Make sure you have housing for everyone, upgrade your hearth, and unassign your woodcutters during Storm.
Citadel upgrades for essential blueprints of race specific housing and field kitchen will help keep resolve up in the early game.
Cornerstones the reduce hostility will help a ton in the mid to late game.
Edit: And don’t open a glade unless you have a reason to. Every glade you open increases the hostility level.
Personally I don’t open small glades unless I have a cornerstone that triggers off it or my humans or foxes have seen something there. I’ll spend the first 2 years building up my initial settlement, then start of drizzle year 3 break open a dangerous glade for those sweet event rewards. I’ll continue to open a dangerous glade every year or two afterwards depending on how things are going.
Much like how once you get comfortable with the difficulty level it’s time to increase it, once you feel comfortable with how your settlement is running it’s time to open a dangerous glade.
It’s a Rougelite Citybuilder with a demo that lets you play the actual game (only limits your max level and what biomes you can play in). That’s all it took to get me in.
I could always get one of those games off the high seas and pay the same amount. I’m not going to give Epic the engagement numbers to get investors with.
“Supporting competition” is not a good enough reason to use a shitty service. If I start a service that charges twice as much as Steam and has none of the features would you use it in order to “support competition”?
If the only reason to purchase from Epic is “they exist” that’s not good enough.
I will happily avoid Epic’s attempts to be a monopoly now over worrying that Steam might be shitty in the future.
If everything is political then it’s impossible to make a game that isn’t political. This is no more valid than someone complaining that including an option for skin tone is political.