Scout locations ' A New Home' LocationĮxploration Choice Sending Scouts from the City to retrieve people on their way to the City will cut their travel time to roughly half. Scouts and Automaton Scouts only need half the time when traveling to known locations. Lighter Scout Sleeds/Faster Outpost Teams Reference is the distance travelled by non-upgraded scouts in one hour. The time needed per group to travel the same distance is shown in the Table below. This is known as 'save scumming' and is sometimes considered cheating. The loss of your party is random, so you can save your game before searching the location and reload your game if your party ends up dying on the first attempt. Some locations trigger dilemmas that can cause you to lose a scouting party, such as Tesla City.Once the Outpost Team finds the location, resend the scout to the location to cut down the amount of time it takes for your scouts to travel. If you have an outpost team available, you can send them along with your scouts to make locations known, even if the Outpost Team itself cannot search the location. Outpost Teams travel faster than scouts.If a scout is being sent after returning to your city, it's often faster to send them to the nearest known location first. Scouts travel faster to known locations.Utilizing the following strategies can increase the effectiveness of your scouts: Boosted Forager Carts (Technology) (only available in The Last Autumn).Forager Carts (Technology) (only available in The Last Autumn).Additional Foragers (Technology) (only available in The Last Autumn).More Foragers (Technology) (only available in The Last Autumn).Foragers Quarters (Technology) (only available in The Last Autumn).Automaton Scouts (Technology) (only available in The Arks).The following technologies improve scouting:

It costs 50 Wood, 50 Steel, and 10 Workers Upgrades In On The Edge a new unit called Construction Team is featured. A Foraging Team costs 20 Wood, 10 Steel, and 15 Workers. Foragers can explore the Frostland just as Scouts would or from certain sites collect food for a specific number of days similar to Outposts. In The Last Autumn (Expansion) Scouting and Outposts are replaced by Foraging. A scouting party costs 40 Wood and 5 Workers. Scouting also serves as a way to advance the storyline in most of the Scenarios. Scouts combine with Outpost Depots for a much greater effect. Scouting is also the primary and often the only way to gather Steam Cores. Scouting is an integral part of the game, and is one of the most efficient ways to gather Wood, Coal, Steel, Raw Food, and Food Rations. Upon creating a Beacon, the player can send scouts out into Frostland to various locations. 10 Scouts & Construction Teams locations 'On The Edge'.9 Forager (Scout) locations 'The Last Autumn'.8 Scout locations 'The Fall of Winterhome'.

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