My experiance after not playing in a long time.

Yesterday I decided to play some Clockwork empires for the first time in about 8 months, for 7 hours straight. Obviously I like the changes. I was playing version 49A (experimental?). I tried to play it straight without checking the forums or wiki's, but had to Google some stuff. Here are my thoughts.
I started of the same as before, carpenter, kitchen, crop then a packed flophouse full of cots. Somewhere in this I noticed the logs and mushrooms were all over the place, so I built a small 2nd stockpile at the new edge of the forest, it helped a little. I started with a wheat farm, this is apparently a bad idea. I put a small food only stockpile between the farm and the kitchen, this turned into a meeting place of sorts, and unfortunately lots of people were in easy slapping range of each other. The lapses in food and poor sleeping conditions created a bit of an anger spiral which I managed to recover from by adding 2 cabbage farms and swapping out the cooking and farming work groups with ones that were not so angry. While doing that I moved 1/3 of the total overseers (½ that were actually working) to night shift. This did seem to improve mood as more people could sleep in the limited beds, and their was always some food somewhere. I got several annoying messages about a lack of barracks, so that was built next, further alleviating the bed issue.
The next stage was creating infrastructure now that the basic needs were met. After looking at requirements I quickly determined ceramics was next. While the ceramics workshop was getting it's modules, I got an annoying message that my colonists want a chapel. I would get these for the rest of the session, so 5+ hours of people demanding I build something that I can't. This is my biggest complaint, that I was getting annoying prompts and angering workers for not having a late game building. The way I would fix it would be to have the shrine decor help somehow, but I have no clue how hard that would be to program.
I spent the rest of the time chasing a chapel. The only thing I had to look up outside of the game was how to get sand, since I had an inland start foolishly hoping to reduce fish-people interactions. So after ceramics I built a chemist, then found out I needed glass for the workbench. A quick naturalist for surveys, but I really had him dissect... a lot. I then built a mine, and while the sand to chemist bench was happening, I built a metalworks. While trying to upgrade to a metal brick oven, I crashed the game. The crash happened when I tried to move an older stone one to make room for the new. I then noticed it was dark outside and figured I should do something else, like stand up.


After spending some time on the forums reading up on things, I now know I was led down a side path by the chapel demands of my people. I think my choices were logical with the information I was given in game, so I view this as a problem with the game. Unfortunately I have no ideas how to fix it other than “do something with the shrine decor”.

Bugs: 3 things I saw. The first time I tried to start a new game, it crashed and dumped me to my desktop, no error messages or anything. When I tried to generate a world, the game froze for an extended period of time, then resumed. I did this repeatedly since starting a new game crashed and I doubted my version 27 saves would work. Eventually I tried starting a new game again and it worked fine. Finally I crashed the game moving the stone oven in the ceramics workshop. Over the course of this game I tabbed out many times with no ill effects, unlike certain AAA games I play regularly.

 

I forgot to mention that I had stuff all over the place until I crated a second Hauling only work group, and set it to night shift (start at sunset).

 

Highlight of the day was apparently 2 bandits fighting over a woman. They were shooting each other and her. She died, redcoats showed up and killed them both while a neutral fish-person butchered her. They killed the fish-person in disgust. My naturalist dissected, and wrote a paper improving my relations with all foreign factions.

 

I just tried to start up again after a while away, and I got the same crash to desktop with no error. Worked the second time though.

Looking forward to the new changes!

 

That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing that bit. It literally made me laugh out loud

 

Good to know. Still, I've been playing it for a couple hours with no further issues. No biggie.