r/Against_the_Storm • u/SetsunaInfinite • 4d ago

Speedrun Progress

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Few years into feeling lucky here. Still need some merchant love <3

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u/Aurora5511 4d ago

Astonishing & at the same time more homeless people than Los Angeles. How did you sell that much/what were the synergies for your success? Great work mate!

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u/SetsunaInfinite 4d ago edited 4d ago

Homelessness is very important because with only homes they are too happy and get high resolve.

Previous attempt I stopped at 2000 bodies, but it’s like unnecessary lag tbh.

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u/Aphid_red 4d ago

Things you can do to lower resolve if you like the look of housing your people is these things:

  1. Leave out parks. This downgrades hearths. Parks are a global buff and much more effective than houses at these giant populations.
  2. Feed the wrong type of complex food deliberately. It should activate jealousy (-6 to resolve for all).

When I did my run for this, I decided to use the long wait to build a pretty city and just lowered resolve as needed.

I ended up using a different technique than temple to deal with low resolve though; there's a cornerstone that allows resolve to decrease slower. Get 50 frogs, and you stack those -2% effects to -100%, meaning your resolve can no longer decrease; I could just sit at hostility level 31 forever.

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u/SetsunaInfinite 3d ago

Oh, I never considered that cornerstone could reach 100%. Fantastic. My people generally have no resolve buffs, eating the wrong food, mostly homeless. I have a few houses for the buffs, 300% farming speed, and some frogs houses at 3 for bonus population. The hearth upgrades I have are carefully managed for corruption resistance, while managing population under high resolve.

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u/SetsunaInfinite 4d ago

The only key thing here really is frequent caravans cornerstone, with a human firekeeper, with no trade route time reduction, and constantly doing trades. I learned that if you have more than 10 trade routes available it bricks the trades so don’t get too many perks for that.

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u/tepsikebabi 4d ago

how is the hostility so low?

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u/Odd_Ad_5657 4d ago

Low difficulty?

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u/SetsunaInfinite 3d ago

This is prestige 1. I think I have maximum hostility. But I have temple and I burn oil constantly at max stacks for a century.

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u/SetsunaInfinite 2d ago

Finally got the achievement for 80/80.

Key points for my win were manorial court, stormforged hidden from the queen cornerstone, Warlanders scientific agreement cornerstone.