My town is the most disorganized inefficient setup possible. I made tons of mistakes and would do things differently if I would do it again. That said, my crappy town works fine. I wouldn’t want to spend another week to get to the point I am. If I don’t like where I have a building I just destroy it and rebuild it. I’m not sure what a wipe really offers. Except another week of waiting on settlers to respawn so I can do one attack a night……
As for an advantage.... how can I have an advantage over anyone else in a single player (so far) game???

