Q & A

[arcee]

Is it known how long the discount is for?
and what happens if I buy multiple copies at once from the store? 

until AVVW is on Steam and/or more fleshed out and/or multiplayer I'd probably want to refrain from introducing it to my friends.

[c4sc4]

Does making an npc in your settlement set up a wind shelter instead of you going and doing it manually have a penalty?

I ask because I made two with my own character and there was three npcs in each.....however I made another two using my npc settlers on the strategy map and there was only one npc in each of those. Was it just bad luck those times?

Yea, no difference other than doing it strategically has a cost.  A cost which will probably become more significant in the future, but we'll see.

Well actually, setting up a windshelter yourself gives you experience while having a npc do it doesn't give you any experience.

[x4000]

The discount is through "early beta," which will probably be at least a month or two.  The addition of multiplayer might be the cutoff, actually, I dunno.  Then it will go to 25% off instead of 50% off.  You can buy multiple copies from the store with no issue; you get one key for each purchase.

[c4sc4]

In terms of region types, the last region to unlock at the moment is the swamp, at region level 60.  But there are others in the 20s and 30s and such, too.

All that time spent alpha testing and there is still something I have gotten to yet?! I must hurry to level 60 to experience the swamp.

So I got to level forty and found a level 50 swamp tile. Is the swamp suppose to spawn at level 50 or 60?

[Dizzard]

Is there some ice suits that npcs wear that include a helmet?

Cause I just recruited an npc from the 4th Century (the forest, high living one) and she was human when I saw her first, but after I recruited her she showed up in my settlement looking like a robot. (fully white suit head to toe) I got quite the surprise seeing a "robot" running around I thought we were under attack. xD

There's probably a reason for this....

(oh and while I'm asking...this is something that has probably already been pointed out but on the settlement screen when you rename a settlement and press p the game pauses and makes the pausing sound. It's not a big deal though.)

[x4000]

In terms of region types, the last region to unlock at the moment is the swamp, at region level 60.  But there are others in the 20s and 30s and such, too.

All that time spent alpha testing and there is still something I have gotten to yet?! I must hurry to level 60 to experience the swamp.

So I got to level forty and found a level 50 swamp tile. Is the swamp suppose to spawn at level 50 or 60?

Oops, it's 50, not 60.  I decreased it a while back, and forgot the new number.

[x4000]

Is there some ice suits that npcs wear that include a helmet?

Cause I just recruited an npc from the 4th Century (the forest, high living one) and she was human when I saw her first, but after I recruited her she showed up in my settlement looking like a robot. (fully white head to toe) I got quite the surprise seeing a "robot" running around I thought we were under attack. xD

There's probably a reason for this....

Yeah, she had to put on a snowsuit to live in the ice age settlement.  Otherwise she would have died about 10 seconds after getting there thanks to the exposure.

[BobTheJanitor]

I just imagine that the people who are native to that era have evolved highly cold resistant heads. Either that, or they're using advanced snowsuits with heat blowing vents around the neck area.

[Dizzard]

What's the cap of npcs that can be moving around your settlement screen? (or living in your settlement for that matter) Do you ever get a second screen for a settlement? Like something you can unlock when you reach a certain amount of npcs?

I like questions incase you didn't realize.

[keith.lamothe]

What's the cap of npcs that can be moving around your settlement screen? (or living in your settlement for that matter) Do you ever get a second screen for a settlement? Like something you can unlock when you reach a certain amount of npcs?

There's no cap or special behavior based on settlement size right now; probably later I'll add caps based on some other factors.

[zebramatt]

As a blue sky item, I'd really like to see buildings pop up in adventure mode to signify settlement size. No need for them to necessarily be linked to specific buildings constructed, just reflective of quantity of buildings and residents, that sort of thing.

[coconutpete]

Either that, or they're using advanced snowsuits with heat blowing vents around the neck area.

Hahaha, In a game like this, such an explanation is as good as any.

[Dizzard]

I just noticed something else, you know that woman I was talking about earlier who was wearing the full white ice suit?

Is it normal that her stat box doesn't say what century she is from? All the other npcs I recruited say they're from the ice age, bronze age etc....but she's a blank.

There was another guy who was in the same location as her who I just recruited and his says: (pre industrial (4th M)

[x4000]

That last is a bug -- would be good to log in mantis if you don't mind.  Thanks!

[arcee]

Q: how do you use Shrink?  I shrunk some flags, water tanks, plants, etc.  the resulting items didn't reexpand when I tried to redecorate the settlement, except the flags.