theTrav wrote:I don't know how I feel about re-planting trees... It's important to be able to do it, but I'd be disappointed if they weren't incredibly slow growing.
Like, I'd expect them to be an order of magnitude or two slower than crops.
More important than tree regrowing in my opinion is the ability to construct roads and carts to have lumber camps and allow transporting lumber back to mines
I agree. and i think, it should be hard to plant trees. i dont like the idea of having huge areas where one tree stands besides another one. Dunno, this would really suck ...
Or in the beginning, just let the trees regrow from the stamps
no planting and stuff. that would be enough. And give you time to think about a good solution.
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it just came to my mind: why not make trees grow randomly somewhere next to another tree. like for instance, every in-game week, two trees start to grow next to a tree. random and not too close to others. if theres too many trees, no new one would grow.
wow, that would be fun! to actually manage forests. There should be special types of land where trees cant grow though, like on the steppe.