Northern Settlement Stats

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Assessment
Every 7 days your settlement is assessed for whether its resource needs are met. If you are not able to meet your settlements resource needs there are consequences, from loss of morale and productivity to losing population and reputation. (Note that resource assessment will not begin until the population is greater than 0.)

Because people don't arrive until day 14, the first assessment will occur on day 14. It will then occur every 7 days after that.

Population
The population needs food, security, and shelter every week. The ratio is 1 point of each for every 10 population. These can be filled by renewable or consumable resource points. The scouting party is not counted as part of the population.

Working
You may assign your population in groups of 10 to produce 1 point of any consumable or other resource. A population cannot directly produce gold but you can sell their produce to civilizations you know at the exchange rate listed below. You assign them to this duty right after you assess your resources and you collect it at the beginning of the next assessment. (Note that you do not gain any benefit of workers for the first assessment.)

Renewable Resources
These are resources which recur every week. They cannot be consumed through standard use, though certain events may increase or decrease them.

The Regional Biome
Based on the biome, the home region of the settlement provides a base amount of food, shelter, and security. The settlement can move to a new region, but otherwise these statistics don't change.

Quintessence Engines
The quintessence engines are a product of TADA. They allow the settlement to produce structures automatically, generated from underlying quintessence energy. They require gems to focus the quintessence energy. Different kinds of gems produce different kinds of beneficial structures. Only one engine can be safely run per region, and each engine can hold only up to 1000gp worth of gems. The more regions the scouting party explores the more engines can run.

Preserving Excess Renewable Resources
When you have more renewable resources than you need for a given week, you can preserve them. You must spend 1 culture for every point you want to preserve. To preserve 1 point of excess renewable food, 1 point of excess renewable shelter, and 1 point of excess renewable security would require you to spend 3 culture points. Once preserved these resources last until they are used and do not require further use of culture to keep preserving them.

Consumable Resources
Consumable resources are reduced by use. If you have 10 consumable resources and use 4, then you only have 6 left.

Preserved Resources
Preserved food makes sense–food is dried, smoked, salted, or otherwise kept safe for later consumption. Preserved shelter or security are more abstract concepts. Preserved shelter might be simple clothing that will quickly wear out or firewood that keeps you warm until it's gone. Preserved security could be arrows that are used up defending against bandits or wild animals or traps which, once sprung, must be replaced. Regardless the idea is that these resources are temporary and once consumed must be replaced.

Buying and Selling Resources
You may buy and sell preserved resources from other cultures at a rate based on your reputation with that culture.

Morale
Morale acts as a wild card and can be spent as food, shelter, security, or culture at a ratio of 2 for 1. For example, 2 morale can buy 1 preserved food. Morale in its raw state cannot be preserved, so whatever morale is left unused is lost after the assessment is made.

Other Resources
There are unstructured benefits the settlement might enjoy which are described on the main settlement page. There are four codified stats which are included here.

Culture
Culture is the level of technology, art, and social structure your settlement enjoys. Related structures can include a laboratory, a library, a sculpture, or a courthouse. You can spent culture to get a variety of benefits.

Unused culture can always be saved.

Reputation
Your reputation depends on your general reputation as well as specific interactions you've had with various civilizations. Stories of your words and deeds pass beyond your region and into distant lands, and influence how those you meet with treat you. You may also gain reputation with specific civilizations based on how you interact with them. Note that a small group is not a civilization–these scores are only tracked for cultures with cities and political, economic, and military influence that span multiple regions.

The assessment process does not directly affect your reputation, but your reputation affects your exchange rate with other civilizations.

Gold
You can use this to buy things from other cultures once they have been met. You can also sell preserved resources for gold at the same rate listed below for that civilization. Other civilizations will appear here with reputation scores as they are discovered