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[coalboat]

Let's play a tree game.

Rules:

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A tree has 5 stats:
Leaf, Stem, Root, Sugar, Water.

Photosythesis and evaporation:
For each sunny day, 1 leaf consumes 1 light and 1 water, and then produces 1 sugar. The tree loses 1 water per each leaf via evaporation.

Photosynthesis and height:
The height of a tree is how much stem it has.
For each sunny day there is 100 light. The tallest tree takes the light first, then the second tallest, etc., until all light is absorbed by trees.

Ground water:
When there is ground water, a tree gets 1 water for each root it has. The tree with the most roots gets the water first.

Breathing:
Every day, a tree consumes (leaf + stem + root)/5 units of sugar.

Inventory space:
The inventory space of a tree is (leaf + stem + root)*10. This is how much sugar+water a tree can hold.
When the tree has more sugar+water it can hold, it leaks sap, losing 1 water and 1 sugar per day.
For each day of sap leaking, there is a 1/5 chance of attracting aphid.
While leaking sap, the tree cannot produce more sugar or take in more water.

Growth:
It takes 5 sugar to grow a new leaf(or stem/root).
The player can grow 1 leave/stem/root per day. (Not growing is allowed)

Death:
If a tree has no sugar, for each day it loses 1 leaf (if no leaf then root, if no root then stem), and gains 3 sugar.
If a tree has no water, for each day it loses 1d5 leaf.
A tree dies when it has 0 leaf, 0 stem, and 0 root.

Predator:
Every day there is 1/100 chance of animal encounter, randomly chosen from:
goat: grazes 1d(number of leaves) from each tree.
mole: destroys 1d5 roots of each tree.

Insect:
Cicada:
1/100 chance of appearing, 1/10 chance of flying away after it appears
it rests on a tree and consumes 1 sugar and 1 water each day
flies away if there is no sugar or water in the tree it rests on
Aphid:
consumes 1 sugar and 1 water each day
1/20 chance of breeding
dies when there is no sugar or water
Ladybug:
1/100 chance of appearing, then it eats all aphids and flies away

Weather:
Every day has 1/5 chance of being rainy and 4/5 chance of being sunny.
A rainy day adds 100 ground water, capped at 500.

1 in-game day = 1 turn

NPCs:

Bob:
Leaf: 1
Stem: 1
Root: 2
Sugar: 10
Water: 10
Inv: 20/40

Joe:
Leaf: 1
Stem: 1
Root: 2
Sugar: 10
Water: 10
Inv: 20/40

NPC trees always grow and use their sugar randomly.
Player trees start with 1/1/2/10/10 stats.

[Supernerd]

Alright, I guess I'll try this.

Edit: But only if you tweak the stats a bit. I did the math. Even if you spend everything on Roots immediately, you would still die of thirst (Even if you didn't need sugar).

On average, every five days you would lose 5 water even if you spent everything on roots immediately. Also worth noting that even if you do this, you would ALSO be unable to get enough sugar; only breaking even on sunny days and losing a lot of it on rainy ones.

While you could ditch the water drain by letting your leaf wilt, doing so would give you zero sugar income, making it impossible to survive no matter what happens.

Daily effect of tree parts:

Sunny:
1 Leaf: -2 water, -1 light, +0.8 sugar.
1 Stem: -0.2 sugar
3 Root: -0.6 sugar

Rainy:
1 Leaf: -0.2 sugar
1 Stem: -0.2 sugar
3 Root: +3 water, -0.6 sugar

[A_Curious_Cat]

PTW.

This seems interesting, but if Supernerd is correct then I’d rather not play something that’s impossible to win.

[coalboat]

Good point. I’ll revise it and post later.

I’ve added ground water and made some changes. It should be good now.

[A_Curious_Cat]

It looks like groundwater is a finite shared resource similar to sunlight.  What happens when there isn’t enough groundwater for everyone?  How do you determine who gets groundwater and who doesn’t?

[coalboat]

A rain adds 100 ground water. (see weather section) The tree with the most roots gets water first.