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Food and population should be more essential for a Middle Age game

ray243 · 2025-05-12T09:58:20+00:00

In EU5, they have talked a lot about how pops, or the relationship between food availability and population are the two key resources that underpinned everything else about the world of EU5. CK3 being a middle age setting, should have made population an even bigger key currency in the game than other currencies. Nomads, tribal governments are especially determined by its available population, as rulers power is all about how many people you can get to follow you as a chieftain. But this also applies to feudal, clan and admin governments too. Feudal contracts are all about locking in local workforce as serfs so they are tied to the land, rather than free tenant farmers able to just pick up and move to different farms in another county without your say so. Ensuring there are enough farmers in an area is a big concern for every settled ruler in this time period. Highly developed cities like Rome and Constantinople should be affected by population as well. Even if a province like Rome or Constantinople has high development at game start, if the population is low, then a lot of the buildings might be frozen in function as they aren't enough people to keep the various buildings working. As a ruler, you can invite settlers to come to your realm to become farmers and work on the available land if you don't have enough manpower, or you can conduct wars which capture your enemy population and bring them over to your land to work on your lands. Your manpower is both your source of income which can be translated into gold as food is produced, more food = more workers and craftsmen in other areas being fed, and also the basis of your political power.

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Start date May 12, 2025

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May 16, 2025

naq29 said:
But the devs want like ten types of ~~mana~~ resources to represent how much people respect you before adding food and manpower.

How about a compromise, and we'll add Foodoo and Manapower as new exciting resources?

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