Re: TribeNet Villages

From: Terry Godfrey <godt@deaskin.edu.au>

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Gregory Stafford wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on the following possible rules enhancements?
> Since a village's walls contain a given area then there should be a
> limit to the number of buildings and people that can be contained
> within them.  Buildings should be assigned a given size in square yards
> and you'd be restricted to not exceding the space with in your walls.
> If you want to build more buildings or if you want to contain a larger
> population you'd have to extend you walls.

Greg, this idea makes sense in so far as it accords more with reality.
I think that the main problem is that the original ideas to do with wall
sizes led to a fine balance between size and the capacity to build.  As
things stand, with Qry10 it would take a quite a long time to build 20
foot stone walls, a few stone towers plus other stone buildings - but
not an impossible amount of time.  If it was now required that
refineries, meeting houses, bakeries, mills, wells should all have a
space allocation then this would upset this balance in my view.

The problem I have is how can you extend a circular 120 yard moat by 20
yards and get a circular 140 moat without getting wet feet?

References

TribeNet Villages
Gregory Stafford <gstafford@earthlink.net>
Thu, 22 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000