I had to cut out words and such to minimize the length. Hoping to make second review with rest of Hints and Cheats This is information I found online years ago by an unknown creator. Enjoy! Digging: Main direction down. Side paths/caves should be explored. Space for new caves, or settlement, use this trick: Mark and dig only 2 fields, stops level generator from generating things in the way. Do not overdo it, you may not have space for the nice side quests and quests with a couple, Precaution have weapon, shield, healing drink, food in inventory Working Time: Give couples the same work and leisure time 6 Diggle hours of work and 6 Diggle hours of free time First pair of 6-12 work, 2nd pair of 12-6, 3rd pair of 3-9, 4th pair of 9-3 etc Create pairs with Ctrl+# to form group. Let couples work together (e.g. one couple to dig and one to cook on another shift) Due to this division you only need 1 tent at the beginning, max. 2 (in one sleep 2 Diggles and they do other things in their free time beside sleeping) Offspring: For division of working time/free time Give more free time if necessary Make sure they are together in free time, if necessary send them to the bar together Food: Production not to infinity, but only a maximum of 8 Distribute to different production sites. 3 are actually enough 1 kitchen & 2 fireplaces Do not produce different things at the same time Diggles love variety, so offer something different Build 2 farms (Mushroom, Hamster) Close to fireplace or kitchen (no shaft between) Kitchen needs energy Do not stop production (red cross) Diggles only feed themselves if have free space in their inventory
All I can say is the older Funatics games were better than this title. Cultures, Cultures 2, and 8th Wonder of the Wold (Funatics lost rights to use the name Cultures) were more fun in many ways. This game is little more than plunk a building down and trust it gets built. I have yet to locate a way to tell your workers to gather, or take up residence as a fisherman, or woodsman. While the original Cultures as quite tedious (babysitting your people to make sure they did not starve), it still was more fun. At $4.99 it is not a bad buy, but if you want more direct control try one of the older Cultures titles.
Finally, the Bentusi live again, and are no longer bound! The original HW was a blast to play online. Played for a very long time with Old Men Online (OMO) and then this new version of the game arrived. This game was a lot of fun to play as a team online, going for crystals at the start, but risking great loss if they got blown up. Then either building the huge Cannon shot or the Infect weapon and seeing the massive damage they each caused in their own way. Multiplayer was and hopefully will be again, a ton of fun to be part of as a team. Oh, and one of the best lines of the Single Player campaign was when the Bentusi were infected, and refused to live in such a way..."No, We will not be bound!" You can hear both the bitter choice of such a decision and the determination of such a decision. Great game. Get this game and either relive, or for the first time experience a great RTS by any standard.
I pre-ordered this title years ago, and I have long forgotten about this game. It appears it is nothing like it was promised to users and who knows when it will actually hit, and what it will finally look like. It seems a hollow shell of what it was intended to be and promised. In the end, forgetting about the game was a good thing to do, as there was no frustration. So, release or no release, it will make no difference.
