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Children in Norland can now learn pig farming from their elders, the little idiotsKnow more morons

Know more morons

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hooded Horse

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hooded Horse

A crowd of peasants gather to celebrate at night while the Bishop is plied with drink and invited to play instruments.

“[Teachers] will now pass on their knowledge to the children they teach,” say the developers in a briefpost about the patch on Steam. But they also note that “at the same time, wise conversations with children will no longer be possible… On the one hand, this will reduce micromanagement for those familiar with the Wise Conversation tool. Conversely, it will ease the knowledge transfer between generations for new players.”

In other words, you won’t have to keep spamming the command for people to talk to one another in the vain hope that they might share some insightful nugget on pig farming. That’ll probably make catastrophic loss of knowledge less likely for newer players who don’t yet know that the passing on of knowledge is a major factor in a settlement’s success.

There’s another small fix too: “Ambitious kings should no longer uncontrollably and sharply increase the number of their troops in the late game.” That’s probably useful. But I’ve not made it to that “late game” yet. My first playthroughended in disaster thanks to a lusty bishopwho kept having sex with my lords and then insisting those lords seek absolution for that “sinful act” for the low-low price of six silver rings. The absolute shyster.