- Aug 15, 2018
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I tried a Hunter build for about a 140 days and you can make it work, but it needs some balancing. The extra hunting area doesn't actually help much as it takes too long to get up there and three hours per session as opposed to two at Imogen's Barrow. Also if you pick 'Wildborn' and take Loren, Juno and the kids you've lined up so many bonuses you don't need a starting 70 Survival to never fail, you can do it with a lot less.I don´t know how effective it´s a hunting strategy, but with an scholar + a hint of soldier, without doing anything extraordinary, just contracting some low level mercs, cleaning the map and making the easy daily bounties, I can tell you that you can have a workshop with 10 workers at day 6-7 giving you, with no upgrades, close to 800 production points and never ever have been ambushed in my whole life. In a Grimdark +Dying world setting.
Have you cleaned the map? Clean the map first and forget go hunting at start. You don´t need to buy any ration at all in your first 5-6 days, you eat from the loot. Any rabble that you clean gives you 20 rations, and one slave to sell, and that costs you 2 stamina and 18 minutes. And once you have cleaned the map and wiped the raiders in Manston Avenue and in Stoke hills the price of the food drops immediately. I never had paid more that 7$ per ration, and usually they are at 4-5$. And always travel with 4 companions, never alone. Once that there are no pesky red things in the map, you can go hunting at your leisure. But first, you NEED to clean the map. You can not have a profitable business in a situation of anarchy and rampaging bands roaming at pleasure through the city.
And don´t buy your steel and fasteners at the market and . Aimee shop have always better prices..
I tried another game and made it to about day 140 but took the Military tier three instead. That bonus was a lot more useful and I did notably better that game. I did hunt in that game (food gets damned expensive when you need more than 100/day and you have to buy it at 19) and results weren't much different than the game where I went Hunter-3.