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Farming

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Farming is one of the noblest professions known to our peoples. It marks the transition from us being bands of hunters to creating towns and developing greater technologies. Without the farmers, we would not eat, we would not be healthy and merry, we would once again be at the whims of the environment. To be a farmer is not to fight nature, but to coerce it to our advantage.

The farmer is resolute in the face of disaster, hard working and with purpose to help others in life. There are those who call the lives of farmers simple, but it is in the simple work of tending fields that we can draw most of our understanding of the world

Farming is a very major part of Shasnani'i life. Most common in the temperate transition zones, the foods produced are locally adapted and rarely shipped far. There is still a good distribution of foreign foodstuffs, but the prices are higher and they come from different regions seasonally.

It should also be one of the largest career/mini-games available. It is mostly a strategy game that is based upon reading patterns and developing things over time. It should have roots in actual sustainable agricultural theory as well as revolve around fun gameplay. For now, it uses a Mancala/Wari/etc type gameplay.

For all Farming tests, play a round of Mancala against an opponent of the correct level (e.g. easy/med/hard here ) and the resultant points are your pool to use against an environment check for productivity of Food. Use the points as the number of times you can roll the Rainbow Dice game to succeed against your environmental target. The number of rolls *20 is the food you produce. This food is either of your homestead to keep, or earning you work credit in a community.

[farm phase]

choose a plot of land
look at what grows on it

find a crop that complements the ecosystem

test crop

produce for 1 season

stochastic events test

weather good/moderate/poor/extreme
pests yes/no

infections or vermin

repeat year/or/change

Turn-based investment and management vs hands on farming sim. The higher level management is preferable to going through the mechanical motions for routine tasks. New tasks have to be done manually before automated, and perhaps weeding minigames can be done to increase productivity for the really hardcore.

Area and resource allocation is key to making the most profit. Usually planting some stable crops to ensure a certain sum and then a riskier set is the strategy.

Some crops will be economically stable, the staple/common crops

These are not worth large numbers, but are less risk in market and usually resilient to weather
Subsidies or long-term purchases can be arranged depending upon the nation's choices

Riskier crops can fetch higher profits

But are sensitive to market fluctuations and bad weather

The market will fluctuate by a random process as well as contribution by other players

Too many of a crop produced, drives down the price
Demand fluctuates a bit, and shipping can be purchased to access further markets

Environmental productivity must be maintained.

Each plant species will have specific nutrient requirements and results

Legumes are nitrogen fixers
Tubers/Potatoes can break ground easily but are disease prone
Grains are high productivity but use up soil resources

Practices of rotation, fallow, composting and tilling strategies vary in their effects
Slash & burn is highly productive for the first bit, but disastrous in the long term