Preparing copper buildings and goods buildings to already have productions running is a decent idea. For the 1000 diplomacy and mead hall, It will take 8 hrs for the goods buildings to produce for the last quest, this enough time to build plenty of willows, unlock mead hall, delete the willows and place a mead hall, then sell the mead hall and replace with shrines if you will need more copper or if not just wait for the end
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Clan Houses will also take 4 hours to build. Build 2 and once done, tear down all but one Hut. This gives you the Population and room to build any extra goods buildings and copper producers to unlock both Old Willows and Mead Hall
at the same time.
Once you have the goods needed to unlock
both, tear down and build goods buildings so you have one of each type either existing or under construction. Start the existing goods buildings for their first 4 hour run, adding Markets for Copper, leaving just enough pop and space to build a Mead Hall when you unlock. Then fill the remaining space with Clan Totems.
An hour later, you'll have one of each goods building, some new Markets for copper and enough Diplomacy to unlock both Old Willow and Mead Hall. Now you can build an Old Willow, delete. Build a Mead Hall, delete.
Then start a 4 hour production run on the new goods buildings, now only an hour behind the others. Sell the Clan Totems replacing with Shacks and Shrines filling all the remaining available space. All copper collections now count toward completion
and can be used to produce more goods. Set your Markets and Shrines to either 1 or 4 hour productions, whichever you need to ensure 4 hours later, you'll have the 4k Copper you'll need to launch the last run of all 4 of the goods buildings.
Once you've got all 4 goods buildings running, just ensure you've got the 4K copper you'll need to start that last run, and you're done 8 hours later, no matter what. You won't need a 4x to trigger.
Depending on the time remaining and my Copper situation, the fact that 8 hours will be needed to produce the last wet of goods also means I have the 4 hours needed to allow both Old Willows and Mead Halls to build once they're unlocked. At that point, I might as well just layout a decent looking final settlement. Just for fun.
I'm not much worried about this change. Those who learned to build Settlements withing the lowest time frame will still be able to do so. Maybe the change means a few more will be able to. Seems most gave up on fragments early on, I don't see this change affecting them either. Who knows, maybe now they'll get luck and score a fragment or two.
