"Desperate",
"Impoverished",
"Adequate",
"Adequate",
"Adequate",
"Good",
"Excellent"
These adjectives describe the clan’s quality of life, which was calculated on a scale of 1 to 7. Factors included food supply, whether people had gone hungry in the last two seasons, adequate goods, and the presence of exotic luxury goods.
There was clearly provision to display this in the user interface. My memory is hazy, but I think at one point the Clan screen showed these.
Apparently some time during 1999 this got dropped, probably to de-clutter the interface.
Conceivably an iOS update could restore this as advice.
Just because the quality of life is not summarized on-screen doesn’t mean it has no importance. As you might expect, clan mood is affected by meeting people’s needs.
I think something like this would actually be pretty helpful, if you're not familiar with the game (and sometimes even if you are), it can be sort of tricky to tell how well-off you are. Having someone on the ring comment on it would be nice.
ReplyDeleteIs it really helpful, or is a single adjective really accurate?
DeleteThere is already a lot of advice in the Clan screen, so I don’t know if this would come up very often (if it gets added, I don’t think it ought to be a high priority statement).
I kind of feel like sometimes I have no idea where the clan's mood is coming from, especially the farmers who can be so touchy no matter how good you try to make things for them. Obviously there's a lot of factors, so it's just another piece to the puzzle. I wouldn't call it necessary, just nice to have.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem as neon grey. My farmers or thanes, or both, are unhappy, and I don't know why, and having feasts and giving gifts doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteIt probably does help, but hard to overcome the many things that got you into that situation. Quality of life being but one of them (and if you can afford to be throwing feasts and handing out gifts, probably not the most important of the many).
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