What is it with forests?

[Ahoyhoy]

Is bronze worth making or is iron and steel the way to go?

[AoM]

No, hematite and other ores should stay where they are. Entire societies have been built upon the loaction of these things and moving them for the purposes of redistribution would be against everything that cantr is really about... society simulation.

[kabl00ey]

Mined resources don't last forever. A slow transition from forest-ores to mountain-ores would reflect RL in 2 ways: exhaustion of a non-renewable resource, and ores up in the mountains where they should be.

[Nick]

No, hematite and other ores should stay where they are. Entire societies have been built upon the loaction of these things and moving them for the purposes of redistribution would be against everything that cantr is really about... society simulation.

Don't worry, even though the other side of the argument seems to be yelling harder in this topic, I'm 99% sure a rearranging of resources will not happen.

[nitefyre]

Since resource depletion seems to be put on the backburner to slot limitations, I hope those who decided which towns would get a certain amount of slots would be fair. For instance, those towns with wood,hematite, coal, etc, all on one slot, would have less space to collect these resources in and have to be more selective, due to less slots. This would encourage specialization.

[Skulty]

AoM wrote:

No, hematite and other ores should stay where they are. Entire societies have been built upon the loaction of these things and moving them for the purposes of redistribution would be against everything that cantr is really about... society simulation.

Don't worry, even though the other side of the argument seems to be yelling harder in this topic, I'm 99% sure a rearranging of resources will not happen.

Maybe a rearranging is too much but it could at least be done in the portuguese area, where we don't rely on iron too much yet (we haven't found it ).
I could't see any hematite or coal in the moutains or forests I've seen so far but I seriously hope they're somewhere out there.

[Schme]

Derrrr, what? Source, please. I've never heard of anything remotely like this, and I imagine whole villages getting poisoned by mining offruns would be international news. Last I checked, jungles were being chopped down by poor farmers that don't know about crop rotation.


Sav

Where you been man? Idaho?

Hell, guy, they do it all the time. Constantly.

And you must have checked a long time ago, because nowdays it's not farmer cutting trees, it's lumber companies and illegal loggers.


And a whole village destroyed being international news? Like hell. A whole white village, maybe, but other than that, it's got to be a pretty slow newsday. And it's not like the villages explode. It takes a while to destroy a village.

On that note, a whole town won't die from poisoning in a day. It takes a while. And it only breaks up when enough people have died.

"One white death in Africa screams louder than a thousand black ones."
John Updike

[Lumin]

I'm going to move my specific responses into the Non-Cantr Related area, in the interest of staying on-topic.

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[Schme]

*Cough*

[ornithopter]

You guys need a lozenge or something?

[Schme]

I hate when people write things in stars as though they're actually doing something.

[Jos Elkink]

Maybe a rearranging is too much but it could at least be done in the portuguese area, where we don't rely on iron too much yet (we haven't found it ).
I could't see any hematite or coal in the moutains or forests I've seen so far but I seriously hope they're somewhere out there.

Oops I thought I had checked .....

I'll do something about that