Originally Posted by
Olric
Ok so their is alot of talk about how armies are to big or i dont want to farm yadda yadda what ever
So lets look at it in real terms
The average person eats 2lbs of food per day, 14lbs per week, etc. totaling 728lbs per year
now lets look at your army, an match it in real time, the average person,(warrior) can move at an average pace of 1 mile in 10 minutes.,
It takes a warrior 2 minutes and 30 seconds to move 1 mile, this is a ratio of 4/1 which means that evony is sped up at a pace of 4/1 meaning... a 24 hour day on evony is 6 hours,.....
This means that evony days elapse in 1 of our days(getting complex just wait) this means that the evony year takes 91 days to complete which is 4 years for our 1 year.
A warrior should consume 728lbs of food in 1 year, meaning his hourly consumption(yes im lookin for reality here) should be .08333,.
Lets multiply that by 100k
100k warriors should consume 8333 food per hour.
now all humans consume the same average, an archer is no different from a warrior in that regard(again this is reality based) however it takes 2 ppl to build an archer, Why is this? because it takes 1 person to shoot the arrow and a page to carry the equipment,...so an archer consumes double what a warrior consumes and this makes perfect logical sense. So here are the numbers by unit(I will include seige and explain why later
worker .0833 per hour
warrior .0833 per hour
scout .0833 per hour
pike .0833 per hour
sword .0833 per hour
archer .1666 per hour
cavalry .2499 per hour
phract .4998 per hour
porter .3332 per hour
ballista .4165 per hour
ram .833 per hour
pult .6664 per hour
ok their is your reality based hour consumption
Now lets multiply those by 100 as a base number of units to use, i will round them up or down based on the .5 rule of basic math
so here are those same numbers multiplied by our base of 100
worker 8
warrior 8
scout 8
pike 8
sword 8( these were rounded down to 8 so we gain some food here)
archer 17
cav 25
phract 50(these were rounded up so we loose some here
porter 33(rounded down
ballista 42(Up
ram 83(Down
pult 67(Up
ok now here is where we come into evonys stuff, a lvl5 gives us 3 million lbs of food a lvl10 20million,..that is a huge harvest. The average farm in the 14th century barley produced enough to feed the pore wretches that farmed it. so lets get real, if a lvl5 in a average pesant farm and a lvl10 is say a plantation that is ruled by a lord then i would say the average harvest of the lvl5 should be about say, 100lbs of food, and the lvl10 1000lbs of food. Now on average you can harvest the land in these parts (game wise germanic areas) twice a year so you can get 200lbs of food from a lvl5 in 1 year(91 days) and 2000lbs of food from a lvl10
now lets look at the average army of say a 7 mill prestige battle player(non farmer) we will say consumption of 10 mill an hour, so this is 240million lbs of food per day times 365 days = 87600000000lbs which is 4380 lvl10 hits per year now thats just effin nuts.
so whats the solution? lets make the game realistic. I am a lord, I have my kingdom which i rule over, my kingdom includes lands which my people farm, forrest where my people hunt. plains where my people herd, etc. In this time frame if I am mustering a army of 100k soilders I am a GOD!! So ok your lands you can harvest, the harvests you must stack so that you can be bringing in food somewhat regularly, you must protect your land from intruders who wish to take what you have...
This is the start of a new game perhaps?? the math is solid, evonys battle mechs are crazy but thats for another post. I can elaborate more on this but I want to see where it goes