Greetings medievalists!
One of the features that will come in the next update is player-triggered events. Up until now, all of the events that occurred in Going Medieval were reactive. Meaning, you would just wait for them to happen. We want to change that, and we'll introduce three events (for now) to test this system. Say hello to Feasts, Sermons and Rituals.
For Feasts, in the upcoming update, when you click on one of the tables in the room marked as a "Great Hall", the option "Plan event" will appear.
There, you'll be able to choose its participants, food and beverages they'll consume, roles (more on that in the upcoming MMTs) along with the event outcome. You can make a feast for your settlers, but you'll probably want to do it for merchants and other NPCs that will come to your settlement. This will help you boost your relationship with them and maybe influence better deals during the trade. Or you can go full dark mode and give them rotten meat and human meat thus poisoning them in the process and starting an ambush. But you do you.
This event can be scheduled so you can plan it upfront, but for the feast to happen, it needs to have more than 3 settlers involved in it. Once the feast starts, settlers will abandon their current jobs, go to the great hall and spend their time there eating and drinking. When the feast ends, you'll get a summary of the feast outcome - number of guests, food variety, the look of the room, mood outcome, impressions, etc. Those that were not on the feast may be bummed by missing it. You can schedule the next one immediately, but it might not be as effective. Ideally, for feasts to be thoroughly enjoyed, you'll want to space them out properly. Treasure those special moments. Something that repeats too frequently loses its magic a bit, right?
Sermons and Rituals are events where you’ll be able to solidify the faith of Oak Brethren/Restitution folks. But for that to happen, you’ll need people with different roles. More on that soon.
So where does this leave us? It opens the door for more events depending on the situations and participants. Over time we'll introduce stuff like Market day (trading celebration), Duel (fight between two participants), Funeral (honoring the dead the right way), Execution (self-explanatory), etc. Some of these will not clash with the regular event cooldown, but we'll do a deep dive for each event once we introduce them to the game.
Next time we'll talk about the new settlers' roles and how they tie to this feature and the other ones. See you in two weeks. Until then, stay medieval.