"Virtual Villagers" Tricks
Your fledgling village needs your help in "Virtual Villagers: A New Home," and decisions you make early in the game will affect your tribe's chances of survival. Your villagers will want to explore the many wonders and puzzles of their island home, but you have to keep them focused on their jobs until the village is stable.
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Starting Out
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Your starting tribe has five adults and one child. One villager is a trainee builder; assign him to clear driftwood from the beach. Assign two adult villagers to research at the science table and the remaining two adult villagers to collect berries for food. Keep your villagers working at their assigned tasks until you've accumulated 800 units of food and 6,000 tech points. At that point, your villagers won't be in immediate danger of starving and you'll be in a better position to let your villagers reproduce if you want to start growing your tribe.
Technology
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Food is always a concern in "Virtual Villagers," so your first tech purchase should be the second level of farming technology, which costs 6,000 tech points and allows your villagers to plant crops. Next, purchase Level 2 of construction tech for 2,500 tech points so you can engage in more building projects. These two techs are the most crucial to your village's survival in the early game.
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Skill Assignments
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Villagers learn skills in five areas: building, farming, research, healing and breeding. As a villager performs tasks in a particular field, his skill rank increases from unskilled to trainee, adept and master. The rank determines the villager's speed and success at his job, and some tasks can only be performed by villagers of a certain rank. Villagers may get sick or even die, so it's in your best interest to rotate villagers on tasks; this way, you'll have several villagers skilled in multiple areas. This is especially crucial for the building skill, since construction jobs are limited. Click on the "Detail" button and set each villager's skill preference to the job you've assigned him; otherwise, he may return to a previous task.
Game Speed
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"Virtual Villagers" takes place in real time, and it can take your villagers several hours to complete a job. Set the game's speed to "2X" in the options menu if you'd like your villagers to pick up the pace. You can also help them along. For example, after a villager brings berries to the food bin, she has to walk back to the bush to collect more. Click on her and drag her to the bush to save the time she would have spent traveling. If the villager already has a bowl of berries or another object in her hand, however, she'll drop it if you pick her up; you can only move her when her hands are empty.
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