Starvation victims abroad need help NOW!

quantum_mechani · #1 June 24th, 2006, 10:29 PM

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NakedLunch said:
Perhaps a skilled modder could bring our fantastic dreams to fruition?

Unless modding in dom3 is drastically different than in dom2, this is not going to be possible. In any case, there are supply lines already in dominions. Forts provide a lot of supplies to provinces around them; should there no longer be a line of supply between your fort and the province your army is in, the supplies go away. It's not a huge effect, and only comes into play once in a while, but it's there.

Archonsod · #2 June 28th, 2006, 07:24 AM

I think it would make more sense for supply shortfall to cause population drop.

I can't see a hungry dragon running out of food in a large, well populated province!

Tortanick · #3 June 28th, 2006, 01:05 PM

Hmm, you're right about the army getting the good food, but this is more a game balance issue than a realisum one. the army shall starve

Archonsod · #4 June 29th, 2006, 08:14 AM

It's not exactly unbalanced. It's usually a lot easier to replace the army than population.
The main danger would be getting locked into a cycle - as the population decreases, the supply decreases, next turn there's an even bigger shortfall....

Oversway · #5 June 29th, 2006, 11:09 AM

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what is unbalanced that needs to be fixed?

Archonsod · #6 June 30th, 2006, 09:26 AM

Nobody said anything was unbalanced and needed to be fixed.

The supply requirement is a balancing factor. The larger the army, the more supplies it consumes. Remove this fact, and the game basically comes down to whoever can recruit the most troops the quickest.

If this were altered, then something would need to replace it. My point was that having the army consume population if it were undersupplied would be just as balancing - Unless you had a death dominion (who don't usually need supplies anyway) you couldn't leave the army in any friendly province without it damaging yourself, and you'd need to quickly move it out of conquered provinces otherwise they'd become worthless.

Gandalf Parker · #7 June 30th, 2006, 12:02 PM

We cant say anything is imbalanced in Dom3 yet.
In fact, I would be critical of anyone who makes statements about balance within the first year of Dom3's release. It took me that long to stop crying imbalance in Dom2 about one nation before trying another and finding the balance was there. Trying them all is going to take awhile.