im so lost

[Lorenzo.]

I've read all the stickies yet i dont understand how to build a city, ive played in-game about a month. I understand that you only get supplies once a month, no problem. But how will you be placing out house and designing your custom scene? that I do not understand. Im new so please dont flame me.
Or maybe this mod is not what I thought? im so lost. Help appreciated, thanks.

edit: should I enalbe edit mode in configure?

 

[wickedshot]

you don't need to use edit mode.

you just need to make sure your settlement isn't one of the "EmptXXX" named settlements.  then when you have enough resources you can use "Manage Settlement" then "Build Economy" or "Build Military" and then itll take around 10-20 days

 

[Lorenzo.]

i see, so I can build a nice settlement just like this one http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,57446.msg1538157.html#msg1538157
without any editing and things?

just noticed too i got one of those empt.. shiet.
thanks for the help

 

[Koror]

Hehe. EmptyXXX are made for scene makers 

 

[Lorenzo.]

and the earlier url i linked to, was that a scenemaker?

 

[Mortus]

You can only design new scenes with the in-game scene editor, it takes some time usually and it's not exactly the game experience. There's many already designed settlements on the map, when you'll upgrade them using resources their scenes will change according to what did you built. There's total of 9 different scenes with different sets of economical and military development levels for each settlement. The EmptXXX settlements are not yet have their scenes so they'll be empty at any level of upgrades.

And yes, screens with yellow arrows on the ground and green-marked buildings were captured in the edit mode.

 

[Koror]

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,57442.0.html

Here is a tutorial to make scenes on different Villages if you want. It's really not that complicated. Even I understand it

 

[Josef_the_Pretender]

I too tend to play for an hour and then start wondering, "What the hell am I supposed to be doing here?" The mod looks potentially fabulous, but some direction in the FAQ might be useful.

My experience was, I started my settlement (not an Emptio), and recruited some peasants. Met a few heroes and helped out in some fights. Went to some villages that were infested by Bandits, and got rid of them. Every so often I would kill a Thief in my own village.

I advanced the time via the cheat for a while, came back to my settlement and it had gained a few peasants. Sold a couple of slaves. Couldn't find anyone else on the map so leaned on the time advancement thing again, spawned a bunch of bandits and lost my village.

I read a post where someone said that they typically spend the early game visiting other settlements to build rep with them. But that was all I could glean from how you should start out, and I tried it and it seems mind-meltingly boring. I can't find fights, and I can't figure out what I should be doing.

So, what are my objectives? Should I be fighting the bandit settlements? What should I be doing when I'm in my settlement with 14 peasants? Waiting? Will the Swadians and other factions etc appear eventually? Is the mod entirely about building a settlement with no conflict involved?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the mod, just a little guidance would be appreciated.

 

[Mortus]

Early stages in this mod could be a bit boring, there was a thread about it lately. I believe I read somewhere that wickedshot is planning to alter the starting somehow. For now you can build your army, try to get more peasants (convince some to move to your settlement), attack some bandits. If it's too boring for you, you can find another options in this thread:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,60826.0.html