Re: TribeNet: Feeding your people

From: adavey <adavey@ocean.com.au>

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Patrick Travers wrote:
>
> Well, it's getting into the middle of summer and the clan elders have
> started thinking about providing food during the long winter ahead.
> Granted, it's six turns away, but better to be prepared.
>
> The main food resource to this point has been hunting.  As experience
> has shown, however, hunting sucks in the winter.  We of the Green Horde
> began life right in the middle of winter (turn 913/11) and each hunter
> brought in LESS than half of a prov each (.4985 to be exact).  Right now
> each hunter is bringing in approximately 3 provs per hunter, so 1700
> hunters are keeping the tribe fed.  This will begin falling off (it has
> already!).
>
> My question is this: What are better ways to feed the people, especially
> when hunting drops off completely?

I takes about two years game time to overcome the how do I feed my tribe
problems this can be reduced by setting yourself a number of simple
objectives.

In the short term you need hunting so push hunting to 10 and beyond with
research. and churn out the slings till you have 1 per hunter.
Find a good terrain for hunting
Slings can be made faster than snares and can be passed over to your
warriors for defence when you start replacing the slings with snares or
better still traps.

Then You take a longer term view
Both herding farming and fishing can produce greater returns per worker
than hunting but not at the start Farming and Fishing need alot of
equipment to make them work I.e. boats and plows

A davey :
GM of Tribe Vibes Anland and Maxlan continents
E-Mail: adavey@ocean.com.au
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References

TribeNet: Feeding your people
Patrick Travers <ptravers@flash.net>
Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000