Re: Legends: Miners/Gatherers

From: lache@clio.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Stefan Lache)

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:34:01 +0000

Brian C. White (bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:

: Could somebody give me some details on how Legends calculates how much
: lumber/iron/stone is extracted based on how many people, SEI, seasonal
: modifiers, and extraction rating?
:
: For example, is the SEI & seasonal modifier applied before or after the
: extraction limit?
:
:                                         Brian
:                            ( bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca )
:
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
: My Law: A 50% chance of guessing right means you'll guess wrong 75% of the
: time

Hi Brian!

It is all really simple. You just have to know that the figures given for a
province (such as stone: 20) stand for the maximum number of people you
can/should set to work on this resource, not for any kind of limit how much
you can produce.

So "stone: 20" means that less than 20 miners set to mine stone will be a
waste of stone, more than 20 will be a waste of people. Every miner will
mine 1 unit of stone per month, subject to the modifiers explained below.
The same goes for all the other resources gathered by miners, while for
those produced by farmers (food, soft mat., by-products) you have to use
the fertility as an additional multiplier.

Now for the two modifiers already mentioned in your question: season and
SEI. You can apply them in any order you like; they do not add but have
to be multiplied. So winter (-50%) and an SEI of 400 (+200%) will give
you a total of 30 stone in the above example (20 * 0.5 * 3 = 20 * 3 * 0.5).
To repeat: Both modifiers are applied after the extraction limit.

I hope this answers all of your questions.

Stefan

References

Legends: Miners/Gatherers
bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Brian C. White)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 07:29:19 +0000