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OK, this idea was posted by Almightyjosh but i am gonna shed some light on it and make it better. Since there is some kind of travel between cities, how about having a set amount of time it takes to go from one square to another.
Like for now the time would be:
Really, Really fast horse: 7½ minutes per square
Really Fast Horse: 15 minutes per square
Fast Horse: 30 minutes per square
Semi Fast Horse: 45 minutes per square
Normal Horse: 1 hour per square
pack animal (Donkey, pack horse): 1½ hours per square
Walking: 2 hours per square
Now if ther is a road to the city, divide the times by 2, and if railroad, it takes 2 minutes per square.
Attacked:
Also because of the barbarians there could be a 50% chance to get attacked.
the more people with you the lower the percentage.
Say i am walking from bavaria to guganan, and it takes me 10 hours, i have a 50% chance of being attacked.
the attacking needs to be worked out, but the top part is definite.
Like for now the time would be:
Really, Really fast horse: 7½ minutes per square
Really Fast Horse: 15 minutes per square
Fast Horse: 30 minutes per square
Semi Fast Horse: 45 minutes per square
Normal Horse: 1 hour per square
pack animal (Donkey, pack horse): 1½ hours per square
Walking: 2 hours per square
Now if ther is a road to the city, divide the times by 2, and if railroad, it takes 2 minutes per square.
Attacked:
Also because of the barbarians there could be a 50% chance to get attacked.
the more people with you the lower the percentage.
Say i am walking from bavaria to guganan, and it takes me 10 hours, i have a 50% chance of being attacked.
the attacking needs to be worked out, but the top part is definite.
donsig
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Idea: tell us how to buy land!
donsig
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I would.
We've got a country with defined borders and tiles. The bank should put up the tiles for sale. Who says the land wouldn't turn a profit. Maybe it could be sold later at a higher price. Landowners could rent out tiles or portions thereof. We could also do a mineral rights thing. Say you own a tile and a resourse shows up on that tile. We could say once the resource is connected by road in the Civ 3 game that tile generates an income for the property owner. There are many possibilities.
I want to buy a tile. Then I want someone to build me a house. I will pay someone to 'build' my house if they can make a little graphic of my house and put it on a Fanatika map. That would be cool! Then when I can see my house I might go into some of these shops and buy stuff for my house if I can see what I'm getting.
I think we should have contractors making up houses rather than just have the bank sell houses. We have to give people a way to make money or we will never have an economy.
Zarn
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100 gold per food, shield, commerce witjh an additional 100 on top of that. a shielded grassland would be 400. No?
donsig
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Depends on what we could do with the tile. 400 gold may be too cheap if we're allowed to rent out pieces of it. We'd also have to figure out if tiles would generate an income for the owner (mineral rights, income from roads, mines or irrigation, etc.).
Cities would have to be treated differently. I don't think city tiles should be owned. We could parcel out the city real estate via the city view screen shot somehow. Lots of potential. i can see Stuck figuring real estate tax rates already. Should we have a discussion thread for this idea of owning tiles?
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Shouldnt we get all other things sorted out first? Like travel cost etc.?
We tend to do too many things in parallel here, and thats why it gets too complex.
We tend to do too many things in parallel here, and thats why it gets too complex.
donsig
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I think we need to do what is fun and we certainly need to get our economy going. My journal and Shaitan's law firm are the only businesses with any transactions. We need business's that are tangible. Land is tangible because we can see the tiles on the maps. Land sales can spur many other tangible businesses. We'll need custom maps made, houses built, business's built, etc.
Travel costs? We're all walking now! When we get horses then someone can make a stage coach company and charge fairs for those who want to travel between cities. If we do the land sales now then who ever ends up owning a tile with horses can either start the transportation company or sell horses.
Since this thread is for ideas perhaps we should spawn new threads for ideas that merit more discussion.
Travel costs? We're all walking now! When we get horses then someone can make a stage coach company and charge fairs for those who want to travel between cities. If we do the land sales now then who ever ends up owning a tile with horses can either start the transportation company or sell horses.
Since this thread is for ideas perhaps we should spawn new threads for ideas that merit more discussion.
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Even traveling via walking costs you something to eat and drink. And how will you transport the goods?
We need to have this for the resale market to grow.
We need to have this for the resale market to grow.
donsig
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It's all wilderness out there dis - travellers can live off the land. If you want hotels and saloons along the way you'll have to let someone buy some land out there so they can build a way house. Stop putting the cart before the horse and let's start selling some land! Should a discussion thread on this be opened in this sub-forum or the citizen's subforum?
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propably. maybe we should collect all ideas and run a poll on which one to implement first.
anyways, we should implement a chance of being robbed. and also travel times.
like chance of being robbed is double as high for walking than for riding with your horse. and traveling outside of roads will also double your chances of being robbed.
(i read that proposal somewhere in more detail, but i cant remember where).
also, the cities and provinces MUST earn something when their tiles are sold to someone.
and the office selling the tiles must be a rpg-office, so no profit is made (because like with the bank that profit would come out of nowhere). and also, the prices must be so high people will really have to save their money to buy a tile. with tile-ownership, we could also sell worker-usage to those people. like if you own a tile, you can pay for a worker being sent there to build a fortress for example or to irigate it ;-)
you can come to the Rebel Pub and Brewery if you like to discuss those things further ;-)
anyways, we should implement a chance of being robbed. and also travel times.
like chance of being robbed is double as high for walking than for riding with your horse. and traveling outside of roads will also double your chances of being robbed.
(i read that proposal somewhere in more detail, but i cant remember where).
also, the cities and provinces MUST earn something when their tiles are sold to someone.
and the office selling the tiles must be a rpg-office, so no profit is made (because like with the bank that profit would come out of nowhere). and also, the prices must be so high people will really have to save their money to buy a tile. with tile-ownership, we could also sell worker-usage to those people. like if you own a tile, you can pay for a worker being sent there to build a fortress for example or to irigate it ;-)
you can come to the Rebel Pub and Brewery if you like to discuss those things further ;-)
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yes, but they should pay for maintenance. or maybe we open up a office doing the maintenance and putting jobs on the market with the money they get from the maintenance?
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