[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by apoger:
Compare a temperate area (England, NE America, Japan) to the arctic. Yes people can live in the arctic, the question is how hard would it be (without mordern tech)? Compared to their fair weather friends would they produce 15% less? My mod puts it at 60%. I'm willing to stand by that.

Scandanivia is either cold 1 or 2 (Vanheim/Jotunheim). It certainly doesn't produce 40% less output per piece of land than England. Neither does Canada.

Also keep in mind that this isn't reality. It's an abstraction in a fantasy game. I don't think strong penalties for complete opposites are unjustified.

As long as part of your argument is grounded in reality, then realism always applies, or else you must simply change your argument to "There is no reason other than because I feel like it." If you wish to invoke reality for part of your explanation then it should also work for arguments against something.