Gold/Food re-balance

[Galvez]

Maybe interesting to know as well:

Dwilight      
Gold   127898   
New gold   142720   
Gold change   +14822   (11,6%)
Food   45875   
New food   50097   
Food change   +4222   (9,2%)

[Chenier]

I gotta agree with Scarlett: no regions should be unable to feed themselves, save for cities. Badlands that can't feed themselves should have their pop count reduced.

If the old pop values are causing issues, I see no reason not to procedurally recalculate pop. Give a pop density value for every region type (woodland, rural, small city, medium city, large city, townsland, etc.), then multiply it by its size and by a random factor. Keep total max pop the same, in order to keep the food supply ratio the same.

[Anaris]

I gotta agree with Scarlett: no regions should be unable to feed themselves, save for cities. Badlands that can't feed themselves should have their pop count reduced.

That won't help. The production values are heavily based on population, so if you reduce the population, they will be producing less food.

[Chenier]

That won't help. The production values are heavily based on population, so if you reduce the population, they will be producing less food.

The food production values?

Them being interdependant complicates things, but doesn't make it impossible. 'cause really, if food depends on pop, and you make pop depend on region size and type, then really, food would then depend on region size and type more than region pop. They'd thus evolve in a linear and parallel fashion.

[Anaris]

The food production values?

Them being interdependant complicates things, but doesn't make it impossible. 'cause really, if food depends on pop, and you make pop depend on region size and type, then really, food would then depend on region size and type more than region pop. They'd thus evolve in a linear and parallel fashion.

Population does not depend on anything. It is an arbitrarily assigned value.

[Chenier]

Population does not depend on anything. It is an arbitrarily assigned value.

Today, yes. My post was a suggestion for doing it differently.

[Feylonis]

So, what exactly is the point of a badlands region? No food, no gold.

[Zakilevo]

So, what exactly is the point of a badlands region? No food, no gold.

For filling otherwise empty space?

[egamma]

Badlands can be somewhat useful strategically, and you can always build buildings in them--buildings that someone else will have to pay for, probably.

[Brant]

I have a concern with one of the regions on BT... I can't find a separate thread for it, is this the right place?

[Penchant]

I have a concern with one of the regions on BT... I can't find a separate thread for it, is this the right place?

Its a good enough spot, so post away.

[Tom]

So, what exactly is the point of a badlands region? No food, no gold.

Ask the desert what it's for. Post the answer. ;-)

[Cren]

So, what exactly is the point of a badlands region? No food, no gold.

Whats exactly the point of a rural region (read: Zamor) with two digit food and gold? Those are filler region for now in the map IMO.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Ask the desert what it's for. Post the answer. ;-)

Depends on the desert. Salt flats can yield you, you guessed it, salt, a very, very valuable substance. So that should be something included in a desert's gold making in some situations.

[Geronus]

I have a concern with one of the regions on BT... I can't find a separate thread for it, is this the right place?

This is the thread Anaris spun off into the general Development forum; non-Dwilight specific questions should probably be addressed there.

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,4173.0.html