The BEST start to an EMPIRE

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Timestamps:
00:00 Osheanean Empire Episode 1
02:57 Choosing City Location
10:10 Early Game
26:37 Series Format Idea
35:43 Initial Technology and Trade
45:41 Never forget this freebie!
50:43 The BEST Decoration

[jonnoble]

Sure that map is perfectly realistic. You simply recreated the isthmus of Panama rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise, complete with a manmade canal bisecting it. I thought that's what you were doing until you said otherwise. The actual map generation didn't do you any favors though.

[buio]

Never played Song of Syx but it sits in my Wishlist. The algorithm showed your video and I thought "Why not?"

Then you go and say "best race ever: Humans"

Aight ill watch and sub.

[billisultan]

I always play on forests with high fertility with bordering lakes so watching this much mineral deposit made me panic.

[SkillZgetKillZ]

27:15 Another Youtuber (Michael Hendricks) has a style where he is 2 characters; "Editor Mike" and "Playing Mike"
The majority of commentary is from Editor Mike with interjections from Player Mike's in the moment thoughts

Editor Mike is scripted and kinda puts on a presenter's voice

Playing Mike is just his natural voice with "ums", long pauses, and just not really caring that people are watching

[comradesillyotter]

if you ever run out of things to talk about, something that helped me out is to talk about how you feel about certain stuff rather than any matter of fact natures of things. People like perspectives and senses, they know facts

[werdsswdwe]

Let's GO!!! Thanks for the content Oshan!

[failsafe]

I've started watching this series to see other way of doing things in the city. And yes, You are doing everything other way that I would think should be done. Super interesting to see a different perspective and I hope to learn something. Im in my second city now, little more than 1.3k so far, so bit beyond basics, but it is interesting nonetheless. Your strategy with early trade is cool. I always (well, "always" in my case means just two attempts) try to build my cities self sustainable, but next time I think I will try it this way.

[TheShourdedLord]

Nice videos man, good content on songs of syx is pretty rare I feel

[sirsim]

I m still on map editor.Happens with all strategy games I love. Can't go past the map editor. From pure joy only.

[Clemartydu]

Thanks for the good content and the shout-out 🫶

[Wolf]

Hey there, Mr. Oshan!

I'm a little late to the party, seeing that you have made more videos by now. I have an intuition I'm a little older than you, so maybe my tastes are different, but in my experience, the best are the ones that just freestyle with whatever is on their mind; eventually you'll find the most natural style for you.

Btw, having been unemployed for a year know, and after several automated rejection emails, don't let the Blank Template live rent free in your head

[gustavolemos]

must be a crime having such a easy start

[RobsRedHotSpot]

I did a design where all buildings fit into blocks of 2x5 longhouses once. Worked very well!

[Mxnello]

Loving the content brother, I managed to get my city to 180 pop today, going to go for another run tomorrow but overall getting the hang of things 🤝

[alexanderrahl]

First of their Name used to be a GOAT ass title, now since the update, its become the worst title to get, and an absolute trap that can fuck you. Making it worse than useless, its game breaking. I started a new game just yesterday with it, and while it gives you 55 people, and food to last a few days, it also absolutely pisses off your population. Because with 55 people, comes the expectations of 55 people, and they all start off fuming at not having their needs instantly met. Its nearly impossible to fulfil their needs to satisfy them before they start striking, rioting, or just emigrating altogether. Most of the time, i dont even have a few days to give them housing a stable food source and basic services before its lord of the flies.
We all know the things you need at the start, housing, wells, hearth, warehouse, speaker, janitor and food source. But you rarely have the time to build all of that before people start shit over how mad they are
Honestly it ruined the game for me and i quit for a while after that update, i only just came back and ended up losing a bunch of people to emigration at the start. Once i had 30 or so though, their moods stabilized and now im up to almost 360.

[rinslittlesheepling]

1:26
Most unexpected reference of my life.

[MGoogle]

So far as content goes, I enjoy videos that have a point to them rather than the "waffly-longplay" style videos. They can be up to an hour long, but any longer and I just won't have time to watch them (dad-mode). If you want to appeal to younger audiences, then keep the video time under 10 minutes.

RE video format, I know some successful Youtubers take notes (pen + paper) whilst they're recording of where interesting events take place (eg. people starving @ 20 mins. bugs invade @ ~40 mins). That way, it's easier to jump-cut edit to interesting sections, and you can save yourself the breath between those parts if you have nothing to say.

[tobiasbastrup]

I subbed instantly when you said noodle.

[RobsRedHotSpot]

I'm pretty sure the yield on the woodcutters has improved in the last patch. Definitely useful early-mid game!

[fenmoorz]

Will check out your vids when I learn a bit more. Lost in this but seemed interesting.