Measuring Garrison Revolution Support

Garrisoned units should be subject to liberty bells, plain and simple. Fixing this and rebalancing the REF generation will go a long way will solve the two major problems with the game right now.

 

I would be okay with the percentage of rebel sentiment being the chance a colonist born there will be a rebel sympathizer. If the town is 70% Rebel, 30% Tory, those are the corresponding chances for each. If the town is 100% rebel, each colonist born should be Rebel.

If each colonist born is always Tory, that's an extra step and getting into heavier micromanagement.

 

Now you are advocating a completely deterministic mechanic, what about free choice?

Don't worry, just playing devil's advocate, I suspect your idea might work well from a game mechanics point of view.

 

There is a good gameplay reason for it, more combat units before the revolution -> you need more bells to declare revolution -> king will send a bigger army. So, you can't just mass a big numbers, you should have a plan. IMHO it's a good thing for a strategy game.

You can exploit it by transferring all your food to a 100% rebel city, all colonists will born there... Unexploitable solution will be to have an additional global pool of liberty bells that will increase by (total liberty bells everywhere / total population) each time a colonist will be born.

 

That's about exactly the same as my first game experience with this..."situation."

I just won my first game, and, I basically avoided this situation, which I'm still going to call a "problem" by basically storing dozens of loads of guns and horses. 2xGalleon full of guns, Merchantman full of horses, all 5 settlements to the max with each as well. Without making much of an army I was able to get over 50% and then declare and create as much of an army as my stored resources could create. The army was sufficient to win, but, I still don't really like being forced to wait to create an army. I just don't see why bells wouldn't impact garrisoned units. Make it take longer, a lot longer if that is what is needed to keep it balanced, but, don't make units DEFENDING a city IMMUNE from any of the growing revolutionary support within the city walls.

 

What about % chance of being born rebel or slave is based on overall rebel sentiment for all colonies? That would get around exploiting it by having everyone being born in a 100% rebel city.

 

My obligatory take on it: it would be too powerful if you could build a huge army/navy then, zip, declare independence. Further, it may accurately reflect the logistical difficulty of fielding and equipping vast standing armies comprised largely of volunteers and conscripts.

It may also be a pain in the ass.