“Ooooowwww we’re hungry and don’t have enough wood!”

Yeah cuz I don’t have enough of you fucks to fully staff any of my shit!

Fuck being the Manor Lord.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    like most indies, i’m waiting for a few bug patches after community input, etc

    otherwise pretty excited about this game. it seems like a real passion project.

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      More than anything, it’s really pretty and the details are tight. It’s also fairly challenging thus far, like I was micromanaging labor assignments a little to have more hands on farming during the autumn and then shifting them elsewhere in the winter. I played for a few hours and then got my village burned down by raiders, which was fun! it seems like you can keep going after that without too much backtracking. I think I’ll probably start over though. Remains to be seen if there’s much to it once you get your ducks in a row though.

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      It’s a great foundation. The tech tree is only half-implemented so it’s still fairly bare, but right now it’s like an updated Banished with combat but no mods (yet). I bought it day one and don’t regret it at all.

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      I’ve only played like an hour so far shrug-outta-hecks

      It does have some pretty good building management and city layout mechanics.

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    That’s why I like Rimworld, my mining camp prisoners will slave away until they lose their mind or get shot!

    Edit: I hadn’t heard of Manor Lords though, that does look neat

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      Are we really removing comments for fictional RP? Should I be banned for murdering a child with my evil zombie character in D&D? What the hell is this

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        modlog says “videogame slaveowner” so I guess that can be summed up to “mod no sense of humor”

        the characters in the game are literally called pawns but delete your comment because you call them slaves very-smart

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          Unless the removal itself is a joke which is funny, I never said I was the slaveowner anyway, I RP as one of the prisoners

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          No everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world. The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991. I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence. Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper. I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten. In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate. Every local org has banned me after I attempted to split it by assassinating the leadership. There is no plumbing in my house I shit in a brass bucket with a picture of Gonzalo and Deng french kissing in the bottom of it. My house is actually an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin. I have a single friend in this world and it is a tapeworm named Bordiga that I met after ingesting spoiled borscht on 9/11 in the ruins of building 7 (I blew it up after finding that a nominally leftist NGO inside of it wasn’t sufficiently anti-imperialist, the attacks on the world trade center were a perfect revolutionary moment for me to enact direct praxis against liberalism). My source of income is various MLM schemes in the former soviet bloc that have been running for so long no one remembers who I am, they just keep sending money. I have not paid taxes since McGovern lost the Democratic nomination for president and my faith in electoralism died more brutally than my childhood dog after it got into an entire jar of tylenol. I own 29 fully automatic rusted kalashnikovs and three crates of ammunition entirely incompatible with them or any other firearms I own. My double PHD in marxist economics and 18th century Swiss philosophy (required to understand Engels) sits over the fireplace of my home, my fireplace is a salvaged drum from a 1950s washing machine that was recalled for locking children inside of it. I chose that washing machine model on purpose because I am anti-natalist. During the latest BLM protests I firebombed a Nikes outlet in the middle of a peaceful candlelit vigil. William F Buckley and I wrote hatemail to one another for 47 years until my final letter gave him an aneurysm. The only water I drink is from puddles. George Lucas and I dropped acid together during an MKULTRA southern baptist summer camp and he went on to write the movie Willow about our time together. The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist. You can make an IED out of potassium and the instructions are online thanks to Timothy McVey, who was actually a committed antifascist communist slandered by the deep state as part of operation condor. Every time a liberal files a restraining order against me, I carve a mark into the wall. I am running out of walls. When Amerika finally collapses I will be ready to lead the revolution. I am very smart and people like being around me.

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      Manor Lord puts you in charge of a small medieval village with neat graphics. It combines elements of economy, village building, and warfare. The indie game, developed by just one person, has exploded in popularity, landing on over 2 million Steam wishlists and boasting around 150k active players. While still in early access, it’s already quite solid, though some players may find it a bit empty.

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        Wild, I’ll check it out. ATM city builder is Farthest Frontier, which is distressingly slow with updates but does have soil nutrition and crop rotations.

        Honestly, I always feel like I want a city builder that lands somewhere between Cities Skylines and WOrkers and Resources in terms of complexity, with some more complex crop and housing systems? Really, it would be cool if housing buildings could be “generated” (like, you’d set number of households in an apartment, with whatever amenities, and the structure would get generated). I always kinda rail against the unlocking systems in most games (Tropico is bad for this).