Good suggestions Dark, and I'll definitely keep them in mind when coding the next update.

At the moment, no, there aren't any faster ways to transfer items or move everyone to the next location.  I like your ideas for perhaps speeding up those things though.

Food rations were not explained in the game, so they are confusing at first.  The quarter ration uses 1 food, half uses 2, reduced is 3, and full is 4.  That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but it's because the original design had the options full, increased, double, and triple.  I went back and changed it because I felt the game shouldn't ever bless you so much that you can start feeding people more than a full day's rations.  I never adjusted the numbers to make it fit better with the new naming convention though.  It would have made much more sense to have 1 food equal 1 full ration, and then fractions of a ration would go along with those reduced amounts.  Oh well, hind sight is 20/20.

Depressed is worse than unhappy.

Getting a camp site set up is important for other locations if you're planning to camp out there.  The initial crash site provides a bit of a camp right off the bat, but other locations are basically a blank slate.  Until you get 1 or more campsite improvements finished, it's hard to compete with the crash site.

Relationships were in the original design, but were scrapped to make things simpler.  I may go back and add them though.  The idea wasn't that relationships would form, but rather people in your group might have existing relationships to one another.  So 2 of your people might be married, one could be the child of someone else, and so forth.  The only real purpose for that system would be increased morale hits when one of them dies.  People seemed pretty sad already, so I didn't worry too much when the relationship system was left out, hahaha.

Even with a maxed out camp, the crash site really isn't the best place to stay. Especially since it eventually runs out of supplies, and by then your people are probably pretty hungry anyway, or exhausted, both of which will make it hard to move them on later. Even on the easiest setting, you will probably only get a maximum of 4 people to an area that isn't freezing cold, which is the area past the ice folds. If you think that you are going to lose a person, try and get him to move as far toward the city as he can, because I think that increases your score. Really you'll have to live with the fact that you will lose most  of your people, but if you end up in a situation where you only have seniors or children, you're basically screwed because they can't do a lot of the important stuff.

fires actually don't really seem to help people stay warm at freezing cold areas, even if they are really big. I make them anyway, because I think it ups morale. Even with 3 or 4 blankets they slowly get colder and colder until they are frozen dead.

Yes, first locations are verry, verry cold. I usually use falt autarific (not sure if I spelt it right), so I can get animal furs earlyer on. But it's probably easier for me, because my computer is buggy or something, so when I open my saved games most people get all toasty and warm.

I finally finished this game! yay!
Day 65 was my last day, and, I finish with one senior out of 9 people.
Final score was 574, give or take a point or two either way.
My perk was fuzzy wuzzy or whatever its called, and my fault was snowman, though I can't seem to remember what that fault involved.

I'll give it another shot on baby steps again, and see if I can get the mortality rate a little higher.

Thanks again Aprone for all the work you do to keep us entertained!

Congratulations! My score (after getting past that frozen lake and losing everyone), was something like 50.

I have to confess that I got a laugh out of this:

I'll give it another shot on baby steps again, and see if I can get the mortality rate a little higher.

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Best Regards,

Tiffany Kim

Aprone, another great game here! I do like your strategy games, they're always interesting.

And this one... frustrating. Oh so frustrating. But I will win! My insistence on sticking to normal difficulty may be my undoing. Maybe I should just lose some pride and try it on easy. But not yet.

I'm feeling like my new strategy is to go all nomad and charge forward out of the cold areas, not really sticking around. We'll see how that goes.

For the relationships idea, maybe it might not all be a bad thing. Maybe it can give the people involved a daily dose onto their morale score, though only if their morale is below content or something like that. To simulate the support that our loved ones can give us in troubled times. As well as the loss if you lose one of them.

Keep up the good work!

This is a very interesting concept. Starting off with normal was probably not a good idea, since I didn't really know what to do yet. The last of my people died on day 15, and I barely made it to the second site (took me a while to figure out I have to move on from the first one because no new tasks were becoming available and I wasn't going to get those people with broken limbs to move anytime soon). I'll try on easy next time. The religion thing is very creative! I'm really curious which god (if any) is real, but I guess there's no way to really figure it out with certainty. Didn't play with a religion yet, I'll try that at some point. I really hope this game gets expanded, I'm enjoying it and it seems like something with a lot of potential.

Aprone,
This game is really challenging and maybe the baby steps could be a little easier, as I haven't gotten someone all the way yet.
Suggestions;
I like the idea of relationships, maybe add a group variable to share their resources.
It would be interesting to set each individual's religion.
How about a good, neutral or evil category? An evil individual could steel from or kill the other party members.
While a good character might befriend a wolf with food which becomes a guard animal  that protects the party.
Adding a survivalist or ranger category would allow that person to make tents, skis or sleds to hall food out of airship parts.
Adding new items to the airship cargo, guns and ammo, bows and arrows, skis, dried hiking food, and coils of rope could add interesting developments.