Based on feedback from the current beta, some players have been deeply engaged, while others have expressed a preference for the more relaxed tribe-building experience of the previous version.

It’s important to clarify our design goals and communicate them in detail to help set appropriate expectations.

The current version presents a relatively harsh worldview. However, note the "Culture Tree." We will build on this foundation to introduce more "idealistic" societal paths—such as a peace-oriented matriarchal society—offering a more leisurely experience. These options must remain grounded in historical plausibility. While the previous version was relaxed, it diverged too significantly from history. For human civilization, conflicts and warfare have been the norm.

Recent numerical adjustments also prioritize "competition" as the core metric. Certain mechanics—like cooking speed or livestock feed rates—may feel slower than before, but as long as they strategically enable outpacing rival factions, they serve their purpose.

That said, I fully agree that excessive perceived sluggishness diminishes enjoyment. I’ll continue refining these elements holistically.

Beyond Micromanagement

With "competition" as the driving force, excessively micromanaging individual labor assignments shouldn’t burden players as "rulers of the world." While the current labor interface offers some production control, its impact is intentionally limited.

The previous version forced passive defense, with content auto-unlocking through knowledge. Meaningful strategic choices were scarce—minor production tweaks (crops vs. livestock) yielded negligible differences, and activities like clothing production required livestock with no alternatives.

The new version establishes a historically grounded foundation with real choices. We’ll expand upon this to deliver richer strategies and experiences. If the current build isn’t to your taste, please be patient—societies aligning with your values (like peaceful matriarchies) are coming.

I fully respect diverse playstyle preferences. My plan is to introduce these alternate experiences via distinct nations/cultural/political doctrines, shaping societies that match player desires.

Strategic now focus lies in diplomacy and schedule.

And like other grand strategy games, the gameplay cycle:

1) Achieve victory (unify the region) through one strategy.

2) Replay with varied approaches—examples include:

> Early war

> Cultural indoctrination

> Trade dominance

> Slavery systems

> Tributary networks

> Military conscription

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Leaders & Future Development

Leaders currently function as "grouping" tools for management. Later, they will evolve into "nobility," introducing social classes. I’ll detail this in future videos and announcements.

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A Work in Progress

This project is highly experimental, constantly evolving through exploration. Your feedback is invaluable. Please continue offering your constructive criticism!

Balance‌
• AI Training Points growth rate: -10%
• AI Weapon Tech research speed: -40%
• Late-game AI siege ram quantity: -40%
• Cohesion mechanics adjustments
• Knowledge: Must not exceed 1000

‌UX Improvements‌
• Add "Slaughter" option for captured juveniles even without pens
• Replace all "Merge XXX" actions with unified "Organize Storage" option

‌Bug Fixes‌
• Storage workers ignore Clam transfer tasks
• Slaves awaiting execution stuck in unreachable pathfinding locations (causing constant errors)

‌Localization Issue‌
• military service buttons display error text

Spear Thrower

Attack Range: 20 -> 15

Against 'Long Spear': +20% -> 0

Anipals health bars turn red abnormally

Assyrian civilization expands too rapidly

Corpses near fish ponds or weapon racks cannot be buried

Added tooltip to New Leader button: "Leaders act according to your schedule. Followers synchronize all actions including production, technology, culture, and training."

Battering rams deploy ONLY during Command State

Slaves' Anipals immediately disband during slave rebellions

1. Child spawn without beds and infinitely duplicate.

2. When crafting tools: After completing one item, if branches are lacking, units halt ALL other work.

3. Tutorial arrows are obstructed by UI layers.

- Bronze crafting: Reduce excessive Crafting KLN. gain.

- Medical tech: "Food healing effects" missing translations.

- Tutorial popups: Text truncation occurring across languages.

The Traditional Ones might be focused on "survival", with a lot of natural disasters and surviving rounds of bugs, zombies, or invaders or it can be about logistics management, space planning, building pipes, conveyor belts, waterways, etc., in order to efficiently move goods around and expand production.

We have currently incorporated "competition with other peoples," essentially merging grand strategy gameplay with "map coloring" mechanics.
Players must prevail in this fiercely competitive world.

We hope our friends maintain realistic expectations regarding our development progress. We will gradually create a work centered on shaping and building society within the context of human conflict.

Management remains a crucial cornerstone – you must develop your tribe effectively, then exert influence over neighboring tribes, turning them into vassals to achieve greater expansion.
Here, war will serve as an extension of politics, though not the sole method; cultural propagation and trade are equally viable paths.

This game is not the traditional way of playing colony building, and that competition, i.e. war, diplomacy, commerce and trade will be very important, and that just building on your own in silence will not win you the game.

This old mechanic can lead to players not being able to make choices on technology development. It is very detrimental to the playstyle.

I like the old mechanic myself, but it's a temporary compromise for the sake of smooth gameplay and the more important leader system, so I hope you understand.

The mechanism now is that the leader creates the technology by leading the crowd, working together, and gathering the wisdom of all.

Knowledge remains an important factor, and with insufficient knowledge, technology creation will be slow beyond the medium term.

The engraving of monuments and the passing on of knowledge is still alive and well and remains a more important play.

We will also continue to design better ways to play to reflect the importance of knowledge. Keep up the playstyle exploration of this factor.

The detail (texture) is reduced. On the one hand this is better for post performance.

On the other hand, I think being able to clearly see what people are doing is very important for this work.

The characters have become more slender than in the past, and the movements are more realistic, especially the fighting ones.

There's still a lot of room for improvements, but the overall presentation of the art style is much more appropriate for this game than in the past.

Scenery details will be further enriched by adding buildable facilities.

• Mission, Founding, Oracle. It will be replaced later by a richer system of diplomacy and events.

• Terrain modification. Shouldn't be done again, huge amount of work, other games do it more.

• But the mound of dirt and the altar are still there. They are now used for cultural outreach.

• The "Smoothing Point" is removed, and the need for "emotional pacification" is gone. Now there's no more being scared to death out of fear.

• There are no specialized medical beds. Serious injuries are treated by prioritizing placement in beds, and if beds are not available, they will be placed next to the campfire.

The player starts in East Asia.

The player can take slaves and food from other tribes.

They can also pay tribute to other tribes or be turned into military service by "propagandizing" them.

There are no more complex strategic gameplay options such as marriages.

The localized battlefield has simple weapon restraints and training of soldiers. There are chariots as siege equipment.

In the past, the tech tree was accumulated by knowledge and unlocked by itself. The player had no choice. Now it has been changed to, the leader leads the clan and conducts research together. The speed of research is mainly affected by collective intelligence, but also by the amount of knowledge.

The content of the tech tree has been increased mainly by city defense. Other tech points have changed little.

This can be done through culture, controlling population growth, weapon quality, training effectiveness, and outreach effectiveness. Four broad areas.

It is likewise up to the leader to lead the clan and create.

There are related leader schedules, martial arts, and dietary management.

It's very convenient to operate in the middle and late stage. All kinds of interactions are centered on the leader.

It's not a monogamous union now. Children don't know who their father is.

It doesn't have much impact at the moment. The main thing is to lay the groundwork for play styles down the road.

For example, an imbalance in the ratio of men to women can cause a difference in playstyle, where women are more numerous and the population reproduces faster.

And more males in greater numbers, with greater war power.

This is also more in line with history, and lays the foundation for future "family" and "class" mechanics.

Slaves are great laborers, but they can also rebel.

Rebellion can be deterred by execution, or it can take a leader's time to turn them into clansmen or sold.

You don't have to send squads out to find medicine anymore, the people who work in medicine will find it themselves.

Serious injuries are now 0 blood, but they won't die immediately, they will be saved by others, and will only die if no one saves them at intervals.

※ Performance can't hold up after the population explosion in the later stages. We have already designed a way to play against "too many people", but it will take time to fix it.

※ Localization still a work in progress while it is on Beta. We will be updating it always that the each translator make some progress. Russian and Spanish might be unplayable for now, once that our translators are facing personal problems.

Also being a Beta branch, there should be more or less a few bugs and numerical issues that we haven't found yet.

We hope you will give us more encouragement.

-Peterson Bueno, Mr. Octopus

• A brand new tech tree.
  
• Culture tree.
  
• Formation of servants led by a leader for training, tech creation, culture creation.
  
• Interaction with other tribes, invading, tribute, puppets.

• Corpses have a decay time. The corpses of the invaders and our own people now take 2 days to produce the plague. There should be plenty of time to get rid of the corpses.
  
• Room selection interaction.
  Mouse over a blank space in a room to select to the room. You can also select a room by selecting its facilities and then clicking the “Select Room” button.
  
• Simplified animal catching.
  You can now catch animals without ropes.
  The new file doesn't check Capture Pups by default.

• The expedition team going to get a car that is in a parking spot will report an error, also cause the archive can not be read.

• Increased production for cooking, lowered intelligence and knowledge requirements for technology.