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