mods that had custom materials. The game will no longer crash, however objects with those materials will not display. To fix this issue, mods should be updated to the newest mod kit version and update the materials.
-catty
I'm a great fan of trains, railway lines, stations, etc ... so to finally be able to start doing this
(https://city-builders.info/media/com_easysocial/photos/217/3645/ban0000_original.jpg)
is magic :bnn:
Rails and trains? Wow, where did this come from?
It is unfortunately not animated, but am finding it quite useful to have, anyway its on the
World of Banished website
Choo Choo : A Mod about Railroads and Trains by RedKetchup
http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=113
QuoteTrain Stations :
Inside this toolbar you should find 4 buildings. Each one is a specific merchant who will gather specific goods (food, textiles, utilities, and materials) and will exchange them for coins.
Trains and Wagons :
Inside this toolbar you will find 2 design of Train Engine, and 6 type of Wagons. The train engine is driven by train drivers, will take coins and buy things you want with it. The wagon will mainly have the purpose to serves as storage place, and also there is one (passenger one) will attract some nomads, and the cabooze will serve as a little house (mainly for the traindrivers , i hope^^). There is another one, the hand cart, which is mainly just decorative.
Railroads :
This toolbar allow you to design a railroad network inside your town and map. they are mainly 1x1 tiles and allow roads to be built under it. You will also find bridges (wood, wood structure and stone) and a bigger tunnel.
Hopefully you will find this little mod very funny and you will like it
;D
I think over the years we have all read posts on this site and others about having a mega plugin which had everything in it or at least everything someone considered to be essential.
Just released over on the Colonial Charter site is the MegaMod
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/mega-announcements/3253-banished-megamod
Modders are RedKetchup, Kid, Discrepancy, embx61, tanypredator, Wintin, Maal, Elfecutioner ... there is also a beta version of the next CC Mod 1.7 included as well, the mod list is here
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/mega-announcements/3255-list-of-mods-used-in-megamods
I would love to be trying this out, but I ditched using Windows 7 last week and became a Linux Mint 18 user and unfortunately Banished doesn't have a linux version yet ... will be using the PlayonLinux and GOG version of Banished once I get SimCity 3 and 4 working in a WinXP Pro VirtualBox.
-catty
Glad to have you around with these updates since I hardly ever go to these sites to see what's new. Thanks catty.
Looks like a nice set, I will surely try it out. My gaming computer is still on windows XP ;)
Oh, and thanks for the linkie to the trainset.
Fred
Paeng has done some great pictures showing the trainset in action, the pictures are here
http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org/jupite-river-t337.html
And I don't think he'll mind if I link a picture of my favourite picture here
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5012419/Banished/jupite/jupite03.jpg)
:thumbsup:
wow, some nice fantasies work there.
Fred
If you have the spare time then its also worth a visit over to "Pictures At An Exhibition" on the Colonial Charter website
http://colonialcharter.com/index.php/forum/colonial-atlas-images-and-screenshots/993-pictures-at-an-exhibition-rules-hints
:thumbsup:
Thanks catty, I never went to see the galleies. Quite amazing pics there, and of course a lot of stimulation to build my own little paradises. ;)
Fred
Does anyone have an idea where I could download the latest Banished Patch, 1.06?
I am not on Stream and do want to neither...............
Thanks
Fred
eDIT: fOUND IT!
The latest patch is 1.07 that includes changes made by Luke 'http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/' to increase flags and resource fields. The modders at World of Banished and BlackLiquidSoftware responded by some wonderful new mods. purringcat
You can also visit Paeng's site 'http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org' where he's provided links to everything useful in Banished. Very helpful :)
Quote from: catdty on September 17, 2016, 11:13:47 AM
The latest patch is 1.07 that includes changes made by Luke 'http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/' to increase flags and resource fields. The modders at World of Banished and BlackLiquidSoftware responded by some wonderful new mods. purringcat
You can also visit Paeng's site 'http://banishedpeople.freeforums.org' where he's provided links to everything useful in Banished. Very helpful :)
I got Banished for real cheap during the summer sales and I finally tried it out last week. The game is awesome, I fell in love with it instantly. Sure, it has some kinks but it's fun as hell.
Quote from: BarryWi on November 01, 2017, 06:43:09 AM
I got Banished for real cheap during the summer sales and I finally tried it out last week. The game is awesome, I fell in love with it instantly. Sure, it has some kinks but it's fun as hell.
Been playing it ever since it came out, now with all the Modelers addons, it's quite variable. ;)
Fred