I've noted that different colony administrators have widely divergent opinions as to the proper time to coddle their colonists with actual beds. Whether this leads to an early demise has yet to be determined, and is the subject for another time. No, this missive is to discuss how and when we should consider providing accommodations fitting to those of a higher class. It is certainly the easy route to construct bunk houses with rows of cots to give the ungrateful cretins space between themselves and the finely constructed floor of their domiciles. But at some point those who feel they deserve 'better' than the rest of the unwashed masses will most likely start complaining. When finally caving into the demands of these ungrateful wretches and constructing the blandly named 'middle class housing', what number of beds seems like a prudent choice to stop the incessant complaints? Do these troublesome reprobates truly expect to have a space to sleep unencumbered by the presence of other colonists? I can grudgingly accept that those fine examples of the upper classes who choose to go on adventure in the new lands may not be willing or able to accept the rougher conditions of a newly conquered land. Their willingness to bring their grace and fine nature amongst the unkempt masses surely entitles them to finer quarters.
I tend to make an upper class building as soon as I get my ministry gold bar as at that point I usually have the manpower to spare and I've never run out of planks and bricks.
It may sound like heresy, but the upper class citizens generally get ignored in my colonies. Theres faaar too much work to be done just to survive to worry about some noble complaining that he wants a gold plated, steam powered toilet. That being said, i'm looking forward to colonists eventually wanting little cabins/shacks and things to themselves.
I do hope that we'll eventually be able to have tightly packed houses with cobblestone roads for the lower/middle classes and great sprawling mansions for the upper classes.
I generally wait until I have a stable gold source, which normally means having an iron and gold mine + a metalworks (which I race for). If I'm going to build an upper class residence, I want the resources to make it fancy. In general though I'm barely paying attention to housing until most of the other structures I can have are up - the upper and lower classes are lucky if they ever get beds. Although I suspect with property ownership becoming a thing everyone is going to have to start paying a lot more attention to housing
Kitchen -> carpentry -> brewery -> ceramics -> smelter metalworks -> forge metalworks -> textile -> middle class -> lower class -> distillery. However, once the kitchen is up and cooking, everything else is designated for building simultaneously. Combine this with taking the all-people-no-supplies loadout and allowing all non-kitchen workshop staff to do any non-hunting job... The result is rather beautiful mayhem.
When you build your middle class domiciles, do you build one per colonist, or do they have to bunk up?
Oh, that. 20-30 per building, barracks style, of the type appropriate to the building class. Upper class are lucky if they get a building with more than one bed.
It will be very interesting to see if the number of beds per building gets factored in when computing happiness. It will certainly change colony dynamics if middle class colonists object to sharing a room.
This also ties to whether claimed modules can be shared with friends, and the larger bed types used concurrently.
