The best reason for me is the power usage of the town itself is low. Even building small wind generators on rooftops, the town will not dent power generated from your faction. The town itself do not offer good services but waystations/hive villages & some shek cities are nearby for building materials & such.
This is a great city to visit after going through the swamps or you need to recover after getting almost eaten by bugmaster’s spiders to the west. It’s full of useful shops and guards surprisingly didn’t check me for hashish or harass me too much. You can find shops such as weapon, mechanical, general shops and many other.
Heft is the capital of the united cities, also the home of emperor tengu. Heft is an excellent city if you need decent armor, need to be recruited by the. Something about living in a repaired tower and helping the town defend against various threats is nice.
Plus it's pretty central to the map. Gets plenty of rain, decent. Major towns are locations where many different types of vendors can be found.
Often, major towns will contain more than one bar. Major towns tend to be large settlements with many buildings and residents. They often have a large selection of stores and multiple buildings for sale.
They are also the only items on the map that can be seen at any zoom level, besides your. The swamp is known for not very friendly people and bandits that will occasionally raid your outpost. Don’t worry too much about them though, they’re weak and the swamp is an excellent place for rice farming that you can combine with vegetables, which will give you gohan.
This is easily one of the best places for a new player going with the wandering trader character beginning. To find this location, head east of the ruined holy outpost and northeast of the waystation. You get a big flat area here with lots of stone, iron, and copper in addition to good wind speed if you want to build wind.
However, keep in mind that you can choose an even larger urban center or a smaller rural town according to your preference without sacrificing convenience, transportation or basic utilities. Squin has a lot of shops to sell your stuff and two bars to buy food, and it's (like the hub) located on a newbie area close to the center of the map, so i usually buy a house there to do my research and use as a base of operations until i'm ready to set up a base of my own. So you can get lockpicking high very fast if you use shinobi.
But the best thing about shinobi is the trader because he sells stuff at half price. You can get thieves backpacks (the best backpack) at half price, and great early game armor and weapons at half price. Scorchlanders have a 20% exp bonus for crafting so they should be your crafters.
