Re: Ok So I Downloaded The Demo
 

Excellent information!

Since they drain resources from neighboring provinces, you wouldn't want to put one in *next* to a resource rich province, but rather in that province, correct?

Krool

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Im not an expirienced player, but that still goes against logic.
Lets say for this matter that you have two provinces completely seperate from the entire world (not possible) and both are yours, and you are considering a fortification in one of them.
One of those provinces has 100 resources and the other has 10.
Your castle type has 10 Admin value which means you'll get 10% of the resources from nearby provinces. (thats just a random assumption for calculations)
If you build the fortification in the 100 resources province you'll have 101 resources in it and 9 in the other one, so you'll have 101 resources available for recruitment of your valuable fortification-only units.
If you build it in the 10 resources province you'll have 20 resources in it and 90 in the other one, that means only 20 resources for your special units, now how good is that?

Re: Ok So I Downloaded The Demo
 

Sorry, Agrajag, but you overlooked some critical fact:

In a province without castle, available ressources are halved.

So in your example, it would be either 50+20(castle) ressources, or 4+101(castle) ressources.

And remember, shown on the map are the actual usuable ressources, so they virtually double if you build a castle

Re: Ok So I Downloaded The Demo
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*smacks forehead*
Pfft, how could I forget something like that?
Anyway, this just makes me more right http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ July 30, 2004, 17:39: Message edited by: Agrajag ]

Re: Ok So I Downloaded The Demo
 

Thanks, that is as I suspected.

Krool