Multiplayer knights

[CuDi]

Title says it all. I've been wanting to use them in my army but I never find time to fit a stable into my village. When I do it ends up taking too long to even produce the horses. Does anyone have any useful strategies?

[T*AnTi-V!RuZz]

Useful strategy?

Create a sh*tload of farms

No seriously, that's the only real solution. I always have a minimum of 4 farms for food, and when I need horses, I build 2 extra farms and put my stable right next to the 2 new farms. Works pretty well..

And of course, make sure your stable gets 5 corn (not the default 2).

[GreatWhiteBear]

but how many fields do you use?
When the farms are close to each other I use 1farm:20fields, 2farms:45fields, 3farms:70fields, 4farms:95fields, 5farms:120

[Krom]

Right, make sure you have Stables ratio of corn 5 - thats gonna improve the speed a lot.

[Ben]

Well I still believe that keeping your farms separated is a good idea. If they are right next to each other, then farmer A will "claim" a square and if farmer B is working on that square, the farmer A will just stand next to farmer B until farmer B finishes working. If this happens several times in a row, then your farm production will plummet.
I've been able to have 20+ farm tiles properly managed by a farmer. Experiment. If I have room and time (in easy single missions) I just make more tiles then the farmer can handle (within reason).
For other pepole's opinions, you can look at this thread: http://www.atfreeforum.com/knights/viewtopic.php?t=697&mforum=knights

[T*AnTi-V!RuZz]

Well I still believe that keeping your farms separated is a good idea. If they are right next to each other, then farmer A will "claim" a square and if farmer B is working on that square, the farmer A will just stand next to farmer B until farmer B finishes working. If this happens several times in a row, then your farm production will plummet.
I've been able to have 20+ farm tiles properly managed by a farmer. Experiment. If I have room and time (in easy single missions) I just make more tiles then the farmer can handle (within reason).
For other pepole's opinions, you can look at this thread: http://www.atfreeforum.com/knights/viewtopic.php?t=697&mforum=knights

As far as I know, this is not the case in the Remake. When the farmer detects 'his' field is already in use by another farmer, he goes looking for new field

[Lewin]

As far as I know, this is not the case in the Remake. When the farmer detects 'his' field is already in use by another farmer, he goes looking for new field

That is correct. All harvesting units should do this. It might still be a slight slow down because he then has to walk to a new field, but nothing like in KaM.

[Ben]

I didn't look for this in the remake. Thanks.
I've noticed lots of things improved here and there. Serfs deliver wood to building sites first, laborers don't continue "building" a structure after it is done...things like that.
By the way, will you8 be adding a feature to remove roads? I think you should...it would be useful if your ally quit and you needed some room for farms, for example.

[Lewin]

Yes we're trying to make little improvements like that as we go, it can really make the game feel nicer.

I think we will allow you to destroy roads. A labourer can come and dig it up and leave the ground appearing dug (like when you demolish a building site in the Remake the road goes to this) Same with fields I think, I don't see any reason you shouldn't be able to remove them.

[Ben]

One question: how will a laborer remove a field? Will he just dig it up again?

[Lewin]

One question: how will a laborer remove a field? Will he just dig it up again?

That was my plan, and the tile will still appear dug, (like when a labourer is waiting for stone building road over the field) it will not return to its original state (e.g. grass)

[Ben]

Oh, silly me. I was thinking you wanted the terrain that was underneath the field to reappear.
Sorry about that

[Krom]

I like this idea. Maybe we could allow to place "Remove field" markers above roads and fields and laborers would go there and "unbuild" them

[The Dark Lord]

Yes but I think you shouldn't be able to 'unbuild' roads or fields made by other players while they are still in play.
Also I wonder how it will look if a labourer digs into stone roads.

[Lewin]

I like this idea. Maybe we could allow to place "Remove field" markers above roads and fields and laborers would go there and "unbuild" them

That was my thought too

Yes but I think you shouldn't be able to 'unbuild' roads or fields made by other players while they are still in play.
Also I wonder how it will look if a labourer digs into stone roads.

Hmmm that's an interesting point... I agree with you, it won't be hard to implement
It will look as odd as when they build a house over roads and dig the road tiles. I think it will look fine.