I wanted something relaxing that I could play with my morning coffee on the weekends and it started off as such but I apparently found out why my villagers were "Banished" from their parent community...they are mentally deficient. First time my adult pop was about 120 then a huge starve-off dropped it down to about 85 once I closed the schools to get more into the labor pool. I slowly built up the population to around 110 and just now lost about 40 again to the point where I just didn't care and ran the speed up to x10 until it hit early spring again and I saved and quit. And this was when there was food in the barns, food in the marketplace, and most of the people starving were gathering food. If they're too stupid to find food, they're too stupid to live, and Darwinism wins again. What started as a nice relaxing way to build a village has turned into sheer frustration. At best I'm contemplating ditching this village, (I would hate to as I would like to see it grow and build the things I had planned.) and starting another on just the easy level to hopefully avoid such stupidity but it may end up as something I don't go back to at all. This may be my first and last village. I wanted relaxation, I got stress. I get enough of that from work. I was impressed at first. I told people to get it. Now I will tell them to not bother.
