Poland population and farming model

[Targan]

Wow Atiff. Impressive. Nice job.

[Adm.Lee]

What Targan said. Wow.

[kota1342000]

Something tells me that when Atiff posts from now on, people listen

[atiff]

Thanks guys.

I found a bug in one of the formulae; have fixed, and will post the updated file later (on another computer right now). Basically, it didn't recalculate the numbers properly if you changed the efficiency of the farming from '100'.

My next project is detailing Kepno County (south of Kalisz) using some of these numbers as a baseline. I want to do this for Krakow and environs in the longer run, but want to tackle something smaller first

[kalos72]

Thats some awesome detail! One thought, your assuming that all the area in Poland is free to farm no? I doubt that Soviet Tank Division is going to allow your city to farm and keep the food...

Just trying to add another layer of realism to this FINE FINE WORK!

[atiff]

Originally Posted by kalos72

Thats some awesome detail! One thought, your assuming that all the area in Poland is free to farm no? I doubt that Soviet Tank Division is going to allow your city to farm and keep the food...

Yes, that is part of it too. This "first pass" was just working out the civilian population's ability to feed itself. The second step is working out how troops are supported. E.g., the area around Kalisz has a food shortage, although not a bad one (perhaps 5% short of 'OK'). But then you add in the Polish TD and Soviet MRD that attacked the 5th Division, and you can see why they might end up fighting each other over food that is there (as there isn't enough to go around) once they have reorganized from the attack.

One thing I like about the outcome of this model is that, by and large, it matches the idea that the greater part of Poland is starving. IMO, this helps to create conflict and helps lead to the breakdown of the nation and the military commands. I.e., I think the basic model matches the basic storyline at a large scale. But within this, there are regions and communities that are in very different situations, and this helps create more story ideas at the smaller scale.

[atiff]

Latest file version

Updated a dodgy formula, and added in "number of food producers" column.

Note that "number of food producers" is only the number that are producing and preparing local food. You can see in bigger population centers that not very many people are "producing food". Imported food probably also needs "produced" by people in the location (e.g., grocers, bakers, etc.) unless you assume the "food producers" from the source location are traveling and selling the food themselves. (I.e., this is one point where the model breaks down a bit.)