How much wood would a Cantrian chuck...

[Sho]

I like this. Adding wood to a lot of places that don't have it now, but making those places too inefficient for large-scale gathering (for buildings, ships or charcoal) would have little negative effect on trade and much positive effect in terms of playability.

To extend on this, I think it would be fair and good to make all resource gathering rates vary by location. Just as some places have denser forests than others (or no forests, but a few lonely trees), some mines are richer than others, and some land is better for farming than other land. I have no idea how resources are coded, so I don't know about codability, but this would have many of the same effects as kabl00ey's wood suggestion.

[Nick]

For some resources, Sho. Like stone. But not, for instance, diamonds.

[Surly]

Way ahead of you guys... I spoke to Jos about this months ago...

We'll see if it goes anywhere...

[Shaderon]

To summarise: two or more 'levels' of forest: perhaps a shrubbery ( ), a grove, a wood, and a forest - all give wood, but in various amounts.

We are the Cantrians that say "ouch" and we demand a shrubbery!

I would also like to see more wood in more places but with different collection rates. I can't think of many natural places (well at least in England but here we don't have desert beyond a few patches of sand on a large golf course ) that have some type of crop but no available wood, even if it's just sticks from bushes and isn't useful for making houses. I agree wood needs to be available where there is no forest or wood at the moment, in most places, gatherable at say 20-30g a day. That way people could use it for wood when they haven't time to watch dung dry and can build simple things that don't take a lot of wood but for large amounts it would still be better trading with the forests.