Developer provokes community split over next Manor Lords step

With last week's newest release, the developer SlavicMagic has already released 2 updates and 2 beta patches to players of Manor Lords. This is great news for the millions of players who decided to take a (arguably justified) leap of faith on the most wishlisted early access title ever.

The Discord community is a great place to keep up with all of the releases. Not only that, another great reason to join is because community polls are organised on a regular basis. Some are feature specific questions, other polls are more roadmap related. 

As is the poll posted last Sunday. The community jumped on it and within 24 hours it received over 30.000 votes. 

Next patch is

Whereas most polls have a clear winner, this poll has divided the community. It only has 3 options, which usually is a good thing. 

In this case, with votes still coming in, the winner isn't really certain. Anything could happen. 

The question is pretty clear: what is the next patch? 

Given options are:

1. Town walls
2. Butchers
3. More bugfix, QoL, balance

Oeh... difficult choice, yes? Voters agree with you!

Winner, but community divided

So the winner isn't unclear at this point. Town walls is running at full steam with 46% of votes at time of writing.

Still, more than half of all voting members choose one of the other options. With Butchers at 10k votes alone and bugfixes another 8k, it seems Town walls sure are not everyone's favourite. 

Granted: functional Town walls would be a great addition to the game. If they can be used to hold enemy invaders (including bandits) at bay, they would be immensely effective paired with the recently buffed archers. 

Then again, having Butchers slaughter sheep as an extra food supply wouldn't be too bad either. Just filling in the blanks here, as just 'Butchers' doesn't say a lot. Maybe butchers need cows, which would add a new type of animals?

And with everyone still trying out the latest release, it is no wonder that bugfixes and balancing comes in last. With the nearly endless list of fixes in 0.7.972, you'd wonder if there are any bugs left to fix? 

Your vote is needed!

Voting on the next patch goal is still ongoing and will run for another 3 days. 

If you are a part of the Discord community, head over to the Votes-channel to cast your vote. 

If you are not part of the Discord community... WHY NOT!? Go join and be a part of the development!