I've just started to play this game, and well, it's just awesome. I'm not really into this kind of games but I guess I'll be addicted for a long time

@54
  Really? You're gonna get this nit picky over part of the game that's already accessible, easily usable, and just isn't quite set up the way you'd like it to be perfectly convenient for your personal preference? Come on, man, enjoy the game. You can now.

Hello. First I want to say that you have a great game. I am totally addicted, and you have inspired me to create my own game. I think that I only have three requests. The first of these is that I want to know how much electricity I have. Second, is there any way that we could put timers to count down when resources are full, for the time oriented among us.  I have played many idle games, and I like to know exactly what I am getting into when I am filling up a storage. Third, the crate and container system is a little interesting, and I have no idea where to see the amount of resources you need to build a crate, so if someone could explain that to me. Keep up the good work.

Well the thing that helped me, is to get more and more farmers. I have 13 farms as far as I remember, and maybe 17 farmers...

You guys should probably make suggestions for the game in the Github or Discord. The dev may not check this forum very often.

@57 To build a crate you click the + symbol beside the resources. Clicking the + opens a new window with three buttons, "construct crate", "unassign crate", and "assign crate". Hovering over the "construct crate" button shows the cost, which is 10 plywood for crates and 125 steel for containers. Clicking "assign crate" assigns one crate to the resource that is beside the + you clicked. If you hover over the "assign crate" button it states the amount of resources each crate stores. The crate/container system increases the maximum storage capacity of the resource assigned to it.

@58. Weather, seasons, morale, farms, farming technology and farmer jobs impacts the amount of food you gain. Weather is random. Seasons cycle based on the time in-game. One month in-game is 140 seconds in real time. Morale is effected by unemployment, some weather, seasons, job stress and entertainment. 100% is the base morale. Each 1% under 100% morale gives you 1% less production in every resource. Every 1% above 100% gives you a 0.5% production boost in every resource. Job stress can't be reduced, just offset by entertainment. Entertainment is gained by Entertainer jobs from the Amphitheatre. More advanced technology later in the game adds more morale options and farming buffs. In the early game you have to play actively to keep close attention on your food, and click the gather food button as necessary. Later on it's not much of a problem.

Yes, raid other people and you will get steel, and can then buy it. I was actually using it as a way to make money myself.

I would guess you get steel from having both iron and coal, though I never got quite that far myself.

@64

Smelters produce steel by clicking "Smelter Options" button on the top left corner of the Smelter building. It opens a window that will look something like this:

Smelter
Fueled 0/1
« Lumber » | « Coal »
Iron Smelting 0 | Steel Smelting 0

The fueled line tells you how many smelters are fueled out of the amount you have. The above example has 0/1, so 0 out of 1 Smelter are fueled and operational.

To use the smelter, you have to click the arrows (« or ») beside the lumber or coal buttons to select that as fuel. The left arrow « removes fuel and the right arrow » adds fuel. If you click the "Iron Smelting" button, it increases iron production by 10%. If you click the "Steel Smelting" button, it produces steel instead. The number on these buttons tells you how many of your smelters are dedicated to each job. Removing fuel turns the smelter off, so remember to turn it back on after you add fuel again. To exit this interface just click anywhere outside the window, or press Esc.

Factories also have a production interface that opens in the same way. In that interface you choose between three different products.

Thank you Demagorddon, you really do a great job, love your game and your efforts on accessibility

The factory consumes copper and aluminium in order to produce alloy, do you have a surplus income of both?

Assuming you are producing both then you need to assign a factory to produce alloy; the factory is one of the things I have not yet reviewed for accessibility so you might be having trouble assigning the factory production. There are arrows that reduce or increase the number of factories assigned to produce a material similar to how the smelter worked in the past.

Hopefully someone else around here can help you decode how to interact with it until it gets it's usability update.

Just to let everyone know, Evolve now has Its own db page found here<

thank u so much! factory is working just like the smelter now! but I still can't figure luxurious goods? I started producing it, but nothing new appeared to my resources.

also, what is the arpa for? I managed to get it up to 4 %, but I don't know what resources it is actually consuming from me, and what does it do?