Hypnotoad
Prince
Just two things I've noticed about rice:
South and East Asia is often rather hilly, but rice is still heavily cultivated by terracing hills. It would be nice if there were a way to have rice on hills but require the hills to be terraced in order to be used. This requires being able to make the terraced levels perfectly flat (since they need to be flooded), so perhaps it should come with construction or mathematics. Doing this would certainly make it much easier to construct maps of South and East Asia (notice how Rhye's Earth Map has rice on two hills -- really there should be more).
Rice feeds many more people than wheat -- in fact, it roughly feeds twice as many people per acre. Pushing rice cultivation further north is one thing that allowed China's population to boom in ancient times. So it is perverse that rice provides +1 food while wheat and corn provide +2. I would suggest making wheat and corn +1 and rice +2 or +3 but have it found only on grassland (it requires very intensive water, I think around 60 inches a year unless irrigated).
There are reasons that historically China had about a quarter of the world's population and probably the main reason is lots of areas to cultivate rice.
-- The Hypnotoad
South and East Asia is often rather hilly, but rice is still heavily cultivated by terracing hills. It would be nice if there were a way to have rice on hills but require the hills to be terraced in order to be used. This requires being able to make the terraced levels perfectly flat (since they need to be flooded), so perhaps it should come with construction or mathematics. Doing this would certainly make it much easier to construct maps of South and East Asia (notice how Rhye's Earth Map has rice on two hills -- really there should be more).
Rice feeds many more people than wheat -- in fact, it roughly feeds twice as many people per acre. Pushing rice cultivation further north is one thing that allowed China's population to boom in ancient times. So it is perverse that rice provides +1 food while wheat and corn provide +2. I would suggest making wheat and corn +1 and rice +2 or +3 but have it found only on grassland (it requires very intensive water, I think around 60 inches a year unless irrigated).
There are reasons that historically China had about a quarter of the world's population and probably the main reason is lots of areas to cultivate rice.
-- The Hypnotoad
