Topic: "Northmen" Tribe Page

Nordfriese wrote:

So I suggest the following simplifications:

• No scrap metal and recycling centre. Instead, training sites will drop out iron ore and gold ore at a rate of 1 iron/gold ore per iron/gold ingot that was used to create the weapon/helmet/armour.

I think that this is just too illogical

Nordfriese wrote:

I didn´t multiply the farm´s sleep times with 2 everywhere.

Why should you do this?

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Nordfriese wrote:

Scrap metal was produced in such low quantities and turned into iron at such a low rate that the recycling centre wasn´t worth its build cost.

But after a certain time, it will be the case, won't it?

So, we should either forget about recycling altogether (which I wouldn´t like) or recycle without the need for additional buildings. One possibility would be for the training site to produce scrap metal which goes to the furnace, which turns it into iron at 1:1 rate (it should not have a lower rate, and a higher one would be illogical). But this wouldn´t change anything except that no gold is returned from weapon build cost, and in my opinion, it is much less logical than just dropping out ores.

There could also be golden scrap and/or mixed scrap metal. Two pieces of mixed scrap metal could be transformed into one gold and one iron.

If barley grows half as fast as wheat, but the farm has the same sleep/work times as the barbarian farm, the only difference would be that the farm plants twice as many fields.

The average production time of 1 barley would remain the same. The actual speed control is done via the sleep time,

and the barley growth time is only adjusted so that barley fields don´t turn ripe too early or too late, which would change the amount of space the farm needs.

That's what I told, and king_of_nowhere told almost the same

I set a sleep time much too low, so in effect the farms produced as fast as barbarian farms but needed much more space.

But you told that it was ten times faster?

Some fields turned old before they could be harvested.

That's the fault of the farmer's behaviour, not of his speed, right?

It also happens to current farms

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I just uploaded the branch to Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/frisians

So everyone can download and test it now. I emphasise again: It is playable, but terribly unbalanced, with no great images and no helptexts. I hope it works. I´m looking forward to your opinions

EDIT: The first version I uploaded is missing some files. Revision 8386 is complete.

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Nordfriese wrote:

WorldSavior wrote:

Nordfriese wrote:

Scrap metal was produced in such low quantities and turned into iron at such a low rate that the recycling centre wasn´t worth its build cost.

But after a certain time, it will be the case, won't it?

By the time you have gathered enough scrap metal to efficiently run a recycling centre, you have a smoothly running mining infrastructure and tons of iron and gold in armour smithies and warehouses. You then won´t need to recycle the scraps, especially if smelting ores is cheaper.

Come on, don't be kidding again. It just needs a little bit of coal to turn scrap into metal, so it is a very efficient building! So of course it will compensate its costs and create a lot of value

Smelting ores will not be cheaper, but much more expensive: Instead of additional smelting works and everything which you need for producing ores, you can just build additional recycling centers. I checked the values again which you suggested: You can even save a part of your coal industry!

So, we should either forget about recycling altogether (which I wouldn´t like) or recycle without the need for additional buildings. One possibility would be for the training site to produce scrap metal which goes to the furnace, which turns it into iron at 1:1 rate (it should not have a lower rate, and a higher one would be illogical). But this wouldn´t change anything except that no gold is returned from weapon build cost, and in my opinion, it is much less logical than just dropping out ores.

There could also be golden scrap and/or mixed scrap metal. Two pieces of mixed scrap metal could be transformed into one gold and one iron.

Every type of scrap metal is one individual kind of ware. Iron scrap, gold scrap, mixed scrap – how many kinds of wares do you want?

Hey, you are the one who wants thousand different wares...

And in fact, scrap would be very similar to ores, so this additional wares are not a big problem.

But if you want that it is more simple: The trainingssites could drop out some iron and some gold instead of ores. That's not that illogical.

I set a sleep time much too low, so in effect the farms produced as fast as barbarian farms but needed much more space.

But you told that it was ten times faster?

A miscalculation. I compared the amount of barley in stock with the stock of wheat which barbarians would have in store at this time of game. But the values aren´t comparable, as barbarians consume much more grain than this tribe. The actual farming speed was "only" 2-3 times faster than barbarians.

That's a funny calculation

Some fields turned old before they could be harvested.

That's the fault of the farmer's behaviour, not of his speed, right?

It also happens to current farms

Current farms have this too, but this tribe had this problem with lots of fields, because the farmer wasn´t fast enough to harvest all he planted. Due to a typo in a lua file, the barley field was harvestable for less than a fifth of the intended time before it turned old.

For my newest tests, I made barley grow 3 times slower than wheat, and I have the farm work/sleep 3 times as long as barbarian farm. This seems to be a good value.

But isn't that extremely slow? : (

One more question to everyone: I now named the tribe "Frisians". Does everyone agree with that or is there protest?

I don't protest against that. But probably I would protest if someone would make that tribe official before it's not clear that it is a good tribe

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Once we have a working tribe, I could post something on artists' sites to see if we can get somebody interested to help out. Getting creative on something new is certainly more attractive for artists than fixing up other people's work.

We also still need models for the Barracks for the Barbarians and Empire to replace my shoddy Frankensteins...

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