Economic Simulation

[Yojinbo]

I was reading the bless/pretender design thread and I noted all the comments about how in MP people are making weak pretender and "investing" in the compound interest of growth scales instead. (I do this too)

And a thought struck me. Illwinter set out to design a military and magical simulation not an economic one, yet we have managed to it into one.

Maybe in Dom3 (Assumption, I know) we could go all out and have province investing like Nobanaga's Ambition?

Yo

[apoger]

>And a thought struck me. Illwinter set out to design a military and magical simulation not an economic one

All military games are about economy.

[MStavros]

Oh god... Dominions 3?
Perhaps you should try out Dominions 2. first.

[ October 29, 2003, 15:01: Message edited by: MStavros ]

[Yojinbo]

>All military games are about economy.

I agree, "Guns & Butter" doctrine establishes this. That's why I find it odd to have such a rich magical and combat simulation with such a stark economic model.

In some of the Koei games one could "camp" in a few home provinces and build up the economy to compete with a marauding horde of enemies. In Dom multi, if you don't have 10 provinces by turn 15 you are in trouble - this forces expansion. What about a choice to invest gold in 2 or 3 provinces building the economy instead of building huge offensive armies? Is this a good idea or will it take Dominions into the realm of CIV games?

Yo

[Saber Cherry]

I just hate seeing all those resources go to waste, just cause I'm not building an army. Those laazy peasants should be improving their irrigation, or building massive slums, or something!

Shogun had too much, I think, but I did like the way you could progress through various agricultural improvements to the "Legendary Farmland"

Heartless dictators are always known for big, stupid, wasteful crash-building projects. Why can't we do that? If I get a longbow province with only 20 people and 1 resource, I want to blow money on it profligately until it has the population and resources to be useful. And maybe there are only 20 people, but I still wanna make them my slaves and do inefficient forced labor (building tenements) rather than goofing around, just because I'm not conscripting them.

A "Provincial Orders" menu would be nice for this=) Things like "Develop mines", "Plant forests", "Build housing", "Cultivate fields"... all of which basically consume all the resources and half of the gold of a province, but make it better over time (proportionately to the provincial gold and resource output).

-Cherry

[Calanor]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
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A "Provincial Orders" menu would be nice for this=) Things like "Develop mines", "Plant forests", "Build housing", "Cultivate fields"... all of which basically consume all the resources and half of the gold of a province, but make it better over time (proportionately to the provincial gold and resource output).

I agree to some extent, but there obviously should exist a maximum potential for a province. There's little use mining for iron in a province that simply does not hold any iron ore...