in the future maybe look into games like Ceaser or stronghold. basically have workers physically carry materials to place from where it is mined/refined/built. you can have complex supply chains (well maybe not that complex) in which the resources are used to build different things like wheat into flour into bread, or iron ore into iron into steel into weapons/armor/etc.

i understand that the first step of course is to have resources used to build things and some sort of income to figure out good rates and costs of things, so i am not disliking the patch.

I wish this game looked more like Age of Empires in this aspect of building and gathering resources. I hope it does in the furture...

I have to admit that this fixed ressource income feels misplaced. If you build everything around the fact that the player is a lord then he should be able to give simple orders to the workers.

Example:
You gain 3 workers for every house. Lets assume we have 3 houses.
A lumbermill can have 4 workers in total.
A mine can have 7 workers in total.
A field with crops can have 5 workers in total.

So we end up with 9 workers for 16 open workplaces.

Now just give the player simple sliders or + and - buttons for each of this kind of work.
So we can set 3 workers for wood, 4 for food and 2 for stone.

If you recruit soldiers, every soldier means -1 to availible workers.

The tavern can maybe support 20 people that will go there to drink, sleep, ...
Public buildings should scale with your overall population until the limit per building is reached.

Later on this could also have a visual impact.
In our example you would never see more than 4 people gathering crops.

In game time for resourses No not good let us set our workers to get it please....

We have a world, why not let us mine it? trees = wood? give us mines for iron and let us setup trade routes :)

Great guide! Thanks!

Thank you for these helpful tips.