This is a town for players that are ok spending their diamonds in QI instead of GbG and events.
Special thanks for guest contributor this week. Our former guild master turned mentor and friend Crash Cart but she goes by different names on other servers. This is her settlement. Because we are getting these screen shots mailed at various times it's best to copy this for next season instead of trying to start it this season. She's just sending in the screenshots. All the spelling errors are mine.
Buy 12 expansions. One goods expansion and 11 with shards. Costs 1,650 diamonds plus whatever impediments you have to clear.
There are not enough coin to fill-out the rest of the settlement.
1st Harvest
First delete houses and place churches until happiness is at 150%
Then collect coin. Then remove houses and some churches while placing breweries. Keep happiness at 150%. When you can no longer place any more breweries then collect supplies.
Flat mode to make it easier to follow
After supplies are harvested then build catapult camp, make 50 catapults, delete camp.
Build three alchemists.
Delete breweries and place churches. From here on out we will be maximizing quantum actions.
Remember to come back in an hour so the game registered the completed alchemists.
I took out one more church and added four houses so instead of making 594 chrono I'll make over 600 chrono. That seems to be a good trade.
Second harvest we'll get 315 chrono from lower tiered buildings and 339 from three alchemists.
2cnd Collection
Remove some churches and place with estate houses
Remove the estate houses we just built and place breweries.
Then remove churches and replace with breweries until removing more would drop happiness below 150% Always check happiness before collecting.
Collect supplies then delete all the breweries we just built.
With all the empty space it's easy to rearrange the settlement so I place the buildings I'm going to keep for a while up near the town hall so the alchemists go there then I add three more.
I also build a ropery. Now normally I would build honey then gunpowder then ropery last but moving forward I'm not going to build honey or gunpowder. While I start with 30 of each goods and didn't want to waste them the reality is the inefficiency of building three types of goods buildings just isn't worth it. So ropery goes in and will stay a while.
Then fill the space with churches and if there's room add a house.
Come back in an hour so the alchemists register as complete and depending on coin and supply start building goods expansions.
After goods building is done I'm making two expansions, putting two more churches in there and putting down two houses to fill the space.
The layout is now less efficient than it can be so during next rotation when there is lots of space I'll change the setup.
Start rotation by deleting churches and placing estate houses.
Delete estate houses and some churches. Place breweries until you can't place anymore without dropping happiness below 150%
Collect supplies. Now I'm going to rearrange the settlement to make it more practical.
We have over 1k chrono alloy so we have a choice to build a bakery or clapboard house. I prefer the house first and then build bakery next but it's just a choice. We're no longer building intermediate buildings like alchemist. I rushed the clapboard house and bought another goods expansion.
If you find you are short of coin or supplies you can put more estate houses or breweries in but I prefer maximizing quantum actions.
4th collection
Remove some churches and place some estate houses being careful not to drop happiness below 150%
collect coins then delete the houses we just built.
Remove some churches and houses to place breweries until you can't place any more without dropping happiness below 150%
We are going to build a bakery so instead of having tanneries we're going to replace those with breweries. We want as many 20% boosts as possible to maximize the increased production of the bakery which we build and rush it.
Get two more goods expansions and fill the remaining space.
Flat mode to make it easier.
Remember if at any time you feel you need to prioritize chrono, coin or supplies you can forgo the churches for a collection. Next season I will be trying that for all my early collections to see if I can complete settlement early and which plan gives more progress at the end.
5th collection
Remove some churches and place estate houses remembering to keep happiness above 150%
Collect coins and delete the houses we just built. Remove some churches and place breweries in the space making sure to keep happiness above 150%
Collect supplies. Remove the breweries we just built.
Build two bakery and rush them.
Now for this next collection we will put in more houses. We are going to be buying some expensive goods expansions and putting some doctors and another clapboard house in so we need the coin and chrono a bit more than the QA for this next collection.
We still have plenty of churches as we're not forgetting about QA.
6th collection
This should be routine at this point. Remove some churches and place estate houses making sure to keep above 150% happiness.
Remove houses and churches to fit in breweries. Again keeping happiness above 150%
Remove the breweries.
Place one bakery, one clapboard house and one doctor.
Buy another goods expansion.
Fill the settlement and dealer's choice if you want to maximize quantum actions or put in some estate houses and leave in some breweries.
This should be Saturday night or early Sunday morning for you. Still on map four so the fighting is easy. The enemy only has a 50% fight boost which is what a forgotten temple gives. Everyone should be doing 80 GE every week and if you do that on trial five or higher then you have a forgotten temple.
I don't put in any decorations but if you need to now would be the time to start adding decorations with every collection. I still have 345 chrono unused from the last collection as I don't put in intermediate buildings anymore like alchemist so it's best to just use that remainder on the next collection but if you need decorations you should have the chrono to do it.
Our settlement is going to get very strong, very fast now that we have four bakeries and two clapboard houses each making 375 chrono. Additionally we will be adding some doctors which will allow us to delete more churches, place more estate houses and more breweries as we rotate our crops.
This should be a key moment when building settlement.
One word of caution when building doctors. While they're great for generating QA at this point we are going to build for happiness. What that means is we are going to intentionally not build as many as we can because we need to be able to delete churches for our crop rotations. If you don't have the ability to put in 20% buildings it will greatly hinder your ability to generate coin but especially supplies. So many players have a hard time with supplies because of this. Especially for people with tiny settlements.
The goal right now is to generate coin, supply and chrono so you have enough to build all the troops you need and convert the entire settlement to doctors. If you partially convert your settlement and restrict the space you need to rotate crops it will take longer to convert the settlement. So sacrifice some QA now as the priority is that quick conversion.
Just a reminder for this season we're only building the ropery so we have a lot of goods we can donate at any time. It's best to do this on harder maps so you can save some troops but really just use the goods whenever an opportunity arises. So if your guild has infinite nodes open and there's a goods node lower down that you can dump the goods on then go for it.
7th collection
Rotate crops. Remove some churches and place houses making sure to keep happiness at 150%
Remove the houses and some churches and place breweries.
Remove breweries.
Place
- 2 bakeries
- 1 clapboard house
- 1 doctor
- 1 goods expansion (390 goods)
Fill space with churches
Rotate crops. Remove some churches and place houses making sure to keep happiness at 150%
Collect coins
Remove the houses and some churches and place breweries.
Collect supplies.
Remove breweries.
Place
- 3 clapboard houses
- 3 doctors
- get the 480 goods expansion
Remove the ropery. The next expansions are too expensive but if you have a surplus of coin and supply later you can always build another.
Remodel the settlement to make sure the clapboard houses (near town hall) are separated from other houses. You don't want to accidentally delete.
The reason for the clapboard houses is because we want the smallest amount of space taken up by houses that will also give enough population for our bakeries.
We also want enough happiness so we can remove more churches when rotating crops.
I hope when you look at this settlement you see groups of 6x6 clusters.
I went with putting churches in to maximize QA. If you want to you can remove all the churches and place houses or breweries (depending on what you're short on) and let that cook over the next 10 hrs. When it's ready to collect look at our very 1st collection where you remove a building and add a church until you reach 150% happiness. You will get more chrono and coin OR supplies depending on what you built but less QA. I'm all about the QA but you do you.
9th collection
With all the doctors we planted last collection we have a lot of happiness now so our crop rotations will cover a lot more territory.
Rotate crops. Remove some churches and place houses making sure to keep happiness at 150%
Collect coins
Remove the houses and some churches and place breweries.
As you can see the field in which we are now rotating crops is huge. With five doctors we now have enough happiness for a full supplies rotation and our only limit is population.
I built this settlement in this shape deliberately so I can fill the space with as many doctors as possible and only using cartographers and pillories when I can't fill the space with doctors.
So when this settlement is changed over to culture buildings it will have
- 48 doctors
- 6 cartographers
- 2 pillory
That has a total cost of
- 28k chrono
- 9456000 coin
- 8160000 supplies
A simple spreadsheet makes the calculations easier. I also keep track of chrono refunded because there will be plenty of coin and supplies.
So given that I already have 5 doctors I will only need 4 collections to completely change over or transition the settlement to nothing but culture buildings.
Keep in mind we still have not built our cannon camp and made 400 troops. We're still using the original 40-60 catapults from the 1st collection.
So we have a few options here.
We can remove all the breweries we just placed and put churches back in. We can maximize our QA per hour and that is what I normally do
Instead of doing that I'm going to do something a little different. I'm going to build the cannon camp now and build 400 troops and then delete the camp just to make my numbers more predictable for the rest of the QI season.
So place
- cannon camp
- 3 doctors
- fill rest of the space with estate houses
There is still 3k+ chrono alloy available to spend but we're going to save it until the settlement conversion.
*Note the three doctors were placed after this screenshot
We don't need the coin we're just doing this for the extra chrono.
After the next collection we'll delete the cannon camp after making 400 units and then build a ropery again. I want to use all the extra coin and supplies we have to get more expansions.
Without additional expansions I will only get 23,900 QA per hour.
If this works out then we can get more doctors and less cartographers in. That would increase the QA per hour with only a tiny chrono increase.
After the next collection you'll have to decide if you want to place more doctors and take-out the alchemists and all the breweries or not.
10th collection
With 8 doctors happiness is no longer an issue so collect coins.
Remove houses and place breweries.
Make all the cannons you feel you'll need for the rest of QI. I stop at 400 then delete cannon camp.
Delete the breweries and place....up to you. Churches or houses again.
I decided to place
- two doctors
- a ropery
- then fill the rest of the space with houses
When good building is finished buy the 580 goods and 700 goods expansions. Delete the goods camp as we have all 8 goods expansions.
11th collection
Collect coins
Remove estate houses and place breweries.
If you have to replace some estate houses with multistorey houses to increase population to place more breweries.
Now there's a lot of option. You can
- remove all breweries and place houses to maximize chrono if you're short
- remove all breweries and place churches so you can rotate crops if you're short on coin and supplies
- put in a mix of houses, leave some breweries and place some doctors for a mix of everything.
I have plenty of coin and just enough supplies so I'm going to make sure I have enough chrono to completely change-over my settlement with my 12th collection. I may leave a few clapboard houses to generate chrono if I'm short but change over the rest of the settlement.
So I added 12 more doctors, and fill the rest with houses.
12th collection
Tuesday night or Wednesday morning should be your terminal collection. At that point you should have enough coin, supply and chrono to change-over the remainder of your settlement into just culture buildings.
I'll be about 1500 chrono short so instead of putting in 5 of the 6 pillories I will leave in 5 clapboard houses for one more collection.
Collect coins
remove houses and place breweries
collect supplies
remove breweries and now it's time to convert the settlement into a QA machine.
Because we purchased all the goods expansions we're going to leave the six clapboard houses in to generate chrono alloy for two more turns but take-out all the other housing and supply buildings as we have plenty of coin and supply.
Flat mode makes it easier to se we have room for one more cartographer and seven pillories. As we have more than enough coin and supplies we'll just add from the next two collections of the clapboard houses.
So now we'll generate 24-25k actions per hour but if you have nothing in our main city to boost QA then you'll generate 19-20k actions per hour.
13th collection
collect the 6 clapboard houses
build cartographer
build 6 pillories while removing clapboard houses
All that remains is one single clapboard house
For next collection delete the clapboard house and replace with pillory and settlement will have completely transitioned into a QA generating machine.
I'm just over 25k QA/hr and GbG will start tomorrow so all I have to do for QI is just use my actions. GE is done, QI is in easy mode and now we can focus on GbG.
Manage your time, avoid burnout and have fun. Since there is no need to send in screen shots anymore I bid you all a good day and good luck in QI.
Thanks to the contributors of this blog for asking and allowing me to contribute.
Yuri (the artist formerly known as Crash Cart)
