Planting soil

[slipper]

As usual... waiting for fertilizer.

Never gonna happen.
Move your city if you want to plant in good soil, or make an outpost.

[Grelf]

Well, would be nice to get something to improve clay Q too, but I don't think we will have that.

[anasky]

Or at least like:
-Stomp to dirt
-Lay down soil
-Soil becomes average of regular one and planted one.

[TeckXKnight]

Or at least like:
-Stomp to dirt
-Lay down soil
-Soil becomes average of regular one and planted one.

It would be ridiculously easy to average up nodes like that until every node was q120+

[anasky]

One, you'd have to do it tile by tile.
Secondly, where are you going to find q120 soil to plant?

Example:
Regular q: 10
Planted q: 120
New q: (120 + 10) / 2 = 65
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Regular q: 65
Planted q: 120
New q: (120 + 65) / 2 = 92.5
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Regular q: 92.5
Planted q: 120
New q: (120 + 92.5) / 2 = 106.25


You'd need 3 q120 soil in order to make 1 single tile q106.

[TeckXKnight]

The game doesn't control soil by individual tiles, it's controlled by nodes. You'd need to revamp the entire game to alter that.
If a change like that were made, it'd be easy to spread that wealth. With Q140+ soil running around and the ability to farm up lots of that and spread it, you'd have an exponential spread. Newbies would buy a dozen pieces of soil, turn their entire village into q120+ soil then proceed to recoup any losses they incurred by reselling that soil they've made to others. It'd be quite viral~

[anasky]

True, didn't think of that.
But still, by using some sort of formula it should be possible (maybe cap at like an increment of 20?)

[TeckXKnight]

Given the ease of obtaining soil in great quantities, even a cap of +1q per soil would be greatly imbalanced and lead to virtually no point in having soil even having qualities within a short span of time.

[anasky]

I ment a total cap, lol
So if regular q is 10, it would never reach above 30

[Stormfeather]

A total cap like that could work, or just keep the system in place, and have fertilizer that doesn't directly raise the quality of the soil, but just interacts with/raises possible quality of crops in some way. Just as a thought.