Harvest Sacrifice and Larger-than-village religions

[SeventhSandwich]

In the same vein as all the other kind of rustic, agricultural mythology in this game, I think it would be neat if there was some kind of introduced mechanic of 'sacrifice'. Like, you could kill a newborn lamb or burn a couple hundred units of food in a pyre for a better harvest or a combat buff to warriors in the village. The requirements for these sacrifices could scale as the size of the village increases or by the effective number of farm tiles in the village that would be affected by the sacrifice.

That way, a small hermit could kill one of his herd to get a better harvest, while a large village would need to sacrifice 500 pumpkins and a lock of a virgin's hair to get the same benefit.

[MikeOfDragon]

In the same vein as all the other kind of rustic, agricultural mythology in this game, I think it would be neat if there was some kind of introduced mechanic of 'sacrifice'. Like, you could kill a newborn lamb or burn a couple hundred units of food in a pyre for a better harvest or a combat buff to warriors in the village. The requirements for these sacrifices could scale as the size of the village increases or by the effective number of farm tiles in the village that would be affected by the sacrifice.

That way, a small hermit could kill one of his herd to get a better harvest, while a large village would need to sacrifice 500 pumpkins and a lock of a virgin's hair to get the same benefit.

Sounds cool, I like the feel of hearthlings having their own mythologies and beliefs.

[SeventhSandwich]

In the same vein as all the other kind of rustic, agricultural mythology in this game, I think it would be neat if there was some kind of introduced mechanic of 'sacrifice'. Like, you could kill a newborn lamb or burn a couple hundred units of food in a pyre for a better harvest or a combat buff to warriors in the village. The requirements for these sacrifices could scale as the size of the village increases or by the effective number of farm tiles in the village that would be affected by the sacrifice.

That way, a small hermit could kill one of his herd to get a better harvest, while a large village would need to sacrifice 500 pumpkins and a lock of a virgin's hair to get the same benefit.

Sounds cool, I like the feel of hearthlings having their own mythologies and beliefs.

Maybe you could have the 'God' being sacrificed to be some kind of 'intervillage' type of organization.

For instance, villages in alliances can all pray to the same God (selected from the altar menu) and get extra benefits based on the total number of following villages (and following villagers) in the religion.

However, on the flip side of the coin, the God will get extremely mad if followers from separate villagers kill eachother, and then there's like debuffs and misfortune spread upon all followers of the religion.

This sounds like a much cooler and larger idea than what I was originally going for. I'll edit the OP title to be more descriptive.

[MikeOfDragon]

In the same vein as all the other kind of rustic, agricultural mythology in this game, I think it would be neat if there was some kind of introduced mechanic of 'sacrifice'. Like, you could kill a newborn lamb or burn a couple hundred units of food in a pyre for a better harvest or a combat buff to warriors in the village. The requirements for these sacrifices could scale as the size of the village increases or by the effective number of farm tiles in the village that would be affected by the sacrifice.

That way, a small hermit could kill one of his herd to get a better harvest, while a large village would need to sacrifice 500 pumpkins and a lock of a virgin's hair to get the same benefit.

Sounds cool, I like the feel of hearthlings having their own mythologies and beliefs.

Maybe you could have the 'God' being sacrificed to be some kind of 'intervillage' type of organization.

For instance, villages in alliances can all pray to the same God (selected from the altar menu) and get extra benefits based on the total number of following villages (and following villagers) in the religion.

However, on the flip side of the coin, the God will get extremely mad if followers from separate villagers kill eachother, and then there's like debuffs and misfortune spread upon all followers of the religion.

This sounds like a much cooler and larger idea than what I was originally going for. I'll edit the OP title to be more descriptive.

Perhaps players could have their own personal beliefs though, and not have to listen to the whole village.

[SeventhSandwich]

Perhaps players could have their own personal beliefs though, and not have to listen to the whole village.

That's more of an RP thing though. I'm talking more about like an actual game mechanic to add in.

[Jesus_Smith_Nandez]

Can't wait to declare holy wars on filthy pagans

[DisKagel]

could be an interesting idea to possibly add to the lore of the game, which you only kind of see in the xp events and jorb sometimes mentioning