EPISODE 2 is OUT NOW - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJNpZLx53du2YHU.html ! I can't believe it's finally happening! I'm so excited to dive in here, and I cannot BELIEVE the luck I had with this start. This episode has me going over some of the mechanics that stand out in the early game, but future episodes will certainly pick up the pace (and maybe have more of the editing you see in the latter parts of this video). Really excited to try and force myself into a more organic approach, and seeing how our little town evolves over time as we grow. Let me know your thoughts below, as always!

OMG the gameplay series is back. I miss the let's play series 😭

YT was promoting other Manor Lords Early Access vids on my feed but I came here because you’re my guy for all strategy and city builder games!

The hype is real! This honestly looks like a game that they've put some great love and care into making, and really letting you get immersed in a medieval world like never before. Other games have got close, but this game seems like it will be the next Kingdom Come Deliverance level of immersion and accuracy.

Feels like an eternity since I watched you a play a Let's Play series, I've missed it very much! The architecture screams medieval alsace to me and I love it!

It was absolutely worth every minute of the wait for this game. Every detail is immaculate. Absolutely hooked ... more, please!;😅

So chuffed to see a new series on the channel. All hail the return of Party!! And it's with Manor Lords no less! So nice to hear how much joy this game brings you already. Can't wait to see how this series develops, will be watch every episode avidly! Totally agree with the idea of leaning into organic pathing, might be an idea to really try to follow the contours of the land as much as possible as that seems like it would fit with how people tend to trample paths themselves. It was funny to see how quickly Party's attempt to outthink the game was thwarted by thieves. Though establishing a militia once we have a church might make for a good story beat.

I told my friend the other day that I'll subscribe to the next yt channel I see who doesn't end the intro with "without further ado". Thanks.

20:07 Exceptional name of one of the foragers 😆

Super excited for this game and Falling Frontier!

FIRST: Please understand everything I have in this comment is based on watching gameplay (and sometimes hyper-analyzing). I never had the demo, and obviously I don't have the "release" which comes out next week So, if my conclusions are incorrect, I'm happy to know what I misinterpreted, but it's not as if I can test my ideas 10:12 in keeping with your idea that the church would be on the road to the manor, I think just past the triangle section at or before the clump of trees looks like a very good choice. Using the top of this frame as an artbitrary "North" for this description, North of the triangle, East of the "Manor Road" but this is your domain, so I'm just offering suggestions. (You put the Granary and Storehouse approximately where I was thinking for the church around 15:00) 20:06-20:07 You are the 3rd person, I have seen, who has gotten that name and made some comment about demonetization. Just remember, it doesn't have to be a "purely English" pronunciation. I would naturally look at that name and, while the "seemingly crude" pronunciation does occur to me, unilaterally decide it is akin to "Koontz" Since the market costs nothing but space to set up, my instinct would be to make it a bit bigger than you initially set up. From the videos I have seen, I ballpark an initial market with room for 12-18 stalls will probably be a "set it up, then don't worry about it for the next 2 in game years" size. But I'm making these judgements based on play I have seen videos of. Sadly, by the time this game was really on my radar, the demo was withdrawn. 33:27-33:30 "Food for 12 months, fuel for 7" This value will change as your Burgage Plots are completed and upgraded, as each Burgage plot has a specific need for food and fuel, which is not necessarily the same as the family's need. Just a minor observation. I'm not sure, but I think the need for heating fuel is doubled by burgage plot, not by family. But it draws down your approval to have families homeless, and you need 50% or higher approval as well as available housing to have new families move in, thus increasing the number of facilities you can have staffed at one time and still have construction continue 36:00-36:10 "Family members join a family" I take this to be along the lines of "Oh, my brother/sister/aunt/uncle/cousin now has a home and a plot of land, I've got no plot, no house, I'll move in with them and join in whatever job they are doing that the lord of their land put them in a home. So I'll pitch in with whatever work their lord finds value in." (not a mooch, but a "hey, you let me stay with you and share your food, I'll work to help you get things done" 40:33 Approval At this moment you have a "Recent 30 day" [effectively "current"] -2 approval from homelessness, and a "previous" [I think it's somewhere in the 3 month to 12 month range, but I think it's 3 or 6 month] -4 approval from homelessness. Once everyone has a home, the following month the "Recent 30 days" will drop into the "previous" and after a few months in game time, the old homelessness values will start falling off, based on when the next family got a home. This would make it apparent that getting even basic plots built even without room for expansions/extras as soon as possible would be beneficial, but you did the right thing by starting with the logging camp, because building 5 burgage plots would have eradicated all your timber, and then you couldn't have built the logging camp The Recent 30 days" and "previous" remain in effect upon your approval until they drop off the "previous" over time, and since you can't get new families with an approval under 50, nor without housing. eliminating homelessness and getting an extra plot are crucial to quickly getting your next family to move in. As you previously mentioned, you need an unassigned (not assigned to a task) family in order to construct things. To me, the best thing to do is get a logging camp built and staffed right away, start the granary construction as soon as possible, then alternate between building basic burgage plots (with or without expansions and 'hobby space') getting the storehouse built and as you previously did, alternate a family between the granary and storehouse. This means bringing in plenty of timber to make the burgage plots, getting all those supplies in, out of the weather, eliminating homelessness and making extra housing as fast as possible, and reaching an approval level that means families will consider moving in. Increasing productivity, but also increasing expenditure of food and firewood. 46:26 Approval Your "recent 30 days" your market food variety is high (You have berries, meat, and possibly carrots), your "recent" you've had your variety of market food longer than the last 30 days, and all your people have gotten homes more than a month ago, so the homelessness will soon start dropping off. But your approval is already at 51% and you have housing for 7 families, while you only have 5 families. You are well on your way to getting families moving in. Small observation. If you have _no_ construction, or no _urgent_ construction, you could always assign the last "unassigned" family to a task, in the short term, such as if you build the stonecutter camp, because you needed more stone. Once they finished building it, they could be assigned to it to harvest stone, until you needed to build something else. Basically you assign them where you need them _right now_ and unassign them when you're ready to do more building, or when another family shows up, that new family becomes the "temporary assigned or construction family" 51:10-51:15 I'm going to say, in my opinion, "Trade Logistics" is one of, if not the best choice for that first development point. Trade routes get more and more expensive to create, and this is regional wealth (which you have burned with the vegetable gardens already) but you start with 50 regional wealth, it is hard to establish 2 trade routes with 50 regional wealth. This development _locks_ the regional wealth cost to open a new route at 25, so once you establish a trade station, every route costs the same to establish. Some routes after the second are over 70 wealth to establish, and you have to pay the cost to open each route, every time you open a route, the others cost even more. Locking in that price, is potentially a savings of hundreds of regional wealth in year 2 alone, not to mention trade routes are one of the fastest ways to achieve wealth. Those mercenaries aren't so hard to afford after. 51:34 you took Orchardry. This means for 50 regional wealth you can create _one_ orchard. That same regional wealth would establish 2 trade routes with trade logistics. 1 trade route of berries from your foraging camp could net 50 regional wealth over a single growing season. If you are overproducing some other product, the second trade route brings you to 50 total wealth spent, and can mean hundreds of wealth in return in a single year. It seems to be a common misconception that add-ons like the vegetable garden, chicken coop, goat farm and orchard will produce wealth. This doesn't appear to be directly true. These produce village supplies, which will increase food variety at the market, and hides. These do not directly increase wealth. Although through established trade routes can be exchanged for wealth. (You have 3 carrot farmers, they add a lot of carrots to the food stalls at the market, making more than berries and meat available, improving variety, or if you have excess, via a trade route you can export your excess for wealth. Likewise the goat farm will produce hides which can be exported or converted to leather with a tannery. Leather can provide the clothing materials need for upgrading burgage plots, can be used to make finalized items at a tailor workshop, or can be exported for wealth. A chicken coop or an orchard produces eggs and apples respectively much like the carrots of a vegetable garden. 57:30-57:50 The issue of firewood. Firewood can still be gathered/produced during the winter. Throwing an extra family into working at the woodcutter's would increase production to overpower the small excess-demand you will have for the winter. if you can support your village over spring, summer and fall/autumn with 1 family, two families will produce at least as much firewood as you need over the winter. This can be achieved by pulling a family from gathering (berries don't grow during winter) or halting/reducing construction by assigning an unassigned family, or drawing them from another task that winter interferes with. Of course at this point you're still relocating your woodcutter's lodge, so you have zero production.

The soundtrack in this game is just 🤌

Just went back to watch the beginning of manor lords let’s play, thank you so much sir content is great

Finally. A manor lords let's play where I'm not screaming at the screen because of stupidity lol

Most underrated RTS gaming channel on KZfaq

Hyped for this 1

I'm so hyped for this series on your channel! I can't wait to see the awesome town you will create.

The game is truly stunning, everything is there down to the last little details, I'm looking forward to see the combat in this game

Really excited for Manor Lords and great to see you starting the series!

Glad to join this journey from the beginning. Excited to see how your manor survives and evolves.

I can't friggin wait to play this myself. The fact that I still have to wait almost 2 full weeks is almost physically painfull. Haven't been as hyped for a game since "My time at Sandrock".....

I randomly stumbled upon this and am so invested. Keep em going!

I cannot wait for this game, and I'm very happy you're covering it early!

The detail in thia game is insane. The fact that when it rains puddles form in the ruts on the road, tiny details like that just make it so immersive and realistic it's amazing

45:16 I was waiting for that moment for so long😂😂😂

Awesome awesome… so excited. I have been waiting for this ❤ Love your videos. Thank you! My day is made and looking forward to all the following videos 😊

This looks so good! This reminds me a bit of banished from back in the day but better!

Love the slow pace and chill vibe - looking forward to more episodes. Game looks amazing. 😎

The game looks really interesting. It is easy to understand the dynamics of it and the aesthetics are great.

Awesome content. Excited to see the rest of the playthrough. Thanks .

So excited to see you back PE, your let's plays are some of my favourites so I've really missed them! And with this game no less, very hyped! 🙌

Hype so glad to see it in action!

I’m going to enjoy watching you resist OCDing your town. It’s messy because that is accurate to the era.

I guess aesthetically speaking, I'd cut the burgages into half and reduce the number of plots, it still gave you the possibility for 4 houses, 2 each tending to one large plot. That would also give space for a similar layout in the back road giving potentially 8 houses 4 to 8 farms further down the line.

I just bought it today, just watching some videos to understand it a bit better first. I love how you are "dreaming" yourself "into the game" and kind of roleplaying your village a bit, makes it much more enjoyable to watch. So a like and subscribe from me. Greetings from Alv in Norway.👍

I absolutely love how you are showing us the thought process behind each of your actions. Without knowing anything about the game, I would have just plopped them down anywhere, or not understood the order you should set about the town. The game play / stream is not too slow at all. Thanks for the stream and hoping for more Manor Lord game play from you :)

I am absolutely hooked by this game and really looking forward to the chance to play it myself. The overall ambience is gorgeous and it looks beautiful too. Hard to believe it's the work of one chap too. More, please!

YES PARTY! I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU FOR THIS SERIES

Just wow. The game is exceeding my already lofty (based on the demo) expectations - so much more possible than i thought for first release. Excellent 'let's play' PE! You are my go-to for all things Manor Lords.

Heck yeah that is the best start I have seen so far! I am so hooked on this game and I haven't even played it yet.

This just might be one of the most epix Early Access games of its kind. Been playing it for over 30 hours and can't get enough.

Just 20 minutes in but this is giving me the vibe of age of empires/mythology and I LOVE those! Excited to see how it goes and follow along for the first time in years!

New subscriber as of today, I've been waiting and wanting this game for a long time now so as long as you keep up Manor Lord content I'll stay subscribed :) I don't normally sub to variety streamers/content creators and seeing as I didn't get early access I've been living vicariously through a few Manor Lord content creators and enjoying every minute of it. Thanks!

Kept myself in the dark on purpose with this game & just super stoked to see a notification to see ya play

Nice start! Appreciate you taking your time and not playing on high speeds! Looking forward to more of your adventure! Subscribed - want to see more!

YESS omgosh! I'm excited for you that this is finally out! Loove what you've been doing in the game so far, excited to see where it goes form here! Keep on Keeping On, Party, and thank you for doing what you do!

just got the game today. watching this video gave me an a better insight where to start. amazing content bro keep it up :)

Great series dude! Can't wait to watch more of it. Thanks

Looking forward to early release. Love your explanations! Please continue your content.

Dam you algorithm!! Why did you not tell me this series was happening. At least I have a month worth of content to binge

Yes I’d love to see a long series! Expand across the map and CONQUER!!!

I have had my eye on this since you pointed it out and been on my wish list... thanks keep these videos coming...

OMG It’s here! Been looking forward to this game for a very long time and it looks like the hype is real, game looks amazing. Can’t wait to follow you play this 🤗

I recently found out about Manor Lords and have watched a few channels already. I noticed a few things thus far: 1. You want your houses built around the area you plan on using for all the markets. This supplies them faster and keeps them happy for upgrades. 2. Put your Granary and storeroom right across from the markets. That is how they will get full. 3. Keep your industries together. This will minimize the amount of travel for them to get what each building needs. This means place your industry building types together; WOOD (saw pit, wood cutter, logging), BREAD (wheat farm, windmill, farmhouse, communal oven together and turn off flour and wheat in your granary), CLOTHING (Place tanner next to hunter, place shoes near tanner), etc..

Can't wait for the game to drop on friday! Using this series to hype myself up!

Helllla excited!

I'm just getting start on this series, but loving it. Can't wait until this comes out.

I’m so hyped for this! I remember something happened to the developer earlier and it looked like the game would never be finished, but I’m so happy that he was able to get it to this point! I played the demo when it was available on Steam and was completely hooked on it.

just stumbled apon yer chan. I like what i see. clear, inviting voice. direct aproach with focus. informative decision making. Nice Work!

Thank you for the very great gameplay! I also watched your Tips and Tricks! You sir, are my Manor Lords go to!

I loved the ML demo, and am so impatient for the game to come out. Watching you play will tide me over - and help me get up to speed with game mechanics I haven't played. 😁

Def want to see guides about manor lord. I was into it the first time I saw it 3 years ago. Honestly cant believe it was that long ago Cant wait to play the full release

looking forward to you playing this! :)

This was exactly what I needed! Subscribed!

I don't watch Let's Plays often.. But when I do, I choose Party Elite. Going to be sticking through this one as this game leads up to release!

Making use of the rivers and creeks would great. The Developer should keep an eye in that esspecially If in Other Maps there could lakes or the ocean. Fishing and trade would be good ideas

I was watching for soooo long wondering when that well was gonna get placed. Good content.

So excited for this game! Looks so good

I love the video. I'm looking forward to the series.

Word!! There i said it I needed this in my life, a lets play❤Love it, keep up this amazing content

YES, FINALLY

I really hope you continue this play through

Im looking forward to see more alot more, and btw welcome back I hope you and your family are well 🙏

The Hype is beyond real for me for me. I Can not wait for this.

Nice work. Good explanations.

I love this Game. Please keep playing.

Landgraf, Fürst, Freiherr, Herzog for use in the next series :) Hauptmann is more of a Military Guy instead of a Governor.

Love this series also love how much detail they add to the building. You can see they add Mud Before they add the roof to make less wind get in and all the other small details :D

Never got the notification for this new series. I've noticed that when channels who used to post a lot take a break, I don't get notifications when they come back. So what I've taken to doing is randomly checking in on them to see if they're back. In this case, jackpot! Lol

I'm really looking forward to this one coming out.

I just subscribed because I want to see you play many real-time scenarios of Manor Lords.

This game looks great, cannot wait to play it in a couple weeks! Another game that uses the family system is Lords and Villeins. It is a feudal ruler sim with colony building aspects.

I discovered your LEGENDARY Worker's and Resources LP about a year ago. I had an absolute blast. It's probably my favorite LP of all time. It made me wish I had been on that ride from the actual beginning. Well, here I am lol. I hope Manor Lords leads to something just as epic.

Late to the Party but I love the self-imposed restrictions. I find it makes the series loads more interesting.

I really like the burgage plots that's so true to the time. It works well with the family system. I really wonder if they might add a inheritance-system that overtime creates the real problems of plots getting smaller and smaller. :) If you're into roleplaying this playthrough, you should look into historical German village layouts, because this is definitely inspired by medieval Germany. The long and thin strips at several places outside the village core is one very prevalent type, but there is also the round type where the tilling plots for every family stretches out radially from the village. Also very common is the possibility of a village bordering a highway, where the village is laid out in two rows left and right of the main road with the burgage plots spreading away from it, while the road sometimes splits at the village church that becomes an "island" inside the road. Maybe even with the market stalls in front of it - church markets were after all rather common! It could be fun to establish such villages in the next fiefdoms you unlock.

I had no clue you were playing this game i'm excited for this.

This looks great, may have to buy this.

OMG I missed you so much partyelite! I hope you have been doing good in the past weeks

loving this, it would be nice if you walked around your village from time to time too to take in the everyday life :3

I love this organic style I think it'll look amazing

Seems like a good improvement would be to be able to to stack logging camp work areas so that you can plan in advance the trees you want them to cut down and let them get on with it without having to worry about checking every five minutes if they're sitting around doing nothing. Also I would say it's best to have them revert to cut tress anywhere once all their specific location assignments are completed. It seems too easy to just not notice they've finished an area right now, folks are going to get annoyed by this.

I am stoked for this game

woooot cant wait to seemore of the content that was outside of the demo! :D

Hyped for this

Gonna comment on each video, keep up the great work!

Hey I finally get to watch you again since you stopped away from planet zoo! So happy to see you play this one and can’t wait for more episodes :)

Yes yes and more yes! It had to be done

New Party Let'sPlay. Let's gooo!

I absolutely love Hooded Horse. It seems like a good home for Indie games, they have some of my favourite titles. Nebulous: Fleet Command, Falling Frontier, Terra Invicta, Capital Command, Manor Lords, probably some more I cant recall atm. Many of these games have such depth AAA games cant even come close to. Really looking forward to this one. Fun vid PE, cant wait to see how this will play out.

Yay! It's Party season again! And with Manor Lords nonetheless! Really excited for this playthrough. And happy to see you trying to embrace chaos a bit more (I've been doing that myself lately). Sad to see you didn't get your Manor in this episode, though. Talk about "Unmannednor" Lords.