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Well, increasing rations just ups the odds of eating more nightshade, plus food is becoming a premium right about now, so Continue as usual.
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Playing a bit of OTII, and I think I solved the mystery of where we suddenly got a bunch of money from. Being a trail guide gives you bonus money($500 in OTII, probably similar/the same in 5), but you only get it after you leave your starting town. I assume it's meant to give you a reason to pick it other than bragging rights, since you gameover if you get fired.
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chitoryu12 posted:I should point out that he's our 5-year-old, the age most vulnerable to these berries. Meaty Ore was 65 so his time was coming.
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Haifisch posted:Playing a bit of OTII, and I think I solved the mystery of where we suddenly got a bunch of money from. I completely forgot about that! Yes, that’s where it came from.
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 Incidentally, I don't recommend taking a year & three months to reach your destination, having everyone in your party but you die(mostly of freezing to death, because you don't have matches to light fires with), and also get stuck in the Sierra Nevadas for months thanks to being snowbound/having to trade away all but two of your oxen for spare wagon parts & a length of chain(surprise, there is a mountain you literally can't get past without ropes or chains) and then having to trade away your remaining money so you have enough oxen to move again.
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chitoryu12 posted:I completely forgot about that! Yes, that’s where it came from. I was just reading about the whole greenhorn/adventurer/trail guide concept while I was trying to suss out the differences between OT 2 and 5, and I had no idea that there was a cash bonus even though it makes sense now. Fine investigative work, Haifisch. Apparently adventurer's can be demoted if they gently caress up enough, but the game continues and they can be re-elected. Trail guides, who presumably get an even larger wage packet, receive an instant game over if they are demoted, which does bump up the challenge quite a bit. Apparently adventurers and guides have to make larger, more comprehensive decisions, but I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I didn't even notice - what setting were you playing on in the first game that went so well? I keep forgetting that the player is technically one wagon among many. Also mildly surprised that matches are still an absolute necessity in this game. I honestly thought that flint and tinder was still a thing during the time period.
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Haifisch posted:
You better have named yourself Job.
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Haifisch posted:
Morale is high.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Morale is high. Well, sure... only one person is alive to have morale and that person is in good health. Dead people don't get to chime in and say "I'm not happy with the management of this expedition - I told you not to go near Salt Lake."
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90% of wagon train morale is stopping and resting. If you're snowbound, you're resting a lot, so of course everyone is happy with how you're running things. They're getting to take a really long break where they're definitely not freezing/starving to death themselves. You're showing them what a kind and competent leader you are!  On a completely unrelated note, apparently this is the difference between using ropes/chains and anchoring the wagon when going downhill: 
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Without enough food to plausibly increase rations, we soldier on and hope NGDBSS survives..png) The wagon train is suffering, but we're so close! Right on the edge of the Great Salt Lake! .png) What do we even have to lose if we tip?
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Jul 3, 2019 21:14
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CAULK HER UP Also potentially forage for more food or if we can trade with someone around for a rifle.
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Jul 3, 2019 21:58
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I say we ford that sucker.
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ROCK CHALK SUCK MY CAULK. Also seconding trading for a gun.
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Jul 3, 2019 22:25
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Caulked and loaded
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Jul 3, 2019 22:47
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Ford the river.
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Let's caulk it up.
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JustJeff88 posted:Apparently adventurers and guides have to make larger, more comprehensive decisions, but I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I didn't even notice - what setting were you playing on in the first game that went so well? I keep forgetting that the player is technically one wagon among many. The difference between Greenhorn and Adventurer/Trail Guide is that a Greenhorn can't make decisions about which way to go on forks; it's all automatic. The first playthrough was done on Adventurer, so we've always had choices in the LP. Anyways, caulk the wagons.
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What is the difference between caulking vs. fording?
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Fording a river (or any body of water) just means to walk across it, or drive if applicable. You don't swim or float, you try to maintain contact with the river bed to cross. Generally not an issue in shallow or calm waters but studies have shown water as shallow as two feet can knock an adult off their feet if it is moving fast enough. If the water were to reach the bottom of the wagon (or higher) we also risk flooding it or have it washed away. When you caulk and float across you are turning the wagon body into a makeshift amphibious vehicle, having it act as a boat's hull so you can float across. Less risk of flooding but since it's a wagon and not a boat it is probably nearly impossible to control in fast moving waters so you risk getting washed away, or slammed into nearby rocks, or getting the wheels caught on the river bed and tipping you.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:When you caulk and float across you are turning the wagon body into a makeshift amphibious vehicle, having it act as a boat's hull so you can float across. Less risk of flooding but since it's a wagon and not a boat it is probably nearly impossible to control in fast moving waters so you risk getting washed away, or slammed into nearby rocks, or getting the wheels caught on the river bed and tipping you.
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See? Educational!
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Seyser Koze posted:Is it possible to get a game-over because of mutiny? If you're the trail guide, yes. If morale drops low enough, you get kicked off the job and are left stranded permanently where they leave you. If you're an Adventurer you just get demoted and have to follow the main route.
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chitoryu12 posted:If you're the trail guide, yes. If morale drops low enough, you get kicked off the job and are left stranded permanently where they leave you. If you're an Adventurer you just get demoted and have to follow the main route.
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Rest here until the river freezes and we can just walk across it. That'll only take about 4 months, it's fine.
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.png) Another river awaits us shortly after. .png) We manage to trade almost all of our clothing for a rifle. Fight amongst yourselves who gets to stay dressed for this second half of the journey. .png) .png) We're not very lucky, only bagging 7 pounds of rabbit. That's not even a day's worth of food for everyone. .png) We go out to gather again. Thanks to our judicious picking, we already recognize black mustard and nettles. We only have the big yellow flower and the little yellow flowers to pick from.
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Eat. Everything.
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Jul 7, 2019 08:36
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The big yellow flower looks like dandelions which are good food. The little yellow one looks similar enough that it's probably fine. Eat 'em all.
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Haifisch posted:Eat. Everything. Everything.
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eat it all
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With food as it is, eat everything.
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eat it all, if anybody dies that just means you need less food in the future 
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eat everything You could roast the dandelion root into ersatz-coffee, which tastes exactly as horrible as it sounds, but better than drinking tea like a limey.
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Yeah, I think we're good to eat everything this time around.
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Eat All, forget what the third one is, but the fourth is dandelions so that's definitely a keeper.
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 The big yellow flowers are dandelions. The entire plant is edible and the roots can be chopped, roasted, and boiled to make a coffee substitute. The smaller ones are the related sow thistle. The leaves are edible as greens, though they get more bitter with age..png) What to do with the river?
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CAULK IT!
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Float on our merry way.
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