A question for the Dev's

HonoredMule wrote: A big part of any feasibilty study will, however, have to take into consideration how blatantly one would now advertise his defenseless state.  >200k pop with mostly 5-food becomes a guarantee that the player has no troops, few diplomats, and baseline military/diplomatic production capacity.  It's a flashing sign that says, "rob me of all my advanced resources with thieves and/or direct attacks." Even if not consuming alliance resources, such a player is heavily dependent on the protection of his alliance tag if he's to have any protection at all.

well, no one will stop you from sending your advanced resources to a more suited town for them to be in...

Empress Olivia wrote: Tord-- You can do it, it just is really painful. I did it a month ago without running out of food-- uninformed individual that I am, I didn't realize one could use this game dynamic that way! ;). You need to basically kill off most all of your troops and diplos and max out all your sov on farms (and buy some food on the market) and I only had one city with 7 food. Very painful, yes, but possible for folks who want to do it...

A big part of any feasibilty study will, however, have to take into consideration how blatantly one would now advertise his defenseless state.  >200k pop with mostly 5-food becomes a guarantee that the player has no troops, few diplomats, and baseline military/diplomatic production capacity.  It's a flashing sign that says, "rob me of all my advanced resources with thieves and/or direct attacks."

Even if not consuming alliance resources, such a player is heavily dependent on the protection of his alliance tag if he's to have any protection at all.

I just got a message saying this was double posted... true... please don't hold it against me, i trust someone will remedy this, see text below.

So people looking in on the Fairer change to food and taxes thread read:

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/a-question-for-the-devs_topic2217.html

And people looking in on the a-question-for-the-devs thread please read:

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/fairer-change-to-food-and-taxes_topic2216.html

In my defence, I do read forums, but don't always know how to use them the most efficiently so forgive me for this double post. Maybe I should have asked the devs to combine these? Not sure.

Cheers

Shadar Logoth

Ander, i understand that and its no different to have no research points left...thats why i asked....if i can buy food in the market to get round this then its no different to buying books.....i wanted to be clear on it.....

Steep sovereignty costs makes the 10th city practically unattainable unless your cities have 7 food plots. I dont see a way of fixing it without leaving an unfortunate middlegroup in a pinch. Are the Devs willing to look at a flexible implementation or will it hit us like a hammer.

Boo wants to know :)