Seasons

[Appleide]

Right now, food is over abundant, you couldn't possibly get that much food everyday, unless you are using machinery, like a potato harvester.(is there such a thing?)

I got a new idea for seasons, so I just found this old thread, I could've got a new one, but NO, I wont let me, Now let me begin.

the % is how much food you could collect depending on the day relative to what we can do now. If this is implemented, farmers would get more out of their jobs, and there would be rise and fall of prices, encourage trade

100% in autumn because its the harvest season
40% in winter because sometimes they finish riping at the beginning of winter
5% in spring because you are supposed wait for the seeds to grow in spring
60% in summer because some foods ripen in summer

20 day cantr year...
(autumn)
1 -100% food
2-100% food
3-100% food
4-100% food
5-100% food
(Winter)
6 -40%
7 -40%
8 -40%
9 -40%
10 -50%
(Spring)
11 - 5%
12 - 5%
13 - 5%
14 - 5%
15 - 5%

(summer)
16 -60%
17 -60%
18 -60%
19 -60%
20 -60%

[Gunther_01]

Yes, thats all good, but why did you bother making a new topic, instead of just posting on an old one?

And i'm sure it could be a little bit more complicated than that!

20 day cantr year...
(autumn)
1 -100% food
2-90% food
3-80% food
4-70% food
5-60% food
(Winter)
6 -50%%
7 -40%
8 -30%
9 -20%
10 -10%
(Spring)
11 - 5%
12 - 5%
13 - 10%
14 - 20%
15 - 30%

(summer)
16 -40%
17 -50%
18 -60%
19 -75%
20 -100%

Or something along those lines.

[cantrpotatoe]

and even different depending on what your farming, not everything is the same...

[Appleide]

I got a new idea for seasons, so I just found this old thread, I could've got a new one, but NO, I wont let me, Now let me begin.

[NetherSpawn]

Our seasonal divisions are arbitrary. I prefer a simpler system, where you'd have a 10 day period during which it gets 'colder' and the terrain becomes less productive, and a 10 day period during which it gets warmer and more fertile. Say, from 1-10 it gets warmer, it stays the same 10 and 11, 11-20 it gets colder, and 20-1 it stays the same. Come up with whatever percentages you like, as long as the day X and day 20-X have the same productivity rate.
If you want to simulate real-life crops, you have to make minimum amounts of time (say, 5 days) to finish an agricultural project. That would get more merchants to trade for food in towns, which would be nice. It might be difficult, though.

[Appleide]

Good enough for me.