Pyramid #3/52: Low-Tech II

DemiBenson · 02-23-2013, 08:13 AM

So Matt,
I've got a few questions about urban carrying capacity.

Efficiency of transportation: Is "river" supposed to be used if a city sits on a river (and includes the cost of cart transport to river facilities)? Or is it for a city that somehow only gets food by river and not at all by cart? Would it be reasonable to assume that carts come from a small radius, but calculate the river portion as 10% of the difference between the river transport's radius and the cart radius?
Some question about sea travel. Is sea transport meant to work for a city like London (navigable from the sea, but surrounded by land)? Or are the sea efficiencies mostly for use by the imperial capital calculations?

Also, there's one extra close parenthesis in the formula.

02-23-2013, 08:13 AM	#11
DemiBenson Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boston, Hub of the Universe!	Re: Pyramid #3/52: Low-Tech II So Matt, I've got a few questions about urban carrying capacity. Efficiency of transportation: Is "river" supposed to be used if a city sits on a river (and includes the cost of cart transport to river facilities)? Or is it for a city that somehow only gets food by river and not at all by cart? Would it be reasonable to assume that carts come from a small radius, but calculate the river portion as 10% of the difference between the river transport's radius and the cart radius? Some question about sea travel. Is sea transport meant to work for a city like London (navigable from the sea, but surrounded by land)? Or are the sea efficiencies mostly for use by the imperial capital calculations? Also, there's one extra close parenthesis in the formula. __________________ Demi Benson Last edited by DemiBenson; 02-23-2013 at 09:00 AM.