[Gameplay] On food, houses and city levels.

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I don't particularly like the slot mechanic in cities as seen in 1z.  It drastically limits your options on how you build up, as every city must be specialized due to size constraints rather than economic ones.

 

My proposed alternative: Decouple city level from available slots.  Each house directly contributes to new slots, while not requiring any slots by itself.  Houses require food instead.  City levels are based off how many houses are present, and represent how many houses are required per new slot - a level 1 city requires one house per slot, a level 2 requires two, etc.  Make the city centers directly upgradable, with each step up increasing the cutoff points for each city level - first tier city centers can only support 10 houses before the city reaches level 2, second tier city centers can support 20, etc.  Note that all numbers are just examples.

 

This method keeps the requirement of infrastructure to support your industry, but at the same time is much more flexible in making use of available resources and has no hard caps on cities if you with to spend the time and money to build them up.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You know what, I think I like this idea.  Theoretically, you should be able to build a city into infinty with a huge amount of resources and the current system does severely limit city size, almost unrealistically so.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This is a good idea definitely, and should be forwarded to the devs.  How is that done?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

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Later,
LAR 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I approve of the general idea, it's true that the current system sometimes feel restrictive