I tried playing Normal first, then Easy. Still, it's always the same:

- I build a town, go on an adventure, fight a few  bandits and monsters and pretty much just have some fun. But after a little while the town starts to run out of food and money, and I can't get more no matter what I do. I need food to increase the population (it's beenup to 60 at most), but to get food, I need money to build mills and all that. But because I can't get a bigger population, I can't get the food and money I need to get a bigger population in the first place. It's a catch 22. I need food and money to get food and money.

- The alternative is building a settler or two and sending them off to start new towns. But because the resources are global, this drags down the already limited resources I have in the capital. This means the capital can't grow as much as it normally would, and I have two or three small towns that won't grow much at all. Plus, this also means I can't afford much defences.

 Anyone have a tip what I can do? It would be so much better if we could put up a fisherman (actually I can, with a mod. Haven't tried it yet, though.) Or perhaps there were more wild animals we could kill for food and experience. Of course I don't want this to turn into a grindfest, but maybe we could have a hunter's log like in The Settlers? These would wander around the map looking for food (within your borders, of course) and give us a little food every season.