DD/Economy/Settler happiness
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Proposal
Summary
Each settler building should have an own happiness value. It's influenced by what they get and how much they have to pay(taxes). Also, a certain value should be necessary so that the settlers can enter a new level.
Points to Fulfill
- Happiness increases when goods are got by settler's collector.
- Happiness decreases when consumed goods are used up.
- Settlers have to die or decrease in level when happiness reaches a certain minimum.
- A certain value of happiness is required for entering a new level.
- Happiness is influenced by the tax setting
Implementation details
Happiness is an integer, ranging from 0 to 100. You can think of it as "percent". The settler collector will notify the building, that new goods have arrived. The building will then react in terms of raising the happiness value. Every x ticks, the building checks which resources are missing (depends on the increment level), and decreases the happiness aproprietly. This could be done each time the taxes are paid.
Open questions
| Open question: Does the happiness influence the number of settlers living in one building (such as in 1602? totycro |
| Suggestion: Each resident should have a maximum of inhabitants living in it depending on increment. This amount of inhabitants should be influenced by the current happiness of the certain resident. So yes, happiness should do right what you asked. The happiness of residents reflects the state of commoditation which is the only thing beside special factors like e.g. illness influencing this happiness. Somehow this influence should be handled by time the state of happiness is reached resp. kept - like low happiness decreases resident's inhabitants by one each minute to a minimum of 0 and the resident will downgrade then... something like that. High happiness could then increase resident's happiness to a pre-defined maximum for each increment while normal happiness could keep things as they are. dauerflucher |
