[Worldforge-all-lists] [WF-World] Fw: Summerset Editing

[Robert O. <rob...@bi...>]

Not sure if direct posting to the newsgroup is being forwarded by the mail
server...

Here is a post I sent last night...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milamber" <rob...@bi...>
Newsgroups: worldforge.world
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: Summerset Editing


> Hi all,
>
> I have been investigateing economics in Dural and so have been looking at
> the /website/worlds pages to do some reasearch.
>
> There are some inconsistances that need to be looked into, however I was
> wondering how far I should go in editing to correct any economic problems
> and other inconsitancies I have found.
>
> A lot of work has gone into all these pages, both in artwork and thought,
> and I dont want to change any story lines/quests/depenancies/ledgends etc
> that others have worked hard to create!!!
>
> For example here is Summerset
>
http://www.worldforge.org/website/worlds/dural/gazetteer/cambria/summerset.h
> tml
>
> Economy
> Summerset is an important trading center, because most of the trade can
> easily be done on the water way. So the city has alway a big supply of
very
> different and foreign goods. The inhabitants of other smaller settlements
in
> Cambria often travel to Summerset in order to get goods which are not
> offered elsewhere. "Whatever you want, you can get it in Summerset"
>
> The importation of metal from Tasqwasd is also done on ships. Metals are
> rare in the Rift Valley. So Summerset is dependend on trading for
production
> of weapons, armor, jewellery and more. Wood production is flourishing
since
> Summerset is surrounded by large resources of wood.
>
> Population
> (Total via WebSite = 102, I think I have missed one as I have counted 101)
> Artist * 6
> Baker * 3
> Bard * 9
> Bar Maid
> Bar Tender
> Blacksmith * 2
> Children * 8
> Druid * 12
> Farmer * 5
> Fighter * 24
> Jeweller * 2
> Joiner/Wood Worker * 3
> Mage * 14
> Miller
> Potter * 4
> Stock Farmer * 2
> Tailor * 4
>
> This produces some problems, some can be accounted for with some
skewing...
> 1. Not enough food producers (only 7% of population)
> 2. Not enough farms to support a mill (5:1 seems quite small)
> 3. 24% of population are Fighters, This is extremely high, what are they
> fighting?
> 4. Only 8% of the population are children, if the average life sees for 4
> generations, we need 25% children, 3 = 33% otherwise there is negative
> popluation growth.
> 5. Way too many Mages (14) and Druids (12) unless there is some kind of
> magic schools here....
> 6. A Fortified Wall the entire way around the town (Which I think is way
> cool, but unrealistic), with the population of only 102 (Long time to
build
> it, lots of resources too).
> 7. (My favorite) 3 Inns, 1 Bartender, 1 Barmaid and enough bards to sink 2
> battle ships!
> 8. No Lumber Jacks with a booming Lumber industry! (Milamber enters in a
> Flanel Checked Jacket, "I'm a lumber jack and I'm OK.....")
> 9. No School (YAY!!)
>
> SOOOoo, the questions are;
> 1. Should we be realistic with the population, or have story lines?
> 2. How many NPC's should we have as a maximum? Will we be able to handle a
> population of 1000+ 10,000 NPC's in a town? Can I add NPC's to balance
> things up?
> 3. Should I edit Summerset or ask the Original author too, Keep my
> additions/allterations separate or have them combined
>
> I dont mind if summerset stay's exactly how it is now, {apart from the bad
> service in the Inns, great entertainment tho ;) }, but we need to keep
this
> in mind if we want a dynamic world. If that is what we want, Summerset and
> other parts of the world would change rapidly as they are currently quite
> unbalanced.
>
> We need a hard think before we press the "Dynamic" button.
>
> Also I am not picking on Summerset, this is actually the first town I have
> looked into with any depth. I hope that all of the towns have this level
of
> detail and effort put into them....
>
> Milamber.
>
>

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