09-13-2018, 10:40 AM
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22 hours ago, Ketchup said:
cotton has been adjusted to a reasonably numbers. it appeared in the past with the old numbers, with 1 field of cotton 15x15 , just 1 year of production, you could get enough coats for 58 game years population. that was making no sense. same with flax.
or we could reduce the numbers of cotton crops, or we could ask to take 10X more cotton to make 1 cloth. we decided to go that way.
I'm trying to figure out why a field of cotton should produce so little cotton. An 11x11 crop field with one educated farmer (mild climate) usually produces 847 items worth 1 each. Since cotton is worth 2 each, I can understand reducing the output by half (423); this is similar to the fact that the number of herbs produced as a crop is reduced since they are worth 4 each.
In reality and historically, Cotton is a a cash crop - one that is grown to make a profit and not just grown to provide resources for your own textile industry. Anything not used for producing textiles would be sold at a trading post. Seems a waste of land and human resources to grow cotton if fields only produce 80 cotton a year worth 160.
