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[GreatWyrmGold]

As you may know, I have attempted a Feudalism game, where several forumites pit their skills as strategic leaders against each other and the outside world, with the latter hopefully predominating. As you know if you know this, the game has gotten rather...complicated by this point. Therefore, I have decided to concentrate those rules I have decided on in one area.

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GENERAL

One turn equals one month; one month is exactly four weeks. More detailed time may or may not be used in cases of war.

INDUSTRY
Each mine will be given a richness rating, which will be multiplied by the number of miners working in that mine. Ores must be smelted, costing one unit of fuel and ten of ore per unit of metal. Refining 10 units of ore takes one smelter one week. Coal needs to be refined into coke before use; five units of coal become 15 of coke when worked on for a week by a smelter. Stone can be dug out and used, as well; a mine for plain stone can be set up in pretty much any rocky area and has a richness of 50.
A woodcutter generally can cut 10 trees per month; each tree is worth 10 units of wood. Wood can be burnt for charcoal at a 1:1 rate, taking one week per burner per 5 units of wood and charcoal. Charcoal is used as fuel. Wood also has other uses, such as shipbuilding and building...building.
Speaking of ships, it's not easy to make them. A ship that can transport five people or one ton of goods costs 250 wood and takes a minimum of 10 workers, working 6 months (60 worker/months), to build. Such a ship requires two crew members. This may be taken linearly, except for the minimum workers and time. For every "component," a ship needs five more workers, minimum, and 60 more worker/months to complete. For instance, a ship which holds 50 soldiers and 5 tons of food and gear would cost 3,750 wood, require a crew of 30, and take at least 80 workers, working 11 months and a week, to complete it. 150 workers could complete it in 6 months. Rules were made previously; these allowed you to make a functional warship from just a few trees. Hopefully, this will be more realistic. Further additions may be added for additional costs.

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This is a quick overview of the rules that come to mind. Please post if you can think of some I missed. Otherwise, only talk about rules themselves in this thread--talk about the game in general goes here.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Post reserved for the event of way too many rules.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Same as above.

[GreatWyrmGold]

This should be enough.

[Phlum]

Sounds like something a programmer would make an open source game.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Heh. Maybe that would be easier... of course, that would require me to know how to program.

[Tack]

Spoiler: Smithing: (click to show/hide)

1 Unit of metal for chain mail armor.
2 units of metal for plate armor.
2 units of metal for mail armor for a horse, 3 units if metal plate for head and chest is included.
1 unit of metal for a solid shield .5 units of metal .5 units of wood for a metal rimmed shield.

2 unit of wood for a bow.
1 unit of metal+1 unit of wood for spear/pike/halberd and throwing spears.
1 unit of wood+1 unit of metal for 1h axe and throwing axe.
1.5 units of wood + 1.5 units of metal for 2h axe.
 1.5 units of metal for a sword, 2 units of metal for a 2h sword.
1 unit of metal 1 unit of wood for a mace.
0.5 units of metal for a dagger.

Spoiler: Herblore (click to show/hide)

First, assign various herbalists to various areas. Different regions have different herbs, like different mines do. You can have your herbalists try to find any type of useful plant, which will cause each herbalist to bring in 100 herbs per month, divided up among three or four kinds of common plants; or you can have them focus on only one kind of plant, which causes them to gather three times the normal amount of plants of that kind gathered or the normal maximum, whichever is less, but nothing else. You can give different herbalists different orders, say telling 50 to gather any plant and 25 to only gather strawberries. Some areas would have lower monthly rates of herbalism, but that should be it!
One unit of herbs is enough for a basic enchantment, except for unusually strong or mundane plants. 40 units of edible berries will feed a person for a month.

Betany--Dreams
Caraway--Love
Comfrey--Water
Dandelion--Messages
Elecampane--Earth
Fennel--Fire
Garlic--Strength
Juniper--Protection
Lemon Verbena--Youth
Mandrake--Death
Parsley--Air
Poppy--Sleep
Sage--Life
Saffron--Healing
Thyme--Energy
Veruvain--Cleanliness
Wormwood--Divination
Yarrow--Amplification
(Yarrow basically exaggerates other magical effects.)

Spoiler: Food (click to show/hide)

Assuming good farmland or fishing grounds, one farmer or fisherman can feed four people. Pastoralists can, for simplicity, feed 2.5 people each as well as provide other goods. Food can be exported...indeed, most of you sure hope it will be...
Population includes children, who may be anywhere from a quarter to a half of your population, roughly. Lower means fewer weak hands and hungry mouths, but higher means you will recover from wars and other population-losing events faster.

Watch this space.

[mesor]

You need to add 1 unit of metal and 1 unit of wood to make 30 arrows/bolts.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Right, right, add rules here. Gotta do that.

[10ebbor10]

Right, right, add rules here. Gotta do that.

A mine for common stone is normally called a quary, btw...

((Yup, disguised ptw.))

Note: Also, complexity isn't always good, just so you know that.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Right, right, add rules here. Gotta do that.

A mine for common stone is normally called a quary, btw...

((Yup, disguised ptw.))

Note: Also, complexity isn't always good, just so you know that.

I've reached the Complexity Event Horizon, sadly...