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It is not the size, but how you use it. I've filled every corner of this map with detail but could only show the best angles. Please enjoy!

So I love this city and how far its come along, but I think i need to start a new one. As per usual with my builds, i can put together nice monuments, but the city itself starts to collapse under its own weight. I haven't really figured out the food economics and struggle a bit in that regard.

Population: 1078. Happiness at 91%.

A couple of lessons I need to learn for the next one:

• Lay out residential areas better. It's frustrating to have your citizens absolutely refuse to move into available housing and instead build all new or move to a part of the city that they are not intended to be in.
• Learn how to use beautification builds to support the above. I start off pretty strong then I peter out as my ambition pushes me to build other things.
• Learn how taverns work. 3 taverns and yet my citizens still complain due to a lack of entertainment.
• Learn how to produce enough food or learn how to make enough goods to trade for food for a large population

Any tips you all have for how to better produce food/trade for goods, please let me know.

Just finished the challenge mode prestigious burg aspiration, what shocked me was only 0.3% of the Foundation player base apparently have this achievement? Similarly, the feudal overlord achievement (own at least 30 territories on challenge rules or harder) was only 0.5%. I'd been reading into the aspirations before starting this one and felt I read a lot of people saying the prestigious burg aspiration is quite easy, but these numbers don't seem to align with what I was expecting to be not as quite rare of an achievement.

For me, the biggest gripe is how SLOW challenge mode rules are before things really start to take off. The early game takes FOREVER to finally get yourself in a financially stable position. Keen to hear others thoughts on if they gave the challenge mode aspirations a go? My goal is to 100% the game, and I suspect the Kingdom aspiration is going to be very difficult as the financial side is going to be quite tough!

I wanted to post this as I continue to progress on this town. None of my citizens are above a serf currently, but I'm getting to the point that I'm going to promote everyone and that's generally when my games fall apart. So here's an image before the fall!

The castle and walls are actually a large spiral with an "annex" for the healing house down near the Abbatial Church. The monastery which I posted the one island before stretches across three with a smaller farming annex over on the island on the right.

Very happy with this build thus far. if I can get the houses to reach tier 3 without the settlement crumbling I'll post more images for the settlement.

EDIT: I said "images" in the title but it's only one. False advertisement.

As you can see my slope supposed to be gray and the farmland should have brown dirt underneath the wheat, can anyone help me or are there anyone have similar problem as I am?

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: RX 7600XT 16GB
RAM: 3200MHZ T.FORCE 8x2 16 GB in total
STORAGE: SSD 1TB

I can NOT for the life of me figure out how to make my Monastery work. I can’t promote anyone, no manuscripts, but I can’t make manuscripts because I can’t promote them. No workers for the gardens, so the refectory is empty. I’ve tried destroying and rebuilding etc. I’m losing my mind, and it’s holding up my entire game. I know I’m doing something wrong, but what? Help, please. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I loaded my (modded) save today to which I have been using for a week now, to find all the land has turned to sand. As much as I would love to make a desert settlement, this isn't it.

New worlds are grassy again however older saves still have this issue. I have tried changing the video settings but I have had no luck.

Anyone have any advice to fix this?

Thanks :)

I recently got back into playing Foundation, and this is my current late-game region - Veligradsko Podgorje.

On the hill above the river stands Veligrad, which gradually grew from the original village into the main city of the entire region. Surrounded by walls, it became the political and trading center of the realm.

To the north-west lie:

• 🌾 Poljane - an agricultural village that feeds the entire region
• ⛏️ Zlatnorudne Gorice - a mining settlement supplying gold, quartz and glass
• ⛪ Across the river stands the Abbey of St. Vid, which started as a small monastery before eventually growing into the main religious center of Veligradsko Podgorje.

Guarding the north river entrance is Ostragrad, an island fortress that controls the bridges, river access, and trade routes coming from the north.

Right now I’m considering building a massive star fortress between the three mining hills, with a:
⚔️ Hall of Heroes ⚔️
dedicated to the veterans and military campaigns of Veligrad.

At this point in the late game, though, I sometimes feel like I’m mostly just waiting for my soldiers to come back from missions 😄

So, how do you usually approach the late game?

Do you focus more on expanding your city, building monumental projects, or mostly on aesthetics?