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After some testing Wits do impact healing, it is not written anywhere but it does. The same as Phy impact damages, Wits impact magical damages and healing so train your mages/healers.

"have you/did you have any rare "near impossible" enemies?  "

Early on a Troll and a Golem are quite formidable foes but not unkillable if you manage to have offensive spells, I would recommend to stay away from the Ancient Jungle. The creatures there are nasty.

Assassins are dangerous but you encounter them only in Bandits Forts, with my current team I can vainquish them.

Rebels? not particularly? they are cannon fodder against my team, I'm faster, more precise and can evade them sometimes. My spells either burns them to ashes/ cut through them easily, my fighters can cut them down and tank them too.

In this version 0.5.4 foes with unique traits are indeed more dangerous, beware of them.

My combat team is enough to deal with any threats in early game (till elections) afterwards you would need to train and give better equipments to keep things smooth.

For the Guilds REP there is no notification in the changelog but you can see it in the Journal.

Didn't saw your post as I was already writing one (I take a lot of time to write).

"I'm guessing you trained Daisy everyday?"

Nope, not at all. I have other slaves to train. At 52 Wits her damaging spells are strong enough and she heals decently.

"EASY Q's  [like you did]  just don't pay as much  XP or gold,   so everything takes longer. "

At the beginning the easy quests are there just for the REP, eventually the reward can be good like a weapon or an armor. I don't do them for the money.

"I checked  ~  every other day----&  did see:   At least 1 char w "grave injury"    (can't fight,  reduced production)  [I try very hard to avoid that]  & 1 "starving"  (lack of food) "

Twice I think my characters fells in combat, usually I try to avoid that too but well can't be optimal everytime. For the starving it was an oversight and I bought food the next day I think.

"BTW  (since I see you have/got it)  Is there any use for Troll's Blood?  "

It is used for Alchemy I think. In the previous version I didn't have time to actually use it before the current update.

"I don't see any of your hookers made into Succubus,  do you not like them?"

One of them is, I got the class late since I used a low growth character, usually I get them sooner.

"I also only see 1 staff  (I assume from DRs)   you never bought a 2nd staff?!?    [makes you Mages much weaker!  ----ok,  but also saves gold---they aren't cheap!]"

Bingo, looting can give good rewards, until then a club is fine and no I never bought a staff. 

My mages, weak? try them you'll see they can very much kill things. Why should I buy expensives weapons when 1) I have a debt to repay 2) I can already kill everything I see

I do at least give a weapon for everybody, kill things faster and less time spent healing.

"Also looks like you only bought armor for ~ half (?)   your "military?""

Ah that was me being unlucky in the shop rolls, mostly no armor at all spawning or heavy armor that almost nobody can wear facepalm.

5 combattants are enough early game, 4 is the absolute minimum for me. Only later you'll need full team full stuffed, for now debt comes first.

"The "Servants"  thing----is that a MIN of 300 Guild points,  or what? "

I don't know, it's new in this version.

"Personal Bank"

I have the 3k in case I don't finish the REP quest, I don't care if I finish before or after D28 personnally. To tell you the truth, after the elections you'll have more gold than you need. you'll be more in needs of materials to craft better stuff. Gold will be nearly useless by then. Also you can take your time to leisurely upgrade your mansion and roleplay, that's where the fun is.

"WOW!   Where did you get your  "CRAFTSMAN SUIT?"  !     [obviously not from crafting...]  "

Grin obviously from looting, dungeons chests can have good surprises in them.

I skipped 2 quests at the beginning, 1 with the workers wanting a tool (never spawned in shops) and the 2nd the Servants wanted someone for 3 days.

"1)  you did a lot of DRs?"

I didn't count them, it is mentioned in the logs, a couples per week I would say. I did a Bandit Fort (MED) that's where some of my combattants felled, had to retreat.

"2) Compared to me  (or at least  "back then"  lol)  you saved more & spent less---a LOT less.

[even for armor/weapons]    -->  Ex:    I only counted  *ONE*  staff,  even at D28!    [a decent staff can cost  over 1k gold EASY!  ] "

"You become richer the less you spend" or so the saying says? I don't waste money, I invest where it is needed, if it doesn't improve or isn't needed I keep the gold for a future investment. I didn't need to improve my team as they kill everything I need to kill, I won't go into the Ancient Jungle as I don't need to go there, If it was needed I would have to invest in more equipments because then what I have would not be enough.

"Curious,  did u Fight the  Lich,  or talk out of it? "

I don't make a deal with the Undead, of course I killed it no sweat.

"*BUT* you also didn't finish till D28,  & paid the  [Greedy]  Bank their  3k gold"

I skipped 2 or 3 quests and managed to finish on the 28th day, well the payment is due at 08AM automatically and I was at the Lich location at 08AM and killed it so the travel time had cost me 3k here. If I were there at 07AM I would have finished it before paying the bank.

With all your runs,  did you come up against any unusually Tough  chars?   [like that  EVASION 60!   1  I ran into early on!]

Not particularly but maybe that high evasion foe was a unique trait? In that case it's new as it is introduced in this version.

I think you undervalue the importance of training and having sex with your slaves. Everyday I train and have sex with my slaves, it gives stats and a lot of exp which make them stronger and more efficient in their work. 

For example your mage  Daisy was only Wits 10 by D6, her stat is way too low to heal or deal damage with that. Mine was Wits 52 with only 3 days of training 1 sex and some combats. She earned 3 levels that way and immediately became a damage dealer with her spells even with a Bone club (value 142 gold for ref, no super expensive 1k staff).

"Oh,  in case you missed it,  the Hunter/Fisher  idea was one got from someone else."

I was usually doing that too before the changes but well we have to adapt.

"I *SPENT*  a lot more than you did.   (would've bought a staff for each mage;   2  Mages =  750-1k EACH,  so there's  another  2k gold... ) "

Not needed expanses for combat team as proven with my run but I understand why you thought it was needed. My mages are trained, they don't rely on weapons to be strong, same with my fighters ( I wouldn't say no to free weapons thou). Meaning they are sufficiently strong with any weapons for the early game.

I would prefer armor thou because ennemies hit hard, nothing can mitigate that (some spells do...) or have a lot of HP.

Obedience

Yup they don't travel so no big obedience drop.

Travelling is not cost efficient early game. You don't have enough slaves, you don't have the classes needed to keep them obedient while they're away and you can't train them while they are not in the mansion so they do a poor job/need tools. A whole lot of negatives you can't afford early game with the debt collector right behind you.