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Population?
Joy Phillip
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7/4/2013
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What's the population of FL?
I ask because I started doing some figuring. I'm grinding souls for the soul trade to get money for my Overgoat. So far, I've personally handled a quarter million (yes, 250,000) souls in bottles. I will need 400,000 to get enough money to Overgoat. Given that, and counting a percentage of them as being recycled (ie, I trade them to Hell, Hell trades them to the Bazaar, the Bazaar lets others buy them, it gets used for various things, spriffers purchase them instead of removing them, I get them and trade them to Hell), and understanding that according to Hell itself, that only about 1% of the population has lost their soul, by the time I get Overgoated, the population of Fallen London will be 40 Million people.
That seems like a heck of a lot of humans in FL (I'm not counting the Rubberys, the Devils, the Tomb Colonists or those on the other side of the zee). For Victorian London, that seems like a lot of people.
So I'm curious.
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Flipz
Posts: 177
7/5/2013
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
I'm just glad we don't have to worry about the overall soul population in our gameplay. It'd be rather annoying to watch the spirifers disappear for a while because we conned them all.
I wonder if that sort of thing might happen in the top-down trading game that was proposed on the recent survey? There was a game I played years back called "Port Royale" that featured a semi-similar mechanic (though I've long forgotten the specifics): if you flooded the market in a port with a particular resource, it became less valuable, but it also affected how easily that resource could be acquired from that particular port later on. Likewise with buying up all of a given resource in the opposite direction.
Food for thought.
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Diptych
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7/5/2013
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I wonder - considering the ties between Hell and certain anarchist groups, was the dreary pamphlet that bore this allegation critical or exultant?
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