I feel like this is not so much a bug as just a fact of living in medieval times. They drank more booze than water. I say they should keep the ale consumption as is and just make it easier to grow hops. I want my villagers sloshed to the gills in historically accurate fashion god dammit.

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    is Manor Lords actually good? is it Historically Accurate (derogatory) ? i wanted to get into it but as far as I could tell, there’s only two options for women leaders and in classic fashion one is white and young and the other is white and old :/

    I’m hoping that’s not the case, it sounds like an interesting city builder to try out

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      It’s got good bones, but they are bare.

      It’s very pretty, the fundamentals are well done, its satisfying. The animations stand out- you can watch a villager build each building beam by beam.

      But after you set up food growing and a few production chains, there isn’t much left to do. This could be a great game in a year or three, but its not there yet.

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      the character creation is kinda superfluous at this point, you can spend loads of time naming them, making a coat of arms etc. but in my experience it never comes up anywhere, nor does your leader character. there’s no real plot or politics to speak of, it’s just a medieval city simulator. there are some policies you can enact but the only impact is just ‘raise taxes = people sad’ and the like. maybe in future more stuff will be added but at the moment it’s not got anything i would consider problematic
      there are already mods to change things like character avatars so you could potentially just make whatever character portrait you like and put that in the game