Tien Chi Conscription

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
But if it is something that happens so rarely once you have built even minimum PD for patrolling that you do seldom notice it unless you are looking very carefully in an attempt to observe it, it does not really add much flavour either.

It certainly seems much more like a minimally beneficient random event than actual conscription. After all, conscription is not people voluntarily joining up ever now in a rare while, it is the organised impressment of the populace in the military.

I would really like a change based on the level of PD already in a province:

Each turn, if

• PD<5, 5%+ORDER*30% chance of PD being set to 5
• 5<=PD<10, 5%+ORDER*30% chance of +1 PD
• 10<=PD<20, 5%+ORDER*20% chance of +1PD
• 20<=PD, 5%+ORDER*5% chance of +1PD

Thus each province with high order would gravitate quickly to 10 (where automatic patrolling occurs) and a bit more slowly to 20 (for the second commander of the local defense), and only rarely improve thereafter.

It would represent a military system of conscription in all provinces for purposes of a low-level defense.

That would certainly seem much more in line with the name of the ability, and while it WOULD allow the player to save quite a bit of money on low level PD in provinces at a low risk of invasion, the player would still have to pay real money for high-level PD, which is what is most important anyhow.

I must be missing something here, but why is the PD value of T'ien Ch'i so eagerly desired? Their PD is among the weakest out there (Right up with Pythium and Pangaea). Even if the ratio was upped to whatever frequency you'd like it would have little impact on MP games, and a minor impact on SP (Only reason to really use PD in SP is to stop CoTW, CoTWild and to funnel the Computer to attack where you want them to).

If you are going to adjust something as far as conscription and the actual definition of the word, it would be to have more soldiers placed in PD per point. You still have to pay for their armor and armaments, you just have a readier supply of warm bodies.