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I've never played on the East Island and know little about it, it's history, or it's realms.
Didn't they name Hetland after a BM player who died? How is that insulting?
It would increase incentives to go to war if your realm is starving. Maybe your neighbor has extra food but wouldn't sell them. Or maybe you think his prices are unfair. Or maybe he says he doesn't have extra food but you think he's holding out on you. Or maybe he really doesn't have food to spare for you but you just plain don't care anymore. You can wait for all your troops to starve to death, or you can grab some caravans, cross the border, and start looting.
On Dwilight, you'll just have to start planning better, and have your knights bring food along with you on the campaign. That's already implemented. Your troops will eat food from your caravan if the region is starving.
One secession and war has already started in Dwilight due to food price disputes.
Err, no. I'm not suggesting ice or fire magic. Poison is a weapon that was utilized in medieval Europe.
And SMA only applies to Dwilight. There are other islands.
Alright, here's a more clearer point:
Just how far do you want it to go before you're satisfied?
Sure, let's say we add in stuff like canals, and harvesting machines (as in simple machines, non-electrical. I hope the word "machine" hasn't been too distorted in our minds), and maybe let's even put in a husbandry program to teach the farmers how Mendelian genetics work many centuries before Mendel comes around. Ah, but wait! We have to consider that some regions have more than just plain old farming as its industry. Why should agriculture have all the attention! I say that logging, and hunting, and fishing, and mining, and stoneworking, and jewel crafting, all are just as worthy of attention!
Especially for places like mountains. What're you investing in when you make the investment then? The two sqaure meter patch of "farmland" in your estate's backyard? No, I say we invest in a mine!
Now let's make sure our mining is as well thought out as our farming, because we wouldn't like to be too heavily favoring a certain region type, would we? That would unbalance the game! So for mines, we can say we develop better drills, stabler shafts, better freight transport, among other things.
Then for forest regions, we can't forget logging! We need to have better woodcutting devices, better ways of transporting felled trees, methods to prevent insects and disease from killing them, more efficient processing of wood to remove leaves and bark, etc.
Fishing? It's not like farming at all! We need to allow the lord to have the option for better nets, or bigger boats, or more ports.
And you know what? All the aforementioned options should be different choices, with different effects on the production, and all decay at different rates due to different factors.
You probably think this is an extreme illustration, but I consider it a fair treatment of the other potential resource sectors. You can't just go on to invest and improve only agriculture, because the fact is, it's not just agriculture that is being affected when you invest. Food is only half of the picture. The other half has to do with the non-sustenance industries. Treat them with attention too, but how much are you willing to go such that first you would have features that you think are useful, and second, have balance in how much detail you have?
Chenier, lead by example then. Let's say we integrate this. Are you really willing to prove a point that even you, who championed this feature, would in fact show everyone how optional it is by exercising the option not to use it?
This is exactly the kind of thing we're trying to move towards.
However, there's a problem with it.
What you and I and the game consider "optional micro-management," many rulers will consider necessary, and they'll then force their subordinates to do it, because, naturally, they have to have their regions' stats as high as possible all the time!
So even if the game doesn't make it "forced micro-management," the players are likely to.
I'm a member of the Dwilight trade guilds, and I already know that Garret is the one that set the food price for the island at 50, by offering to buy at that price. You single-handedly increased the price Gornak can buy food at, from 25 to 50. D'Hara can probably afford that price--assuming that the supply is there--but I should probably think about starting some rumors about the army that Garrett is trying to feed.
So I'm going to say something possibly more controversial than usual.
With this talk about more agriculture detail, or religion refinements, I think this is distracting to the game. I think it harms it more than bring good. There is a certain balance for features, and I think we're going to an extreme.
If these features help people find this game more interesting. The current atmosphere feels a lot like we're trying to cram too many things into a single game. It may not necessarily work as a whole.
Don't believe me? Well, how many new players stay on now? Why do they stay? Now, for the veterans, why did you stay?
For me, it was interaction. It had nothing to do with features and I couldn't have cared less how realistic the religions or battles were. It was all about talking to other people. It was unique for its setting and lore. The features were a nice embellishment, but by no means did they make the game for me.
I think I am far from alone in thinking this.
Which are popular to the sacrificers, I hear.
Well it already sounds like what I had in mind, so sure.
Be patient, I will have some character travel around Beluaterra to spread it amongst similar minded when i found it, to give every open minded realm a chance to participate in the establishment of the church.
out of character wise i could always need help writing these religious texts.
As long as it Collides with the core thought, which is that there is only one god, the others faiths either (un)-consciously worshiping this god(deceived by 'variants') or worship the gods that where all slain before the bm universe was created, in other words thus an illusion, for they don't exist(anymore).
What is also very important is that as any human, once your born your blood(caste) decides what kind of life you will have/ job you will do.
The highest three castes are first the royal caste which is only two families strong(whom are lost but will return during the great salvation), then there is the noble caste which are all noble born. The third highest caste is the warriors caste, the soldiers that serve the nobles in there units.
Once this structure is respected and fully lived after, the curse in which humanity is divided in wrong or no causes, shall be lifted and peace and the prosperity of humanity will be possible on Beluaterra.
Only then, the darkness can be defeated.
The third important basic core in the faith is the realization that this life is only a tool to get into heaven, like a game that has to be played and won by anyone who follows it's rules, each person will go to the heaven of his or her caste in blissful eternal satisfaction, but will got to eternal damnation if sinned, which is endlessly more horrible then anything you can experience on earth.
And fourth, humanity is superior above others and all life is created to directly or indirectly feed humanity(children of god).
Fifth, mixing of caste is sinful and is exactly what caused castes to exist, lower castes have more genes of the beasts that degenerated humanity in the beginning.
just add your texts on the wiki page and we'll discuss it.
