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Old March 31st, 2007, 11:29 PM

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Default Re: 2 Things this game desperately needs

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Taqwus said:
The villagers on the way home are likely scraping by under their liege's multiple forms of taxation, the soldiers themselves -- particularly ones with substantial training (gold cost) may feel themselves above helping out with farming... oh, and there's the issue of how the ex-soldiers might deal with the local peasant women, too.
If you're talking about realism, you've also got the same problem with unrest being generated by the simple presence of your armies in a province, regardless of whether they've been disbanded. Dom3 is actually pretty minimal on the province-management thing, being more of a wargame than a Civilization game, and you could easily take this idea about soldiers and unrest far enough for it to be a tedious micromanagement detail. Morale and inaccurate fire add a lot of fun to the game because they add new tactical dimensions that you can exploit, but I'm cautious about adding a new detail to the world model purely for realism's sake. In the real world, your population should be fluctuating slightly even without a Growth/Death dominion or huge drought/blizzards/immigration, but it's nice to have that detail abstracted away because otherwise I'd feel compelled to pay attention to it, even though it hardly matters. If the unrest from disbanding were small I'd probably feel that it was a needless hassle.

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