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A far way back in this thread, RandyT0001 suggested a community named Sommerset be defined using the economics rule from the 4th edition. The attached PDF goes through that process and is the best I have been able to do from my work trying to understand the rules.
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I LOVE what you guys are trying to do here but...and this is a question on their numbers not your efforts.
Am I reading that between cows and chickens you will need almost 40000 hectares of land? Thats like 150 square miles...thats not possible. Is it?
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That is grazing land..... there are ranches it takes a whole day to drive across out here in the West.
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I get that, but it seem feasible for 36 LE/Military personnel to be able to secure 155 square miles alone?
Just seems like an awful lot of land to feed 5000 people. I wonder how that same community would fair with a more advance tech level...
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The economics rules do not change the amount of land needed based on tech level. Only the number of workers needed to tend them. Plus you have to remember the purpose of the exercise was to build according to the rules, and some of them are broken.
To give an idea, the number of cattle Sommerset has can be calculated. The beef operation generates 50,000 kg of beef for the population. That is only 10% of the total herd. So multiply by 10 and you get 500,000 kg if you slaughtered the entire herd. An average 454 kg steer will yield about 340 kg of meat. Dividing 500,000 by 340 gives around 1465 head of cattle. The USDA recommendations for land per animal is about 0.8 Ha per head. So in the real world you should be able to get away with 1200 Ha. The rules say 2-10 Ha per head, so 3000 Ha on the low end and 15000 Ha on the high end. The rules are a little broken if we try to bend real world absolutes into it. This section of the rules could use an edit to make it better. But for now, it is what we have. |
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So the hectares section really should have a geographical or environmental modifier associated with it. Given the wide variable of 2-10 hectares, it is probably meant too. |
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The Texas Rangers comes to mind. Actually, you only have to secure key points of land. The water, water crossings, the herd itself. You don't have to be on every part of it all the time. |
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